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Posted by Dan McDade on Oct 10, 2016 12:01:13 PM

Tags: B2B Marketing, B2B Sales, Sales Leads

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What Percentage of Marketing Leads Should Be Accepted by Sales?

The biggest disconnect between marketing and sales is the hand-off of marketing qualified leads (MQL’s) to sales and the acceptance of those leads (SAL’s) by sales. Unfortunately, the baton gets dropped more frequently..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Oct 4, 2016 10:05:00 AM

Tags: Webinars

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PipeLiner CRM #SalesChats Webinar on Prospecting

Pipeliner’s John Golden hosted me on #SalesChats recently and the topic was prospecting. John asked two questions:

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Posted by Dan McDade on Sep 29, 2016 9:48:18 AM

Tags: Database Marketing

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Database Clean-Up: How to Avoid Blowing a Lot of Money and Your Career!

When evaluating the value of your database(s), is there a better, more effective alternative to either contacting all prospects in the databases or throwing them all out and starting over? Yes! You can save a lot of..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Sep 21, 2016 10:15:00 AM

Tags: Marketing & Sales Alignment

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Three “Lies” That Plague B2B Businesses Today (Part Three of Three)

The Three “Lies” That Plague B2B Businesses Today Are: 

  1. Cold calling is dead.
  2. 57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved.
  3. Marketing and sales are aligned 

Do you agree these..

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Posted by Dan McDade on Sep 13, 2016 11:15:00 AM

Tags: B2B Marketing, B2B Sales

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Three “Lies” That Plague B2B Businesses Today (Part Two of Three)

  1. Cold calling is dead.
  2. 57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved.
  3. Marketing and sales are aligned  

Do you agree these are lies?

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