AI tools now give sellers back an average of 4.8 hours a week, according to Gartner. Yet 72% of sales organizations fail to reinvest that saved time into high-value selling. Winning back the selling day takes two moves, not one: use AI to clear the four biggest time sinks (research, data entry, drafting, meeting prep), ... Read Post
Sales forecasting comes down to five steps: define your sales process and forecast period, gather your historical deal data, choose a forecasting method that fits your data, build the number, and review it against reality on a fixed cadence. The method you choose matters less than most teams think. The discipline of the five steps ... »
To improve CRM adoption among sales reps, make the CRM give more than it takes: cut manual data entry to minutes a day, configure the pipeline around how deals actually move, run every forecast and pipeline review from inside the CRM, train reps inside their live deals instead of a sandbox, measure usage weekly for ... »
The difference between AI agents vs assistants comes down to how much they do on their own. An AI assistant helps you do a task faster when you ask, like drafting an email or summarizing a call. An AI agent takes multi-step action toward a goal on its own, like researching an account, preparing a ... »
Capitalize on the new buyer’s journey by aligning sales and marketing. Help your business grow! Discover the advantages of making your sales and marketing work together. A huge part of the buying decision is made before your customer reaches out to your brand or meets your sales team. What does that mean for your sales ... Read Post
This white paper consists of 6 sins that salespeople should avoid at all cost. Of course we also cover how to avoid them, and the exact actions to take to make sure they never occur at all. Why is it important to avoid these sins? It’s quite simple: Because you want to sell, and win ... Read Post
There is a long-term situation in sales of salespeople having a rather one-sided viewpoint: they think only like salespeople. It’s all about the pitch—selling points that they’ve seen work before, and using those to convince that buyer to purchase. Salespeople have been operating this way since the beginning of time. The better salespeople perfected their ... Read Post
Originally published under the Pipeliner CRM name. Pipeliner is now Coevera — same company, evolved identity. Expert opinion on the subject of sales processes has pendulum swung a great deal over the years. One day sales processes are all-important and sales organizations must stick to them like glue. The next day the sales process is ... Read Post
For any company involved with sales, account management and key account management is crucial and requires a vastly different skillset and toolset than winning new sales. What is (Key) Account Management? The core concept of account management is that winning a new account is more costly and difficult than maintaining and upselling an existing account. ... Read Post
Craig M. Jamieson’s comprehensive guide to building a successful social CRM strategy is focused on small businesses. Download your free excerpt here. The era of small business social CRM is upon us. Can you keep up? Your business and customers have both evolved dramatically over the past several years. Much of this has to do ... Read Post
Take a moment to picture in your head your visual representation of a sales professional. There are a number of different things that might pop up in your mind. But like everything else in the sales world, the portrait of the sales pro is also changing! Learn what the salespeople of tomorrow will look like, ... Read Post
It is always better to have less but more highly qualified opportunities in your pipeline than it is to have a lot of poorly qualified ones. Resources and focus are better served where you have a realistic chance of success. This tool will help you evaluate opportunities and see if they are worth pursuing. Read Post
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