Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

Within a CRM, a pipeline represents a sales or other type of process. Pipeliner CRM was the first CRM to enable multiple pipelines within CRM. In this series, we’ve been discussing the functions of a different type of CRM administrator, called the architect administrator. We call each of these elements a sales step.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2020

It’s about voicemail for buyers vs. voicemail with prospects. A Quick Look Back. Pink slips ruled the day, you know I called but rarely any detail. And all this will serve you well as a salesperson once you are engaged and selling to a prospect. But it is the opposite during the trying to engage phase, cold calling.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

What everyone seems to be forgetting is that building pipeline for Q3 and Q4 is just as critical as making sure deals close in the short term. Basic firmographic and demographic data points simply aren’t enough to hone and engage prospective buyers in a good economy, never mind the current climate. Or the one after that?

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SalesFuel

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s tough enough to uncover quality prospects. It’s even more difficult to keep their attention and capture interest during a prospecting call. And research shows that prospecting calls are a serious struggle. 2 Phrases to Use For Prospecting Calls One of his tips is to open with a business-oriented proposition.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What I will offer up here, and in a webinar, this afternoon, are specific steps you can choose to implement and see an immediate difference in your prospecting calls. The number one barrier to prospecting success is our willingness to put a well-thought-out plan into practice or action. Real World Cold Calling Success.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. Prospects are entirely different than buyers.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Part of this re-evaluation has led many to believe it’s time to bid farewell to the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) as a primary metric and embrace the concept of pipeline as the new kingpin of success in marketing efforts. Kevin White (Head of Marketing) of Common Room explains why replacing MQL with pipeline is the way to go.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

According to recent research from SalesLoft best-performing senior salespeople (like Account Exectuives) need to self-source around 48% of their pipeline–rather than having leads come from a sales development rep (BDR, SDR etc.) Given this reality they jump straight into cold calling people that don’t know them at all.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 15, 2024

Welcome to “The Pipeline” — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. It was all going according to plan — we had a great initial call, flew to Los Angeles to demo the product, and nailed it. 4 Reasons Your Prospects Ghost You 1. Things were looking good. Boom — ghosted.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling.

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The Pipeline

JULY 6, 2017

So rather than following the 80% of your peers who go into summer mode, I instead invite you to use the summer to improve your prospecting skills so can remain in that 20% that drives the economy, the 80% is piggybacking on. Every Thursday in July and August, the posts in the Pipeline will focus on a specific element in Proactive Prospecting.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 26, 2018

It’s sales prospecting techniques that are messed up. Reps aren’t spending time on the critical business development activities that occur earlier in the sales process, so their sales pipeline is either dry or full of cold leads. It’s like trying to treat an injured back with pain medication. Right Prospect, Wrong Person.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. At its root, whatever we may call it, it is a reaction to something we said. I don’t know why sellers are surprised that prospects don’t like to be interrupted, do you? By Tibor Shanto.

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. Sadly without a healthy pipeline achieving sales goals becomes a more challenging task. Gaining control over the sales pipeline can make goal attainment a stress-free process.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

We not only have to close what we can by year end, but we have to prospect with more vigour than ever to ensure we go into the next year with enough momentum and opportunities to ensure a strong start to the year and our eventual success. Many confuse a full pipeline with a healthy pipeline, and nothing is further from the truth.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In the past I, have highlighted how many sellers are limiting if not sabotaging their opportunities while telephone prospecting. This would work great if a large segment of the market had needs they were willing to act on, but the reality is that most potential prospects do not. Rejection in prospecting is a result of two factors.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 6, 2019

You have the perfect prospect. You have that initial phone call, and everything feels good. The call ends and you’ve both agreed on a clear next step: another call next week. You feel good about the time blocked for the call next week. You feel good about the time blocked for the call next week.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2019

Environmentally friendly prospecting is about understanding and leveraging your mutual settings and events. Starting right in prospecting, of course, means putting the buyer at the centre of every action. Living it is exactly what prospects are doing when our call interrupts. Let’s Start Right. Find Yours.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 16, 2022

