Sales Gravy

MARCH 30, 2025

The most important thing you can do right now is conduct a deep dive analysis of your pipeline. Get your calculator out and do the math on how much you need in your pipeline to crush your Q2 number. Then get to work immediately building the pipe you need to hit that goal. After all, you deserve it. After all, you deserve it.

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Go for No!

JANUARY 11, 2025

My sales pipeline is always full, and I never worry about finding new prospects. My sales strategies are solid, and I dont need fresh ideas or inspiration. I consistently hit all my sales goals and feel no need to improve or stretch further. Rejection never affects meIve completely mastered my mindset around it.

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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If you want to exceed your sales goals, you’ll need to invest in an additional type of learning. Those facts may be true, especially if you are stressed about meeting your sales goals. In our survey of sales professionals , only 20% indicated they’ve read at least two books on sales this year.

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Salesmate

JULY 9, 2020

Your sales pipeline covers every stage of the customer acquisition process from leads to after-sales support to repeat business. While revenue is a good indicator of success, it only measures what’s coming out of the pipeline – in other words, the result. Deal profitability is an important sales pipeline metric.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 3, 2023

Every business’s sales pipeline is different, but one thing they all have in common is that they take people from prospective leads to paying customers. As a manufacturing company, a steady customer base is key to your business’s growth, and the best way to maintain that customer base is through sales pipeline management.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 9, 2019

” These might be the laws of sales, but they’re not great examples of real sales goals. Your business might be headed in a great new direction, and there might be a fantastic vision behind it, but without well-chosen, well-articulated sales goals, your sales team won’t be equipped to get where you want to be.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2023

Of sales reps, 34% are using AI to get their hands on data-driven insights like sales forecasting, lead scoring, and pipeline analysis. Let’s talk about sales forecasting first. Did you know that 57% of sales reps forecast their pipeline inaccurately? Generating content. Image Source People.ai

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

To ensure the exercise has merit, the plan needs to be directly tied to a specific objective, in this case sales goals. What’s in Your Pipeline? Planning allows you to draw that line in the sand that goes from Point A, where you are now, and Point B, where you want to be at the end of the week. Have a good week! Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeliner

JULY 9, 2022

In a previous article, we discussed the fact that sales have become a purely mechanical proposition, lacking real theory. Pipeliner CRM, on the other hand, is rooted deeply in the Austrian School of Economics theory. It says that sales must have a human approach. And Pipeliner empowers that role, too. The Framework.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2013

The Pipeline Guest Post – Michael Villeneuve. Let’s start by imagining your only sales goal is to get reps to bring in revenue. And that only the sales rep interacts with the customer. That no customer ever buys more than once. Then, commission-only could work. It’s simple to calculate and execute. It motivates.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

Your company’s sales managers only have a select number of sales reps to work with, and those reps only have a limited amount of time to close deals. A good sales pipeline management strategy is essential because every potential opportunity uses up your most valuable resource — time.

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Lead411

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Odds are if your end of the year sales goals are coming up a bit short, it could have something to do with your preparation in the beginning of the year. Sales pipelines are called pipelines for a reason, you need to turn the leads on early so they come out clients at the end.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Channel Strategy & Sales Goals. Training material/courseware for sales team. Monitor Pipeline. A few must-do items in this step: Target Ideal Customer Profile for new product. Target Buyer Persona Profiles. Buying Process Maps for target personas. Pricing Guidelines. Early stage marketing collateral.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

Here are a few common sales enablement goals, as well as an example of a metric you could use to measure the success of each: Goal: Increase sales productivity Metric: Sales cycle length Sales cycle length reflects the time it takes for a sales rep to transform a cold lead into a successful deal.

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Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Blocking and tackling in sales is all about doing those sales basics that grow your sales pipeline and give you more good sales opportunities with better odds for bringing them to closure. Blocking consists of: Quarterly and monthly sales planning. Weekly sales goals. Expand Your Pipeline.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 10, 2025

Sales lead generation and qualification is key to generating and maintaining a healthy sales pipeline, Pipedrive points out. These findings highlight the opportunity to revisit qualification processes and activities that support pipeline health. As Ross Rich adds, Focus is key to hitting your sales goals in a downturn.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 2, 2014

When looking for new business, many sales organizations shake the trees and see what falls off. That’s not a dependable or prudent sales strategy. So when they suddenly find themselves with no pipeline, the only thing they can do is reach out to grab some low-hanging fruit. And create goals for your team.

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Autoklose

OCTOBER 7, 2024

No matter what your business is about, there’s one thing that you should always bear in mind: you need to learn how to sell and hit your sales goals! It’s also essential to keep your data clean and get rid of some stale deals that have been congesting your sales pipeline.

