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How to do lead management that improves conversion

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In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

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Introduction to Lead Management

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Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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How to choose marketing automation software

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Marketing automation software is going to be dependent on your organization’s needs and criteria. Marketing automation is a great way to automatically move prospects, develop relationships and capture leads with software. The software typically includes analytics and multi-channel marketing initiatives.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

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Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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B2B Sales Lead Management: A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush

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This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in marketing and sales circles is the importance of certain metrics. In the last blog we talked about lead rates. For many, this is a remarkable takeaway.

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More Than Automating Emails For Marketing Automation

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If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation.

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More Than Automating Emails For Marketing Automation

ANNUITAS

If there was a Marketing Automation soiree, I’d be the host. As a marketing automation consultant and a marketing technologist at heart, I work with technology all day, every day. The platforms today can enable just about any marketing task, including automation.