Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Recently, a reader wrote, asking a lot of questions about pipelines–what are they, why are they important, how do we leverage them, and so forth. For example, I know of very few sales training programs that teach pipeline concepts (we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years). So strap in… What is the pipeline?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

No business can survive for long without a healthy sales pipeline. It’s what keeps your sales team organized and focused on managing opportunities to close deals. Unfortunately, many B2B organizations suffer from ineffective sales pipeline management. What Is a Sales Pipeline?

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Pipeline Guest Post - Diana Doherty. Think you have the best possible toolkit for your sales team? The best sales tools now are all about integration and automation. The best tools for your team make more sales, less work. A mobile sales productivity app. Think again. About Diana Doherty.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This is the first in a series of interviews with sales management subject matter experts, examining the current and future states of AI in sales. This first interview is with Oliver Churchill , the founder and CEO of Acuity Sales Decision Science. I was curious to hear what he thinks. These are just the Insights portions.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 13, 2024

In the Sales Leadership Awakening podcast, Steven Rosen and Colleen Stanley stress the lack of coaching and support for sales managers, underscoring the need for coaching for these managers. Evaluating sales managers’ success should exceed sales quotas and include turnover and team development metrics.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2023

Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools. Salespeople can self-motivate, sales managers can do this to motivate their salespeople, sales leaders can use this to motivate their sales managers and CEOs can leverage this to motivate their top Sales Leader.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

How can your sales reps stand out from the crowd and start building their sales pipeline ? Prospecting is the process of starting sales conversations. For that reason, we teach sellers in our LinkedIn training to subscribe to omnichannel prospecting for the best sales success while prospecting. What is Prospecting?

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Anthony Cole Training

DECEMBER 5, 2014

When growing up on a farm, it is beneficial to learn how to use certain tools. Learning what the tools are at an early age was extremely helpful especially when dad (Ray) was working underneath a pickup truck or in the middle of a tractor engine and he said to his son (me), "Antny (Anthony), hand me the flat head screw driver."

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Between prospecting, sales calls, data entry, quote preparation, and follow-ups, it’s very easy for teams to mismanage data and trip over themselves on the way to the finish line. That’s why sales collaboration tools are an essential part of the modern sales lifecycle. Let’s jump right in!

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Sales managers are responsible for growing revenue. That means 1) providing sales reps with the guidance they need to continuously improve, 2) building a sales process that gives reps the best chance at closing each lead, and 3) understanding which efforts are moving the needle and which are a waste of energy.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2023

The sales pipeline is, perhaps, one of the most misunderstood things in selling. We know the pipeline is critical to helping us answer the question, “Are we pursuing enough opportunities to achieve our goals?” ” We harass sellers to use CRM, keeping their opportunities updated so we can track our pipelines.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

Within a CRM, a pipeline represents a sales or other type of process. Pipeliner CRM was the first CRM to enable multiple pipelines within CRM. This is the person who helps create processes and adapts them to pipelines. Pipeliner is highly flexible, which means that nothing is set in stone. Win Probability.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That’s why building and managing a sales pipeline is so important. . A well-defined sales pipeline makes your sales process transparent, allowing you to see your deals in the sales funnel, where they’re getting stuck, and how long the entire process takes. What is a sales pipeline?

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Pipeliner

JULY 11, 2024

The ability to harness data to inform decisions, personalize interactions, and optimize sales processes is no longer optional—it’s a competitive necessity. Pipeliner CRM is a powerful tool designed to support data-driven selling, providing sales teams with the insights and capabilities they need to excel.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This month, Pipeliner is introducing an unparalleled sales forecasting approach: the Pipeliner Revenue Intelligence Loop! It is for this reason that we generally market our Pipeliner CRM solution to companies with existing data. Pipeliner fully incorporates leading and lagging indicators , giving you a holistic view.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 23, 2013

One of the best indicators of future sales success is pipeline health. They’ll know if the pipeline will lead to the desired results. In this post we will discuss how pipeline reviews can expose Sales Management. Here is an example pipeline review between a Private Equity firm and Sales Leader.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 30, 2024

However, summer, or the Q3 blues, does not have to mean sales stagnation. In fact, summer is a great time for a midyear pipeline review. This includes revisiting and refining sales strategies to ensure they achieve year-end goals. Instead, it’s a comprehensive reevaluation of your pipeline.

