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Threading the Needle of Thought Leadership | Nora DePalma

Peter Winick

Nora explains how you need to tie activity to business outcomes and understand what action you want them to take next, moving them deeper into your content but not necessarily leading them into a sales funnel. Not all calls to action must lead into the sales funnel. Otherwise, they are likely to tune out.

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How to Track Prospects Through Sales Funnel Stages

Ascend

The essential thing sellers and marketers need to know to get results from the campaigns they run every day is what contacts in the sales and marketing database are qualified potential customers.

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The CEO Mindset: Resolving Sales Performance Challenges | Part 5

Chief Outsiders

Part 5: Moving Your KPI Levers Into Alignment Managing a sales team can be a lonely job these days. Just a few years ago, the energy in a typical sales office was positively electric.

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Performance Improvement Plan Template & Guide [Free Download]

AIHR

With a performance improvement plan (PIP) template, you have a tool to create an individualized, action-orientated, step-by-step plan to improve the performance of employees who are either not meeting their manager or supervisor’s expectations or would benefit from a more structured action plan. Each PIP is unique to the needs of an employee.

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

CPA would be used for leading indicators to CAC, such as Cost Per Lead, Cost Per Sales Qualified Lead, Cost Per Trial or other points in the marketing and sales funnel. Since HubSpot is a B2B SaaS product, CAC would equal the cost to acquire a new customer on one of their Basic, Pro, or Enterprise plans.

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Candidate Sourcing: Your Ultimate 2024 Guide (+Tips & Strategies)

AIHR

The majority of workers aged 18 to 34 said they’d consider turning down a job offer or leaving a company if their manager didn’t support DEIB initiatives (72%), the company’s leadership had a gender imbalance (67%), or the organization lacked ethnic diversity (65%). This is evident in Indeed & Glassdoor’s research.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. clu/Getty Images. It was the right thing to do. Specialists are great at handling specific customer issues.