The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

For instance, a VP of Sales is going to look for things that can increase sales and reduce the cost of sale, or put another way, increasing sales and margins. This is your chance to get the jump on 2021 and ensure you have a pipeline that will help you exceed quota and achieve your post-COVID goals. A Mutual Definition.

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Bernadette McClelland

AUGUST 1, 2022

Tyre Guy not only found a new client, he also sold a set of tyres at higher margin for exactly the same amount of work. Join me and the world's foremost authorities on sales prospecting, pipeline, productivity and sales leadership. Tim was happy because he now felt safe for our trip up to Breckenridge. THREE LESSONS FROM THIS ANECDOTE.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

If your pipeline was running over the brim with opportunities, you could care less how long it takes to close. Coming back to earth, here, most pipelines don’t look like that. The few opportunities in most pipelines have plenty of room to properly social distance. You know enough will, it’s just a question of which.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Business Case for a Referral Sales Program As a sales leader, you’re responsible for increasing revenue, while at the same time managing your profit margins. Then turning those connections into business opportunities and sales referrals. You need your sales reps to seed and grow their accounts, not just hit the phones.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

Home About The Pipeline. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. What’s in Your Pipeline? Free Resources.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 2, 2016

These are the “pain in the ass” (PITA) prospects in your sales pipeline. It’s time to dump the junk and fill your sales pipeline with ideal clients—those who make life easy on your sales reps while boosting revenue and helping you get referrals to other ideal clients. Your profit margins will be squeezed. Like attracts like.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 26, 2021

Actively trading out lower margin or otherwise weaker quality revenue accounts with better attributes is part of the job. We should all seek higher-margin, less resource consuming accounts that have other pluses. People often think of churn as a setback, but it could be a big plus, especially when planned.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

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Sales Evangelist

JULY 10, 2023

The C-suite wants to lower SGNA margins, which can look like doing big deals in a shorter amount of time. Gross Margin. It’s a program designed to help sales professionals just like you master the fundamentals of sales so they can radically improve their sales pipeline and close more deals. Back-Office Efficiency.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

Home About The Pipeline. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s The Pipeline Guest Post – John Durfee. Similarly in the market world, you have to entice a clientele base by promoting heavily without really striving for a high profit margin. ©2008 Copyright by The Pipeline. Home About The Pipeline.

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Sales Evangelist

JUNE 21, 2019

We’ve all encountered price wars against the lowest bidder, but today we’re going to talk about how you can stand your ground, protect your margins, and earn the price that you’re worth and how that will help you grow your business. These things won’t work if you don’t believe in your product or if your pipeline is anemic.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 23, 2013

In the process the can also open up shelf and storage space, again to make way for newer more salable goods; not so much out with the old in with the new, more like out with lower potential goods and in with better margin and turnover potential. This is why sales people need to develop rules for purging their pipeline of bad prospects.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He knows from years of experience that a company’s CRM doesn’t capture the full pipeline story given sales reps report opportunities with a degree of subjectivity and opinion. Julien can keep close tabs on deal status and be more confident in his forecasting accuracy and the likelihood of pipeline converting to revenue.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The funnel/pipeline is a key tool for sales people and managers to assess performance. One of the first things I look at on any new project is the pipeline. There was seven times coverage on the pipeline. I saw a huge number of deals that had been in the pipeline for a very long time.

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SalesforLife

MAY 20, 2019

If you’re a leader who has never experienced this, how are you going to maintain the most vital leading indicator to your sales department, which is centered around sales pipeline ? Margins will get cut, and sales people will have trouble meting their targets. Are they going to try to dust off a playbook from 10 years ago? Headcount.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Which leads to improved margins (don’t forget sometimes improved margins may be a direct objective for the director you are dealing with, which leads to a direct financial bonus for the buyer). And the buying organization has set a margin target for end of next quarter. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2023

It turns out the singular secret to selling success is “Build more pipeline!” If we don’t have enough pipeline, we simply won’t make our numbers. Since generating more pipeline is so critical to selling success, the constant emphasis on prospecting, lead gen, and demand gen is critical.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Pipeline reviews and reporting are constant sources of contention between management and sales people. So what would happen if we changed our view of the Pipeline Value Pyramid? So what’s the WIIFM for sales people for strong pipeline metrics and high pipeline integrity?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

It provides guardrails, guidance, and insights that lead to better decision-making and, in the case of pricing, preserving margins,” states Louis Columbus, who writes about technology and social innovations impacting businesses. Let them go to competitors who are willing to sacrifice margin.”. After speaking with almost a dozen U.S.-based

