Once you’ve got a lead interested in your product or service, when is that lead ready to be turned over to Sales? What makes him or her ready? How will Sales engage with these leads and when?

Table of Content 

  1. Introduction
  2. Alignment 
  3. Management
  4. Enablement  

You’ve Nurtured Leads, Now What?

Our team helps organizations align their inbound marketing efforts with their sales function, building consensus on both growth goals and specific responsibilities.

Alignment

When it comes to how prospects are nurtured and when they’re contacted, if Sales is working on one set of assumptions and Marketing on another, you don’t have a plan that’s working. What you need is a set of “rules” that tells each part of the team what they’re responsible for, what actions are taken (and when), and how a prospect is brought in.

Alignment between Marketing and Sales starts with a unified vision of what a buyer goes through prior to making a final purchase decision. We chart your buyer’s journey with the help of all stakeholders to fully understand your customer’s actions, behaviors and experiences.

We help you develop a Marketing & Sales Service Level Agreement (SLA) that details the Marketing-to-Sales process, and outlines the commitments of both parties to take specific actions toward a single goal.

We track business performance throughout the marketing and sales funnel, with integrated data tracking of visitors and leads, from their initial web visits to lead conversions to sales activity.

Management

Not all leads are ready to buy—some aren’t even interested in what you have to offer. We help you qualify leads by defining what makes them fit one of your target profiles and by developing a scoring system to identify how ready they are to engage with Sales.

It takes 6-9 attempts to connect to get the most value out of a lead. We’ll help you engage at the right time, in the right way, with the right message, developing connect sequences and templates.

Every sales team has a different way of tracking their opportunities. We help you set up your CRM to work best for your salespeople: the right sales process, smart deal tracking, and tools to increase productivity.

We provide detailed reports that show how well your efforts are working, and where the opportunities for improvement are. No vanity metrics—just the numbers that indicate your business’ growth potential.

Enablement

Inbound Sales requires a new way of thinking. We train your teams in half-day or full-day workshop sessions that help your salespeople embrace the inbound mentality and sales process.

The best sales teams use helpful content as their ammunition. By creating tailored, personalized email templates and smart presentation decks, we help ensure your sales team takes a consultative approach to closing new customers.

Using HubSpot Sales, we help sales reps deftly communicate with every lead. Email sequences help salespeople nudge prospects toward the purchase, and automated notifications help you understand your prospects’ progress.

B2B sales is no longer a phone and email game. LinkedIn is an important soft-touch selling tool, and we help your sales people learn to make it part of their process. With the right LinkedIn social selling tactics, your reps can better engage their prospects.

 

Topics: Inbound Marketing, B2B

Parvind

Written by Parvind

A seasoned technology sales leader with over 18 years of experience in achieving results in a highly competitive environment in multiple service lines of business, across the Americas, EMEA & APAC. Has a strong understanding of international markets having lived and worked in Asia, the Middle East and the US, traveled extensively globally.