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Doug Davidoff

Modern Lead Generation is Failing. 5 Critical Factors to Drive High-Velocity Customer Acquisition

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced a chronic problem plaguing the growth efforts of companies, large and small alike. Lead Activation Syndrome occurs when the successful results of lead generation efforts aren’t translating to greater velocity of quality sales, opportunity creation, or new customer acquisition. Companies can still drive growth--often at a very high rate--but the costs of such efforts grow at a faster rate than growth. As a result, the systems and people supporting growth must...

Lead Activation Syndrome (LAS): The Ailment that is Costing You Millions $$$

Last week, I was going through some older files when I came across a standard presentation deck...

Conversations Don’t Happen by Accident: The 6 Strategies to Creating a Strong Chat Experience

Yesterday, Drift announced the latest enhancement to their conversational marketing platform,...

Why I Don’t Give My Head of Sales A Revenue/Sales Quota

Make the number! It’s probably the three words that dominate the thinking of salespeople and...

5 Steps to Design Your Pipeline to Shorten the Sales Cycle and Align Sales & Marketing

If any of these objectives are a high priority for you, read this post (if not, feel free to skip...

7 Ways to Improve Your Most Important Sales Growth Metric: Connect Rate

There are two schools of thought when it comes to prospecting effectiveness. One school focuses on...

What it Means to Be Inbound

I was talking with Meghan Anderson, VP Marketing for HubSpot, about how much has changed (and how...

5 Keys to The Effective Use of Technology

According to McKinsey, most companies achieve less than one-third of the impact they expected from...

3 Processes You Must Absolutely Master Now to Grow Revenue

While I’ve never been a principal in a manufacturing business, I’ve always envied the...

Is the Sales Development Process Still a Strong Strategy for Sales Growth?

Over the last decade, the hottest trend for fast-growth sales organizations is the birth and...