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What is the ROI of Lead Management?

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Both books show how you can increase sales by nurturing all leads, from inquiry to opportunity. A proper follow-up ensures that leads are nurtured until they are ready to talk to a sales person. And - because of the nurturing - they are much better educated, making the sales person’s job a lot easier. Lead Scoring.

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7 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Projects Fail

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Part of a good lead management process is knowing exactly who are involved in the sale. In complex B2B sales situations you cannot rely on product-centric communications, nor on discounts (&# this week 10% off!&# ). It develops inquiries into sales opportunities. Sales & Marketing Don’t Get Along.

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Lead Nurturing Checklist for Marketing Automation

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When do you send leads to sales? If you’ve never nurtured your leads, you may find sales opportunities in your existing database. This depends on many factors, including the size of your database, the average age of the leads, the lead source, and the length of your sales cycle. Sales Handover. Data Quality.

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Process Turns Marketing Automation Into Revenue

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It mentions the importance of valuable content, the increasingly longer sales cycles and the “consumerized&# B2B sales processes. They think strategically about their sales & marketing processes. This is usually a collaborative effort between marketing and sales. Process First.

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B2B Marketing University: What Do You Want to Learn About?

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Prospects now have instant access to much more information, so marketing’s involvement reaches much further down the sales cycle: they need to nurture prospects with relevant content until they are sales-ready. Buyers have moved online, which has had a major impact on the buying process.

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Marketing Automation Trends for 2010

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Sales & marketing alignment. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. An attached CRM system can kick the records back into a marketing automation system’s lead nurturing program and alert the assigned sales rep if the leads become active.