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Why Cost per Lead is a Bad Way to Measure Your Return on Lead Generation Efforts

Pointclear

Marketing must align its B2B lead generation activities and resources with deeper-in-the-funnel outcomes. Tie B2B lead generation activity to overall revenue and profits. Cost-per-lead is not the correct metric for measuring marketing initiative success for the following reasons: It incorrectly incents volume over quality.

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Sales productivity – time to push the more button

Sales Training Connection

All of this, of course, makes great sense since companies in B2B markets recognize that it’s increasingly difficult to win by product alone. All sales managers get a tremendous amount of internal requests from top management related to answering ever-popular questions such as: Are you meeting your sales figures?

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How Much Should You Invest in Sales and Marketing as a Percentage of Revenue?

Tony Hughes

They listed on the Australian stock exchange in 2016 and their share price has risen more than 600% in the last 3 years. With the exception of WiseTech, data in the above graph was sourced from Bloomberg.com published on May 18, 2016 in an article by Dina Bass titled: This $5 Billion Software Company Has No Sales Staff.

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Why You’re Not Closing Sales (and How to Fix It)

MarketJoy

Related: 19 Cold Emailing Myths That You Should Never Follow. According to DemandGen’s 2016 Content Preferences Survey Report, “More than half (51%) of B2B buyers rely on content now to research their buying decisions, and they want shorter, interactive content that educates rather than sells.”

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

She has won various awards such as Top Sales Leader, TAG One in a Millenial Awards 2016 and Power 30 Under 30 winner 2016. Trish Bertuzzi founded The Bridge Group to help B2B technology companies build world-class Inside Sales teams. She demonstrates how sales performance is directly related to a leader’s mindset.

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Sell Like A Girl: Earn Less [+ Startling New Sales Commission Data]

The Spiff Blog

Although women make up just over half of the college educated workforce, they hold less than one third of B2B sales jobs ( source ). In fact, 77% of female B2B sales professionals met or exceeded last year’s sales targets, compared to 63% of their male colleagues who did the same ( source ). We looked exclusively at variable pay.

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How To Connect And Engage With C-Level Executives

InsideSales.com

RELATED: Four Tips On Selling To C-Level Executives. At Abstrakt , we’ve scheduled more than 100,000 B2B sales meetings in the last eight years, so we have unique insight and hundreds of thousands of hours put into mastering this skill. RELATED: How To Close Sales: 6 Annoying Sales Tactics To Avoid. Start at the Top.