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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Five Greatest Sales Effectiveness Inhibitors

Pointclear

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Can Fewer Leads Mean More Sales? Marketing reports an increase in the number of sales ready leads, but sales reports they have no good leads. Via BtoB Magazine. Via Heinz Marketing.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Want free access to 9 in-depth interviews from industry experts and data from 3,400 global marketers? ” As a modern digital magazine, Sales POP!

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Marketing and Sales Alignment—Still Conversation Worthy in 2017

Pointclear

The age-old issue of how Sales and Marketing work together (or not) is still on the table. Marketing complains that Sales doesn’t follow up on their leads; Sales contends that the leads Marketing sends their way aren’t any good. What are your thoughts on the current state of Marketing and Sales alignment?

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Taking away a marketing manager’s excuses!

Pointclear

I was sitting in a meeting of marketing and operations people when I worked at Inquiry Handling Services (long ago scooped up by Harte Hanks). Which brings me to the topic for this month’s article, which follows up on the December topic entitled: " Taking away a salesperson’s excuses ," in which I wrote about the lack of sales lead follow-up.

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Youth, Lead Quality, Social Selling, Inside Sales and Outbound Marketing

Pointclear

Among the negatives: the on-the-spot feedback that was vital to the relationship between a manager and his reps is now less common. Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. percent were quality.

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Is Lead Generation Slipping Away From Marketing?

Pointclear

” But in a recent post on the Sales Lead Management Group on LinkedIn, Kevin McArdle, the regional sales manager for Eloqua (Chicago), advocated that sales departments should take over lead gen and he makes the following points: Sales departments are responsible for revenue.

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2013 Top Sales World Contributors Team Unveiled

Jonathan Farrington

This is the group that will be … Writing articles for the Top Sales magazine. Providing articles and tips on Top Sales World site. Doing the interviews for Top Sales Hardtalk and Sales Management Issues series. Featuring within the Top 10 Sales Blog Posts and Top 10 Sales Articles section each week.