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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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Symptoms of B2B selling sickness

Velocity Partners

At most B2B companies, the marketing/sales relationship has taken a wrong turn. Sellers are taking marketing into their own hands. And they’re not using Marketing’s expensively produced content. The fact that they’re ignoring most MQLs while sourcing their own leads should tell you something is drastically wrong.

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15 Stats That Prove the Power of Sales and Marketing Alignment

Hubspot

This is especially true when it comes to sales and marketing. In an ideal world, sales and marketing processes would be built with the other team in mind. To execute on these goals, both teams need to be aligned on what it means for a lead to be properly qualified and what your company’s target buyer looks like.

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Top 10 marketing automation tools every marketer must have

ClickZ

30-second summary: By simply adopting marketing automation technology, a company can significantly free up a marketers time and enable them to focus on more important revenue building projects as these tools can help to automate numerous repetitive tasks such as emails, campaign management, website analysis and social media marketing.

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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?

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How to Qualify a Lead: The Battle-Tested B2B Framework

SnapApp

No matter which way you skin it, an efficient sales process is what fuels the high-growth B2B companies. Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. Leads should: Have enough money to afford your solution.

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Fixing the Sales-Ready Lead Problem with Better Nurturing

SnapApp

Marketers and salespeople alike are working toward the holy grail of a funnel full of hyper-qualified leads that drive unprecedented revenue, but it’s clear that somewhere along the way we’re getting off track. And that’s because what we’re calling a “sales-ready” lead today simply isn’t that.