Velocify

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The combined results of Leads360 secret shopper studies over the last 24 months revealed that alarmingly, 42 percent of web inquiry forms submitted never received a phone response from the sales teams of those respective organizations, despite the request. attempts per inquiry to be exact). But how many calls are too many?

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Velocify

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Leads360 recently published a new study, the Ultimate Contact Strategy, highlighting the importance of sales lead follow-up including prompt response, appropriate persistence, and optimal timing between attempts for both phone and email communication.

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Velocify

AUGUST 16, 2012

We’ve mined data from millions of leads and identified characteristics that lead to improved sales conversion. Lead scoring: apply insights to lead scoring methodologies to help improve the quality of leads distributed to sales reps. Capture key data : Update lead forms to gather key data earlier in the sales cycle.

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Velocify

JANUARY 21, 2013

New study reveals that texting messaging at the right point in the sales process can drive significant conversion gains of up to 328%. With the large volume of flashy new mobile apps out there, the original mobile app, text messaging , has been largely neglected by sales professionals in their selling efforts.

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Velocify

MARCH 7, 2013

Leads360 shares its formula for optimizing the sales leads-to-rep ratio. So we put our resident sales scientists to the test, mining millions of sales calls to build out a formula for one of the most common questions we get asked from sales managers.

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Velocify

JANUARY 29, 2013

According to a 2012 Bridge Group study [1] , from 2009-2011 the number of inside sales jobs grew 124% in the U.S. This evolution means an increasingly mature buying market that is driving new CRM-related needs for sales and marketing teams. But how are their sales teams capitalizing on the flow of leads coming their way?

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A sales leader asked me yesterday, “What do we do with the sales reps that are not following up on the 50% of leads coming in that don’t get called more than once?”. This fact is from research previously done by Leads360 , a cloud based leads management and sales automation company. This must stop.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Recently there was a report published on converting B2B sales leads into deals that we blogged about. The study was researched by Leads360. Buyers want to speak with someone who can hold a business conversation and offer ROI information, not just someone with a pulse and a heartbeat.

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

New Leads360 study analyzes the contact practices of more than 400 inside sales teams, identifying the methods and actions that drive best-in-class sales performance. But how quickly should sales follow-up? Knowing the answers to these questions can have a measurable impact on conversion.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 10, 2012

This new infographic, based on recent Leads360 research , sheds light on attributes that make one lead more likely than the next to convert. Gaining a better understanding of what makes prospects convert to customers can help prevent wasted marketing and sales dollars generating and chasing sub-optimal leads.

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

At Sales & Marketing 2.0 in San Francisco and B2B Marketing Forum in Boston last month a common theme emerged – the idea of putting the “and” back in sales and marketing. Now this is not a new concept, but it is clear that as technology continues to impact the way buyers buy ( see Retooling in a Sales 2.0

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Velocify

APRIL 18, 2013

While the Mad Men Era lives on through Hollywood depictions and fashion trends brought back from the past, the era has ultimately come to an end and a new chapter in the history book of sales has begun. Door-to-door sales existed before the 1970′s, but the era became known for the in-house vacuum cleaner pitch.

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