Don Peppers, the highly successful US advertising executive, is well known for his famous quote about value. According to Don, “Customers will create value for you at the point where they believe you’re creating the most value for them”. Seems intuitive doesn’t it? But at the same time, it seems a bit mysterious. Don had ... Read Post
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 ... »
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 ... »
In this ebook, Nikolaus Kimla discusses the two pillars of the future are technology, and human beings and how you have to have the perfect technology, and then the perfect human being in application, performance, and presentation. He argues that today and into the future, it’s a 50-50 balance. In the past, it was perhaps ... Read Post
The eBook was originally published under the Pipeliner CRM name. Pipeliner is now Coevera — same company, evolved identity. There are numerous popular sales methodologies today. These methodologies bring together sales best practices from different quarters and greatly assist salespeople and sales organizations in consistently closing a higher percentage of deals. In this ebook, we ... Read Post
Our self-gradable test will show you where you can improve the management of Leads and Opportunities to Increase Sales Velocity and Close Rates From a Lead to a Closed Sale As a Lead moves along the sales pipeline, at some point it becomes an Opportunity. This means it has the real potential of becoming what ... Read Post
Originally published under the Pipeliner CRM name. Pipeliner is now Coevera — same company, evolved identity. Exploiting Your Company’s Uniquenesses: Coevera Intelligent Fields Part of a customizable CRM, an Intelligent Field is a field which displays data in a read-only fashion, data which has been automatically calculated using other data obtained elsewhere. Coevera has been, ... Read Post
While many will find the title controversial, especially given today’s climate of fostering startups, Nikolaus actually believes that entrepreneurship, as it is presented in many arenas, is actually dead and, in fact, could never get off the ground in the way it is often proposed. Read Post
The whitepaper, Navigating Sales Challenges in Logistics for 2025, explores the major issues logistics sales teams face due to economic shifts, technological advances, and societal changes. It details seven core challenges—including talent shortages, rising operational costs, tech-driven changes, sustainability demands, geopolitical risks, e-commerce growth, and urban delivery complexities. Additionally, it highlights the strategic importance of ... Read Post
Pipeline management means the difference between accurate, successful sales and hit-or-miss sales that mysteriously make it to the close or don’t. Pipeline management therefore even affects the success or failure of a company, and the attainment of company goals. This slideshare, based on the ebook of the same name, shows you the relationship between pipeline ... Start a slideshow
Increase the chance of a successful close with a free tool to help you effectively qualify any opportunity in your sales process. Clearly Defining the Opportunity Defining an opportunity can only be done through communication with the prospect company, as in-depth as possible. It may be possible with the initial person who contacted you in ... Read Post
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Josh Troy, Founder & CEO of Curvion Blue, explains how companies scale revenue by fixing the system around the sales rep, not just hiring better reps. He shows how his keystone metric, collected dollars per booked call, reveals each rep’s true ROI, and where AI actually helps in sales. Learn more at https://curvionblue.com/.
