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Why Marketing Should Own Inside Sales (and why they shouldn’t)

A Sales Guy

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Revenue responsibility.

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Sales tactics encyclopedia: 15+ strategies for prospecting, qualifying, and closing

Nutshell

There are hundreds of different sales tactics that you can use to find prospects, qualify leads, and make a sale. To point you in the right direction, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best and most popular B2B sales tactics from general practices to specific sales techniques you can use to close more of your deals.

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How to save the life of a tradeshow sales lead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face.

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How to Measure Sales Fitness

Sales and Marketing Management

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant.

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Get The Right Data Into Your CRM

Appbuddy

Our obsession with collecting and managing too much data often starts from the very beginning—marketing lead capture forms—and then trickles into our CRM. Is your marketing team asking for too much information? Are you asking your sales reps to update irrelevant fields? Are processes taking too long?

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Why Sales People Don’t Follow Up Sales Leads

Klozers

. Furthermore surveys show following up is key to sales success, for example, a survey by InsideSales reported Sales people who follow up a lead within 5 minutes are 9 times more likely to convert them and 50% of sales go to the first sales person to contact the prospect.

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Business Value Summit Interview – Getting The Most from your Business Value Program

The ROI Guy

A great group of product marketers, value consultants and ROI practitioners gathered in Santa Clara last week for the first ever Business Value Summit – West. The situation facing Microsoft was, that after a very successful Window 7, adoption and sales of Windows 8 and 8.1