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Top 20 Tweets from Sales 2.0 Conference

Smashmouth Marketing

sales20 damphoux : Tom Barrieau, IDC demand generation / lead qualification largest segment of budgets right now #sales20 annekeseley : #sales20 Tom Barrieau of IDC just stressed the importance of inside sales in boosting sales productivity. combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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5 Reasons Not to Give Inbound Leads to an Outbound Sales Team

Hubspot

Now that you've done your job and created inbound leads for your sales team, is that team truly optimized to handle them? Or are you dealing with low lead qualification rates, dropped leads, small average order sizes, and salespeople who aren’t proactive in developing “small” leads into “big” ones?