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Why Marketing Best Practices May Sabotage Your Results

NuSpark Consulting

Because people don’t like being sold to, an email-nurturing best practice is to prioritize educational emails over sales messages. The goal was to fill the sales funnel with many leads, then filter them down to the golden nuggets — the sales qualified opportunities. ABM flipped the sales funnel on its head.

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Making the Most of Your Webinars

The Effective Marketer

Take for instance the following: The average webcasts captures 441 registrants Attendee participation is usually 50-60% of registrations 15-30% of registrants are sales-qualified opportunities The numbers above should be enough for you to go back to your own metrics and see how you compare. United States License.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.