SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

After all, sales management is responsible for Sales Performance Management. Build those skills by utilizing the tools around you. Your manager is one of those tools. The same Moneyballing logic can be applied to your own sales performance. You have the tools to get better if you want to. About Joel McCabe.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 11, 2025

With quoting tools available in the market, organizations can generate sales quotes in minutes with higher accuracy and shorter turnaround time. Adopting a quote tool can help sales teams to focus on higher value tasks that can have a direct impact on enhancing customer experience.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

It is a tool that helps you discover what the customer really wants. When the buyer is truly just looking for general numbers early in the sales cycle. Your top- tier option should include all the bells and whistles, and generate larger margins. When you help the Buyer make their job better, you become a trusted advisor.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2014

I read the white paper, and it clearly identified common problems with CRM tools such as SalesForce.com, ACT and other pipeline management tools. And, because of these problems, there are challenges in the predictability of future sales. If you have a 120-day sales cycle, then move stuff out at day 121.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , Price , Proactive , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution. All sales aren’t created equal. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Tool.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 16, 2012

32% reported that their sales cycle is too long. 29% reported that they don’t convert enough leads to sales. 27% reported that their sales forecasts are not accurate enough. Despite those business pressures, these initiatives were put in place: 53% want higher margins. 21% want a better sales hiring process.

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Cincom Smart Selling

JANUARY 30, 2025

It serves as a crucial step in the sales cycle, bridging the gap between initial inquiries and finalized deals. Finally, well examine best practices and tools for optimizing quoting processes, helping businesses achieve faster, smarter, and more profitable outcomes.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 16, 2025

For the sake of simplicity, Im going to toss them all into one of three bags: tools, solutions and systems. Depending on your application and your level of complexity in terms of product, market, price or organization, you may be best served by a simple, free-standing tool, or you may require a more elaborate, full-function integrated system.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By using rule-based engines, AI-driven pricing models, and automated approval workflows, CPQ quote automation eliminates manual errors, accelerates sales cycles, and enables scalability for businesses managing intricate product catalogs and multi-tiered pricing structures. Manual vs. Automated Quoting: Whats the Difference?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Change in Buyer Behavior - behaviors are always changing and while it may be true that sales cycles are getting longer, there are only four buyer-side behaviors that can really impact sales outcomes: Relationships. I''ve also been nominated for Top Sales & Marketing Thought Leader. Access to Decision Makers.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 17, 2019

Many business owners, managers, and sales reps think contract management is just a matter of getting a signature and storing the contract away in a CRM. Lost leads, sales, and revenue. The reality is that contract management is a fundamental part of the sales cycle. The result for the vast majority of businesses?

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, creating sales quotes can often be a slow, manual process when youre juggling external tools or spreadsheets. Thats why were excited to introduce Nutshell Quotesan integrated CRM quoting tool that eliminates those manual steps and helps your team close deals faster. Need more information?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Many of the “rushed over” deals, could in fact have been better, not just in immediate revenue and quota retirement, but upsells, referrals, and most importantly, margins and price integrity. Become one of the thousands of sales professionals receiving my latest updates on sales execution, tools, tips and more.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It helps pre-sales (SCs) scale while keeping margins high. It enables the buyer by providing the internal champion with tools to effectively sell on your behalf. This shortens the sales cycle. Clients have cut their sales cycles by 68%. Shorter sales cycles and higher close rates.

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SBI

JUNE 21, 2018

As a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, Tod and his team of Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants support the sales team in their division and are responsible for onsite and remote demos. He had a mandate to decrease costs to improve profitability by increasing margins. What did he do?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

One approach that intrepid leaders can look to is too shrink the size of territories, based on a number of factors driven by deal size, length of cycle, nature of the offering (new or mature), is the focus margin or market share, is there opportunity for organic growth, or strictly competitive account growth, and others. Sales Cycle.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 13, 2025

CPQ software has revolutionized the way organizations manage complex sales cycles by enabling sales teams to quickly and accurately deliver tailored solutions to customers. Moreover, inconsistent discounting practices can erode profit margins and create distrust among customers.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 15, 2025

Long-term forecasts: These are sales forecasts for strategic planning, typically one to five years. Organizations often use sales forecasting tools to facilitate the forecasting process. These tools leverage data from the sales pipeline and historical sales to generate more accurate and efficient forecasts.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 22, 2025

A sales strategy is your blueprint for consistent and scalable revenue growth. A strong strategy aligns your market focus, sales processes, tools, and team with long-term business outcomes. At its core, a sales strategy answers three questions: Who are we selling to? How are we positioning our value?

