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Embarking on a sales lead generation project: What could go wrong?

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We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. And we’d gone into some depth as to how our associates are all seasoned, degreed and sales trained. And to drive the leads needed to meet revenue goals.).

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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. So, what happens?

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

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There is a counter-intuitive relationship between lead volume and sales performance. With sales organizations facing lower numbers, it seems logical to turn to volume lead generation to fill their pipelines with more and more sales leads in hopes that some will turn into sales.

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Top 47 B2B Marketing Posts - Hot Topics Ning and Facebook - July 2010

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A Simple B2B Marketing Framework - Everything Technology Marketing , July 10, 2010 We often discuss in this blog how B2B marketing is becoming more complex, and how to manage this complexity. Maybe have never even had a sales job or a college-level marketing class. But that’s content for another blog post. Every Cash flow.

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