Elite distance runners are experts in preparation. With months-long, meticulously designed training plans, workout assessments that log weather conditions and muscle ailments, and top-to-bottom ...

Sometimes I feel like I read fiction for a living. No, I'm not an editor for a big publisher, or a critic for a major news outlet -- I'm a professional sales consultant and I look at sales pipelines ...

The sales pipeline is a way for you to envision the abstract concept of the sales process; basically, your prospective sale flows through the steps from new contact, to prospect, to lead, and so on ...

Managing sales? What is that? A frightening number of CEOs are so accustomed to handling sales on their own that even when they do get around to hiring a sale team, they neglect to put in place a ...

As firms grow, they need to move their sales pipeline from inside their head into a more formal process, says Sarah Dobek of Inovautus Consulting, to gather the right data and hold everyone involved ...

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As a sales leader, there’s nothing worse than getting to the end of the quarter and realizing your team will miss their sales goal. But focusing on the bottom-line number — closed deals — is like ...

Most contractors think their reputation for quality work and exceptional service should get them lots of referrals and win plenty of work. Most don’t have a budget for marketing or sales, and most don ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When you started the business, you obviously weren’t envisioning an overnight success with orders pouring in night and day. Nevertheless, ...