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Pipeliner

APRIL 2, 2021

To fully assist with this understanding, at Pipeliner we are creating an account management feature called White Space. Volume and Margin Classification. The classifications begin at the bottom with low volume, low margin. Next comes low volume, high margin. Are they equally the same? Are there differences?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 13, 2014

But why stop there, why not explore further, further than your product goes, with the improvement in the process, can they reduce the cost of good, which can both reduce their requirement for operating funds and increased margins. What’s in Your Pipeline? In other words, build value for the buyer, not value for your product.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 14, 2014

What is there a margin for error, or a margin for slackness? What’s in Your Pipeline? I asked how many leads he picked up, he told me about a hundred or so. I went on “how many have you contacted or followed up with?” He told me about thirty or so. follow up with all leads within 72 hours.” Tibor Shanto .

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Many small businesses were operating with extremely low margins before the crisis began, some operating at a loss or only breaking even. No matter how long it takes to recover, leaders must come up with new and creative ways to fill pipelines and close deals.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Every Monday, he opens Big-Brain Bill’s cool weekly pipeline report. His teams’ late-stage pipeline value is down again. I don’t care how, but late-stage pipeline better improve before month-end”. In his bullets, Ivan calls out a drop in late-stage pipeline value. It tells me our losses are among low margin clients.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not just more deals, but deals at full price, value, and margins. Now they will be a problem because most have a closed mind dead set against anything original or curious. They think there is no metric for, when there is; the results. The video below is just a start, to wet your curiosity as it were.

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Pointclear

MAY 23, 2017

This is the place to show how amazingly low the close rate can be to break-even on converting marketing qualified leads to sales qualified leads via lead qualificant and nurturing, a nd what the return is on good sales lead management: Assumptions: Margin is 60% (probably conservative for software and services). 694% (not even 1%).

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Google Docs was marginally better. I wanted to start a discussion on workflows vs pipelines. Deal records, which are generally associated with one or more contact records, are placed in pipelines. A deal record can only be in one pipeline. This feature is expected soon for pipelines. Be sure to click that and read.

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Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Therefore, to ensure an objective analysis in an isolated environment (controlled variables of industries and the CRM software), we’ll take a look at some of Pipeline CRM’s case studies. We’ll put their before and after performance under the loop to see if implementing a customizable Pipeline CRM software is worth the investment.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 15, 2013

What if your margin drops by 10%? You can''t possibly know whether or not your metrics for sales cycle, margin, closing percentage, retention, or average sale are going to change until you have completed enough sales cycles to collect the data for an appropriate sample size. This is one of the advantages of pipeline management and CRM.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2017

Expert sellers, know they have to have the prospect re-evaluate their objectives, notice I did not say change, just re-evaluate, and if you are part of that re-evaluation, you can influence them, and marginalize the other sellers. How you ask, by focusing on the impacts you can deliver to their business. Tribal Knowledge.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 6, 2019

So will the number of time reps can spend time developing their skills and territories when they stop chasing marginal things. Or all pipeline opportunities. You should be reviewing all opportunities that cross the starting line of your pipeline. More Priorities Than Pain. Win, lose, or no-decision.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 14, 2023

If I start chasing marginal deals or those driven by wishful thinking, I’m not spending my time on “my deals,” those that should be wired for me to win. When we look at pipelines, there are a few key factors in our pipelines: Quality/integrity, volume, velocity. Perhaps I’m lazy. What’s the trick?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

No, it is more likely they will talk about the impact that app would have on their pipeline, conversion rates, leading to increased revenues, margins, cash-flows, impact on funding, etc. When was the last time you heard your VP of Sales, “I wanna buy me a piece of software that will process leads based on an algorithm designed to….”

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In this blog from June, Janek Managing Partner Nick Kane took a detailed look into the top-six sales compensation plans, including: Salary Only Commission Only Base Salary Plus Commission Absolute Commission Team-Based Plans Gross-Margin or Profit-Based Plans. How to Conduct a Pipeline Review. Read it now with one click here.

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The Pipeline

MAY 9, 2012

Letting up on your prospecting to look after other “more important things”has an immediate negative impact, in the form of a light pipeline. Discount means lesser margins, less reinvestment opportunity for your company, and more. What’s in Your Pipeline? Know you ratios. Don’t let it go to sudden death.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 1, 2017

Manage your deals and margins better by using custom fields for deals. The latest update has three main features: Calculate the margin based on Cost (Deal amount, Deal margin & Deal cost). Show the margin of your deal using the cost. Use the new Cost field to quickly calculate the Margin of your deals.

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