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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

How long is the sales cycle for an ideal customer (week, month, year, etc.)? Where in the buying cycle is this lead (timeline)? Assuming you’ve configured your analytics goals, you can often see what behaviors drive goal completions; from your CRM, you should be able to track which goal completions ultimately resulted in sales.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

It works both in a B2B and B2C context, as some studies show that 44% of online consumers say that having questions answered by a live person while in the middle of an online purchase is one of the most important features a Web site can offer. The length of a sales cycle varies between products and some times can be excruciatingly long.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.