Sales Effectiveness is not measured by forecasts alone.
Your company has made a sizeable investment in the training, support, expenses,
salaries and benefits of sales team members. You've also invested in a contact
management or SFA application to track and forecast your sales cycle — but is
the application actually making your sales team more effective?
Imagine the ROI of a solution designed specifically to:
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complement your SFA solution
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make sales team members more productive
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improve data quality and lower the TCO of your SFA application
As you evaluate sales effectiveness, if the answer is NO to
any of these twelve questions, it's time to complement your SFA application
with a best-of-breed solution built from the ground up to optimize B2B lead
generation and fill the pipeline – not just forecast it.
Sales Team Productivity
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Are sales reps notified real-time when a high value prospect is visiting the
website?
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Can sales reps time their phone calls when a prospect is interacting with an
email or direct mailer?
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Can sales reps see a complete contact history of all outbound marketing and
response activity on each prospect?
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Can sales reps see real-time what content prospects are clicking on in the
trackable HTML emails they are sending?
Lead / Data Management
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Are lead notifications flexibly automated and rules-based?
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Does the sales team receive a steady stream of leads that consistently improves
in quality?
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Are sales reps and channel partners effectively focused on the most responsive
and best quality prospects?
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Is a process in place that efficiently cleans the SFA application by
eliminating duplicates, poor data quality, incomplete dispositions, and many
untouched records?
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9. Are sales reps sending emails through a system that leverages them to build
a highly responsive opt-in list?
Sales Reporting
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Can sales management easily see the real-time lead cultivation productivity of
the inside or outsourced calling team?
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Is a process in place enabling sales to systematically improve marketing's
effectiveness by objectively adjusting the custom lead quality grade on each
new prospect?
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Are sales forecasts easily compared to marketing and lead generation activity
in each territory?
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| Customer Success |
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| The LeadGenesys solution cost effectively complements our CRM solution to dramatically shorten our sales cycles and boost marketing ROI. Continuous refinement of marketing and lead cultivation efforts through all channels has given us a key competitve advantage." |
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Anritsu
Marketing Director |
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| Analyst Quote |
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and sales effectiveness (MSE) solutions have begun to gain traction as B-to-B
organizations have sought to get marketing and sales on the same page and to
eliminate the hemorrhaging of marketing budgets and sales effectiveness." |
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| Aberdeen Group |
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