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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

Pointclear

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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How many inquires does it take to make quota?

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Marketing managers regularly ask me how to predict the number of leads (really raw inquiries) needed to achieve quota (I wish more sales managers would also ask).

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Stop Guessing. There’s a Way to Guide Selling

InsideSales.com

Most solutions require a ton of mapping to CRM, then market it as “flexibility”. Marketing creates duplicates inside of Salesforce. Sales blames Marketing for feeding them crap leads. Marketing blames Sales for not working leads. What it really means in practice is constant maintenance and more cost.

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Stop Guessing. There’s a Way to Guide Selling

InsideSales.com

Most solutions require a ton of mapping to CRM, then market it as “flexibility”. Marketing creates duplicates inside of Salesforce. Sales blames Marketing for feeding them crap leads. Marketing blames Sales for not working leads. What it really means in practice is constant maintenance and more cost.