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 29, 2025

Instead of juggling spreadsheets and emails, sales reps like Jerry can generate accurate quotes in minutes with real-time pricing, pre-approved discount rules, and automated approvals. In this article, we will take a deep dive into how quoting software enhances accuracy and accelerates sales cycles.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Align CPQ with Your Sales Strategy A CPQ system that operates in isolation from the broader sales strategy leads to misaligned workflows, inconsistent pricing approvals, and disconnected customer interactions. Implement automated discounting rules to prevent excessive price reductions that could erode margins.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2019

For example, if you sold a software tool to create video content for their company, you could position the product as an easier way to author and share the videos (something they're doing today that takes more time). This impacts your sales cycle, and the contract value you should target per deal. Evaluate the unit economics.

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MEDDIC

JANUARY 9, 2025

Revenue goals focus on the desired outcomes, such as achieving $1 million in sales, $500k gross margin, or acquiring 10 new clients. Sales Cycle. Shorten your sales cycle by 30%. These specific actions form the backbone of a solid sales plan, ensuring your efforts are focused and purposeful.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 29, 2025

Businesses leveraging a streamlined quote-to-order process can accelerate sales cycles and enhance customer satisfaction by providing faster, more reliable quotes on orders. Incompatible Combinations : Sales reps may accidentally propose product bundles that dont work together, leading to rework.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

In reality, however, the pipeline and metrics associated with the pipeline represent one of the most powerful tools for sales people in managing their time, focusing on critical opportunities, assuring they make their numbers, and constantly improving personal performance. Do we have problems closing (late cycle losses)?

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A well-trained sales team can navigate the system effortlessly, configure products accurately, and apply pricing rules without errors. Without the right training, inefficiencies and mistakes can slow down the sales cycle, leading to lost opportunities. What is CPQ Software?

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PandaDoc

MARCH 13, 2025

CPQ systems help businesses store, manage, and enforce contract pricing, eliminating manual errors and accelerating sales cycles in the process. Its a useful tool for companies who want to stabilize a vendor relationship because it offers deals and incentives to keep that relationship strong. What is contracted pricing?

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 30, 2025

Quotation Software is a specialized tool that is specifically designed to help businesses generate accurate and transparent quotes much faster. The online quotation software ensures sales teams generate precise quotes in minutes rather than hours and seal the deal quickly. This is where quotation software becomes a game-changer.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

As with all things worth doing in sales, there is some work involved, despite what some soothsayers will tell you, there is no silver bullet in sales. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership. Sales Management.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

Similarly in the market world, you have to entice a clientele base by promoting heavily without really striving for a high profit margin. Promote sales, throw out freebies, offer free shipping for certain orders. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Leadership.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 21, 2025

The meaning and definition of sales management include setting goals, building processes, managing performance, optimizing sales pipelines, and aligning with broader business strategies. It also involves selecting the right tools and technologies to streamline workflows, forecast accurately, and improve decision-making.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

To be effective, the sales process has to do these three things for the sales person: Help win more business! decrease sales cycle time). increase margin or average transaction value). If the sales process doesn’t do this for the sales person, then the sales person should refuse to use it!

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2014

The objective of the deal review is to make sure the sales person has the strongest deal strategy in place. In coaching the deal, the manager wants to help maximize the sales person’s ability to win, reduce the sales cycle, and improve the transaction value/margin. No related posts.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 1, 2023

With the right CPQ tool, you can simplify the entire process, from product configuration to pricing and quoting. To better understand how CPQ impacts your sales cycle , read on to learn more about its strategies in detail. Identify bottlenecks in your sales cycles First, define the scope of your CPQ project.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In complex manufacturing, sales teams often struggle with inefficiencies that slow down the sales cycle and impact profitability. Additionally, generating error-free quotes requires significant coordination between sales, engineering, and finance teams. What Is CPQ Software?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The further we venture outside our sweet spot, the less likely we are to be successful, the longer and more difficult the sales cycle; consequently wasting both our the prospect’s time. Our win rates and sales cycles for those customers are the highest, so it seems easiest if we do a great job at disqualification.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 11, 2025

In this blog, you will get to know how Salesforce CPQ works as a game-changing assistant for product configurations, strategic pricing, and accurate sales quotes for the products or services your organization sells. It is a powerful and robust tool within the Salesforce ecosystem. What is CPQ in Salesforce ?

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