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
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 ... »
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 ... »
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 ... »
There are literally hundreds of pain points that plague a sales manager. In Pain Points of Sales Management, Nikolaus Kimla gives you a fascinating and insightful tour of the most important of these. These pain points can be broken down into 3 categories: Management Technology People Throughout the book, pain points fall within one or ... Read Post
The traditional approach to sales in the mining industry was straightforward, centered on trading raw materials like copper and gold based on global market prices and standard contracts. For many years, the main goal was to sell large volumes of extracted resources, with sales methods firmly established in commodity trading practices. This long-standing model is ... 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
How important is it for a company to both have and understand its sales process? It’s not just important – it’s crucial to sales coordination, management and company expansion. A company’s sales process is the precise series of steps through which a sale passes, from prospect through to close. A sales process could also be ... Read Post
Any activity is governed by principles or natural laws. Some are obvious—skydiving, obviously, is governed by gravity. Flying is also subject to gravity, as well as wind and air patterns. Some are not so obvious. A fantastic example is economics, which for hundreds of years has been subject to “principles” in various schools of thought ... Read Post
Originally published under the Pipeliner CRM name. Pipeliner is now Coevera — same company, evolved identity. All of Coevera’s features express sound business philosophy–and are designed to totally empower your sales force Features and Functionality: Philosophy Meets the Real World In our previous 2 ebooks, Theory Made Real and Reducing Risk, we demonstrated that Coevera ... Read Post
In an ironic twist, the number of solutions to various problems has actually become problematic. The sheer volume of potential solutions to common issues that come up in the sales world has become overwhelming, and it can be difficult to choose the right one. Companies attempt to hunt for the best possible solution, but often ... Read Post
Sales strategist Robert Beckerman has designed a tool to help you build stronger relationships with prospects and clients. Are Your Sales Methods Effective? Are you ready to ask yourself some really important and possibly difficult questions? The answers to these 10 questions will help sales professionals focus on core issues that may be holding them ... Read Post
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Olivier Roth, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at The Swarm, explains how relationship intelligence helps B2B sales teams turn hidden network connections into warm introductions. He shows how mapping investors, advisors, customers, and former colleagues surfaces paths CRM records alone can’t reveal, and why treating LinkedIn as an audience rather than a network changes how teams should prospect. Learn more at https://www.theswarm.com/.
