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Generate 25%+ of Sales Pipeline Opportunities from Marketing

SBI Growth

Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. Marketing managers enthusiastically produce PowerPoint decks to showcase their contribution to the sales pipeline. But does the sales leader share this enthusiasm?

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Why Sales Rejects Quality Leads?

SBI Growth

One of the top reported problems plaguing sales forces is the lack of quality leads. Without a comprehensive lead generation strategy, sales rejection of leads sticks around like a bad rash. This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. Grading sales qualified leads.

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Should Sales Take Over Marketing?

SBI Growth

The CEO may even be considering moving marketing under sales. At least the Sales team is carrying a number. This included leveraging a Sales Productivity Benchmark (SPB) conducted by Sales Benchmark index. The timeframe for transformation is not one the CEO or Sales leader have the patience to stomach.

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The CMO’s Achilles' Heel

SBI Growth

B2B CMO''s largely do not have direct reports with expertise in demand generation. Every CMO must have a ‘right-hand’ report with substantial demand generation experience to be successful. Implementation Inexperience – Lack foundational knowledge of implementation details for Demand Generation.

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How to Buy Sales Training That Delivers Results

If we've learned anything over the last two years, it’s that if your sales team is not actively developing skills you are falling behind. The best organizations leverage professional sales training programs to impact demand generation, discovery, conversion from demos, pipeline velocity, deals won, and deal size.

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CMO: Is Your 2014 Marketing Plan Obsolete?

SBI Growth

In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan. Download the 2014 B2B Demand Generation Planning template here to get started. B2B Demand Generation – Building a Base Plan. This is agile coaching; agile demand generation is no different. Improved relationship with sales.

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5 Sales Management Myths Debunked

SBI Growth

I sat across the desk from Mike, the new VP of Sales. Before his promotion Mike was the can’t-miss Sales Manager. Now he was just another VP of Sales in the crosshairs. After a quick conversation, we found he was committing 3 of the sales myths below. The majority of Sales VPs are guilty of at least one.