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Sales Thought Leadership: Ben Cotton on Defining Sales Enablement

Strategic-IC

The second piece will be training and helping our reps get prepared for selling. So I share the same quota attainment goal as the sales leadership over here, and that's been really effective for alignment between myself and the sales leaders and I think sharing goals is probably the one true way to drive alignment.

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The Best Podcast Conversations of 2023 That Marketing Shouldn’t Miss

Engagio

Her passion for marketing shines through as she stresses the importance of a well-rounded knowledge base and assembling a strong leadership team to allow for a laser focus on strategy. With a thoughtful approach, she highlights the power of alignment, focus, and prioritization across teams to enable organizations to adapt quickly to changes.

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10 Challenges Threatening Sales Teams and How to Fix Them

SalesIntel

Is your brand active in developing its thought leadership credentials on sites like LinkedIn? Use accurate data to ensure that your SDRs are spending their time nurturing the right prospects that meet your SQL and MQL criteria. Solution: Train Your Sales Team. Are articles optimized to help users easily search them?

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How Sales and Marketing Can Collaborate (+Expert Tips)

Hubspot

Training webinars. Sales teams, needing up-to-date product knowledge, benefit from training sessions from marketing. Post-training, sales provides feedback, ensuring subsequent webinars are even more tailored and effective. Both teams should address questions like: What actions or engagement levels make a lead an MQL?

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Lead Tracking: 5 Best Practices for Marketing Operations

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketing operations must deal with challenges including time management , expectation management, system limitations, training, and enablement. Bring on a data scientist to help you determine cutoff scores for MQL and SQL. Efficiency best practices: Automate lead scoring via the CRM and engagement where possible.

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The Real Cost of Duplicates in Your CRM/Marketing Automation Platform

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Ann 3 hits your marketing qualified lead (MQL) threshold and is sent over to the sales team. I’ve seen organizations where SDRs are trained to search for duplicates before they do anything with the leads they get, organizations where sales operations set time aside every week to merge the duplicates manually, etc.

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Party Time, Excellent! Why Lead Lifecycles Should Be Modeled after Assembly Lines

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

If a sales rep thinks MQL stands for “More Qualified Lead”, then you have some work to do. Make sure your sales and marketing teams consistently answer terminology questions like these: What is a marketing qualified lead (MQL)? MQL: Call within one business day to ensure a hot prospect is contacted quickly. Final Thoughts.