The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

Having a career path for people not only allows one to service client better with the right assets, but also allow the sales team to develop and succeed in adopting and executing the company’s sales process. What’s in Your Pipeline? This highlights the need for a more planned and patient hiring approach. Tibor Shanto.

Hiring 267

Hiring Licensing Health Care Sales Talent 267

Sales Gravy

APRIL 2, 2025

A coach helps each individual absorb and adapt those lessons to their unique style, role, or territory. Sales Leadership and Coaching Priorities Leaders who prioritized weekly one-on-ones, real-time one-to-one coaching, and rigorous sales pipeline reviews consistently deliver better results and productivity.

Coaching 68

Coaching Pivotal Guarantee Territories 68

Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

If assigned a vertical territory of financial services I would do several things right away: look at who my existing and past customers in financial services are. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Expand Your Pipeline. Look Socially. Close More Deals.

Prospecting 254

Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 254

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Lessons from inside sales mid-pandemic [18:50]. Kristin on the future of sales [23:04]. Sam Jacobs: This week, we’ve got another great episode for you with Kristin Twining , VP of business development and inside sales for FireMon. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

Inside Sales 131

Inside Sales Field Sales Policies Travel 131

SBI

MAY 7, 2014

Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. Territory & Account Planning. The revenue you book – this year and next – hangs on your team’s ability to move deals through the pipeline efficiently and consistently. InsideSales. Marketing automation. Mobile Selling.

Sales Tools 139

Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 139

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NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Imagine a time when you can work totally on the go with your mobile device – phone or tablet – to create business, follow-up with customers, train your team, assess your pipeline, and work a smooth system. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

Workbooks 232

Workbooks Analytics Territories Compensation 232

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JULY 22, 2014

If I have prospects and customers in the banking industry, I’m going to track banks by name and if I have a geographic territory, by location. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Expand Your Pipeline. Track where they go, and who took their place.

Ideal Customer Profile 234

Ideal Customer Profile Banking Engineering Twitter 234

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MAY 9, 2014

example: instead of “Account Manager” list how you help others in the geographic territory, such as “Data Specialist for Multi-Location Companies, Atlanta” This helps anyone scanning to better understand what you do, and is entirely searchable in Google. Expand Your Pipeline. Increase Opportunities.

LinkedIn 222

LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Decision Maker 222

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Time you spent in the office with your colleagues talking about the problem with your territory, your CRM system, your personal issues. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies.

Lead Rank 227

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Territories 227

Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2014

Stop being haphazard about sales. Selling is a profession, and it is an admirable profession that deserves your mindful and thoughtful approach to growing your territory. Your buyers deserve nothing but the best from you – this differentiates you as a professional rather than a “sales guy” or “sales gal”.

Prospecting 222

Prospecting Education Territories B2B 222

Close.io

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In this post, we’re sharing three inside sales job descriptions that you can steal and personalize for your business in order to attract the right sales talent in 2020! Job description template: junior inside sales professional. ? Job description template: inside sales leader. ? Let’s get going.

Inside Sales 91

Inside Sales Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 91

SBI Growth

AUGUST 15, 2012

Typically the focus is on blocking and tackling: basic execution of a compensation plan, sales dashboards, sales crediting, and territory/customer assignments. What separates most organizations from those that are “World-Class” is the existence of bold insights that drive sales strategy. Must be a hot bed!

Infusion 244

Infusion Data Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 244

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APRIL 30, 2014

The same is true for companies in your geographic territory who fit one of your buyer profiles. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. Expand Your Pipeline.

Follow-up 222

Follow-up Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Buyer 222

The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

While it may be realistic to expect inside sales teams to sell more than 23% of their time, it is not for others. If you are a full-cycle rep, with a demanding client base in a defined territory, 23% is not bad. The old stat that is thrown around that salespeople only spend 23% their time selling is stupid and insulting.

Wireless 264

Wireless Discount Face-to-face Scale 264

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MAY 9, 2014

example: instead of “Account Manager” list how you help others in the geographic territory, such as “Data Specialist for Multi-Location Companies, Atlanta” This helps anyone scanning to better understand what you do, and is entirely searchable in Google. Expand Your Pipeline. Increase Opportunities.

LinkedIn 178

LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Decision Maker 178

Score More Sales

MAY 26, 2014

Using Evernote, Google Docs, or even a pen and paper, keep a running list of people, places, and groups you want to learn more about because you have a geographic territory or a vertical market to call on. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Close More Deals.

LinkedIn 209

LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Buyer 209

The Pipeline

MARCH 21, 2017

The Pipeline Guest Post – By Jeb Blount. Author of Sales EQ: How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal. In sales, context matters. There is no easy button that will make sales work perfectly every time. Emotion is sales process agnostic.

Influencer 180

Influencer Call-back Face-to-face Guarantee 180

SalesforLife

JULY 28, 2019

Honestly, it’s crazy to think that in 2019 and going into the 2020s, some companies aren’t thinking holistically as a selling unit about how to target key accounts , geographic territories, or verticals. You will only get this level of scrutiny if you get more than one person’s eyes on a territory or vertical.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Case Study Top of Funnel Territories 93

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you ask most executives if they have a sales process , they’ll immediately say yes. But when you ask them to describe their sales process, their descriptions vary wildly. To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. Territory Management. To others, it means weekly call patterns.

