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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Five Greatest Sales Effectiveness Inhibitors

Pointclear

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Can Fewer Leads Mean More Sales? Marketing reports an increase in the number of sales ready leads, but sales reports they have no good leads. The Five Greatest Inhibitors to Sales Effectiveness.

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What Does “Full Funnel Marketing” Really Mean?

Pointclear

The core idea behind this book is that marketers need to embrace and take responsibility for the entire sales funnel, not just the top half. The book covers a wide range of “full funnel marketing” areas, including technology, sales enablement, productivity best practices and more. What’s on their scorecards?

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Marketing Needs to Put Skin in the Game

Pointclear

Make marketing accountable for sourcing revenue is the third of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue.

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

A very well respected organization in the marketing and sales alignment business now reports that most companies have done all they can to help sales at the top of the funnel. Now what is needed, they say, is to provide support to sales people in the middle and late stages of the buying process. Sales Accepted Leads.

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Should Marketing Be Held to the Same Quota Standards as Sales?

Pointclear

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

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PowerViews with Rich Vancil: Marketing Ops, Sales Ops & Mashups

Pointclear

As a member of the Executive Advisory Group, he delivers CMO and Sales Advisory Services that provide senior technology marketing and sales executives with insights into how to improve productivity and efficiency in their organizations. My PowerViews guest today is Rich Vancil, IDC Group Vice President for Executive Strategies.

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Day 2 Twitter Recap-Sales and Marketing 2.0 Conference-Part 1

Fill the Funnel

Here is the Twitter transcript for Day 2 Twitter activity for the #sm20 hashtag during the Sales and Marketing 2.0 Congratulations to the winners of the Sales & Marketing Awards in the following categories: Best Alignment of Sales & Marketing – HubSpot. Best Sales 2.0 Solution - Marketo.

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