Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2013

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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Pipeline Top of Funnel Revelation Sales Cycle 93

Braveheart Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While I was watching ESPN’s College Game Day, I heard Chris “The Bear” Fallica, who is a research producer and sports betting analyst for ESPN, make an observation about betting odds that was a revelation to me. Making Sales Wagers. You may be interested in the article I wrote about this topic: “Reduce the Fluffy Pipeline Syndrome.”.

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Sports Sage Revelation Face-to-face 52

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I revel in a crisis, I’m challenged and excited about tough problems. Show me a bad pipeline that we have to “fix” quickly, I roll up my sleeves and dive in. Related Posts: In Praise Of Boring Sales Organizations What Is The Most Important Problem To Solve Now?

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Revelation Hiring Maximizer Strategy 70

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Basically the arguments are sales people versus management. So in this post, I’ll really focus on the sales people, so managers can stop reading here–in fact you probably should. So sales people—–Get over it! We know managers often do terribly dumb and mindless things.

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System CRM Revelation Territories 92

Klozers

JUNE 5, 2014

Hitting Sales Targets should be one of the top goals for any Professional Sales person, yet survey after survey every year shows the majority of sales teams in every industry dont hit sales targets. In Sales more than any other job, it is easy to not only to appear to be busy, but actually be busy.

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Revelation Survey Social Media Guarantee 48

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” He went on discuss the selling distractions, arguing, “why would a sales person choose to spend their time on admin processes and things like updating CRM?”

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Up-Sell Revelation CRM Buying Cycle 52

Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

The Internet is littered with articles about the sales process. It’s the only sales process post based on hard data. We used AI to analyze over 1M sales conversations that span 384,923 deals. Those sales calls were recorded, transcribed from speech to text, and analyzed with AI. Equipping your reps to execute.

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Sales Process Cold Calling Call-back Cancellation 103