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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

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I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads while average companies close 20%. Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel.

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

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Money is wasted on sales lead generation programs that don’t work. Sales reps actually need fewer sales leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified marketing leads. This also renews the value of lead generation programs, since reps start receiving leads they can actually use.