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

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Today we will discuss why it’s vital for marketing to develop a training guide for sales so all are on the same page as far as understanding what constitutes a lead in your organization, and what’s the best way to follow up on one. Sales executive re-reviews PDF and/or CRM and audio file (where/when available). Gain sales acceptance.

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Marketing and Sales: Done Well (2015) Do Better (2016) - Part 3 of 3

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And mangers must stop playing CRM desk jockey and get back to the basics—meeting 1:1 with their people, conducting great sales team meetings, and getting out in the field with reps. Jason Jordan – Vantage Point: Training dollars and accountability will migrate from the sellers to their managers, and improved performance will soon follow.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

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Of course, these leads—which can be attractive to those who value cost-per-lead above other criteria—will be not be followed up by Sales and will end up in the CRM black hole.). They have the experience, training and the personality traits to insure that the folks on the phone who represent you, represent you well.

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When One Out of Ten is an Abject Marketing Program Failure

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Improving presentation skills (not the same as sales training). Using the complete CRM/marketing automation tool set. Delivering the right information required as soon as possible (answering questions and quotes on the first call or at least same day).

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Top Three Takeaways from Sales 2.0 – San Francisco #S20C

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A clear takeaway for me was that big bets are being placed on companies that provide solutions that leverage data from multiple platforms (such as CRM, LinkedIn…). Candidly, my fear about that is that companies will continue to ignore “little data” and drown in big data.

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Are You A Player?

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Sales management is to blame, they don’t believe in the CRM system. Our salespeople are to blame they don’t (pick one) use, believe, or like the CRM system. Teaching sales management how to use the CRM system to their advantage (training and retraining). Marketers are Builders of Wealth.

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

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Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.