Tag Archive | "increasing sales pipeline"

Selling rules 101

June 2, 2010 1 comment

I have been a sales guy ( i hesitate to use professional in the context of this story ) for 40 plus years.   Like most of my peers who have been wildly successful, I wasn’t born on third base with an easy path to home plate.  I started with nothing and everything I’ve been able to achieve [...]

Can a sales force automation tool help a company sell more?

May 21, 2010 No comments yet

Let’s face it sales force automation tools have been around for over 25 years now.  If asked how they are used most companies would reply they are a repository of all our intellectual property of business contacts, activities and customer information.   No question the industry has helped companies retain the knowledge base of contacts and [...]

What is a good lead score?

March 25, 2010 No comments yet

As we continue to meet with more executives in a variety of industries it is clear the marketing automation industry has arrived.  The number of people implementing solutions like Marketo, Eloqua and others has grown rapidly.  Most of the people we are talking to are in the B2B space and are interested in these solutions [...]

Culture of Accountability

March 10, 2010 No comments yet

Have you ever wondered why some sales teams blow their numbers out consistently quarter over quarter, year over year?  In a discussion with a friend of mine we both agreed that the most successful sales teams we had encountered always had a culture of accountability.  It usually started at the top and worked its way [...]

The power of a systematic approach

December 23, 2009 No comments yet

Imagine if manufacturing worked the same way most automation systems for sales worked.  100 employee’s  show up for work and each one did his/her job in whatever way he/she wanted with no respect to a process.  Imagine if there was no assembly line – how would any efficiency occur.  Think about the volume that would [...]

What really drives an increase in the sales forecast??

December 22, 2009 1 comment

I have always been a big believer in activity drives results.  The best reps weren’t always the smartest ones, but the one’s who figured out how to get things done.  Whether it was getting the client to take a meeting or getting thru the objections the customer inevitably throws at you, they always managed to [...]