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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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Building Sales Pipelines: Coaching Tools

Force Management

Healthy sales pipelines and accurate forecasts are grounded in structured territory, account and opportunity planning processes. These processes provide sales managers with an unrestricted line of sight into their sales organizations.

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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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Beating your Stress Quota

The Pipeline

We live in stressful times , no matter what we do, stress will be a factor, especially in sales. 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.

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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. Join Mark Hunter, CSP, “The Sales Hunter”, as he details the importance of knowing your market and how that dictates who you should be prospecting.

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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

The familiar expression “measure twice, cut once”, has validity in B2B sales as well. 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. Not just know, but plan for and manage like any other element of sales success. Play To You Strength.

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How to Buy Sales Training That Delivers Results

If we've learned anything over the last two years, it’s that if your sales team is not actively developing skills you are falling behind. Only 24% of salespeople hit their quota. You should really discover for yourself the playbook for evaluating sales training organizations.

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

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