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5 Steps for Sales Process Improvements

Anthony Cole Training

Many companies monitor their pipeline opportunities with the use of a CRM in order to have information about the opportunities being created by the sales team. Companies want to know:

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Pipeline Movement [Increase Sales with a Good Sales Process]

A Sales Guy

This is my 4th post in a series on pipeline movement. Getting deals or opportunities to move through the pipeline is absolutely critical to increasing sales. Therefore, I thought it made sense to break down each of the areas that keep deals stuck and languishing in the pipeline. Are the sales stages predictive?

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The Rules of the Game for Baseball & Selling

Anthony Cole Training

Dave took the fundamentals of effective selling and used the baseball diamond and baseball terminology to explain his sales process. The baseball analogy is a strong one for developing a milestone-centric sales process with your team. Here are a few additional tips to help your salespeople drive more home runs.

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Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?

Anthony Cole Training

Yes, the title, "Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?" It remains a question despite the millions of dollars spent on CRM, sales force automation, training and hype. I was on LinkedIn this morning and saw an ad which read, "5 Keys to Improve Pipeline Forcasting Accuracy and Reduce Revenue Risk!".

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Pipeline Movement [Sales Management Tip]

A Sales Guy

The sales pipeline is the most important sales management tool there is. Everything happens in the pipeline, or at least it should. The sales pipeline is like the hard drive of a computer. The key to fast and efficient sales pipeline is preventing crap from clogging it up. Inaccurate data.

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Sales Best Practices - Why is CRM SO Important to Sales Success?

Anthony Cole Training

CRM, as a sales enablement tool IS NOT SO important to sales success even though it does contribute, aid, help and enable sales people to manage prospects and accounts. But, clearly it has little or nothing to do with the execution of the sales process - from finding prospects to getting them to make a decision to buy from you.

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Why Your Sales Team Isn't Performing As Expected - Part 4

Anthony Cole Training

Sales teams perform based on two inputs - effort and execution. If your sales team isn''t performing as expected, you must ask the question - Why? Chances are you won''t know for sure but you can describe the symptoms: Anemic pipeline. Sales taking too long. What are our current sales capabilities?

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