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Sales Dept Must Be Subordinate to the Marketing Function For Leveraged Performance

»Posted on May 20, 2010 in Sales and Marketing Management | 0 comments

Tweet Pin It Let´s confess the crippling problem of today’s B2B sales and marketing systems. Sales typically engages prospects far too early in the sales cycle. Marketing is under pressure to bring in NEW leads, whilst Sales is pressured to close asap. This puts pressure on the middle of the sales pipeline process… …That transitional phase where a lead upgrades to a suspect to a prospect to an opportunity… before the sale is finalised. Who owns that part of the sales funnel? Sales or Marketing? Well consider the ideal scenario… Sales is so busy with final sales meetings — to close the deal, that they don’t have a spare moment to make many calls to prospects earlier...

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