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Your CRM data knows more than you think it does

Original: Sales pipeline performance: AMA

May 29, 2025
8 min read
Article
Intermediate
Sales pipeline performance: AMA

Summary

This article dives into how to leverage historical CRM data to uncover deeper insights about your sales pipeline performance. It covers techniques for analyzing sales funnel velocity, deal qualification, forecasting, and other key revenue operations metrics to drive growth.

Who This Is For

Revenue Ops
Business Analysts
Marketing Ops

Key Takeaways

  • Transition from static pipeline snapshots to deal-based lifecycle reporting that tracks the complete journey of every deal
  • Use historical pipeline comparisons to identify specific changes week-over-week and categorize variance sources
  • Build more accurate forecasts using your own conversion data instead of generic coverage ratios
  • Track deal velocity and conversion rates over time to spot performance shifts before they become problems

Tools & Technologies

CRM systems Equals Sales pipeline dashboards Data analysis tools

Topics Covered

sales-pipeline sales-analytics sales-performance crm-data revenue-operations