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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Selling at Every Level

ViewPoint

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Integrating customer relationship management and marketing automation systems can be expensive, complicated and scary, but doing so is necessary for your organization''s optimal performance, writes Justin Gray, CEO of LeadMD.

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

ViewPoint

In another blog post , SiriusDecisions’ Jay Gaines (vice president and group director, demand) writes that getting sales to accept a lead (thereby terming the lead a sales-accepted lead, or SAL) is the most important (and most overlooked) step in the demand creation process. Develop a lead hand-off process and follow-up best practices.

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Marketing and Sales: Done Well (2015) Do Better (2016) - Part 3 of 3

ViewPoint

Read the original article from Mikogo titled: Sales Trends & Challenges in 2016 – 12 Experts Share Their Predictions. Sales professionals will continue to struggle trying to keep up with increasingly complex decisions, the demand to “know more” and new technologies. Colleen Stanley – SalesLeadership, Inc.: Final Thoughts from Dan.

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Which is better in B2B Lead Generation? A $1,000 inbound lead or a $1,000 outbound lead?

ViewPoint

One fascinating trend we uncovered recently is that average performing reps tend to gravitate more toward inbound, marketing generated leads—because they view them as easier to close (due to the customer being more than halfway through their purchase process, already scoped out their needs, etc.). ” “Inbound rules.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers. Demand for customization and integration from large customers may increase time and cost to complete sales and divert sales and professional resources. Significant market competition from established packaged and on-demand vendors.

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Sales Pipeline Radio Episode 162: Q & A with Dan McDade @dandade

Heinz Marketing

Matt Heinz: Y ou were The President and CEO of PointClear, for over 20 years, and so saw a lot of this development happen. Can you talk a little bit about sort of your approach to, I guess whether you would call an appaudointment setting or approach to sort of demand generation for sales organizations.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

problem: 1) Web analytics – typically the stronghold of companies like Coremetrics, Omniture, and WebTrends, the analytics area bleeds over into lead management as companies go online to generate demand. My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand. This market has a lot of growth ahead of it!