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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

ViewPoint

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

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How to Avoid Wasting 75% of Your Marketing Spend

ViewPoint

Most companies admit to generating only a 10-25% follow-up of their sales inquiries. This means that 75% of the marketing dollars spent on lead generation are wasted. Sales Lead Management Association. But what if we have a world where: Sales follows up 100% of the inquiries (all inquiries, not just leads).

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

ViewPoint

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Essential Marketing Insights

Full Circle Insights

In other words: which marketing efforts are driving the most revenue, and what is the return on investment of the marketing spend? The best way for your marketing department to provide this kind of data to the CEO is to track marketing campaigns in your company’s CRM system, such as Salesforce.

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What Type of CMO Do You Have?

ANNUITAS

As we were going through a refresh of our targeted personas, we noticed an increase in engagement with leadership roles that have revenue responsibility (sales leaders, business unit leaders, and even CEOs). Why is marketing’s story so different than sales? Lack of Trust in the CMO.

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The Impact of Digital Marketing Automation on Senior Living Communities

Stevens & Tate

Lead Management : The use of automation software in lead management allows senior living communities to capture and store detailed information about each prospect, from initial inquiry through to move-in.

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What is a content marketing strategy? Your checklist to secure content success

Tomorrow People

Content marketing is the approach of fitting your content within a structured and measurable process to create better results in attracting leads and transforming them into customers — and increasing revenue. How content management grows business leaders. Measure your whole marketing spend. Making the leap.