The Sales Readiness Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Effectively managing the progression of opportunities and accurately predicting future sales performance is critical for success. Sales pipeline management and forecasting are essential practices that help sales teams achieve these objectives.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 16, 2020

While the world around us has indeed altered, our reaction can and should, extend from our current sales approach and process. It’s all good, all that’s changed is their objectives. For me and my clients it has always been about helping clients achieve their Objectives , and the impacts they deliver. Trickle Down.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 13, 2019

Too many salespeople confuse objections with rejection. But for sales pros, objections are not fatal. The post Objections Are Not Fatal appeared first on TiborShanto.com. By Tibor Shanto. Let’s be clear, rejection hurts and can kill.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Not all objections are fatal, most, based on how we interpret and handle them, can usually add to the conversation and ultimately to converting the objecting prospect to a client. While there is a lot more to succeeding in sales than handling objections, mishandling them is usually fatal, and is why most salespeople dread objections.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

What was striking is that for the most part, these “events”, fall in to one of two groups, they are either objective, fact based exercise, leading to a realistic view of their opportunities, with the conviction one gets when one is fully engaged and working the opportunity. Real or Fantasy.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

One question I always when helping sales teams prospect better, is “why B2B professionals don’t like to telephone prospecting?” Rather than worrying about rejection, focus on what proceeds it, an objection. When you learn to manage objections, you can change the trajectory of the call, and avoid rejections. By Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 20, 2019

For example, when I ask some reps why they are not prospecting, I’ll get different excuse based on time of year and state of their pipeline. So, the question is: does your pipeline get a paid vacation? If you buy into the research out there, in so-called complex sales, there are up to 6.8 people or groups at the party.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

Just the anticipation of being rejected crushes egos and opportunities to boot; sellers become so paralyzed by the thought of the objection, they fail to deal with it properly when it comes, and it always comes. Take it as an objective, and you get defensive and lose. This requires you play offence on your field, not defense on theirs.

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Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Sean Doyle applies behavioral science to marketing and the sales funnel. His model is called Centricity and he shares important lessons about alignment between sales, marketing and customer success to move deals through the funnel. The model, Centricity, informs sales, marketing, technology and creative decisions.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Building a sales pipeline in this context can seem daunting. By understanding customer needs more deeply, organizations can reframe their messaging to accommodate shrinking budgets and nervous customers to generate sales leads that produce revenue. . To start, we should define a pipeline. Building a Sales Pipeline.

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BrainShark

JANUARY 31, 2024

Recent corporate belt tightening has put sales-adjacent departments like sales enablement and marketing in the hot seat. Because even though they contribute to and quite literally enable sales, their activities aren’t always as easy to tie to the deal as it is for reps who get phone and face time with buyers.

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SBI

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Six Essential Skills for Responding to Sales Objections. By Randy DeHaan, Director of Sales, Chorus.ai. Every sales rep has experienced it: A call is going well until a prospect voices objections that throw you off, leaving you searching for a response as the silence grows.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 3, 2018

No one like objections, including those who have learned to see objections as a means of moving the call forward, they just understand, appreciate and leverage pushback differently than those who are crushed by the same response. The fact is you are not avoiding the objection, just hiding from it. By Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 21, 2019

I hate objections, and I bet you don’t wake up looking to be rejected first thing in the morning, and then have to work the rest of the day. As with most things in prospecting and sales is the same, to develop a routine you can and willingly implement. Once you master the basics, you can move up to using questions to get them to think.

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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. This is the person who helps create processes and adapts them to pipelines. Do you have a pre-sales process or an after-sales process? Creating Your Processes.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While those without a recognized need, will just object to the call, leave those looking for need or selling solutions rejected and dejected. Yet most sales people, encouraged by their managers and a hoard of pundits, default to the former. Just look at your past pipeline opportunities. For most (honest) people it is the latter.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 30, 2013

This is the second in a series of video prepared for BizTV dealing with objections, the first was an overview of sales objections ; this one specifically those you encounter while prospecting. In the video it references a link to download the Objection Handling Handbook, just in case you missed it above, it is: [link].

