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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 is in your pipeline should meet specific and defined criteria.

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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. The more you manage it, honestly, the more consistently you will exceed quota. When it comes to prospecting, there’s real, then there’s pipeline real. By Tibor Shanto. When Is It Real?

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Building Sales Pipelines: Coaching Tools

Force Management

Healthy sales pipelines and accurate forecasts are grounded in structured territory, account and opportunity planning processes. Without this line of sight, sales organizations often miss quota goals, forecast revenue inaccurately, and close the majority of deals late in the quarter – or year.

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Beating your Stress Quota

The Pipeline

Here are some specific steps you can implement to limit the pressure and the effect on your pipeline and success. While there are distinct sources of stress for a sales rep, their manager, customers and the ever-present quota. There is a reason why successful salespeople seem less wound up: they do not have the quota stress.

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Outbound Prospecting – Filling Your Sales Pipeline

Speaker: Mark Hunter, CSP, “The Sales Hunter”

Therefore, the majority of salespeople do not make their quota and this is a key reason why there is so much turnover in sales jobs. This makes getting new customers extremely complicated and challenging. Too many salespeople give up too easily or turn to quick solutions that aren’t efficient, lasting, or sustainable.

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How to calculate Pipeline Coverage

BrainShark

Pipeline coverage measures the amount of pipeline you have, relative to your quota for a given period of time. To measure this metric, you take your total pipeline for a period, and divide by your quota for that same time period. This rep has a 4x pipeline coverage. Looking for more sales metrics know-how?

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Churn Is A Variable of Quota You Need To Know

The Pipeline

But it is still a sum that has to be recovered before we start retiring quota. Churn is a variable of quota you need to know. Most go for the easy and perhaps obvious option; they gross up their quota by what they feel their average churn rate is. Not just know, but plan for and manage like any other element of sales success.

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How to Buy Sales Training That Delivers Results

Only 24% of salespeople hit their quota. The best organizations leverage professional sales training programs to impact demand generation, discovery, conversion from demos, pipeline velocity, deals won, and deal size. 40% of businesses missed their revenue targets last year.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace. Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead.