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How to fix the broken sales-marketing lead funnel

Martech

Once your suspects have become prospects who’ve finally reached the scoring threshold, you toss the leads over the proverbial wall for sales to work. Later, you learn that after an initial push, your warm marketing leads have gone cold. This is because sales prioritized their list over the leads you sent to them.

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15 Stats That Prove the Power of Sales and Marketing Alignment

Hubspot

Almost all (94%) of the top-performing salespeople surveyed by LinkedIn called the marketing leads they receive either “excellent” or “good." ( LinkedIn, 2020 ). Marketing and sales teams that take an ABM approach together can be up to six percent more likely to exceed their revenue goals than teams less ABM-advanced.

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Symptoms of B2B selling sickness

Velocity Partners

Companies that steer Sales and Marketing in the same direction — both a herculean task in itself and a symptom of doing a lot of other things right — are crushing their targets. Sales just doesn’t have the context, maybe because they’re too busy running their own rogue marketing efforts … 80% of marketing leads die in the funnel.

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The 11 Best Marketing Automation Software Tools in 2019

Hubspot

A majority of businesses are using some form of marketing automation nowadays -- in fact, studies cite around 51% of businesses currently use the technology, and that number continues to grow. All of which is to say -- if you're not using marketing automation software in 2019, you might want to reconsider. HubSpot Marketing Automation.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are also playing a significant part in bolstering marketing automation technology and helping to drive adoption of the technology among companies. All of which is to say that if you as a marketer, are not using any marketing automation tools, then you should start to reconsider.

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Plan Before You Execute

Televerde

Having the right technology, and knowing how to use it, is the essential first step in getting the kind of results attributed to modern marketers in a Forrester survey of marketing decision makers which shows, among other things, that 94% of modern markers attain significant market share, with 49% holding the market-leading position. [1].

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Lead Nurturing; How to Transform your Leads into Revenue

Inbox Insight

Lead generation is an essential element of demand generation but if you think the work stops there, here’s some bad news…. 79% of marketing leads don’t convert ( HubSpot). But before you hang up your coat, here’s a collection of lead nurturing best practices worth exploring. Why persevere with lead nurturing?