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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

ViewPoint

Best case a stack of leads (virtual or otherwise) is rifled through, a few leads are cherry-picked out – and other leads are left to go into the black hole frequently called CRM. Imagine Spending $208,350 on Marketing Leads That Are Trashed Immediately. Cost per sales qualified lead is $1,250.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. What kind of accountability measures are in place?

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

ViewPoint

There is a counter-intuitive relationship between lead volume and sales performance. With sales organizations facing lower numbers, it seems logical to turn to volume lead generation to fill their pipelines with more and more sales leads in hopes that some will turn into sales.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

There are at least 4 amorphous groups of solution providers also setting their sights on this space: 1) Lead generation services or tools – Because this category contains both service providers (that look more like agencies or telesales outsourcers) and software as a service vendors, there are probably more than I could possibly name.