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Nutshell

JUNE 19, 2024

A sales pipeline is a well-defined set of tasks within stages that your sales team can follow so that they know what action to take depending on where your lead is in the buyer journey. In this article, you’ll learn the five best practices for managing a sales pipeline in your financial services business.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 7, 2019

If you're a sales leader, it's important to determine the key metrics your sales team will be evaluated on. From there, you can reverse engineer your sales process to set sales goals. Then, monitor performance using sales activity tracking tools. Daily Sales Goal Tracking Spreadsheet.

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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Setting goals is important in all areas of life – both personally and professionally. The world of sales is no exception. Sales goals help ensure your entire sales team is aligned. Each sales rep must understand the overall goals of the company – and the part they play in achieving those goals.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But if you’re not regularly adding qualified opportunities to your pipeline, you’ll have no pipeline. The last quarter of the year is 25 percent about closing business for this year and 75 percent about building a robust pipeline for next year. Set Strategic Sales Goals for Your Account Based Selling Team.

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Selling Energy

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Throughout my Selling in a Recession series , one of the phrases you’ll hear me repeat is “overfill your pipeline.” What does that mean?

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Anthony Cole Training

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

My wife Linda and I were recently in Columbia Maryland visiting family. While having a mid-afternoon lunch at Clyde’s I happen to see a “LifeLock” commercial on the bar TV. All I caught was the following caption:

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The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

Since then sales teams have continued to contract, sales goals have continued to grow, as has the number of sales people who almost, but don’t always make goal. What’s in Your Pipeline? The difference between baseball and the revenue game, is you need to do both to succeed, you need to be a switch hitter.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 17, 2013

For example, with a RIF rumor, Sales Reps may cozy up to top accounts – to make sure they can count on them at the competitor. Pipelines may magically grow to show “better performance”. A LIGNMENT : Show alignment with company or sales goals, especially stretch goals. These tactics may be damaging to your company.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 28, 2017

Each week I receive phone calls and emails from salespeople and sales managers who say they aren’t hitting their sales goals. You will never hit your sales goals if you don’t have enough in your pipeline to close, and […].

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The Sales Heretic

AUGUST 7, 2018

Reaching your sales goals starts with great prospecting. If you don’t have a full pipeline of qualified buyers, odds are you’re making one or more of these fatal mistakes. But too many people don’t prospect effectively. Not spending enough time on it I know, I know—you’ve got 18,000 things to do every day. But [.].

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Nutshell

MARCH 28, 2024

Consulting firms need a great sales pipeline to attract leads and close deals, as well as generate recurring revenue from clients and referrals. Read on to learn tips and best practices for managing an optimized sales pipeline for consulting firms. With these goals in mind, you can begin to build your sales pipeline.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Excellent pipeline visibility can make sales managers feel like superheroes. Being able to instantly tell executives the exact number and value of sales in your pipeline is like having spidey senses. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for most sales managers. You need pipeline reporting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

The most obvious differentiator of great front-line sales managers is their ability to create and drive a sales team that consistently meets or exceeds team sales goals. They are constantly evaluating sales rep performance and are quick to replace reps who, despite great coaching, can’t or won’t hit their sales targets.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 13, 2017

Much like a wealth manager will allocate portions of your money to stocks, some to cash, derivatives, all aligned to your retirement or other goals; in this case, it’s sales goals. I am truly tired of lame sales people using the lame excuse of time management. Which is what got this whole thing started.

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Allego

JANUARY 16, 2025

Setting Sales Goals: Establishing clear sales goals and quotas provides performance benchmarks and direction to team members. These goals must align with the companys primary objectives, realistic and attainable, and motivate sales reps to take action.

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Alice Heiman

JANUARY 22, 2020

My friend Tiffani Bova shared 26 Sales Statistics that Prove Sales is Changing and one of them is that sales professionals spend just 34% of their time selling so it is no wonder that 57% expect to miss their quotas. Don’t let your sales reps fail on your watch. Create a Realistic Sales Plan. Are you worried?

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 9, 2024

By consistently seeking out new talent, sales leaders can ensure they have a pipeline of potential hires and avoid the desperation of insufficient qualified candidates. Setting Learning Goals In addition to sales goals, it is important to set learning goals for your team.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know. Sales Rep Activity. The solution? Account Management.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2025

SalesLoft: The Top Sales Acceleration Tool SalesLoft is a leading sales engagement platform that redefines how sales teams manage their sales processes and elevate sales performance, and a personal favorite of mine. s features are tailored for comprehensive sales team training and sales management training.

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