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Lead Optimization: 10 audience questions answered

markempa

What does it mean to “enrich data” and “merge/de-dupe”? A customer relationship management system (CRM), or simply an Excel spreadsheet if you can’t afford a CRM, provides a single, central location to store customer information so you can update it easily and ensure accuracy.

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10 Reasons Why Your Sales Team Needs a CRM tool

SalesIntel

The global customer relationship management (CRM) market was worth USD 43.7 According to the Grandview research report , CRM tools are used by 82% of the businesses studied for sales reporting and process automation. Here are ten primary reasons why a CRM is often the first investment for sales departments. . Centralize Data .

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The B2B Marketer’s Quick Start Guide: ABM Orchestration

Heinz Marketing

I.e., the ability to route accounts from the ABM platform into your CRM system based on a certain stage or action. Most companies have poor CRM data hygiene, and DemandBase has struggled to sync data back to accounts in cases with duplicate accounts or accounts with inaccurate/incomplete information. Is there automation functionality?

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: On building targeted lists for B2B Lead Generation Programs

markempa

You will most certainly need their expertise in massaging and de-duping the data. Marketing and sales can also work together to build a list from inactive accounts in your sales teams CRM data and business cards from industry conferences and networking events.

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Five tools that can help you break free from data paralysis

ClickZ

In this post, we review five tools, each of which help mitigate the data paralysis connected to a specific area of data usage including CRM, lead management, business insights, customer experience, and website traffic/campaign analysis. Solution #1: Clean CRM data with Insycle. Solution #1: Clean CRM data with Insycle.

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Should Cleaning Up Database Duplicates Really Be Your Focus?

LeanData

Ask anyone who works with a CRM system or marketing automation platform about their No. percent of the respondents answered: de-dupe incoming leads and existing database. But there’s another — and perhaps more provocative way — of looking at that result: people who say they want de-dupe functionality are missing the point.

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Your Cheat Sheet for B2B Revenue Waterfall Transformation

LeanData

At the same time, though, a team member from Marketing approached and informed Liz they had received many leads from the same Caterpillar division and asked if it was okay to de-dupe and delete the new leads. . Had Liz and her team gotten lucky this time around, with this lead and this account?