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Pipeline Movement [Sales Management Tip]

A Sales Guy

The sales pipeline is the most important sales management tool there is. Everything happens in the pipeline, or at least it should. The sales pipeline is like the hard drive of a computer. The key to fast and efficient sales pipeline is preventing crap from clogging it up.

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Pipeline Movement – [Shitty Sales Management]

A Sales Guy

Shitty sales management can kill pipeline movement. As sales leaders, we spend so much of our time evaluating our teams and the individuals on them, we often forget that our s**t can stink too. This is especially true with first line managers. They lack pipeline innovation in terms of pipeline movement.

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The Best Thing Sales Leadership Can do in 2012

A Sales Guy

The beginning of the year in sales always starts with a number. Sales leadership spends a lot of time going through plans, setting quota, preparing for Q1, looking at the pipeline, etc. Everyone is looking forward and the management process on making the number begins. Then it moves to getting to the number.

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Pipeline Movement [Bad Data]

A Sales Guy

This is a follow up to my post last week on moving things through the pipeline. Keeping deals and opportunities moving through the pipeline is one of the most critical parts of a sales leaders job. Sales teams have hundreds of active and inactive deals in the pipeline at any giving time. You can read it here.

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Sales Managers, More Important than the Head of Sales?

A Sales Guy

They spend more time with your sales people than anyone else in the company. They lead the pipeline review meetings. They manage to the quotas. They sit next to, talk with and are closer to the sales people than any other person (role) in the company. Sales managers are the lynchpins to success in sales organizations.

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I Don’t Give a @#$& About Sales Status – [Message to Sales Managers]

A Sales Guy

I don’t give a rats ass about a sales opportunities status and as a sales manager you shouldn’t either. ” Status is the lame update sales people share during the weekly pipeline meeting. Sales Manager – “Hey Bob, what’s the status on the Techform opportunity?

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Why Your Sales Team Isn't Performing As Expected - Part 4

Anthony Cole Training

Sales teams perform based on two inputs - effort and execution. If your sales team isn''t performing as expected, you must ask the question - Why? Chances are you won''t know for sure but you can describe the symptoms: Anemic pipeline. Sales taking too long. How well are our sales leadership strategies aligned?

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