What will it Take for Sales & Marketing to Stop Duking it out?

Posted on February 1, 2011. Filed under: Lead Generation, Sales, Sales forecasting, Sales Funnel, Sales Goals, Sales Management, Sales Metrics, Sales Quota, Sales Velocity | Tags: , , , |

In this corner…the challenger.  Weighing in with strategy and branding.  Just returned from a trade show where he picked up 1500 new leads is…MARKETING! And in that corner…the champion.  Completely focused on closing the next sale.  Sometimes accused of operating in a silo.  Looking for new, qualified leads all the time is… SALES! At the [...]

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Sales Funnel Check-Up – 2 Key Indicators

Posted on January 6, 2011. Filed under: Funnel Audits, Lead Generation, Pipeline Measurement, Sales, Sales forecasting, Sales Management, Sales pipeline | Tags: , , , , , |

This week’s blog posts are focused on hitting the ground running in 2011.  Click here to go back to and start at the beginning of the week.   Today’s post wraps the week with two metrics that indicate where leads are coming from, and when in the buying process the lead is discovering you. Since [...]

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3 Important Sales Funnel Metrics

Posted on January 6, 2011. Filed under: Funnel Audits, Pipeline Measurement, Sales, Sales forecasting, Sales Management, Sales pipeline | Tags: , , , |

This week’s blog entries are related to Hitting the Ground Running in 2011.  Click here to go back to and start at the beginning of the week. There are three key metrics that are key to producing high sales results year after year.  They are win rate, velocity and push rate. Win rate is the [...]

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4 Key Sales Metrics

Posted on January 5, 2011. Filed under: Lead Generation, Pipeline Measurement, Sales, Sales forecasting, Sales Management, Sales pipeline | Tags: , , , , , , , |

This week’s blog entries are related to Hitting the Ground Running in 2011.  Click here to go back to and start at the beginning of the week.  A good place to begin your review is with these four sales related metrics: 1-      Number of sales made 2-      Size of sales 3-      Percent of sales coming [...]

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