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Why Sales Needs Fewer Leads

Pointclear

When analyzing one lead source for a giant software client, we found that marketing had generated 3,117 leads at a cost of $23.15 Think of this group of specialists as “lead farmers,” or prospect development specialists—they qualify inbound leads, nurture lukewarm prospects, and turn the developed leads over to the sales force for harvesting.

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On Sequences And “Touches”

Partners in Excellence

The research tells us we need to be persistent in our outreaches to prospects and clients. Phone, email, social, texts, and other channels must be leveraged simultaneously to provoke a prospect–even a customer to respond. Data shows we often need to reach out over 15 times to catch the attention of prospects.

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Do Your Best Sales Detective Work On Prospects

Pipeliner

The true sales hunters will dive 10,000 leagues deep below the ocean and know what their prospects had for breakfast that morning. If you don’t have a provocative business case that will pique your prospective customer’s interest, you’re sunk like the Titanic. I see this all the time. Rapportive : Are you using it?

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The Sales Ethics of Personalization

Pipeliner

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is set to face congress over the Cambridge Analytica scandal — a situation in which people had no idea their data was being harvested by an organization for the sake of selling a politician to the public. This showdown could be the beginning of a referendum on data harvesting.

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Programmatic Buying and Its Influence on Mobile Marketing

Connext Digital

It relies on algorithms and software to purchase, sell, determine placement, and optimize digital ads. In turn, this increases your chances in grabbing your prospects’ attention and harvesting results in your ads. What is Programmatic Buying? Programmatic buying uses automated technology for media buying in real-time.

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Duplicate This SaaS Onboarding Process and Best Practices to Create Raving Fans

Gong.io

How can you increase engagement for your software as a service (SaaS) app? Here’s an example of a welcome email that Harvest sends to new users for its time tracking and invoicing software: ( Image Source ). It typically occurs after a prospect becomes a customer. So how can you help your customers achieve value faster?

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Low-Hanging Fruit, “Operation Bounty” and the Problem with Having Too Many Orchard Crates

Pointclear

Nancy is Founder and CEO of Smart Selling Tools , a leading online marketplace that helps connect Sales professionals with the right Sales Software vendors. The ideal situation for a sales organization is to have enough “ripe” opportunities hanging on the tree-of-prospects to simply pick the low-hanging fruit first.

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