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Lead Qualification & Lead Nurturing: Whose Job Is It?

Pointclear

Are marketing resources or sales reps the right resources to do lead qualification and lead nurturing in the B2B complex sale? But first, let's take a look at some lead generation challenges. Cahners Research has shown that 45 percent of qualified leads will end up buying a solution from someone within a year.

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Who’s Harvesting Your Lead Farm?

SBI

The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential. A resource and functionality gap between marketing and sales.

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Why Sales Needs Fewer Leads

Pointclear

Most sales and marketing teams are looking for ways to generate more leads. It's likely a daily discussion for most of us, but have you ever considered that your sales reps need fewer leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified leads. Marketing is paid, in fact rewarded for, lead quantity and not quality.

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Does Your Company Excel at all THREE Selling Activities?

Jonathan Farrington

After all, a very high percentage of the articles we read these days are offering us advice on e-mail campaigns, or cold-calling, or lead nurturing, etc. Here, we should be teaching “client retention” – strategic selling skills, key account management, upselling and cross-selling, political skills, etc.

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Does Your Company Excel at all THREE Selling Activities?

Jonathan Farrington

After all, a very high percentage of the articles we read these days are offering us advice on e-mail campaigns, or cold-calling, or lead nurturing, or …. Here we should be teaching “client retention” strategic selling skills, key account management, upselling and cross-selling, political skills etc.

Company 36
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What Are Some KPIs That an Ideal CRM Should Report?

Apptivo

For example, a KPI can be “acquire X customers per month”, X being defined by the monetary resources invested into paid marketing, the number of posts published on social media channels, etc. Moreover, you can learn how to nurture existing leads more effectively and identify what makes cold leads convert into paying customers.

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Grow Revenues Just as You Grow Your Garden ? Score More Sales

Score More Sales

Sure – or what is more likely you’ll get a partial capacity harvest. Check out the Nurture Marketing site for more planting metaphors. 5 Tips for Lead Nurturing to Grow Your Sales Funnel. Care – these are all things that go into growing a garden that produces ripe vegetables, herbs and flowers.

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