Recently I was having a drink at my local hang-out, when I ran into a colleague I met a few years ago but who I hadn’t seen since. We recognized each other and engaged in a catch-up conversation. As we moved from small talk to more business talk, I realized that my first impression was ... Read Post

Even if you are a Pipeliner CRM customer, you may not be aware of our mission and vision, and how vitally important these are to us and our success. As we hear from customers, Pipeliner CRM is many things. We label it Instant Intelligence, Visualized because it is the most visual CRM solution on the ... Read Post

While on the hunt for leads, it’s best that you keep quality instead of quantity in mind. According to “The Critical Importance of Lead Validation in Internet Marketing” study, about half of a company’s leads generated through its website aren’t sales related. Instead, these non-leads consist of things like auto-dialers, phone misdials, spam, sales solicitations ... Read Post

10 Questions You Must Ask Yourself When Managing Your Sales Pipeline We see a lot of articles on sales enablement and progression, but few address the importance of pipeline management and its specific contribution in helping sales teams to step up their game in terms of success and efficiency. So let’s take a look at ... Read Post

At Pipeliner we have for quite some time been discussing and promoting principles which we have adopted for our company and made part of our product Pipeliner CRM. These are sound economic and business principles, proven over 150 years of practical use, taken from the Austrian School of Economic Thought, as well as from educator ... Read Post

If you had only $1 to invest in the development of a salesperson, how would you spend the money? It depends… As are most decisions in business, it’s not a simple matter of choosing among a number of possibilities. There isn’t only one answer. It’s normally a blend of the options available. The most important ... Read Post

Digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000. –Pierre Nanterme, CEO of Accenture Why is it that companies that fail to adopt technology fade away? Fundamental Transformation First, there is a fundamental transformation happening—actually one that’s been happening for a number of ... Read Post

How do the top salespeople continually blow away their quotas so effortlessly? Do they have some kind of secret formula they follow to ensure success consistently? Yes – and much of it has to do with how top sales performers adhere to the key sales activities in their sales process and clearly understand the buyer’s ... Read Post