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How to create a successful lead management process in 5 steps

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An effective lead management process is one of the most critical factors driving sales through your funnel. When you capture the attention of a potential customer, this is the moment a lead is born. However, how that lead plays out, whether that person becomes a paying customer or client, is another matter.

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The 5 Metrics That Should Matter Most to Sales Managers

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Author: Matthew Sunshine As a sales manager, you spend serious time and care setting clear expectations; this is how you help your salespeople approach their work with purpose. But to see real improvement, you need a system in place that measures how those expectations are being met. You’ve got so much on your plate?

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Sales Managers To Blame For Lost Leads

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Jim, who is principal of a California-based sales and marketing consulting firm Sales Leakage Consulting, lays the blame squarely at the feet of sales managers, who aren’t putting the necessary pressure on their sales force to follow up on leads, he said. Sales Managers Are to Blame for Lost Leads.

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How to Avoid Wasting 75% of Your Marketing Spend

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This means that 75% of the marketing dollars spent on lead generation are wasted. If your company is average, you are only following up 10-25% of the leads you give your salespeople which means you are wasting 75% of your lead generation budget!”. Sales Lead Management Association.

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How Sales and Marketing Can Collaborate (+Expert Tips)

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Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Case studies.

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Taking away a marketing manager’s excuses!

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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). It was at that moment I learned an important lesson: there are two reasons why someone doesn’t want to do something: They don’t know how. Management has not asked for an ROI on Marketing.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

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Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?