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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. Leads to Questions.

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How Can Pipeline Meetings Be a Coaching Opportunity?

Hubspot Sales

As a sales manager, I’m sure you have pipeline meetings often. But, do you ever ask yourself, “How can pipeline meetings be a coaching opportunity?” But these pipeline reviews should be true coaching sessions — not data-scrubbing meetings. Today, let’s review the best pipeline coaching strategies.

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What’s In Your Pipeline?

The Pipeline

Many reps and managers look at opportunities independently of one another, but the pipeline is a collective of opportunities. Unfortunately, many salespeople see their pipeline as a holding tank for opportunities, rather than a means of driving to quota. What’s in your pipeline?” What’ In Your Pipeline?

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Reality Testing Sales Pipeline Opportunities

Sales Gravy

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Colleen Stanley discuss the importance of Reality Testing sales pipeline opportunities. Reality testing sales pipeline opportunities is an important step in ensuring the success of your sales efforts and the effective use of your time.

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

As a leader in your sales organization, it’s incredibly important to have an accurate picture of your team’s revenue, pipeline, and sales activities in order to deliver results. Quickly find and add information related to accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, and activities. Master 1:1 sales meetings.

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Qualifying Opportunities: Your Sales Growth Superpower

Sales and Marketing Management

Lack of quality opportunities clogs your pipeline, causes inaccurate forecasts and causes sales professionals to miss their goals. There are three areas you can focus on to improve the quality of your opportunities and their odds of a successful close.

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There’s Real and Then There’s Pipeline Real

The Pipeline

Some people hide from prospecting in their pipelines; pretending the opportunities, individually or collectively, are more real than they are. When it comes to prospecting, there’s real, then there’s pipeline real. In order not to get a false sense of security from your pipeline, do the following stress test every week.

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It’s Time to Stop Obsessing Over Leads

And how can you optimize your program to create more qualified sales opportunities, faster? Pipeline acceleration. Modern marketing teams focus on likely future customers to generate awareness, interest, and opportunities without waiting on them to fill out a form. Customer retention. Customer expansion.

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Using Connected Device Data to Improve Sales

Speaker: Charlie Isaacs, CTO for Customer Connection at Salesforce

There is an incredible opportunity for companies to take data from connected devices and use it to improve your sales pipeline, make your reps more effective, and even (with the help of AI) handle entire portions of the sales process for you! You likely have many connected devices all around you.

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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.