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Increase Sales Forecast Accuracy and Speed Up Your Pipeline

Zoominfo

Are your sales forecasts tied to reality? Is sales forecast accuracy more of a pipedream within your sales organization? Does the speed of your sales pipeline resemble molasses? In fact, less than half of all forecasted sales opportunities actually result in a sales win.

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New on the Sales Management Job? Here’s the Essential Technology

Pipeliner

A key factor in a sales manager’s approach is technology. Without the right technology, the sales manager isn’t going to even have the data to view, let alone interpret, and make decisions with. What does this mean for a sales manager newly on the job? Technology Guidelines.

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Three Key Skills to Distinguish Sellers from Sales Managers

Miller Heiman Group

The role of a sales manager may be the hardest job in sales. While coaching your team to sales success, your responsibilities include recruiting new talent and meeting the needs of key customers, all while collaborating with internal stakeholders such as marketing, product management and executives.

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The 13 Least Known Sales Technologies

Velocify

Did you know that high-growth companies are more likely to be familiar with the different types of sales technologies on the market? Of the sales technologies listed, here are the 13 least known according to participants (in order, starting from the least known). 1) Sales Gamification. See full study for more.

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March Sadness

The Pipeline

I recall reading Skip Miller’s “ProActive Sales Management”, where he states: “If you, as a sales manager, do not know if you are going to make the year after the first quarter, the battle is over. I should think we can include front line sales people. Who is the Villanova in your Pipeline/Base? and forward.

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GDPR Could Cut Your Sales Pipeline in Half—Here’s What You Can Do About It

Sales Hacker

Your sales and marketing teams may experience a serious pipeline drought when GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into effect on May 25. That means the number of sales meetings and qualified opportunities that come into your pipeline is at risk of being cut in half. Treat sales meetings as precious assets.

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A Sales Enablement Guide to Winning More Deals

Pipeline

Sales support: support is a broad category that includes training, workflows, escalation, feedback, and tactical support (e.g., your customer wants to modify the terms and conditions of your deal, and you need management guidance/approval). set the budget early to disqualify poor candidates), set general and specific sales goals (i.e.,