The nice folks over at Salesforce Canada reached out to me recently with a really great article on building strong B2B relationships and asked if I might wish to feature it, and the graphic below, on this site. Being Canadian, how could I refuse! Read the full article by following this link. While the post focuses
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Is This a Sales Pipeline or a Pipe Dream?
When I first began my career in B2B sales, and this was with a national company, we were not even asked to do forecasts. We were expected to write business at or above of our assigned quotas. Simple. Emphasis was placed on the word write. Written business was what was used to determine whether or
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