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Opportunity Blindness – What’s in Your Sales Pipeline?

Understanding the Sales Force

Are the opportunities made of gold bullions or lumps of coal? The current closable opportunities (B) are at 23% of the forecast (C) and at less than 10% of the quarterly target (D). The question that should be asked is, “What can we do about this?” Early stage opportunities should not have an assigned value.

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Opportunity Math……

Partners in Excellence

Let’s look at some “opportunity” math. 60% of the opportunities we compete for end in no decision made! What if we set a goal of reducing the number of opportunities that customers abandon late in their buying process? That would give us, collectively, a 50% increase in buying! Yet they fail!

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What 15K Demos per Year Taught Us About Converting Inbound Sales Leads

DiscoverOrg Sales

Once we identified what makes a lead a “good fit,” we addressed lead qualification: What does a lead need to do for us to consider them “qualified”? At DiscoverOrg, we break Marketing-Qualified Leads (MQLs) into two categories: Hot MQLs : People who have requested more information about DiscoverOrg (i.e., We call these “hand-raisers.”.

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Let’s Not Confuse Pipeline Trends with Individual Opportunities

The Pipeline

While they do help create focus, especially across large swaths of data and opportunities, they also have limitations. Especially in how they may limit or prevent us from understanding and winning any given individual opportunity. Let’s not confuse pipeline trends with individual opportunities. What About Next Tuesday?

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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AI In Sales: Seize the Opportunity

Sales 2.0

The human touch Tools like ChatGPT will become part of our workflow, allowing us to get more done in less time; however, we won’t be able to hand over all writing to the AI and not be involved at all. Amelia says, “With Regie , our AI tool, for example, about 80% of the content I send out is AI-generated, but 20% is generated by me.”

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What Hollywood is Teaching Us About Selling

Janek Performance Group

Recognizing the opportunity, Mrs. Jordan agreed to a meeting, and Nike seized the chance to make their pitch. Intrigued, he asks the man about his profession and realizes that a college degree isn’t necessary, but being good with numbers and people is key.

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