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MAY 5, 2017

Because of this, CRM Radio and the sister program SLMA Radio, have been interviewing executives on the subjects of the marketing and sales uses of Artificial Intelligence. About CRM Radio Guest Mike Plante, Chief Marketing Officer. At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Pain, Priority, Process, Environment. Uncovering the decision process is necessary before you can say this target’s a lead. Uncovering the decision process is necessary before you can say this target’s a lead. Process questions replace the budget and timeframe questions in the BANT criteria. She selected Option #3.

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MAY 16, 2013

Tap CRM to Give Your Customers a Pleasant Surprise. Christopher Bucholtz says it’s time to use the data in your CRM to help cement your relationships with your customers. Using CRM intelligence about customers’ desires and needs, businesses should create personalized experiences and rewards that match their interests.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

It also was a perfect way for me to actually show, versus evangelize, how our process works and how our people different than what he has seen in the past….so I was on the phone today with the CEO of a company that provides a CRM solution for small to medium sized technology companies. You can read more about this subject here.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. We quickly found that the provided data on the CRM in use was incorrect. million in new business was added to the pipeline.

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JUNE 7, 2016

These statistics tell the story: The chart shows that sales reps act on a premise that the buying process is front-end loaded while in fact a relatively consistent percent of leads buy month after month after month. First and foremost, the acceptance process allows marketing to confirm that sales or partners are acting on all delivered leads.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Knowledge of marketing automation and CRM system solid. What CRM system do you have, and when will the marketing automation system be on line? We need a repeatable process. Market share gains of the clients under their watch, check. References, impressive and solid; with names and phone numbers. Programs, reasonably recent.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

It was an online event consisting of 11 webinars discussing best practices in social CRM, email, mobile marketing, SEO and web 2.0 My session, “The Truth About Leads”, addressed the fact that lead generation is a basic business process that is broken in most companies. the sessions are still available on demand).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. Let’s start by talking about agile processes. Does your CRM manage list segments, cadence, lead data and other outcomes? They won’t get followed up.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Pipeline management: What process do we have in place to ensure every lead is touched and routed to the next stage of the journey? Marketing and sales technology: Are our systems integrated and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our lead-to-revenue process? Where is there too much brush or too many rocks?

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MAY 1, 2013

For marketing and sales leaders, your work stream is your CRM system. Embedded analytics can deliver intuitive performance reports right where you need them—within your CRM system. Greater Marketing ROI One of the most important marketing analytics is your sales process stage-to-stage conversion.

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JUNE 30, 2015

However, marketing is still asking the same questions and using the same processes; therefore, they continue to fail in the eyes of the salespeople. CRM and marketing automation systems. Qualified leads, according to sales, are based on criteria they understand but marketing is in the dark about. The result? Landing pages.

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MAY 30, 2012

Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012. Look for Greater Process Integration and Alignment in 2012.

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MAY 21, 2013

Inquiries must be managed, and managing inquiries is a process; a systems-based process with a multi-step route, which if pr operly thought out and precisely executed will bring huge predictable rewards. Has anybody solved the lead management riddle and created the “process?” CRM is a part. Marketing automation is a part.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Sales Lead Management is a process that entails departmental teamwork, with the proper tools and leadership. In companies that have a lack of sales lead follow-up, they often buy CRM software products to shore up areas of non-compliance, which accomplishes very little. All marketing lead generation programs will be measured for ROI.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They go into a black hole (sometimes called CRM). Is 60-70% of the buying process over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson? Is 60-70% of the buying process over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson? It doesn’t have to be that way. Are outbound and cold calling really dead?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The best marketers count on their competitive counterparts to install a CRM system without rules or discipline, skip a marketing automation process and have no relationship with their sales counterparts. I’m giving away the secret.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

Marketers must fully integrate with their sales colleagues combining data and processes to: Profile and prospect the right companies and the right decision makers (beyond personas—the actual people) within those companies. Here are 4 things that must happen or change to increase the success of an ABM program. You have to bear hug sales.

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MARCH 8, 2011

While marketing automation, like CRM during its gold rush days, promises huge returns across the board, I shared with Bob my concerns about relying too heavily on marketing automation when engaging target prospects who look like your strategic accounts—the 20% of your customers who deliver 80% of your revenue.

