The Pipeline

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Interactive Selling , Interview , Objection Handling , Planning , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Demand Generation. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Tibor Shanto.

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Mereo

APRIL 2, 2020

At Mereo, we have developed a unique approach to revenue performance that leverages the inherently interdependent operational disciplines of demand progress, solution marketing, solution management, sales operations and sales enablement. We have touched on demand generation , solution marketing and solution management these past weeks.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto. Guest Post.

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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. Objection Handling. Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Budget , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Listening , Negotiations , Objection Handling , Price , Questions , Sales Strategy , Sell Better , qualifying. Demand Generation. Objection Handling. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Book Notice. Book Review.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

An empirical, objective, numbers-based look at current performance and what’s left to achieve. Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. Demand Generation. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Here are the six elements that, combined, make for a powerful regular sales team meeting.

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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. Objection Handling. Book Notice.

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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. Objection Handling. 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?

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 19, 2011

” One of the things we discover are opportunities that have been there for some time, long term tenants. Eventually this build up does clog the flow of deals and opportunities through the pipeline and results in a massive attack on your income and success. This comes down to having active opportunities in the pipe vs. inactive.

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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. Objection Handling.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review.

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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. Dave is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., Demand Generation. Objection Handling.

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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. Objection Handling.

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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 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

MARCH 28, 2011

Fearing that if they “lost” the rep they would somehow be behind, the vacant territory syndrome. Ask me, they would be better off with a vacant territory than having these under performers who are likely not aware of opportunities in their existing accounts, and have declared their right not to bring on new prospects.

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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. Demand Generation. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Customer Hot Potato – Sales eXchange – 117. 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. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto. Sales eXchange , Tibor Shanto. Tibor, I agree with you!

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Benefiting Victims of the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review.

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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. Objection Handling.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

But you can do things to create an environment that will help them get there, you can do things that will get them to Engage, and then take them through the rest of the EDGE process: You are all familiar with the old “Objects in motion tend to stay in motion…objects at rest tend to stay at rest.” Demand Generation.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Communication Strategy. EDGE Selling.

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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. Specializing in the IT industry, KLA Group works with companies to break in and exceed revenue objectives in the Small and Midmarket Business (SMB) segment. Demand Generation. Objection Handling.

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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. Objection Handling. 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.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. What was the last thing you bought without researching it first on the web? Probably something trivial. Book Notice.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Motivate buyers using the solution not an event. Book Notice. Book Review.

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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. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. They dread it. And it kills their energy, enthusiasm and effectiveness. We all know it takes x number of touches to breakthrough. Book Notice. Book Review. Cold calling.

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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

APRIL 15, 2011

With B2B buyers involving more influencers and stakeholders, sharing this insight with sales reps can help them gauge the true level of buying interest and spot opportunities to extend conversations and offer additional information that may help the buying committee take next steps. Demand Generation. Objection Handling.

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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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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Demand Generation (181). Opportunity (3675). Objections (1892). This executive was frustrated by poor sales and felt that the sales managers could be doing more to meet sales objectives. agree that the sales manager’s goal is to meet or exceed sales objectives. Inside Sales (849). Channels (799). Customer 2.0

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The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Very important – yes, you want to give people plenty of good, reliable information, but you also want to give them the opportunity at frequent intervals to “buy” or “see specs” or whatever they need to do to convert a sale. Demand Generation. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Of course, I’d love for all of you to be getting referrals and leads from people you know and by word of mouth, but prospecting is a legitimate way to generate leads and new business opportunities. Demand Generation. Objection Handling. Territory Alignment. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen.

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The Bridge Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I wanted real practitioners to share advice so I reached out to Kevin Dorsey , Head of Sales Development and Enablement at ServiceTitan, and Natasha Miller Sekkat , VP of Demand Generation at ClickSoftware. What does owning a territory look like? Have you been creating just OK opportunities because that was your job?

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