The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

After all, if like most sales people you have a close ratio of 25%-30%, it is more efficient to remove those opportunities that won’t close early, leaving you the ones that, with effort by you, will close. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto. Book Notice. Book Review. Sell Better.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Demand Generation , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Next Steps , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution , qualifying. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Some only want to look at their successes and ignore those things that did not go their way, fooling themselves by only looking at those things are familiar and ignoring the real opportunities to learn what went wrong, and what they could do differently next time out. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

Even more than before the words Status Quo have become synonymous with a complete lack of opportunity for sales people. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. This has become much more the case since the introduction of the marketing term Sales 2.0. Read On… What’s in Your Pipeline? Book Notice. Book Review.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 28, 2011

Most common of these is prospecting, but there are other things including keeping the information in their CRM up-to-date. Fearing that if they “lost” the rep they would somehow be behind, the vacant territory syndrome. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Reply to this comment. Trackbacks/Pingbacks.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

With so many opportunities to ensure customer satisfaction, it is a wonder how some companies keep blowing it. I guess he does not have access to their CRM, he just “listens to social comments” This exchange led to no joy. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Sell Better.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The following Monday, I took inventory of all the people at the Monday opportunity review meeting, since this was a must attend all the sales people were there. Troy Babcock is a relatively new sales person, with a territory in the mid-west, and ambition that stretches far beyond. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

It is an opportunity for them to explore issues further. Chances are if you have not heard it before, it may provide an opportunity to move things forward with this prospect and to incorporate it in sales moving forward. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Sell Better.

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Highspot

AUGUST 31, 2021

Sales models can vary based on your approach to demand generation, sales organization structure , and more. That said, here are a few types of popular sales models to consider: Inbound sales: This approach focuses on generating demand by pulling buyers to your website using SEO, digital advertising, and content marketing.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2012

At this point, you usually have the following options: Try something different, not captured in the process, this where you can improvise, and get “creative” Often the most obvious choice of letting the opportunity go for now and work on one that conforms to the success pattern. Demand Generation. Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If the buyer has objections or concerns about where you want to go, and how you plan to get there, they can voice those before the meeting, giving you the opportunity to adjust in advance rather than at the fatal end. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The nearsighted perspective presents quantitative information including the number of sales opportunities, the stages they are in, and the expected revenue from each sale. Measuring soft intangibles will deliver better opportunity management by salespeople. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The fact that they may be seeking a solution, suggests that they are facing some challenges, obstacles and gaps in their ability to attain those objectives, or what I call opportunity. The bonus to the no decision camp is the opportunity to rekindle the opportunity with elements learned, and create a win in shorter time frames.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2011

Now you have an opportunity to get direct input from 35 of the world’s best know sales experts, all part of the 2011 Sales & Marketing Success Conference , presented by Top Sales World. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Benefiting Victims of the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Book Notice. Book Review.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

The former allows an opportunity for your team to learn best practices from others in context, and the latter allows the team to help each other break through roadblocks and move deals forward. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Choose someone on the team to walk through a current or recent deal. Motivation.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

While most reviews focused closing, he was able to get you to focus on the real important question, what new opportunities are we creating. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. The twist which helped me and I think most success driven sales people was asking “what have you opened this… ?” Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

Last Friday I had the opportunity to be part of a high power panel as part of a Focus RoundTable, looking at best practices in nurturing leads. As you would expect the topics covered many aspects of lead nurturing, lead conversion, and interaction between sales and marketing not only in nurturing leads, but nurturing prospect/opportunities.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 30, 2011

Tohoku earthquake and a tsunami which delivered 46ft waves, we learn that the death toll is likely to top 25.000, and recovery is going to take not years, but possibly decades, maybe even a generation, at a cost of at least $250 billion. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen.

