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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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Prove Your Value With 5 Revenue-Based Marketing Metrics

Content4Demand

Pump Up the Pipeline When qualified opportunities offer a better-than-20% chance of converting to customers, you’re feeding your marketing-sourced pipeline. Let’s Close a Deal Prove that marketing is pulling its weight in closing deals by tracking the sales win rate. Read their tips and insights in The Content + Data Connection.

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4 Key Variables for Calculating Sales Velocity

Martech Advisor

There are four key metrics needed to calculate your sales velocity: length of the sales cycle, number of qualified opportunities, average deal size, and win rate. The formula for calculating your sales velocity is: To dive into your sales velocity strategy, let’s explore these four metrics.

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How to Prioritize Prospects: Sales Secrets for Pipeline Hyper-Growth

Engagio

Success in Sales can only be achieved by first understanding the challenges we face in our industry. So what’s the new reality of Sales? 2020 was a particularly difficult year for our teams to push their accounts through a Sales cycle and hit the revenue goals they had in front of them. And we’re in good company.

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Ultimate Guide to the Data-Driven Sales Funnel

Zoominfo

This is a perfect analogy to what actually occurs in the sales process , where information starts out broad in the beginning and gets incredibly granular towards the end. Implementing a sales funnel helps business development leaders understand its entire sales cycle. Free Trial A Sales Funnel Has Four Stages: 1.

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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

Zoominfo

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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5 Useful Lead Nurturing Tactics to Get More Opportunities

markempa

During this stage, you’ll share content to help progress them from interest towards purchase intent. At this stage, you’re moving them from being a lead to a sales qualified opportunity. This is where the hand-off from marketing to sales takes place and where people ultimately make the buying decision.