The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , EDGE Sales Process , Forecast , Funnel management , Interactive Selling , Metrics , Proactive , Productivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Time Allocation , execution. Wednesday I posted a piece about the importance of working your sales cycle, not the calendar.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

However, when you step back, not having an answer on the tip of your tongue, is not the worst prospect for a sales rep. It is an opportunity for them to explore issues further. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2012

It is an opportunity to sit down for a brief period of time, not rushed by the day or week, and ensure that everything is as it should be if you are going to move things forward in the right direction. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 14, 2011

These frozen moments in time are static snapshots of a dynamic sales life that are individual frames extracted from a movie. The nearsighted perspective presents quantitative information including the number of sales opportunities, the stages they are in, and the expected revenue from each sale. Demand Generation.

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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. Let’s be clear, this does not exclude new sellers, experience includes leveraging the collective experience of your company and fellow sales people.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Customer Hot Potato – Sales eXchange – 117. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Customer Care , Proactive , Sales eXchange , execution. With so many opportunities to ensure customer satisfaction, it is a wonder how some companies keep blowing it. Sales Cycle.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The twist which helped me and I think most success driven sales people was asking “what have you opened this… ?” 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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2011

As readers of The Pipeline , you are always looking for new and great ideas to improve your sales results, and a challenge. 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.

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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. EDGE Sales Process.

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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. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Lead Management , Marketing , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , e-book , execution. 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.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 30, 2011

This is more than a sales conference: Just four weeks after the Magnitude 9.0 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.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment.

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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. As always, give it a go, see how it feel, to date no one has died using the techniques, but sales people have starved when they don’t address and leverage all prospecting means. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

JULY 19, 2011

Even when you look at concepts like Vendor Managed Inventories, the reduction in bodies have been related to warehouses and accounts payable staff than in the sales people who sell the service to begin with. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Register for a sales training workshop to get a jump start on making your new number in the new year. Do you have to increase your demand generation efforts to get new leads? Do you have enough sales people to cover the new quota? Set up a planning session with your sales managers immediately. Was it late?

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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. Targets and Metrics are two DISTINCT and important aspects of sales. Perhaps more emphasis can be placed on seperating the two in sales training and leadership development courses. Demand Generation.

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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. Even knowing that, if I was speaking to a VP of Sales and asked like the “let’s wait” crowd does, “Need a prospecting training program?” Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

Go ahead, do it, its good for you and your sales! Get it right, and each of your campaigns can deliver you fresh sales opportunities within days, and sometimes even minutes. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales Tool.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Tool.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 28, 2011

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. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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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! Sales eXchange , Tibor Shanto. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Cycle.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2011

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. Stop the whining and start seeing the opportunity it provides to “touch” the prospect. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process.

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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. EDGE Sales Process.

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The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2011

Yet many of the sales reps put more practice and preparation into their game that afternoon, than they do into practicing and preparing for selling, which for most represented their livelihood. I also think that as a sales pro, we are on display every time we sit with a prospect. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process.

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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. Control Sales Staff. Lack of control over sales staff will result in missed opportunities and wasted hours. Develop specific sales plans with your reps and review them regularly.

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The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Are you leading people to your sales page? 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.

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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. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Models and Fundamentals. The Transparency Sale. It may be hard to imagine, but something as counterintuitive as leading with your flaws can result in faster sales cycles, increased win rates, and makes competing with you almost impossible. The Pirate’s Guide to Sales: A Seller’s Guide for Getting from Why to Buy.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 1, 2019

Meanwhile, account managers and marketers work hand-in-hand to identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities. 4) How long is our average sales cycle? Deal complexity and sales cycle are highly correlated. If your average sales cycle lasts three or more months, ABS makes sense. 2) Firmographic data.

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The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Undaunted, I told him it would only take a few minutes and would fully explain the opportunity I’d come to show him. Demand Generation. EDGE Sales Process. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange. Sales Force Alignment. Sales Leadership.

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