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Flipping The Pipeline Value Pyramid

Partners in Excellence

Pipeline reviews and reporting are constant sources of contention between management and sales people. Most often the value of this activity is portrayed as the inverted triangle in this diagram. Managers are getting all the value! At it’s worst, sales people view it as a “Big Brother Is Watching Exercise.”

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I Don’t Want Your Stinkin’ CRM System

Partners in Excellence

I can’t imagine any high performing sales person not using tools like CRM and exploiting them to the fullest–regardless of what management says. Arguing against using these types of tools is like arguing against the use of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook(or the Google Docs/Gmail equivalent).

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