Remove Buying Cycle Remove Pipeline Remove Revelation Remove Sales Management
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Flipping The Pipeline Value Pyramid

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Pipeline reviews and reporting are constant sources of contention between management and sales people. Most often the value of this activity is portrayed as the inverted triangle in this diagram. Managers are getting all the value! At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.”

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

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Clearly the flaw in this thinking is that while any one customer will spend a very small part of their time with a sales person, sales people must invest their time with lots of customers! Often, this falls to Sales Ops, Sales Ennoblement and Sales Management.

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