857: Tactical Pipeline Growth: Winning the Outbound Battle, with Mark McInnes

Mark McInnes is author of the book Tactical Pipeline Growth: Winning the Outbound Battle for New Business. Mark’s a contrarian on the myths and bad practices that have built up around prospecting. It's why I liked his book. For openers we talk about why it’s better to have too few prospects in your pipeline than too many. I happen to agree with this. The low levels of quota attainment and win rates, that we all see and read about, are not a function of not having leads. It’s all about how ineffective sellers are once that they have leads. In which case more leads won’t solve the problem—it’s only doubling down on a bad bet.