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Smarketing: Five Sample Steps to Reach Marketing and Sales Alignment

Golden Spiral

Open and integrated communication between your marketing team and the sales team will make a difference in your organization. In recent years, synergy between marketing and sales has been dubbed Smarketing —the process of integrating marketing and sales processes to obtain a common, integrated approach.

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How to Calculate Demand Gen Budget: A Rough Guide

The Point

Based on the work we do with our agency’s B2B clients , here’s a basic, funnel-based approach to determining a realistic demand gen budget based on specific revenue targets: 1. The trend is towards the higher end of that range, as marketing assumes responsibility for more and more of the funnel.

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How to Build a 100-Day Plan to Grow Revenue

InsightSquared

We recommend that every quarter you pick one thing to improve about your sales process. If you improve the conversion rate during each key moment in your sales process by just a small percentage, you can end up doubling your revenue or more. Conversion rates (output / input i.e. MQL rate). Is this a problem?

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How to Build a 100-Day Play to Grow Revenue

InsightSquared

We recommend that every quarter you pick one thing to improve about your sales process. If you improve the conversion rate during each key moment in your sales process by just a small percentage, you can end up doubling your revenue or more. Conversion rates (output / input i.e. MQL rate). Is this a problem?

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Improving Lead Scoring for Sales Efforts

Launch Marketing

One way to ensure that marketing delivers quality leads to sales is to implement a lead scoring methodology. This is a process used by marketing and sales teams that determine how likely prospects are to buy your product or service. MQL Level 3: 1-9 points MQL Level 2: 10-49 points MQL Level 1: 50+ points.

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What is PDCA? (and Why It Matters for Marketers)

Marketing Insider Group

As an argument, he pointed out that their version was a quality control program, aimed at serving the management. He argued that “check” in English meant to hold back and was thus slowing the process while his PDSA was aimed at speeding the process up. It’s also an integral part of effective project management, Agile or not.

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The Real Cost of List-Building: Buy or Build Your Own?

DiscoverOrg

Your sales team is doing double duty: They’re selling to the leads delivered by your marketing department—and they’re de facto researchers. According to a CSO Insights survey, 82% of sales teams feel challenged by the amount of data available and the time it takes to research a prospect before making a call.

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