Implementing the right sales pipeline strategy is an essential element of business development for any company. Without a proper process in place to build sales, prospects and leads will go cold, valuable insights will be missed, conversions will be limited, and your business will lose out on revenue. What is a sales pipeline?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2020

I have a lot of empathy for pundits in a subjective undefined area of practice, like prospecting for example. A great example of this Greek-like tragedy, is the never-ending debate about the best day to make prospecting calls? Many will tell you that their data has pinpointed the best day and time to make prospecting calls.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As technology continues to accelerate the pace of advances, other elements of prospecting are not keeping up. One clear example is the role of the telephone in prospecting success. They need to adopt a new view of the role of the telephone in the age of asynchronous prospecting. So we are down to incoming calls.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2020

It doesn’t matter what company you work for; what stage you’re at in your sales career; or whether you prefer to use emails, phone calls, or LinkedIn messages when you’re prospecting — the biggest problem that all sales and customer success reps struggle with is still the same: ensuring your ideal prospects convert.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. It’s like back pain. You can stretch and put heat or ice on an aching back, but unless you treat the source of the pain—a pulled muscle or degenerating disc—your back will continue to hurt.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 5, 2017

No one says telephone prospecting is easy, which is why I am always puzzled as to why many sales people make it even more difficult than it already is. Over 90% of sales conversations are started or initiated by the seller, this goes to 100% of telephone prospecting calls, especially cold calls.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Plus, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this summer. Obviously, I’ve never been a fan of cold calling, but now the uninvited sales pitches are multichannel. On that note, take a look at what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling about relationship building and referral selling …. Try This. “My

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 3, 2018

Even if you hit your sales goal, the new quarter is still a great time to take stock of wins and losses … AND start building your pipeline for a quota-crushing Q3. Just like exercise and eating your vegetables, building sales pipeline means doing the hard things now in order to reap a future reward. Revive Cold, Dead Prospects.

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Crunchbase

MAY 22, 2023

Sales prospecting is an integral part of the sales process. When done manually, it can be time-consuming and demand substantial effort — but automated sales prospecting can help. Automated sales prospecting tools, also known as sales automation software , streamline your workflow and allow you to spend more time selling.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline. Understanding how your sales pipeline is working is vital if you want to optimize your revenue generation. In this article, we’ll look at seven stages of a sales pipeline every entrepreneur should understand. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2021

Vacations over, back to work, finishing the year and setting the table for next year. While this year is no different, there is greater anticipation in light of vaccine and people’s back to work attitude. Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 18, 2023

As a sales professional, it’s easy to get caught up in the daily grind of prospecting. You might find yourself making countless calls, sending out numerous emails, and attending networking events, all in the hopes of generating new leads and filling up your pipeline. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2024

Welcome to " The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice from real sales leaders. Here it is: Prospects aren't always easy to deal with. That's the kind of astute, game-changing insight you can only find here at The Pipeline , baby. Want more content like this? Subscribe to our newsletter!

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Six Best Practices in Sales Pipeline Management to Boost Revenue. The most important thing in sales is a strong pipeline. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. That’s why mastering the sales pipeline is so important. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Prospecting, seeking new opportunities and clients, is an integral part of sales. However, when it comes to prospecting, many salespeople experience fear. A driver of performance anxiety, it can lead to sales slumps, missed quota, and restricted pipelines. Always think of prospecting from the prospect’s point of view.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

One question I am asked regularly is what is the best time to prospect, be that of day, time of week, etc. But what many are really looking for for is that secret answer, “call them at 4:33 on a the third Tuesday of the month, except I. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights The number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipeline. The number one reason for an empty pipeline is the failure to prospect every day, every day, every day. The young SRD shot back, “Well, nobody answers the phone anymore.” This is the truth. Cased closed.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Given that we are sitting in sub-zero temps in the north east, -25 C in Toronto, any call you’re going to make today is going to be a cold call. Our buyer are struggling to pack 16 or more hours in to a 10 hour day, and taking bad calls from bad sales people is not on the list. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

This includes your prospects. Do not be surprised if deals in your pipeline don’t close. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Your prospecting numbers may drop too. Your potential prospects have other things on their mind right now.

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