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https://www.battery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BB-Pipeline-Conversion-221-1024x667.png1024667Making or missing a quota comes down to two variables: pipeline and your conversion rates. The first is fairly obvious—did you begin the quarter with enough sales pipeline? The second variable is whether your sales team executed on closing that pipeline. One can distill every quarterly performance (or time period you measure) down to these… Continue reading Untitled