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Metrics to Drive Lead Generation Performance

Pointclear

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). The ability to report and forecast metrics improves when full-featured marketing automation integrated with CRM or sales automation is in place.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Decrease the cost of sales. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. By 2002-2003, people were continually asking if I had a book. We ask for an introduction to our ideal prospect. It will be on the top Sales Enablement Platform: SalesHood.

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5 SaaS Sales Principles To Boost Performance

InsideSales.com

SaaS sales are increasing, and the industry is getting bigger. We’re at the same stage as the PC market in 1983 and the smartphone market in 2003, according to TechCrunch. To win the game of SaaS, a sophisticated sales process is compulsory. This can involve a phone test with someone on the sales team or even with a prospect.

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Value of Assessment ROI & TCO Tools for Demand-Gen and Sales Enablement Campaigns

The ROI Guy

In 2009, Alinean and IDC updated annual research conducted since 2003 on the ROI from implementing business value tools. Reduce discounting and increase deal size for direct sales by 20% or more by migrating sales from features, function and price selling to business value selling. d=222693735895213178.

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Best 150+ Sales Tools: The Complete List for 2023 (Updated)

Sales Hacker Training

There are thousands of options when it comes to software for sales that promise to make your life easier as a sales professional. There are plenty of sales prospecting tools and sales management software to help automate your manual tasks while personalizing your outreach.

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Best Sales Blogs: The Ultimate List of 55+ (Recently Updated!)

LeadFuze

Your source for sales strategy and social selling tips from a wide range of industry experts, scholars and sales staff. How Sales Pros Can Incorporate LinkedIn’s Active Status into Their Prospecting Outreach. Blogger Blurb: Practically a million sales pros and many others. Turning prospects into customers.