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    CSO Insights prove that lead scoring improves revenue performance

    CSO Insights prove that lead scoring improves revenue performance

    One of the most common sources of friction between poorly aligned sales and marketing organisations is sales’ perception that the quality of leads generated by marketing is poor - and marketing’s frustration at sales inability or refusal to follow up on the “leads” they ...

    B2B Complex Sales: why sales people should NEVER demo their product

    Have you ever been on the receiving end of a product demo that seems to go on interminably until you feel that you have lost ...

    How can B2B sales + marketing work more effectively together?

    I recently suggested that marketing needs to "fieldsource" more ideas from sales. The message obviously struck a chord, ...

    Why your salespeople's inability to communicate value is killing sales

    Sirius Decisions are just the latest in a long line of analysts to declare that the #1 factor preventing companies from ...

    7 Prescriptions for Aligning B2B Marketing, Selling and Buying

    The recent Sales 2.0 Conference in London seemed to me to be a great success. The auditorium was full for the opening ...

    B2B Complex Sales: the 4 states of the buying decision mindset

    Are your prospects Painting by Numbers, on a Quest for the Grail, Lost in the Fog, or running around like Headless Chickens? ...

    Connecting the Buyer's Journey, Your Pipeline and Your Revenue Goals

    The changing shape of the buyer's journey has introduced a raft of new issues for sales leaders who are trying to manage ...

    3 out of 4 companies are taking the wrong approach to sales coaching

    As you can imagine, I get to speak to a fair number of B2B-focused CEOs and sales leaders - and I can’t recall any of them ...

    Connecting the Marketing Message with the Sales Conversation

    I recently recorded an on-demand webinar with BrightTALK on the increasingly important need to connect your marketing ...

    B2B Sales+Marketing: why it’s time to stop generating new leads…

    I hope the headline caught your attention - it was intended to. After all, aren’t fresh leads the lifeblood of any company ...