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 15, 2024

At Pipeliner, we have just created an exciting feature, which will be released in February. We have programmed a seamless Salesforce integration for Pipeliner CRM. They are, therefore, denied the incredible benefit and value that Pipeliner could bring to their sales team.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2017

In this installment of the Proactive Prospecting Summer , we look at a crowd favorite, Objections. There is no getting away from Objections when it comes to prospecting, it may be a bit easier with e-mail, where rather than hearing the FOD directly, you just get to enjoy the silence of being ignored.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 26, 2018

Never” is a bold statement, but savvy sales leaders recognize that closing is the easy part. 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.

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Steven Rosen

APRIL 14, 2024

Hiring sales superstars is critical to building a high-performance sales team. These tools are designed to assess and predict, providing a scientific basis for forecasting a sales candidate’s success. They help identify cultural fit, manage different sales approaches, and offer developmental feedback.

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The Pipeline

MAY 15, 2013

In the heat of a sale, it is sometimes easy to confuse a condition to the sale with an objection. Done right, it could solidify the sale and the resulting relationship with the buyer. Take a look, then download the Objection Handling Handbook , and let me know your thought. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

Earlier this week, I was interviewed by John Radkins, for his Sales Machine Blog, and he asked me to explain sales process for those who don’t want to be restricted by sales process. Think of the sales process as a journey rather than an adventure. Similarly, there are stages to the sales process.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 10, 2014

Most sales people think about objections as being a bad thing, a lot of sales people and worse leaders, get really uptight when it comes to objections. But objections are really not a bad thing, not always convenient or easy to manage, but they are not a bad thing. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.

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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. They are the ones who succeed in sales.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Anyone that has ever led a sales organization of any size has probably experienced the feeling of realizing you are not going to make your number. As a sales leader, this is your primary objective; it is what drives any.

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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

MAY 15, 2014

How you manage and stage your pipeline can be the difference between an OK year or career, or a consistently great one. There are many potential buyers that are overlooked by a large number of sales people. These are not engaged prospects and need to be moved out of your pipeline. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 27, 2013

The video below is the third in a series of videos on Objections, and Objection Handling I did for BizTV , this one dealing with price objections. One of the most common objections sales people face is the price objection, especially late in the sale. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s not hard to set sales objectives. Any sales leader can ask their team to increase sales by 50% or cut customer churn in half. . What’s difficult is setting achievable, effective sales goals that have a genuine impact on your company’s long-term strategy. . What different sales objectives look like .

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 6, 2022

The difference between such systems and services and Pipeliner CRM is that a company cannot run without Pipeliner. In times of crisis, Pipeliner is vital. Another way that Pipeliner is vital is that it is part of a strong company structure and environment. Pipeliner Layers. Maintaining Existing Accounts.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As one might expect, much pf that was tied closely to the concept of pipeline quality. Give a sales person a pipeline goal and they can always hit it. And when managers discover this, typically rather than addressing the quality issue, they set a new goal at 4X, then 5X and so on, creating a pipeline death spiral.

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The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2014

Yesterday on this blog, I wrote about sellers who drive commerce for their buyers have greater success than those who just drive sales. The Objective Seller Webinar. The webinar will discuss how all businesses have objectives relating to their market, their commerce, and their opportunities. ” – Aous Shakra.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 29, 2016

If you read this blog regularly (and why wouldn’t you), you know that I put a lot of emphasis on understanding and selling to a prospect’s Objectives, a much better area of focus than pains or needs. One of the positive elements of Objectives is that they are generally long term, and they continuously evolve. Well maybe.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

“Create more pipeline.”. Ask any sales leader what they want, and you’ll get an answer along these lines. You can’t tell a sales rep to “increase sales” and expect them to know what to do. A good place to start is to set the right sales objectives. What is a sales objective? Boost win rates.”.

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The Pipeline

MAY 25, 2012

Surprisingly, many is sales have chosen this path, and have maintained employment with some pretty lackluster companies. But assuming you are looking for revenue, growth and success, the above is not the strategy for you, you are much better off dealing with or managing buyer objections as they come up.

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