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Pipeliner

MAY 31, 2018

In this ebook author, Nikolaus Kimla gets very specific, dealing with sales management through CRM. He personally believes (as do a lot of experts today) that utilizing a CRM is the only way to manage a sales team—and in fact, it is practically impossible to manage one without it. Lead Management.

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Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Are your sales forecasts tied to reality? Is sales forecast accuracy more of a pipedream within your sales organization? Does the speed of your sales pipeline resemble molasses? In fact, less than half of all forecasted sales opportunities actually result in a sales win.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At Pipeliner, we have just devised a new tagline for our CRM and our company: Open to Close. The Pipeliner Difference This tagline has been created to encompass the impact Pipeliner CRM has on an individual, the organization, and the marketplace environment as a whole. Efficiency is the first impact Pipeliner CRM has.

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BrainShark

MARCH 10, 2024

Pipeline coverage is a ratio used by sales managers to measure how much pipeline they have, compared to how much quota they need to close. It’s calculated by dividing your open pipeline by how much quota you need to close. General rule of thumb is to have 3x to 4x pipeline coverage.

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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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SalesFuel

JUNE 13, 2024

Because these are simple suggestions for growing and shortening your sales pipeline to achieve success. Earn More Sales by Developing Healthy Pipeline Habits Colleen Francis is a no-nonsense sales consultant and author who takes her work seriously. This is yet another opportunity to swoop in with your product.

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MarketJoy

JULY 22, 2022

Why is creating an effective sales pipeline a nightmare for some businesses? After you read this short article, you will have a full understanding of how to build a robust sales pipeline. A sales pipeline plays an important role in any successful business. Is it as daunting as some people make it out to be?

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 1, 2020

Sales pipelines are similar to the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This one is too fat, this one is too skinny, and the rarest one of all; this one's just right.

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Nutshell

JULY 25, 2023

With a quality sales tracking platform, you can easily tell which of your sales strategies are working and which should be kicked to the curb. Keep reading to learn what sales tracking software is, what a proper sales tracker tool looks like, and the 12 best sales tracking software options available to you.

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Pipeliner

MAY 14, 2022

I know many sales managers would argue with me, but right now would venture to say that most mid-level companies have very inaccurate forecasting systems. It’s only when you truly know where you stand regarding sales figures, and where you’re most probably headed, that you are on safe ground and can manage sales with some certainty.

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SalesFuel

JULY 24, 2024

Advances in technology have given sellers many B2B sales tools that can add big impact to their efforts. What are B2B sales tools? Sellers need to understand what exactly these tools are and how they can help. Sellers need to understand what exactly these tools are and how they can help. How can they help?

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The real key to building a winning sales team is effective sales management. Are you wondering how to manage a sales team effectively? Well, you can get many tips, tactics, and strategies from various sales management books. Best sales management books you must read. Author- Kevin F.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Step 1 – Have the Sales Team Evaluated We leverage the gold standard of sales team evaluation tools to determine what the team’s full sales capabilities are today, and where the biggest gaps are in all 21 Sales Core Competencies. They needed to add salespeople and replace their D-Players.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to managing your sales process, two of the most popular tools on the market are Pipeliner CRM and HubSpot Sales Hub. Both are designed to help businesses streamline their sales process, but they differ in the features they offer and the approach they take to sales management.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There has been lots written about the common mistake companies make in selecting new sales managers; specifically the habit of promoting some of their best sales people to the management ranks, whether they are suitable or not. The notion that the best managers are those who have done it is simply not right.

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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 27, 2019

Author: Brad Wilsted Note: This is part 3 in a 3-part series on the powerful role sales management plays in driving sustained revenue growth – and how companies can better leverage this critical position for improved top-line performance. Hire the right sales managers. This doesn’t happen by accident.

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A Sales Guy

JUNE 28, 2012

The sales pipeline is the most important sales management tool there is. Everything happens in the pipeline, or at least it should. The sales pipeline is like the hard drive of a computer. The key to fast and efficient sales pipeline is preventing crap from clogging it up.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

No business can survive for long without a healthy sales pipeline. It’s what keeps your sales team organized and focused on managing opportunities to close deals. Unfortunately, many B2B organizations suffer from ineffective sales pipeline management.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Six Best Practices in Sales Pipeline Management to Boost Revenue. The most important thing in sales is a strong pipeline. Sales reps need to be organized and focused in order to sell. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. Sales Pipeline Definition.

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