5 Reasons Why You Should Never Use “Black Box” Lead Scoring

We see it constantly–analytics vendors who claim to offer lead scoring services that will increase your conversion rates enormously and leave you begging for more. These companies typically promise a quick and easy lead scoring deployment that will yield a +20% increase in conversion rates. How the vendors plan to achieve said results, however, isn’t […]

Blow the Doors Off of Inside Sales Performance in 2016

Inside sales is becoming a preferred channel for organizations to drive sales conversations and pipeline growth. It offers major efficiencies over traditional direct sales models, including the ability to specialize sales reps on certain activities and areas of the funnel, and provides major scale in increasing the volume and improving the conversion of deals. Sales […]

Riddle me this: How many apps does it take to make a Sales rep productive?

We were working with a client recently that had over 10,000 global field and inside sales reps. We were amused, but not surprised, when we discovered there were over 10+ different software and customer intelligence tools available to a sales rep to “drive productivity.” Of course, any good sales rep knows that the fastest way […]

MSFT + LNKD: Welcome to the New World of Sales Enablement

Here at MarketBridge, we had collective smiles on our faces when we heard the news. We have been predicting and investing against this scenario for over two years and it’s great to see the big players validate our strategy. Ok, so we didn’t exactly predict this deal, but what MSFT sees is that the era […]