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It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. DemandGeneration/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. I remember participating in a “Prospecting Scavenger Hunt” in 1985.
In 2015, they found that 70% of B2B marketing organizations reported the amount of pipeline they sourced as a KPI. For example, if a prospect downloads a whitepaper and six months later sales runs an outbound motion to re-engage them — who gets the credit? Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing.
We recently asked top industry experts the following question: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? Because it has become clear that marketing automation is making it easier than ever to generate poor quality leads.
Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Increased spending on lead generation. Invested in content generation. Marketing and sales leadership can use the assessment to determine the stages of the buyer’s journey where prospects disengage and disappear. Data quality.
My question to you and top industry experts is this: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? That’s because they are not able to track the buying activity of 90% of their prospects. I am invisible to you. This is insanity.
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From spending just a few moments personalize an email, prospect new clients, or simply handwrite a card to a client — it’s the tiniest efforts that add up to giant rewards. Today he’s giving us a little piece of insight into how he hit that number — and that’s through dedicated prospecting. Want to hear more from them?
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Most organizations spend a significant portion of their marketing budget on creating content to fuel demandgeneration programs, and to arm sales reps to have better conversations and engagements. Unfortunately, the majority of this content spend is currently wasted.
B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. Your sales process and making it easy for prospects to buy makes a huge difference and can beat out a “better” product on paper.
To win in 2015 you're going to have to go so old school and new school at the same time, applying a dizzying array of multi-disciplinary principles that will give you an invincible edge. Understand each others' pain and come to the center with insight generation which leads to demandgeneration rather than reactive servicing of demand.
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