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The Trick to Increased Revenue: Better Sales Lead Qualification Criteria

SnapApp

We tend to get caught up focusing on more: More sales, more traffic, more leads. And having more leads is also not necessarily better, but having better leads? And having more leads is also not necessarily better, but having better leads? They are bottom-funnel leads.”. Better is better.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

ViewPoint

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process.

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3 Steps for Effective Sales Lead Follow Up (none are the Hail Mary)

ViewPoint

The ways sales executives follow up on leads is a little like trying to win games with the Hail Mary. There are three main reasons why sales rep follow-up on leads is relatively ineffective: The leads suck. If you are sending raw, unfiltered and mostly unqualified leads to sales they will never follow-up on them.

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Sales Prospecting for “In-Market” Buyers

PureB2B

Finding in-market leads for B2B businesses is crucial to achieving revenue goals. And in today’s buyer-focused sales landscape, it’s important for reps to always be developing new techniques and strategies for effective prospecting. This will prevent businesses from wasting time on leads that won’t convert into paying customers.

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Lead Generation Programs That Work

Marketing Insider Group

During my presentation titled Lead Generation Programs That Work I walked through the 5 Steps to Achieve Lead Generation ROI. I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to. How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity?

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10 Simple Tricks to Accelerate Your Sales Pipeline

PureB2B

It’s said that it takes around 84 days to convert a lead into an opportunity, and another 18 days to turn it into a deal—all of which may only have a 6% success rate regardless of how long you’ve worked on it. The sales cycle is composed of phases required to sell a product or service. Nurture Your Leads.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

While social media is all part of a consumer revolution of peer-to-peer conversations and consumer-generated content, the Toolbox.com report states there is room for marketers to contribute since “online communities are open for participation and welcome the information and insights that their companies can add to the conversation.”