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Why Marketing Should Own Inside Sales (and why they shouldn’t)

A Sales Guy

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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Master the Sales Development Playbook to Boost Growth

Highspot

Definition Glossary Have you ever questioned the demographic or behavior attributes of an MQL or SQL? Sales Development Tools Where can SDRs find collateral, more information, support, and track interactions? Launch the Sales Development Playbook Launching the sales development playbook takes careful planning.

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Sales Operations Analyst Job Description

InsightSquared

What are Sales Operations Analysts Responsible for? The life of a sales operations analyst involves completing projects independently with minimal guidance. When it comes to updating workflows in Salesforce.com (or another CRM system) or debugging things gone awry, they don’t need their hands held.

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Tips for Performing an Effective Sales Audit

VanillaSoft

Once this time traveler settles down to work, they will confront CRM tools, Slack chats, emails, text messages, and computerized calendaring. Sales has come a long way, and it’s changing faster than ever. Sync CRM and marketing automation data so that both teams can keep an eye on the success of shared initiatives.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

Pointclear

In another blog post , SiriusDecisions’ Jay Gaines (vice president and group director, demand) writes that getting sales to accept a lead (thereby terming the lead a sales-accepted lead, or SAL) is the most important (and most overlooked) step in the demand creation process. For various reasons, sales often won’t accept the lead.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 240: Q & Brian Trautschold @BTrautschold

Heinz Marketing

The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. And he’s going to save all that.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 116: Q&A with Samuel Sunderaraj @@V_samuelSun

Heinz Marketing

It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year. I’m talking the days of 2001, 2002.