The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

A simple but important point for those not in sales to understand, and those in sales to revel in. So I am here to remind them that none of that would be possible if not for the labour of sales people. Nothing happens until there is a sale. It is sales people that first sell the hammer and then sell the sickle.

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Revelation Account Pipeline Sales 282

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

I’ve become relatively agile in prompt engineering, so I keep tweaking them, trying to find that “Aha” revelation. Why are we spending so much time doing what ChatGPT (and high performing sales people) can do in their sleep?” I test across different roles, markets, different issues.

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Ideal Customer Profile Revelation Decision Maker Face-to-face 118

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s SKO season, yesterday I was leading a discussion with a great sales team. As we spoke, it struck me how we revel in these questions. One of the sellers asked a question about dealing with customer questions and queries about the products, particularly deeply technical questions.

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Customer Revelation Buying Cycle Lead Rank 122

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Your referral network is your net worth in sales. ” That’s what a client recently asked me, and I was baffled by his revelation. How can smart, experienced sales reps let their customer relationships wither? But not all sales teams make those investments. They want a sale, and they want it now.

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Referrals Customer Social Media Revelation 432

Pipeliner

APRIL 8, 2024

Chatting with John Golden from Sales POP! Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM, alongside John Nieuwenburg , a seasoned business coach since 2004, I ventured into the world of small businesses. Our dialogue uncovered the real struggles and bright spots for small enterprises today.

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Small Business Small Business Opportunity Hiring 52

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

Not fertile ground for sales folk. It was a life-changing experience regarding business – but not regarding sales. The only course I saw on sales (this was back 1974-76) was about strategic selling and sales management; nothing about the personal psychology of selling, which I later came to see as critical.

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Revelation Government Course Buyer 71

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The profound implications of this revelation invite us to ponder the untapped potential lying dormant within our subconscious minds. Navigating Sales and the Landscape of Emotions Venturing into the realm of sales often conjures images of aggressive tactics and discomfort.

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Revelation Commence Government Pivotal 59

Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

A recent conversation between Alice Heiman and Scott Gillum on the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast sheds light on this very issue, offering a blend of strategies, insights, and anecdotes that CEOs can’t afford to ignore. Starting at the bottom closing deals as a sales rep. His career follows the pipeline.

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Social Media Media Revenue Top of Funnel 75

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We talk about sales people as problem solvers, working with our customers to identify and help solve their problems. We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. ” Fast forward to today, research shows customers have a preference for minimizing sales involvement in their buying journeys.

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Revelation Margin Discount Retention 109

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

So, let’s cut to the chase – you’re here for one thing: crafting a killer sales pitch. With all that in mind, here’s what you need to know about pitch building that should send your sales skyrocketing. Unlocking the Hook: Nail Your Opening Statement Ever heard of love at first sight in the sales world?

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Revelation Scale How To Discount 52

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 11, 2021

.” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I’ve written so much on where we are underperforming our potential as sales professionals, or undeserving out customers. It was both challenging and huge fun.

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Revelation Jigsaw Account Lead Rank 136

Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

One of the most striking revelations from Harris was the absence of a demand generation and marketing strategy within Challenger. Strategic Sales Team Restructuring Harris didn’t stop at marketing transformations. CEOs should consider how their sales teams are structured to best meet the diverse needs of their clientele.

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Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 75

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2022

Today’s guest, Jeff Davis , Associate Director of Business & Brand Strategy at AbbVie , talks with us about the revelations from switching between sales and marketing, how those two departments can work together, and explains what the heck mental masturbation means. The state of sales and marketing today. powered by Sounder.

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Revelation Revenue Promotion Strategy 74

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2024

Welcome to " The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice from real sales leaders. Are you ready for a shocking, next-level revelation that's going to turn your world upside down? He says, "As a sales leader, I think one of the most difficult types of prospects is the people pleaser. You're welcome.

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Prospecting Cancellation How To Revelation 98

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 5, 2012

I love to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries (after all, we work so hard, and it feels great to revel in the good things in life). Our friends at Top Sales Experts are celebrating their 5th anniversary, and it’s my pleasure to toast the global sales community’s publication, Top Sales World.

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Revelation Sales Small Business Small Business 184

Babette Ten Haken

MAY 21, 2020

There’s nothing novel about virtual post-sale client abandonment. What is novel about this post-sale scenario, to you, is that now you have to sell virtually. Because what has not changed is that once a coveted contract is consummated, what is the next sales step? In spite of all your pre-sales assurances.

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Revelation Face-to-face Retention Distribution 141

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2022

Of course, they are engaging sales people through virtual channels, but that’s an increasingly small part of how and where they spend their time in their digital buying journey. We know, collectively, they spend less than 17% of their time with sales people, virtually or in person. But we’re missing something important!

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Revelation Face-to-face Social Media Selling Skills 85

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I think that sales people can learn and benefit from adopting one or both these habits. But not many sales people step back to plan the ‘little’, after all, it’s little. Successful people attack their tasks, devouring those they don’t like, and reveling in the ones they do, but key is they do, and do to the max. Tibor Shanto'

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Revelation Maximizer Call-back Energy 241

Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks. If they can get it done working with sales people, they will do it.

