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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.

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

markempa

I’ve seen marketers who really dig in and answer these big picture questions get an edge. Also, they ultimately they get bigger budgets and have more influence inside and outside their companies. 6 B2B Marketing Measures that Will Give You an Edge. What’s your return on your marketing investment (ROMI)?

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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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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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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.

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

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to Generate and Follow Leads | Main | Webcast: Closed-Loop Lead Generation & Management » 7 Tips to Improve Sales Follow-up & Close More Leads If you are like most B2B marketers, lead generation is at top of your priority list. « 9 1/2 Ways. So what can be done about it? So what can be done about it?