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

Is there a lost opportunity cost associated with this? Your salespeople must be able to identify the questioning opportunities in real time while their prospects are responding to the question currently in play. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. How many times did that happen in the past 36 months?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

But what if you know you cycle was 10 weeks, and you diligently added four new viable opportunities to your pipeline every week, and continued to close one a week, would it really matter if it was the first day of the year, last day of the month, last day of the quarter, or February 29. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

CRM systems were never designed for the sales rep. If your organization isn’t taking advantage of automated activity capture, you, along with every report that relies on the data within your CRM, are set up to fail. . Which opportunities are unlike any deal you’ve ever won before? Some of the Most Common Dashboard Mistakes: .

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2012

But without the ability to reason things out, it will facilitate an opportunity for you to review the facts and issue you covered during Discovery. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. Customer Care.

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The Pipeline

JULY 19, 2011

While we are all impressed with Watson’s success, that is a long way from creating demand, generating leads, dealing with all the variables that human interactions involve when it come to risk, money and emotion. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Cold calling.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

This all presents a number of opportunities to leverage e-mail and the culture that goes with it, to engage with potential buyers. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. Customer Care. Dependability.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This involves checking the CRM and other systems of record. Commercial executives in professional services firms spend money to spur market growth opportunities. Most vertical marketing strategies start with content for demand generation and SEO activities. Where are the most revenues derived from?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

Marketing automation integrated with CRM helps to bridge that chasm that used to serve as a dividing line between unknown entities and qualified leads acceptable for sales pursuit. The integration with CRM will help salespeople choose when to interact as well as provide them with fodder for relevant follow-up conversations. Voice mail.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

Get it right, and each of your campaigns can deliver you fresh sales opportunities within days, and sometimes even minutes. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales! click here now! Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 11, 2011

Hi Monica, Thanks for the feedback, I agree that the more you learn the opportunity there is to hit goal. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Thanks for clarifying this point so well ! Reply to this comment. April 11th, 2011. Reply to this comment. Steve Waterhouse. April 11th, 2011. Book Notice. Book Review.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

Having done the above work, I know that many sales leaders are looking for more prospects, more new revenue opportunities. There is you Gap , the 10% difference is opportunity to fully Engage and set things in motion. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. First thing is to establish that the issue exists.

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The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

For anything important you’ll have looked up what you think your problem or opportunity is and the different ways of solving it. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. What was the last thing you bought without researching it first on the web? Probably something trivial. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 25, 2011

Get buyers to be motivated by the opportunity to be better, the impact of their actions; achieve the same responses that an event may cause, but we in advance of the event. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Motivate buyers using the solution not an event. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process.

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The Pipeline

JULY 4, 2011

Speak specifically to that, nothing else; if they see you as fitting in to their current flow, you have the opportunity to engage, if it is outside of that flow, you’re toast, white bread and burnt! Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto. Sales eXchange , Tibor Shanto.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Nutshell CRM. Territory Account Manager. Territory Account Manager. Territory Account Manager. VP Demand Generation. Nutshell CRM. Dimity MacDiarmid. Head of Strategy, People & Change. Afterpay Touch. Colleen Manning. VP of Sales. Katherine Mays. Head of Customer Experience. Lauren McGuire.

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The Bridge Group

MARCH 9, 2018

Those in the top right quadrant were deemed AB-appropriate, while those in the top left were better suited to traditional demand generation. They ensured that each account had the right contacts identified, populated, and enriched in CRM (e.g., They were able to identify lookalike companies and map them against this framework.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2011

Stop the whining and start seeing the opportunity it provides to “touch” the prospect. Demand Generation. Territory Alignment. Here’s what I am coming up with as Keys to Winning with Voicemail : Mindset Matters – Positive Perspective: Most people who make a living in sales complain about voicemail. They dread it.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

A new trend that is different from your product or service is a terrific opportunity to present something new to your customers. Lack of control over sales staff will result in missed opportunities and wasted hours. Often, they spend much of their time with existing customers and miss large new opportunities. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2011

It struck me odd that many pay for lessons from a pro, while they squander and dismiss learning opportunities given them by their companies in the form of sales training. I agree that the peer pressure is there with you, but I think sales people are eye-balling opportunity every day, and if they don’t step up, it is gone.

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