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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. There are a lot of strong personalities on the sales side, and, generally, I’ve seen it work best when sales is in trouble—when you’ve got a VP of sales saying, ‘Help me. What can I do? How can I improve the situation?’

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PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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” Convergence: Technology, CRM & Social Media. There are a lot of strong personalities on the sales side, and, generally, I’ve seen it work best when sales is in trouble—when you’ve got a VP of sales saying, ‘Help me. What can I do? How can I improve the situation?’

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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

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I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads while average companies close 20%. Best case a stack of leads (virtual or otherwise) is rifled through, a few leads are cherry-picked out – and other leads are left to go into the black hole frequently called CRM.

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Marketing and Sales: Done Well (2015) Do Better (2016) - Part 3 of 3

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It’s a relief to see a return to a balanced approach to selling, and those sales teams who best blend new methods and old, using all means available, had, and will continue to have, the most success. I hope you have enjoyed these three blogs and best wishes for 2016! What They Can Do Better in 2016? Simplified. … go out and buy it.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

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Today we will discuss why it’s vital for marketing to develop a training guide for sales so all are on the same page as far as understanding what constitutes a lead in your organization, and what’s the best way to follow up on one. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Taking away a marketing manager’s excuses!

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Salespeople don’t use the CRM system, so what can I do? It isn’t the sale that’s the issue; it’s closing out the sale in the CRM system. Don’t have a CRM System? If you don’t know where to start, start with the CRM system. You must have a CRM system to make the whole reporting process automatic and believable.

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How to Blow $100,000 on a Lead Generation Campaign

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The problem with BANT qualification criteria is that once a prospect has a specific budget and timeframe it is highly likely that they have already selected a preferred vendor and the best you can hope for is to be column fodder in an evaluation that has already been won by a more agile competitor. Can we win? Do we want to win?