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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

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If you do the math, this tells us that sales reps are expected to work 1000 marketing qualified leads down to 14 to 48 sales qualified leads and close 20% or 30% of those leads respectively; and end up with 3 to 14 deals. Not very efficient, right? Cost per sales qualified lead is $1,250. Why don’t they follow-up?

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

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First and foremost, the acceptance process allows marketing to confirm that sales or partners are acting on all delivered leads. The rates of lead acceptance and rejection reveal lead management and quality problems that can be quickly addressed. Develop a lead hand-off process and follow-up best practices.

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Four Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation

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To have a successful marketing automation implementation start with this question and this question alone: “What does our lead management process look like and how can we automate it?” If you don’t have a solid lead management process in place than a marketing automation platform (MAP) will only automate a broken process.

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Improve Sales Lead Generation via Marketing Analytics Part 1: Four Steps

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This award was made possible because of our team’s ability to develop and apply marketing analytics innovations that improve operational efficiencies and deliver to clients the qualified leads they need. 4:15 min —How analytics are used in lead generation.

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The Skinny on Lead Nurturing - 11 Experts Weigh In (part 2 of 2)

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His lead nurturing program did precisely that. It’s been well-established that following a pragmatic, documented sales process supports more efficient and effective selling. Combining voice nurture with email is the Holy Grail for sales and marketing and is now possible with whole solutions like OutboundOnDemand and PointClear!