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Customer Prospecting Revelation Trade Show 77

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2022

I didn’t bother, looking at the 1000’s of books in that category, I probably could find something, but I’ll keep ordering the books I want, and if I get to collect the $1.40, that’s fine, if not, Amazon can revel in the fact that I’ve let them drop $1.40 Related Posts: In A Sales Slump?

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Revelation Channels eBook Referrals 126

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2021

Sales people often add to the complexity customers face. Related Posts: Reveling In Complexity Complexity Is Just An Excuse Helping Our Customers Face Uncertainty Managing Complexity The Challenged Customer. We do this because we worry about what we don’t know. We do this because we may be frightened.

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Meeting Face-to-face Revelation Google 145

Cience

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Visiting work events can be fun, bring kindred spirits together, and fill your business brain with beneficial innovations, revelations, and inspirations. We’ve gathered a list of all major sales & marketing events and conferences of 2020 all around the world. We’re looking forward to meeting you at one of these. Bring it on, 2020!

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Conference Revelation Marketing Inbound 52

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 5, 2018

All of us revel in stories of the deal where we took dramatic actions and ultimately won–hopefully not by discounting. But the reality is that sales heroics represent a failure on our parts. Organizations that constantly win, only through sales heroics and last ditch efforts, are failing systemically! No Grin-F#!?ing

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Revelation Discount Sales System 72

Bigtincan

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It’s a revelation heard all around the web — embracing a sales enablement strategy can transform an organization.

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Revelation Sales Process Commission Sales Cycle 52

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2022

Since sales people aren’t as helpful as they could be, they look for information and to learn through other channels. We revel in this, marketing is busy building content and methods to engage customers in their digital buying efforts. Some say all of this will displace sales people.

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Revelation Customer Channels Discount 80

SBI

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

SalesTech Game Changers 4th Digital Magazine: 5 Executives Tell us How Their Solution Changes the Game for Sales. Nearly every week in 2018, we interviewed a different SalesTech company asking them how their solution changes the game for sales. game changer. Definition of game changer. :a

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Revelation Outbound Pipeline Meeting 100

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But CRM has been a powerful tool that drives sales productivity and performance. One would think customers would revel in the knowledge that sellers might be able to engage them in more meaningful and relevant ways, providing deep insights to help customers improve their ability to drive their own performance and grow their own businesses.

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Face-to-face Revelation Tools CRM 120

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2020

It turns out, they are facing the same issues sales is facing around decision confidence and sensemaking. Sales and marketing are figuring it out for what it means for us and our ability to achieve our goals. Related Posts: The Future Of Sales Is Virtual. A lot has been made of “virtual selling.”

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Face-to-face Revelation Channels Exercises 160

Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Meeting Decision Maker Revelation ACT 130

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Drew’s journey, marked by his extensive experience as an entrepreneur and sales leader, sheds light on a transformative approach to networking. His revelation stems from his tenure at Salesforce, where he was exposed to the strategic prowess of Marc Benioff, the company’s CEO.

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Networking Revelation Scale Pivotal 72

Partners in Excellence

JULY 2, 2019

By ignoring our failures, reveling only on our success, we miss opportunity. Fear Of Failure What Sales People Can Learn From High Jumping Committed To "Not Succeeding?" Sales Heroics Are Actually Sales Failures! The reality is we probably fail more than we succeed. Related Posts: What's Your Focus?

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Revelation Relationals Opportunity Positioning 95

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2020

We seem to have a culture that revels in failure–that is encouraging people to experiment, learn, innovate, and grow through “making it safe to fail.” Fear Of Failure The Courage To Be A Great Sales Leader. Recently, I wrote, “ Making It Safe To Fail, Hogwash! Related Posts: Making It Safe To Fail?

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Revelation Ideal Customer Profile Coaching Account 104

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Everyone knows that the prospect should be doing most of the talking during a sales call. That is one of the big challenges in sales, everyone knows what they have to do, but do they do it? Sales person makes eye contact, does not interrupt, nods almost on cue, and takes copious notes to preserve every word the prospects utters.

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Revelation Fashion Buyer Education 120

Pipeliner

MAY 21, 2020

The sales department sits at the center of a company’s ability to generate revenue and grow. Small and medium-sized businesses depend critically on their sales departments in order to compete against the competition. This is particularly true for the sales department, because of its important role in a company’s success.

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Data Hiring Revelation System 98

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I hope you will also give yourself a bit of a break in the New Year, and also give yourself a career edge by nurturing your most valuable sales relationships: your existing clients. That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. What happened to me is what happens to so many sales teams.

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Referrals Small Business Small Business Cold Calling 194

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A pioneering video sales platform delves into the potent realm of leveraging video to amplify business expansion. The key, according to Ruben, lies in weaving video into the very fabric of the sales process. Pervading the Sales Funnel: Video at Every Touchpoint Ruben’s insights offer a profound revelation.

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Video Infusion Revelation Top of Funnel 69

Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 23, 2018

Once they consummate the sale, and the contract is signed, they hunt up their next deal. Then, post-sales customer support teams often find themselves in fire-fighting mode. Your clients have a revelation for you. They continue to do business with you and your organization based on the value of post-sales support.

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Retention Customer Revelation Loyalty 154