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How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals  

Only B2B

According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads.

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What Is Sales Commission? Formulas, Examples, and Best Practices

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

In my 20-plus-year career, and as founder of the Harris Consulting Group, I’ve learned some valuable lessons, tips, and best practices when it comes to structuring sales commissions. Your company offers a 10% commission for a product valued at $5,000. If they sell just one of those products, their net pay is $100,00 + (.1

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Marketing in a New World (Part 5 of 5)

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During the CMS product demos, you will be armed with your list of usage scenarios and can ask specific questions regarding how the platform in question would handle such scenarios. The matrix will allow you to score the products against each other in a logical way and get a good idea of the product’s compatibility for your organization.

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Marketing in a New World (Part 5 of 5)

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During the CMS product demos, you will be armed with your list of usage scenarios and can ask specific questions regarding how the platform in question would handle such scenarios. The matrix will allow you to score the products against each other in a logical way and get a good idea of the product’s compatibility for your organization.

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Happy New Year! Maybe not for IT Sales & Marketing

The ROI Guy

The New Year’s cheer didn’t last long for IT, as Gartner was quick to lower its global technology spending forecast, barely a week into 2012. Looking beyond 2012, Gartner also estimates continued headwinds, lowering future forecasts for 2015 downwards to 5% growth from earlier 5.4% growth forecasts. growth forecasts. predictions.

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IT Spending on the Rise, But Frugalnomics Still Reigns

The ROI Guy

The latest IT spending metrics have been released by Gartner, and the news is good for the second half of this year and 2011 overall. Gartner’s forecasts are up significantly from estimates earlier in the year, when 5.6 % growth for 2011 was the prediction, despite the disaster and perceived pause in the global recovery.

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How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

The ROI Guy

Content marketing provides a means to break through the noise, providing the consultative diagnostic and financial advice today’s buyer needs. At Gartner, we always opined that “you can’t manage what you haven’t measured,” so I suggest that the first content marketing step should be an inventory of what content already exists.