The win rate is 42%. A third of the pipeline never chose anyone.
Most sales reviews measure how often you beat a competitor. The larger leak is usually the deals where the buyer beat everyone by doing nothing.
SBy Steve··5 min read
A sales review opens with the win rate. Forty-two per cent, up two points, and the conversation moves to competitors: who we beat, who beats us, where the pricing pressure comes from. What rarely gets its own line is the set of deals that ended without anyone winning. The buyer engaged, took the meetings, requested the proposal, and then stopped. In the CRM these sit as closed-lost: timing, or worse, they never close at all. They roll forward quarter after quarter until someone tidies the pipeline. In considered B2B purchases,…
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