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Election Day: SLMA's 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management

Smashmouth Marketing

The Sales Lead Management Association has opened up voting for the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. I'm on the list, so if I've earned your respect in the world of demand gen and lead generation, I'd love your vote. Mark McIntosh - Interlink1 Robert B Miller- Miller Heiman Inc.

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The 14 Best Marketing Automation Tools

Webbiquity

Marketing automation software tools can be very helpful in making lead nurturing and sales acceleration efforts more effective—even if the category is badly misnamed. Marketing automation tool combining email marketing, lead management, and reporting with sales alignment. Marketing can’t be automated.) 2) HubSpot.

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New developments in B2B marketing list acquisition

Biznology

Business lists can be divided into four general types: Compiled files assembled from directories, the Internet, or other public and private sources, by such suppliers as D&B, InfoGroup, Data.com, NetProspex and ZoomInfo. Internal databases populated from billing systems, lead management systems, and website registration systems.

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

The Point

In our work developing lead nurturing programs for B2B companies , we often hear statements like the following: “We won’t be implementing lead nurturing for new leads because our telesales manager says his team is following up on every lead.”. Marketo creates task in CRM reminding BDR to call lead 4 weeks later.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

ViewPoint

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. Is this a person with authority to buy?

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Salespeople: One Question Matters Most

Customer Experience Matrix

Back in December, the Sales Lead Management Association and LEADTRACK published a survey on lead management practices that I haven’t previously had time to write about. The other clear message from the survey was that the main reason leads are not followed up is “not enough info”.

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How to take a contacts-only approach to CRM

Capstone Insights

This post makes the assumption that the lead management construct at your company is leads reliant. By that, I mean that the “leads” object in your CRM is by definition the only way in which new individuals can be passed into your CRM by way of integration. How do you actually mechanize a contacts-only approach to CRM?