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How to make 'Lead Nurturing' work for your sales team

How to make 'Lead Nurturing' work for your sales team

We're doing a lot of work with Pardot (the Salesforce marketing automation software) at the moment. We think Pardot is a fantastic solution, but I'm not going to talk about it (much) in this article. Instead, I want to talk about the piece of our sales and marketing efforts that most of us ignore, the middle of the sales funnel. I think that if companies here in Dubai concentrate a little more effort in nurturing the middle of the funnel sales opportunities that they can enjoy a 10% to 20% increase in revenue within three months. The Pardot marketing automation application provides all the tools needed to convert this unrealised pipeline.

Why's this so interesting? Well, let's consider the two ends of the sales funnel that we all tend to pay most attention to, the top end where the inbound marketing effort creates new leads and inquiries, and the bottom end where the sales team are working hard to convert the opportunities into closed sales.

Salesforce Engage - Bringing marketing automation to the sales team

Salesforce Engage - Bringing marketing automation to the sales team

Salesforce Engage fixes the problem is how to enable your sales team to quickly and easily deploy marketing campaigns that directly help them to close new business. With Salesforce Engage, a salesperson can load a new prospect into the CRM, and then activate a multi-step email marketing campaign right from their iPhone.

Improve your Adwords ROI through lead nurturing on Pardot

Improve your Adwords ROI through lead nurturing on Pardot

I tell a story to all our new clients when we are training them how to generate reports in Salesforce CRM. This story is told to illustrate how to look for trends in Salesforce, and then take corrective action if necessary. The story goes something like this;

We see a lot of our clients that start to use reports from Salesforce to track the source of their leads. In a lot of cases, these reports will show that the main driver of new leads is Google Adwords. The second report that we show them is the source of closed sales, and in this case, it's not uncommon to see that Adwords delivers a far lower percentage of the revenue that would be expected, particularly from a high volume of leads. The point of the story is - what do you do next?

Measuring your advertising effectiveness with Salesforce

Measuring your advertising effectiveness with Salesforce

John Wanamaker, the US Department Store tycoon said, 'Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half'.

For our clients in Dubai and the UAE the issue about advertising effectiveness is also a big concern. Small companies need to advertise, just like the big companies. For most businesses that we work with the SME would have a monthly budget for online advertising that may include some or all of Google Adwords, Facebook or LinkedIn.