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What You Can do TODAY to Build Sales Pipeline This Quarter

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Just because a lead went cold doesn’t mean it’s lost. Our own sales development team often has a better win rate with our cold, dead leads than we do with fresh inbound leads.). Refresh cold leads with web form go-backs. When leads come in from a web form, the demo and the deal should be a slam dunk, right?

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Why Recruiting is Like Marketing

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Five years ago, I was asked to lead a recruiting department for the first time ever – and to double the size of the company within 6 months! Build a Recruiting Pipeline Funnel with Clear Goals For Each Candidate Stage. Identify How The Pipeline Funnel Changes For Every Role.

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The Real Cost of List-Building: Buy or Build Your Own?

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Your sales team is doing double duty: They’re selling to the leads delivered by your marketing department—and they’re de facto researchers. Acquiring enough qualified net new names at the top of the funnel to hit pipeline and bookings targets is a real issue for most marketing departments, and a recurring headache for CMOs and CGOs.

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A New Generation of Marketing Metrics & the ROI of Better Data

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Historically, data issues – good or bad – have impacted top-of-funnel activities far more acutely (and visibly) than bottom-of-funnel sales activities. Sales teams must be able to trust the leads that come from marketing. Bigger impact on sales enablement. Improve sales productivity.

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Adapting an ABM Approach for Account-Based EVERYTHING

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Q: What specific metrics can marketers track to prove the impact of ABE outside of leads generated? While leads and opportunities are important to note, it’s not enough for ABE. When focused on leads, the top of the funnel becomes the 1st target to analyze. What’s the volume of known visitors entering the funnel?

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Why That Bargain Contact List You Bought is a Sales Dead End

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However, unless you are getting contact lists that have been verified as qualified leads, you’ll find soon enough that this is your own too-good-to-be-true deal. Here are just a few ways that unverified bargain contact lists can lead to sales drought rather than providing that rainmaker resource you wanted.

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The Data Will Bring Us Together: Relationship Therapy with Sales and Marketing

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Marketing says their leads are qualified – but Sales doesn’t trust them. In order to get aligned around lead qualification, conversion goals, and other metrics – sales and marketing must find common ground. Getting a referral for an evaluation most often leads to an opportunity. Marketing has certain data needs.