The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 8, 2017

Everyone wants a full sales pipeline. There’s not a sales manager in the world who isn’t continually beating up their sales team to get more into their pipeline. News flash! It doesn’t matter what you put into your sales pipe that counts! What counts is the speed with which it moves through the pipe! […].

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

There are a number of ways to decrease the temptation to cut your price and one very effective way is by having a full pipeline. When the sales funnel or pipeline is full, it’s amazing how much more confident we are when meeting with customers. Suddenly the urge to do something stupid just to close a sale is not nearly as strong.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 20, 2018

What is in your sales pipeline? More importantly, is what’s in your pipeline moving? When I’m working with salespeople, I see far too much sewage that is being passed off as prospects. News flash! There’s a big difference between a prospect and sewage! Clearly, too many did not read the memo.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 8, 2012

How is your sales pipeline doing? Too many salespeople keep leads in their sales pipeline that have zero potential of every resulting in sales, but they do this just to give them a sense of security. Sales leads in your pipeline need to be providing you with a good reason to remain there. Having a full pipeline is important.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 14, 2024

Explore our Strategic Revenue Workshop for Sales Leaders and CEOs: Build out your own revenue generating playbook focussing on creating a predictable pipeline strategy all while guaranteeing execution and profitable outcomes. Don’t forget to order your copy of “SHIFT and DISRUPT: Stop Selling Widgets. Dive in now!

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

Home About The Pipeline. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The Pipeline Guest Post – Matt Heinz. Bring in outsiders to teach a skill or customer insight. Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. ©2008 Copyright by The Pipeline. Home About The Pipeline.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice. Referral selling skills aren’t built overnight. Want your sales team to build permanent, repeatable, effective referral selling skills? Read “ 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice ”). Listen to the podcast.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 15, 2018

They continually generated a flood of inbound leads to the fill his pipeline. The post This Ex-Salesforce Veteran Reveals How He Transformed His Team’s Selling Skills appeared first on Gong. But, as Paul stated, there were “broken links” in the revenue chain, and he was short on being able to answer why.

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Gong.io

MAY 12, 2021

But depending on your CRM for pipeline visibility and revenue forecasting is problematic. . Sales leaders tend to focus on the number of opportunities in their pipeline and closed-won deals. So when most sales leaders look at their pipeline, they’re emphasizing quantity over quality. The problem with relying solely on CRM.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When was the last time you had your team wipe out everything in their sales pipeline? When it comes to sales pipelines, it means we as salespeople […]. You’re thinking I’m crazy, but give my strategy a read before passing judgement.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 3, 2023

The only numbers that I was ever interested in were … How much is in my/our pipeline? Having call data might be helpful in making this determination, however, I can look at their pipeline in Nimble and see the number of deals. Selling skills … not a data item. What are my/our sales for the month?

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 18, 2015

Today we come to #2: Having TOO many prospects in your pipeline. I am looking closer at the Top 10 Reasons Why Most Prospecting Programs Don’t Work and What You Can Do About It. #1 1 was using the same prospecting process for all your prospects. This tip rubs a lot of people the wrong way, especially […].

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some of the most creative selling was done to convince the manager that numbers would be made. Sellers that made their numbers had fewer , more highly qualified opportunities in their pipelines. As a sales manager I noticed something curious…. Of course, the problem was that most of the opportunities weren’t qualified.

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Klozers

APRIL 11, 2016

In the world of sales; Selling Skills can make the difference between a Rainmaker and a Bank breaker for most businesses. Analysing and testing these skills in sales people is difficult, as often they can appear pitch perfect in the office but never quite seem to get matching results in the field.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 9, 2012

This is my 4th post in a series on pipeline movement. Getting deals or opportunities to move through the pipeline is absolutely critical to increasing sales. Therefore, I thought it made sense to break down each of the areas that keep deals stuck and languishing in the pipeline.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Diagnosing the problem starts with identifying symptoms that go hand in hand with a stagnating sales pipeline. Identifying early warning signs, however, is critical to curb the emergence of a stagnating pipeline. Are more opportunities appearing to get stuck in the pipeline for longer periods of time? Aging opportunities.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 27, 2012

The most talented sales people have been heard to say they just ran out of time, while someone with average selling skills who uses their time wisely will always prosper. What’s in Your Pipeline? The beauty of time is that you can only do two things with time, waste it or profit from it, which one will you choose?

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 14, 2023

We can spend a lot of time focusing on specific selling skills, for example questioning, probing, objection handling, presenting skills, closing skills. Some of the more advanced thinkers will focus on value creation or Business Focused Selling (which is another of my hot buttons. What’s the trick?

