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5 (doable) ways to drive revenue growth now

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Involving planning, collaboration and accountability processes, these sure-fire action items will help marketing leaders like you make real sales impact. Are sales and marketing aligned on what they’re telling the market, and the best ways to reach out, or are efforts mismatched? K now your audience. Testing’s a must.

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

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Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. PinPoint™ Platform , our automated solution that helps manage lead generation, qualification and nurturing. They won’t get followed up. Since 1997, we’ve had 3.6

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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

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As a sales acceleration specialist he helps sales organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate a high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design. “No No one defaults to prospecting.”. How could we fix it?

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

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Best-of-class prospect development—and its focus on fewer, higher qualified sales leads—fills forecasts with sales-ready buyers and helps marketing and sales resources operate more efficiently. This also renews the value of lead generation programs, since reps start receiving leads they can actually use.

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Make Marketing More Efficient by Embedding Analytics on Top KPIs

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Increased Pipeline Integrity Integrated performance reporting increases the integrity of your sales pipeline, and will help you deliver the right leads to your sales team. This will deliver insight on the trends in your pipeline and more accurately identify upward or downward forecasts.

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Successful Lead Generation - One Size Does Not Fit All

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Despite their best intentions, many B2B companies are not able to generate the frequent high-quality content necessary to fuel an inbound marketing lead generation program. Adding outbound prospect development to your lead generation mix allows you to aggressively and actively beat your lead generation and sales forecasts.