A midsummer night’s dream. Not Shakespeare’s, though, but the sales manager’s dream of the second half of the calendar year so strong that it drives the numbers up, salvaging the year and ensuring robust performance. Dreaming aside, H1 has been filled with many positives and negatives but your sales optimism tells you that there’s plenty ... Read More

What to look for while setting up a sales office in a new territory Setting up a new sales office can come with a number of different challenges. Firstly, the market dynamics in the new territory can be dramatically different from what you are used to in your role. Add to this the pressures of ... Read More

Culture is a complex, ever-present, and a constant paradigm in our family units, organizations, and businesses. It determines how we act, how we’re described by others, and who we ultimately are. In work environments, employees are the perfect gauge to describe a team or an organization’s culture using only a few words. Such descriptions may ... Read More

In our last article in this series, I pointed out that the evangelist in the business world has all but disappeared, yet in the past was an integral factor in the success of companies such as Apple. Now, let’s have a further look at why evangelism needs to make a comeback in this digital age, ... Read More

Pipeliner has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation* for the first time and to say we are a little bit excited would be an understatement! Read More

Sales professionals know to find and leverage differentiation. The problem: far too few know that not all differentiation is equal. Yep, differentiation is differentiated. Remember, differentiation only becomes value once a customer understands it and connects to a customer-desired outcome. It only turns into differentiated value — that moves a buying decision – when that ... Read More

Believe it or not, generating highly-qualified leads is a challenging task for nearly every business. Though, the marketing department plays a key role in generating good leads for the sales department. It doesn’t mean that the sales team should not invest their efforts to find high-value prospects. Salespersons are always looking for some innovative ways ... Read More

You might remember, a few years back, an author named Guy Kawasaki writing about The Art of Evangelism. He wrote about how important evangelism was to the astounding success of Apple, and other companies as well. I’m now writing not about the huge evangelists like Steve Jobs, but about salespeople. Salespeople were once the primary ... Read More

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." -- Dale Carnegie Read More

There are two popular narratives floating around in the sales industry. One is sales is a numbers game while the other one says it is not. Sales professionals have always been told that sales is a numbers game but many sales experts have different opinions. Some say that it is an old fashioned way of ... Read More

The year is half-way done and you might be thinking about your pipeline. If you’re like most salespeople, referrals are a vital part of keeping your sales pipeline full. As a matter-of-fact, according to Joanne S. Black in her book, No More Cold Calling, success rates for closing referral business are between 50% and 90%. ... Read More

One of the biggest criticisms of any technology platform by customers is that it is hard to get it to reflect how their business actually operates as opposed to how some programmer imagines it does. This can be a great source of frustration to customers which is why the ability to customize is so critical. ... Read More