Sales Operations
Sales operations: the system your reps actually sell on.
Sales operations is the machinery underneath the number - pipeline that means something, a forecast you can plan against, clean handoffs, and a CRM reps actually use. We build it, inside HubSpot or Salesforce, so selling stops depending on who remembers what.
Senior operators. Built into your CRM. No slideware.
How it works
How a lead becomes revenue you can forecast
Sales operations is a chain, only as strong as the weakest handoff in it. Tap any step to see how we build it.
We saw the extreme version at a manufacturer whose pipeline was full of deals that never really happened, and mapped where leads fall through the handoff.
The function
What sales operations owns
Six responsibilities, one system - they only work together. Tap a node or a chip.
What we emphasize
The parts that actually decide it
Tools are the easy part. These four separate a sales team from a sales system, and they are where we put the weight.
Definition before tooling
Before a single workflow, we agree what a qualified deal is and what a meeting has to produce. The CRM cannot fix a question nobody has answered.
A pipeline that cannot lie
A deal earns its stage only with a logged conversation and a next step behind it. The forecast stops being a wish.
Handoffs on a clock
Every pass between marketing, sales and success has an owner, a trigger and a fallback when the clock runs out.
A CRM reps use, not avoid
Clean and light enough that the record fills as a by-product of the work, not a tax on top of it.
What we improve
From hope to a system you can run
Not a tidier CRM - a sales motion that holds when someone is out, and a forecast the whole company can plan on.
More in why marketing fails when sales don’t use the CRM and who owns what across RevOps, Sales Ops and Marketing Ops.
Questions
Sales operations, answered.
What is sales operations?
Sales operations is the function that runs the machinery underneath the sales number: pipeline and stage definitions, forecasting, lead routing and handoffs, CRM hygiene and adoption, territory and quota, and the reporting the team plans against. Done well, selling stops depending on who remembers what.
What does a sales operations team do?
It defines what a real opportunity is, keeps the pipeline honest, makes the forecast something you can plan against, routes leads and enforces the handoff between marketing and sales, keeps the CRM clean enough that reps actually use it, and builds the reports leadership trusts.
Sales operations vs revenue operations - what is the difference?
Sales operations runs the machine for the sales organisation. Revenue operations connects sales, marketing and customer success into one system with a single source of truth. Sales ops is a part of the whole; RevOps is the whole.
When does a company need sales operations?
When the forecast stops being trustworthy, deals commit and then vanish, reps keep a private pipeline in their heads, leads fall through the gap between marketing and sales, or the CRM has become something people work around.
Read more
Sales operations, in the field notes
Let’s talk
Is your sales number running on hope?
Book thirty minutes with a senior operator - not a salesperson. We will look at your pipeline, your forecast and your handoffs, and tell you straight whether it is a system problem or a volume one, and what to fix first.
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