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Taking Stock of Your Lead Management Process: 5 Key Questions

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Key to designing an effective lead nurturing program is taking stock of your current lead management process. Giving sales a voice in the process will help ensure that, as an organization, they feel they have a stake in the new lead management program and won’t feel it’s being foisted upon them by marketing.

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8 Questions to Ask Before Investing in Marketing Attribution

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The reasons for this are varied, but many of them center on the quality of the underlying data, and the degree to which information about a particular lead, or opportunity, or closed deal is captured and tracked accurately. How is your lead management process working? These may simply be your MAP or CRM.

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

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Any marketer (or sales leader) who has generated multiple leads within the same account only to realize, well downstream, that those “hand raises” were part of the same selling opportunity, or perhaps opportunities for different solutions, will see the wisdom of adapting lead management to the demand unit model.

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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

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for lead management to 3.35 However, when you consider that, in our model, a 5 represents the most advanced state of practice from a business theory perspective, and a 1 represents basic control and management of a process, you recognize how difficult the transition from 1 to 5 really is. for organization.

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3 Key Reasons Not to Give Up on Lead Scoring

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Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. The classic business case for lead scoring has been a function of inbound marketing and the traditional lead funnel. 3 Key Reasons Not to Give Up on Lead Scoring Click To Tweet.

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How Good Content can Help Improve Database Health

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According to business information provider ZoomInfo (see graphic below, further data here ), more than 70 percent of business cards have one or more changes during a 12-month period. The most common changes (in order): job function, phone number, and mailing address.

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Report: B2B Buyers Engaging Earlier with Sales

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A highly tuned lead scoring program will help ensure that motivated buyers receive the appropriate attention and don’t fall through the proverbial cracks. How well does your current lead management process alert reps – be they BDRs or field reps – to high-intent behavior? Are you integrating third-party intent data?

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