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JULY 9, 2013

Lori helps her customers to dissect the sales process and find small improvements. Lori observes that today you see people so focused on a process that they don’t have communication skills. I also asked Lori about the challenges around the lack of insight from salespeople into their sales activity and the sales process.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Lori agreed that if marketing does have a process and they feel they’ve qualified a lead through that process, but sales doesn’t follow up, then yes, someone else should look at it and see what the issue is. Now the data has become so massive this process is becoming automated.

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APRIL 16, 2013

Attendees were promised they would learn: how to create a sales process ruled by metrics and measurement. A clear takeaway for me was that big bets are being placed on companies that provide solutions that leverage data from multiple platforms (such as CRM, LinkedIn…). The Sales 2.0 ways to leverage technology to empower your team.

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JUNE 13, 2011

It means getting salespeople to use the CRM system instead of staring at it and waiting for the sales manager to get serious about using it. It means managing the sales lead process and not expecting a software program to do it for you. It means getting a marketing automation system to boost your return on sales leads by 300-400%.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Jeff Molander , social media strategist, speaker, adjunct professor of digital marketing at Loyola University’s school of business, and author of Off the Hook Marketing A 3 Step Process to Make Social Media Produce Sales. What if CRM had not been invented? Thank you!

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APRIL 4, 2011

Do you feel that the adoption rate is a function of individuals recognizing that they don’t have the content, staff and processes to make it work? Enterprises will be successful when they embrace the change and optimize their processes. Marketing automation looks hard as compared to email marketing solutions, as an example.

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MAY 12, 2015

Using the complete CRM/marketing automation tool set. Delivering the right information required as soon as possible (answering questions and quotes on the first call or at least same day). Improving presentation skills (not the same as sales training).

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APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is Managing Partner at CSO Insights, a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. Jim is also an author and often-requested keynote speaker at sales management, CRM and E-Business conferences.

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APRIL 18, 2011

For some it may mean getting their first CRM system, creating a sales process, grading leads, getting a marketing automation system, getting 100% follow-up by the sales channel, or proving the ROI.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Sales lead management is a “big tent” sphere of B2B and B2C activity that includes work in all areas from sales and marketing to CRM, marketing automation, lead generation, and agencies (direct, brand, PR and internet). Nominating is open now and runs to March 16.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Undoubtedly, part of the hesitation comes from not having control over the entire process from lead generation to sales closure. 80% of the companies have a CRM system (no comment on who is happy) which starts the initial measurement of the value of inquiries and sales leads. To take a larger bite, you need larger tools!

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MARCH 22, 2011

Poorly implemented, a heavily automated buying process can leave potential buyers cold, and non-buyers feeling like they are "not worthy." This is classic inside-out thinking, the same thing that got CRM into trouble. Who wants to be treated like a number, or valued only based on the size of the immediate purchase?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

It means understanding the company’s CRM system and making it work (closing all records as ‘having bought’ or ‘died’). But if you can’t manage the leads you can’t prove the ROI for Marketing. If it were easy to manage sales leads, every manager would be doing it!

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JULY 19, 2012

” In the questions, he continues to see a big opportunity around progression and believes BANT has to happen in the process. He says marketers should be thinking along the lines of how their customers view their own buying processes—rather than along the lines of how do we convert leads.

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JUNE 28, 2012

These new buyers leave in their wakes a large data trail of where they’ve come from and what they know already, and this behavior presents an opportunity for marketers to “capture all that big data, process it, analyze it, turn it into insights, and hopefully intercept that buyer.” Measurement, metrics and ROI. Then Speak.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

release of the idea which is really a derivative of CRM. This current view of RPM—it’s really about how do you optimize the marketing and sales process.”. Build on Process Optimization (RPM 1.0) – Add the Sales Experience (RPM 2.0). It’s really about process optimization. stage which is focused on marketing and sales.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Forrester does a great deal of buyer journey research on sources of influence in a lot of other dimensions: First, buyers do like to talk to vendors early in the process. We have ways to engage with customers who aren’t ready to start a buying process. The problem is that marketing hasn’t had the processes to do anything about that.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

In the questions, he continues to see a big opportunity around progression and believes BANT has to happen in the process. He adds that using firm definitions like this supports lead acceptance: “I’ve seen many examples of a Sales Qualified Lead sitting in a CRM system and just getting cold.

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