When people think of tech, the first place that comes to mind is Silicon Valley. These two concepts have gone hand-in-hand for decades and will continue as such well into the future. However, it doesn’t mean that other cities around the globe won’t eventually catch up to the globally-renowned tech hub at some point or ... Read Post

Sales is as much about improving our sales process as it is about selling goods and services. A good sales professional is open to life long learning; willing to apply new tools and techniques; and regularly evaluates what’s working and what’s not. As someone who does sales for my own services, I find it helpful ... Read Post

Create, Save & Track Your Pandadoc Proposals From Inside Pipeliner CRM Creating proposals is an integral part of sales and usually, a laborious task that requires working outside your CRM. Now with the new Pandoc integration for Pipeline, you can save time and continue working right there in the CRM application. Activating the Pandadoc integration ... Read Post

How do you reconcile pounding on hitting sales quotas and, at the same time building deep relationships with customers? We all know that quota behavior is substantially different than relationship behavior. Hitting a quota is very much a hard-hitting transaction activity where the salesperson looks to push solutions at the customer in rapid-fire hoping to ... Read Post

You love your company, your product, your prospect and you talk…and talk…and talk. Does this sound like you? Read Post

Promise or Goal? The old year has come to an end, and we’re in the first days of the new year. Most people are looking back at their recent past, weighing successful and missed opportunities and achievements, and making plans for the upcoming year. This is a very good thing, only when looking back at ... Read Post

The First Sale When you work in sales or any business for that matter have you ever stopped to think about the first sale you made? You cannot underestimate the power of the first sale. So why is the first sale so important? The reason it’s so important is that the first sale is not ... Read Post

In this our next in this series on the biggest mistakes you can make today in B2B sales, we’re going to talk about hard selling—you know, that pushy, insistent, “wear-‘em-down-till-they-buy” approach from years gone by. Or, rather, we’re not going to talk about it. For in today’s sales world, it doesn’t work at all. Today ... Read Post