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 20, 2022

The problem I see, however, is that most of the articles that I read neglect to tell you that, in order to make any of this work, you still need to know how to sell! I constantly practice and refine my selling fundamentals. How much is in my pipeline in my Nimble CRM and what are my closing ratios? Nothing in their pipeline?

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Digital Sales Engine is a day-long online learning event on November 17, packed with live sessions and master classes by 30+ of today’s leaders in sales. Other top sales speakers and I will come together to provide a learning experience full of proven strategies and powerful insights around sales technology.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Sales Tips: Who Owns the Pipeline? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. In my experience as a sales manager, once unqualified opportunities enter the pipeline they’re difficult to extract as sellers merely push back close dates (enter self-serving and inaccurate data).

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 27, 2013

By registering, you will get our Quarter 3 Pipeline Strategy Assessment. It will help your team determine: What deals can close quickly in your pipeline. The most impactful method is proper Pipeline Strategy. Training typically involves selling skills or negotiation methods. Yet most reps don’t understand it.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We toss the term around casually, but when I look at too many pipelines or prospecting programs, the ICP is not discernible. We have a tendency to try to sell to anyone. If our pipelines are lean, we cast a wider net. Look at these questions: How do we most effectively fill our pipelines?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Charlie Anderson is the founder and owner of Selling Skills INSTITUTE , a transformational (able to influence shifts in thinking and behavior ) sales training and coaching business. For over 25 years, Charlie has worked with thousands of sales professionals, sales teams, and business owners.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We have gathered six top experts in their fields to discuss the evolution of Artificial Intelligence as it relates to sales and how the human element needs to adapt and change to leverage the power of AI by combining it with advanced selling skills. Dec 3, 2020 – 8:00 am – 9:00 am Pacific Time. CLICK HERE TO SET REMINDER.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 10, 2014

The biggest changes since our original set of 21 Core Competencies in 1994 are the inclusion of categories that compliment our dashboards as well as the inclusion of Sales Posturing and Social Selling. In its essence, social selling is really a component of marketing for which many more salespeople are now taking individual responsibility.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 17, 2021

This may be pointing to selling skills and/or training. Another culprit is just not knowing what you have in your pipeline and whether or not you have enough in there, let alone if what you do have is even remotely accurate. . Pipelines and Deals in Nimble CRM. Pipelines and Deals in Nimble CRM.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 19, 2015

This approach will build your momentum, your profit, and your pipeline. Blog Professional Selling Skills Sales Motivation prospect prospecting sales motivation sales motivation video' Just when you think you have done enough for the day, make one more call. Make one more call today and every day! Click […].

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM. It involves asking questions and helping individuals discover their own solutions, which is both a coaching and selling skill. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. The Power of Sales Leadership and Emotion in Sales Hello everyone, I’m John Golden, your host from SalesPOP!

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Gong.io

MAY 18, 2018

Starting May 25th, the impact of GDPR on sales and marketing teams could force you to experience a serious pipeline drought. That means the impact of GDPR on sales will put a number of meetings and qualified opportunities that come into your pipeline at risk of being cut in half. Zoom in on the deals that make up your pipeline.

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Gong.io

MAY 18, 2018

Starting May 25th, the impact of GDPR on sales and marketing teams could force you to experience a serious pipeline drought. That means the impact of GDPR on sales will put a number of meetings and qualified opportunities that come into your pipeline at risk of being cut in half. Zoom in on the deals that make up your pipeline.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Recently Dave published a couple of articles on prospecting where he shared that, when sales are low, the answer that most sales managers have is … “We need to fill the pipelines! These all come with increased selling skills. What if, instead of one calculator, I could sell them two? We need to prospect more!”.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The last quarter of the year is 25 percent about closing business for this year and 75 percent about building a robust pipeline for next year. Then ramp up your prospecting activity by asking for referrals from those happy customers, and you’ll be well on your way to building a strong pipeline for Q1. But adults resist practice.

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Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We can only control and manage what we understand and that is the real value of continuous and rigorous assessment of our pipelines. And yes, it’s true, 33% of opportunities currently residing within your pipeline will never close – this will be for a number of reasons …. General Pipeline Management Sales Pipelines'

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There should be a huge focus on communication skills. Training on the performance management process–key metrics, forecasting, pipeline management, and so forth. Training on performance management, coaching, developing the capabilities of people. Training on the tools they need to use to support doing the job.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Typical drivers of shareholder value include free cash flow, revenue growth, margin growth, expense reductions, new products launched, product pipeline, and future capacity. Drivers of shareholder value vary by industry and company. Does Your Sales Team Have the Right Customer Insights?

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Walking away from a deal that is less than full price might be easy when the pipeline is full and you have more business than you can handle. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price. Usually, though, that’s not when it happens.

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