markempa

JULY 6, 2017

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

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Sales Management Lead Management Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 326

markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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Sales Management Lead Management Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 120

MKT1

JULY 13, 2023

I love seeing what’s possible when marketers think like product orgs and use the modern tools available to them to make high-value content. Neither Devon or Halley are engineers, yet they built 50+ dynamic web pages that update based on data in Airtable plus a lead capture flow—in less than 2 weeks.

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CMS Development Top of Funnel Product Lead Ranking 52