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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

Act-On

Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. Research finds that over half of organizations report higher-quality leads because they use personas. And who doesn’t want shorter sales cycles, right?

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Long sales cycles, the #1 enemy of SEO attribution

Kevin Indig

Long sales cycles (+90 days) are the biggest enemy of attribution models, often to the detriment of channels like SEO that play an important role in early touches. Companies with long sales cycles often either sell B2B enterprise software (SaaS), high-priced products (e-commerce) or long-term commitments (consumer).

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B2B Lead Quality: Guide to Reducing Lead Rejections and Accelerating Sales

Inbox Insight

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. While our previous article explores the importance of working out your optimum MQL lead volume to guarantee you hit revenue targets , this article dives into importance of defining B2B lead quality.

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Why Understanding the Buyer Journey is the Key to a Successful Scoring Model

ClickDimensions

Here’s an age-old point of friction between marketers and salespeople: marketers are typically evaluated on the volume of leads they generate, but often don’t receive much meaningful feedback from sales on what constitutes a “winning” lead. But why all the fuss? Is it worth the energy to debate? Responded to specific emails .

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The Secrets To Lead Management In HubSpot That Shorten Sales Cycles And Improve Close Rates

Square 2 Marketing

Leads don’t turn into sales opportunities by accident. They need to be actively managed through a series of touches to ensure they’re proactively getting the communication necessary to move through their buyer journey with you.

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Applying B2B Buyer Journey Insights to Drive Higher Marketing ROI?

Walker Sands

Understanding Your B2B Buyers. It means knowing their buyer journey — what makes them start to search for a new solution, how long they search, the red flags they’re looking for, their preferred research channels and more. Gathering B2B Buyer Journey Insights. or ones with limited multiple-choice responses.

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6.5 Upgrades For Your Lead Nurture Campaigns That Improve Close Rates And Shorten The Sales Cycle

Square 2 Marketing

Getting Leads Is Just The First Step; How You Nurture Sales-Qualified Leads Is The Key To Revenue Growth. Marketing is working hard to generate leads for long-term nurture campaigns and general contact database growth.