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Beyond Lead Flow: Enabling Sales Through Marketing Automaiton
Marketing has long worked to support the sales teams they serve by providing them with a steady flow of qualified leads. The use of agreed upon criteria for defining a qualified lead has resulted in a reduction of historical challenges in lead follow-up, but has yielded high volumes of unqualified leads. Marketers need to recognize that determining lead criteria is only the first of many steps they can take to enable their sales teams. New enhancements to CRM systems are driving truly evolutionary changes in marketing’s relationship to sales. Following are five areas where marketers can employ marketing automation to deepen their relationship with sales and help sales identify, manage and close deals.
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