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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

ViewPoint

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%. Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. So, what happens?

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6 Metrics That Will Get You an Edge and Your CEO Clarity

markempa

They expect their marketing leaders to provide clear metrics and be accountable to meeting their numbers just like their sales leaders. These CEOs get frustrated because their marketing leaders share metrics like sales lead activity KPIs, engagement reports, and some squishy metrics around a brand that aren’t tied directly to revenue.

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Executive Insights: Imperative Marketing Analytics for the Modern Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: 7 Tips to Improve Sales Follow-up & Close More Leads

markempa

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! « 9 1/2 Ways. « 9 1/2 Ways.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

ViewPoint

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. They are herded into a direction of ineffectiveness by the actions or inactions of others in your company.

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Microsoft’s Future in Digital Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Over the weekend I got to meet with Romi Mahajan the World Wide Director of the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft. Below is a transcript of some Q&A that I captured with Romi …. 1) What is your vision for Microsoft and Digital Marketing? There are also other great companies who compete directly with us.

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5 Advantages of Market Basket Analysis in B2B Marketing

Valasys

Optimization of Campaigns & Promotions: Integrating Market Basket Analysis in B2B Marketing helps in the optimization of the B2B promotional campaigns as the products or services having a higher likelihood of purchase are sold frequently together. This helps the B2B companies in establishing their keystone products or services.