Sales Process 133

Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Territories 133

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 108

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 108

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

It certainly lowers the quality of the work environment for those around you who ARE happily building their territories. Forget that excuse you’ve been hanging on to about your territory or that deal you lost (you never had) or that manager who doesn’t “get” you. Expand Your Pipeline. Don’t be a downer to them.

How To 120

How To Territories Call-back Buyer 120

A Sales Guy

JULY 24, 2012

Sales Support (Insides Sales, Content Marketing, Technical Support, etc.). Existing Pipeline. Sales Investments. Sales person tenure (new reps vs established reps). Data driven quota’s come from careful analysis of available data like; Historical performance. Market Conditions. Product availability.

Quota 113

Quota Analysis Government Commission 113

Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

The same is true for companies in your geographic territory who fit one of your buyer profiles. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. Lori speaks, writes, trains, and consults with inside sales teams in mid-sized companies. Expand Your Pipeline.

Follow-up 144

Follow-up Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Buyer 144

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2020

I’m often amazed looking at the pipeline profiles of a lot of enterprise focused sales organizations. As a result, sales people spent all their time finding and pursuing those, and were completely missing the large deals. Each sales person, had about 1000 customers in their territories.

Ideal Customer Profile 96

Ideal Customer Profile Territories Compensation Account 96

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Lead nurturing and initial qualification calls to prospects may lie with marketing automation or inside sales qualification specialists (unless it is outsourced). The responsibility for addressing prospects’ needs remains a major part of the sales job. They are too far out of my territory.

Outsourcing Services 100

Outsourcing Services Leads Marketing Qualified Lead ActiveConversion 100

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Amy Appleyard , the recently appointed SVP of Global Inside Sales at CarbonBlack. . Amy walks us through her background from being an SMB entrepreneur to leading large sales teams and why sales emerged as her true calling. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

Inside Sales 77

Inside Sales Lead Rank Lead Scoring Company 77

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of sales reps attaining 100% quota. Revenue by territory. Activity Sales Metrics. These sales metrics show what salespeople are doing on a daily basis. Activity metrics are “manageable,” meaning sales managers can directly influence them. Activity sales metrics are leading indicators.

Cost per Acquisition 145

Cost per Acquisition Lead Rank Churn Webinar Metrics 145

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Keep reading to find outside sales statistics and details on what our survey revealed. Inside Sales CRMs for Outside Sales Teams. Field sales has vastly different needs than your inside sales team. Increase sales by an average of 29%. Outside sales reps. The right CRM adoption can: .

Outside Sales 111

Outside Sales Field Sales Oracle Enterprise 111

Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the start of 2016, we were brought in to support a group of sales reps who did not make their numbers in 2015. To date in 2016, these same territory reps have exceeded their numbers. Snatching support away from these territories will cause what I call a ‘bubble in the funnel.’ Their “reward”? No more support in 2017.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Funnel Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 100

HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 5, 2014

The newer salespeople will chase business they cannot win and precious pre-sales resources will be wast­ed. They won’t make quota and are likely to either be let go or leave on their own merit because they lack a sufficient pipeline of business to make commission.   “My biggest challenges relate to scale and growth. are created.

Hiring 108

Hiring Scale Territories Penetration 108

SBI

MAY 6, 2014

Pipeline Management & Deal Flow. Sales & Marketing Content. Sales Enablement. Territory & Account Planning. If you’re in sales, do yourself the favor. The revenue you book – this year and next – hangs on your team’s ability to move deals through the pipeline efficiently and consistently.

Sales Tools 57

Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 57

Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

Outside Sales 97

Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 97

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). Pipeline (1320). Brian, CMO of Lattice Engines, recently presented a session on predictive analytics at the Inside Sales Virtual Summit. Topics Major Topics. Marketing (6398).

Lead Rank 99

Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. Today, I want to focus on Sales Management.

Hiring 77

Hiring Sales Management Territories Forecasting 77

Close.io

JANUARY 14, 2019

If you’ve got ambitions of becoming a top inside sales rep at your company, you’re going to have to build and sharpen these critical sales skills first. Many of these sales skills can be relatively quickly learned and cultivated through self-education and a relentless dedication to bettering yourself in your sales role.

Inside Sales 71

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 71

Sales Hacker Training

JUNE 17, 2020

A highly successful sales professional, closing 3 deals for $250k per year, may struggle transitioning to hitting that same size quota via 40 deals with a much smaller AOV. The deal cadence, or pipeline velocity, needs to fit what the candidate is comfortable with. RELATED: Inside Sales vs. Outside Sales: Which Is Best for You?

Quota 123

Quota Hiring Cold Calling Sales Methodology 123

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

But the reality is, spans of control are decreasing in field sales. In inside sales, they appear to be a little larger, but not huge. As managers, we spend our time doing the following business management things with our people: Deal reviews, call reviews, pipeline/forecast reviews. You’ve got to coach all of them!

Coaching 108

Coaching Benefit Territories Account 108