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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Five Greatest Sales Effectiveness Inhibitors

Pointclear

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Can Fewer Leads Mean More Sales? The Five Greatest Inhibitors to Sales Effectiveness.

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B2B Lead Generation: The Best of PowerViews

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Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management.

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

This is frequently referred to as sales enablement. With sales enablement are we shielding those we love? Let’s look at the number of opportunities companies are currently leaving on the table before we try to find more ways to “help” sales: Marketing Qualified Leads. Sales Accepted Leads.

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Marketing Needs to Put Skin in the Game

Pointclear

Today we will discuss what percent of revenue should be driven by marketing and what percent should be driven from sales. In a recent blog post SiriusDecisions notes that organizations struggle to measure marketing’s contribution to, and influence on, sales pipeline. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue.

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What Does “Full Funnel Marketing” Really Mean?

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It’s the new B2B imperative that marketers take full responsibility for the revenue impact of their efforts, that they work closely with their sales counterparts to make them more efficient and help them convert more opportunities into closed deals. You can’t buy a beer with a marketing-qualified lead.

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PowerViews with Tony Jaros: The New Demand Waterfall, Alignment & SLAs

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He adds, “That becomes much more of an account-based marketing plan where maybe the creation of leads may not be the alpha metric by which marketing is judged. It’s a loss for sales because in many cases that job can’t impact your business in this particular year.

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PowerViews with Jeff Ernst: Marketing & Sales Must Work Together

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Jeff joined Forrester after spending 20 years in sales and marketing. He is the author of the book, The New Rules of Sales Enablement , the co-author of How to Create Killer Sales Playbooks , and he’s a regular contributor to B2B Magazine. ” On a single executive leading marketing and sales.

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