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Increasing sales productivity – 7 steps to improving lead qualification

Sales Training Connection

Let’s assume you’re a sales manager and the VP of Sales has just suggested that something needs to be done about improving the effectiveness and efficiency of your sales team, ending with “seeing some results in 3 or 4 months would be great.”. Lead Qualification. ©2012 Sales Horizons, LLC.

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He said, “One of us is wrong, and it surely isn’t me!”

Pointclear

The sales manager, Mark, was adamant that his salespeople were following up the good leads and only ignoring the unqualified, ‘never-gonna-buy’ leads. “They know instinctively,” he said, “who the buyers are, and Marketing isn’t finding enough ‘good’ leads.

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Managing a Highly Effective and Efficient CRM

Janek Performance Group

As your sales processes change and evolve, they should be reflected in your CRM. This can encompass a wide range of components, including updates to your lead qualification and conversion practices, amendments to your opportunity stage management ( sales pipeline tracking), and reviewing contact follow-up cadences.

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The One Thing You Cannot Skip When Hiring an ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

But most wonder how they are going to ‘simulate’ a live sales call. Your Sales Managers can’t understand how you can really test the candidate. This is information you would obtain during the lead qualification or discovery call process. If they question you, give them the Topgrading for Sales book.

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Should Marketing Be Compensated On Revenue?

Pointclear

If this is true, and no one has refuted me yet, why isn’t marketing management (and everyone in the marketing department) compensated in some manner on revenue the same way sales people and sales management are paid? Is this good or bad? Eric and I didn’t agree on everything, and that’s ok. But what do you think?

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The Definitive Prospecting Guide for Sales Management to Grow Pipeline

Vengreso

Listen to this podcast episode where I talk with sales expert John Barrows about how to succeed in your lead generation and sales prospecting efforts in the new normal. The automated lead qualification gives reps an idea of whom to focus attention on, but not enough information to know how to approach them.

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Sales Reps Not Closing Sales? Try This

No More Cold Calling

That’s why there’s only one kind of lead that should be in your pipeline. Only one kind of lead with a 50-to-70-percent conversion rate. Only one kind of lead that sales managers should care about. And that’s referral leads. When you source referrals from trusted colleague and clients, you: .

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