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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales.

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Salesforce.com Best Practices: Thought Leadership with David Taber, Author of Salesforce.com Secrets of Success

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. It's more meaningful to produce a few very high quality leads, delivering them to reps in a way that reduces information overload and improves lead-response time.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

markempa

At the same time, the real engine driving CRM and keeping prospects moving through the sales funnel is technology. The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics. How Technology on the Trade Show Floor Can Help Your Sales Team Work Smarter and Sell More.

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Tyler’s Top 5: Why the Video Marketing Platform is in a Class of its own

Vidyard

This is why we have seamless integrations with leading MAP and CRM systems. If you notice, for example, that a lead in your MAP has watched five product videos in the scope of a few hours, you can automate email follow up targeted to their expressed interests at the perfect moment when you’re top of mind.

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20. greenleads : "Sales 2.0 damphoux : Rich Blakeman, Miller Heiman "If the sales cycle is long and the funnel is narrow, the funnel will turn into a straw" #sales20. damphoux : Brett Queener, salesforce.com - Sales 2.0

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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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How to Accelerate the Sales Velocity Of Your SaaS Business

Webbiquity

Launched in 1999 with the founding of Salesforce.com (or Concur , though it didn’t start as a SaaS firm), it’s worth over $170 billion today , and has grown 500% in just the past seven years. It’s a reflection of how productive and functional a sales team is, but it also might illustrate areas of potential improvement.