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7 Ways to Optimize Your Lead Management Process

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Therefore, it makes sense to sharpen the focus on your lead management and optimize it at every stage. In fact, research shows that automating your lead management process can increase sales revenue by 10% in just six months. First, let’s elaborate on what lead management entails: What is Lead Management?

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Why is Inside Sales So Scared of Lead Nurturing?

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One of the reasons for this under-utilization, and the inability of some marketers to deploy, for example, automated lead nurturing at every stage of the selling process, is resistance from the sales organization, and in particular, Inside Sales.

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Do You Need Marketing Automation to Do Lead Nurturing? Sort Of.

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Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. Marketing automation simply takes nurturing to a whole new level. What other differences did I miss?

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Tips for Increasing SDR Engagement Rates

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Some years ago, our firm conducted a lead management audit for a technology client who was struggling to convert raw, inbound inquiries into sales qualified leads. During the audit, it became quickly apparent that one of the major issues was at the very front end of the lead qualification process.

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More Evidence That Waiting Even 5 Seconds to Contact a New Sales Lead Can Be Disastrous

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In my experience, most of the mental energy and strategic thinking around the practice of lead nurturing and lead management is usually applied to the goal of accelerating prospects through the sales process – from MQL to SQL, from SQL to Opportunity, and so on. Probably not.

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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

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It works in tandem with inside sales by eliminating the chance that new leads will go without follow-up due to issues of bandwidth or lack of profile data (i.e. which leads merit sales investment and which don’t.) Marketing automation helps eliminate marketing waste.

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Top 5 Benefits of Adopting Marketing Automation

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Improved consistency of follow-up to all new leads independent of sales bandwidth. Regardless of how good your inside sales team is, putting in place automated lead response via marketing automation ensures that every inbound lead receives a prompt, systematic, personalized response, and that none fall through the cracks.