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Chief Revenue Regrets: Relying on Reps to Provide Forecasting Deal Data

InsightSquared

Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. For the better part of my career as a CRO, I was frustrated with the quality of my CRM data. It is now quite clear to me that was not my reps’ fault.

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Report: Marketing and Sales Professionals to Team Up, Clean Up Data

KoMarketing Associates

Although sales and marketing teams have not always worked closely together, new research suggests that they will collaborate frequently in the near future. In addition, this may become the key to more accurate data and analytics. The Consequences of Poorly Maintained Marketing Data.

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27% of Marketers Say ‘Bad Data’ Costs Them 10% or More in Lost Revenue Annually

KoMarketing Associates

Although marketers now have an abundance of data and analytics at their disposal, new research shows that those who do not regularly check their information for inaccuracies may be at a disadvantage. Almost half of respondents could not estimate how bad data impacts their organization’s revenue.

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Tips for Preventing Data Decay in B2B Sales

Only B2B

The role of data is changing along with the digital future of B2B sales. The increasing push toward digital transformation, say 72% of company leaders, has rendered organizations more dependent than ever on data when making critical business choices. Data Decay: What Is It? Keep your CRM Software Operating Effectively.

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CRM Contact Data Quality: Impact on Sales & Marketing Results

DealSignal

CRM data quality is a critical variable in ensuring a strong ROI for your investment in a CRM system. Judging by this lack of out-of-the-box support, you would think that data is expected to be miraculously keyed into CRMs perfectly without the possibility of decay. Example of how CRM data quality decays over time.

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Creating a Culture of Accountability

InsightSquared

Startups are built from the ground up and one of the major stepping stones is promoting an environment of accountability among your sales reps to properly input data and to follow sales best practices. How can you properly coach your reps? How can sales operations report effectively? Process Development.

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Leveraging Integration Projects: How to Keep Your CRM Data Clean

SmartBug Media

Before diving into a customer relationship management (CRM) platform integration project , one step to take is the always important but somewhat dreaded task of data cleaning. What Is Data Cleaning? When compiling a lot of information or maintaining a large CRM, it’s common to run into duplication issues.