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Increase Sales Forecast Accuracy and Speed Up Your Pipeline

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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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Use It or Lose It: Improve Your Sales Forecasting

Miller Heiman Group

A sales forecast is only as good as the processes and data that support it. In its 2018 Sales Operations Optimization Study , CSO Insights found that companies with a formal, structured forecasting review process increased their win rates of forecast deals by 25%, compared to organizations that did not.

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The Top Four Challenges in Sales Forecasting—and How to Right Them

Miller Heiman Group

Sales teams don’t lack for investment in technology. On average, sales organizations routinely use more than 10 sales technology tools with a plan to add more than four in the next year. The challenge in sales tech comes more from a lack of planning and integration.

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Five Sales Operations Best Practices that Drive High Performance

Miller Heiman Group

Strikingly, the highest performers in this study invested in this area of sales operations activities, covering nearly 75% of the practices that fall under it. Integrate Your Sales Technology Stack with Your CRM. Yet a sales technology stack that integrates tightly with the CRM remains elusive.

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3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Transforms Your CRM

Miller Heiman Group

As AI evolves, the precision of these tools will only sharpen to make sales planning even more effective. The right tools to build sales reduce tedium, giving salespeople back the critical selling time they need. A sales technology stack built on artificial intelligence can free up more time to build relationships.

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Top Sales Tools of 2020 and the Digital Sales Revolution

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With over 700 sales technology solutions on the market, there are certainly others we could add to the list. The objective is to give you a good place to start as you evaluate technologies that can impact sales in a variety of ways. In 2010, I published my first ebook curating the different sales technologies available.

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Expert Tips for Improving Sales Operations Efficiency

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They oversee behind-the-scenes activities and administrative tasks so sales reps can focus on lead generation and closing deals. Sales ops streamline sales processes, manage sales technology, monitor sales metrics and dashboards, and align sales strategies with business priorities.