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Why Marketing Should Own Inside Sales (and why they shouldn’t)

A Sales Guy

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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Why Sales People Don’t Follow Up Sales Leads

Klozers

Once the traffic is on your website, marketing then drives the list building process via the numerous lead capture methods, such as white papers, video demos and free ebooks. With most sales leads coming from online, companies can only influence not control who visits their website and who fills in the web contact forms.

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Business Value Summit Interview – Getting The Most from your Business Value Program

The ROI Guy

For marketing programs, measurement should track the number of leads captured, opportunities generated and conversions to deals. To help ADP transition sales from pitching these new products to selling business value, ADP engaged Alinean to create a value­-based marketing and sales tool.

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Sales Leads – How to Tame a Unicorn

Cience

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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The Magical High-Quality Sales Lead — How to Tame a Unicorn

Cience

[Qualified Sales Lead] – A decision maker who became interested in your product/service and whom your sales development team identified as a good fit in accordance with a set of criteria. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.