How Conversica engages prospects to identify interest

In the series titled “Sales Tech Game Changers,” Smart Selling Tools founder, Nancy Nardin, asks sales tech executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. The following interview features Conversica’s VP of Sales, Erroin Martin, on what makes Conversica’s AI technology invaluable for sales teams.

Persistence Webinar: How many potential leads are lost due to insufficient lead follow-up?

Last week, we held our second webinar in the series that explored the 4Ps of sales effectiveness – Promptness, Persistence, Personalization, and Performance. Derek Grant, VP of Commercial Sales at Salesloft, and Erroin Martin, VP of Sales at Conversica, discussed “Persistence: How many potential leads are lost due to insufficient follow-up?” What do researchers in the field have to say about the optimal number of touches?

3 Ways to Fill Your Pipeline with More Sales Accepted Leads

The relationship between sales and marketing is often a sore topic. Greater alignment between the two requires developing a well-articulated process, supported by technology, that guides how sales and marketing work together.

The benefit of process and data is that, generally, both are objective. Data doesn’t have any personal feelings about the results of a marketing campaign; process isn’t listening in on phone calls with prospects. Because of this, many organizations have implemented sales accepted lead (SAL) stages into their demand generation strategy.

Lead follow-up failure: Whose fault is it anyway?

Lead follow-up.  Sales and marketing teams know the importance of following up with every inbound lead, yet it continues to be a problem for most organizations. Is Sales focusing only on the hot leads and ignoring the rest? Or is Marketing dropping the ball when it comes to nurturing and qualifying leads?

In our upcoming webinar on January 23, 2018 at 11 am PT (2pm ET), Nancy Nardin of Smart Tools and Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing will duke it out and get to the bottom of lead follow-up failure. Who will be victorious in this epic battle between sales and marketing?

The 2017 Sales Effectiveness Report is here!

How companies follow up with inbound leads can drastically impact their sales funnel and ability to convert prospects into customers. For this third annual Sales Effectiveness report, we take a first-hand look into how companies follow up on their leads and contrast these results with their performance in previous years.

More than 800 different-sized companies across 13 industries were secret shopped over the span of three months. See which industry stands out on the “4 P’s” of sales effectiveness – Promptness, Personalization, Persistence, and Performance – and learn what measures your sales team can take to boost lead engagement.

Get the full 2017 Sales Effectiveness report, free.

Register now for SiriusDecisions webinar: How AI Is Maximizing Lead Conversions

Please join us for this engaging webinar with Kerry Cunningham of SiriusDecisions and Gary Gerber of Conversica, as they discuss how Demand Unit thinking, coupled with AI-powered tools, is forever changing what it means to be an effective marketer.

Get the details for this upcoming webinar and register here.

Join Conversica at LeadsCon Conference in NY

LeadsCon’s Connect to Convert is the lead industry’s only roll-up-your-sleeves educational conference and exposition dedicated entirely to the most effective and emerging sectors of the lead generation industry.

Gary Gerber, head of Product Marketing at Conversica, and Roman Vinfield, President of Assure Funding will be featured speakers at this year’s conference.

AI, Machine Learning, NLP, and NLG: Your Basic Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Business

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic of discussion these days, with words such as ‘Machine Learning’ and ‘NLP’ often thrown into the mix. But what do they all mean? And what can these types of technology do? If what you know about AI comes from movies like Ex Machina and I

Customer Success Story: How CenturyLink gets $20 return for every $1 spent with Conversica

CenturyLink is an $18 billion company and the third largest telecommunications provider in the U.S. Check out this short video on how they use Conversica’s AI-powered sales assistant to connect and engage with 90,000 leads per quarter!

Oh the Dollars You Waste! How You Squander Your Marketing Budget and How to Fix It!

“The more you spend in haste, the less effect can be traced, the less facts that are faced, oh, the dollars we waste!” If you aren’t familiar, that’s Dr. Seuss.
The Good Doctor was right, auto dealers spend considerably on marketing and advertising in an effort to grow our business, yet we fail to plan and are often unaware of what we’re actually getting for our money. This is a 90 Day Challenge to get you to focus on the RIGHT metrics: Effective Lead Cost Effective Lead Engagement Rate to get you to wisely spend your marketing and advertising dollars!