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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

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Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. Sales isn’t qualifying down from 1000 marketing qualified leads to 14 sales qualified leads. Imagine Spending $208,350 on Marketing Leads That Are Trashed Immediately. So, what happens?

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

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Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. Are we marketing to IT decision makers in the Fortune 100? Not 50 things.

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What Percent of Leads Should Sales Close?

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The five main factors in lead close rate are: Market definition. Market definition : We once did work for a company that had two different views of the market. Marketing focused on $10,000 deals in small-to-medium sized companies. This is why account-based marketing processes are so important. Lead definition.