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BANT: A Dead Easy Method for Qualifying Leads
BANT, purportedly created by IBM, is widely used, generally accepted, and easy-to-understand method for qualifying leads. What does BANT stand for? The acronym BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline. (MarketSplash has a great analysis of each BANT component here.) Download the Free BANT+C App BANT+C is a free app for Salesforce, from Ateko, that
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Top Five Salesforce Security Tips to Make Your Instance More Secure
As the cost and risks associated with data breaches continue to climb, cybersecurity is a topic that should be a priority for every B2B SaaS company. Recently, IBM published that the average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million. With so much at stake, organizations can’t afford to ignore security best practices. With Salesforce
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CloudKettle: Year 4 by the Numbers
Archived Content: This article was originally published by CloudKettle prior to its acquisition by Bell and integration into Ateko. It is part of a historical series documenting the growth and benchmarks of the team that now forms Ateko’s dedicated Salesforce practice. Each year we look back at how CloudKettle performed and publish a post highlighting
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Salesforce Security: Admin Checklist
The following post was written by Prag Ravichandran Kamalaveni, Salesforce Practice Lead at CloudKettle. Prag is an experienced consultant and an avid supporter of the Salesforce community. In addition to being a 6X Salesforce certified consultant, he has helped more than 250 people become certified as either Salesforce Administrators or Developers. Prag, was selected to speak at
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Sales Qualification Process: BANT or Bust
In this podcast, John Wall moderates a lively discussion between our own Greg Poirier and more on BANT here). This podcast covers: The pros and cons of BANT When BANT is an appropriate methodology and when it is not Why Trish thinks BANT is dead (and why Greg doesn’t necessarily agree) PACT and other
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Marketing Automation to Enable Renewals
Read this post to learn how you can leverage Marketing Automation beyond the initial sale to enable upsell and renewals. Marketing Automation: The Status Quo B2B marketers understand how to leverage Marketing Automation to warm new leads for a sale before it’s ready to be worked by a Sales Rep. What companies aren’t doing effectively
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NEW eBook | The Chief Revenue Officer’s Guide to Revenue & Reporting
Our newest eBook, A Chief Revenue Officer’s Guide to Revenue & Reporting, is a must read for any high-growth B2B SaaS company. In this ebook, we cover why Chief Revenue Officer is the hottest title in SaaS right now, and how its rise is connected to the Revenue Stack. B2B SaaS companies face high
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How to Manage Advertising from end to end of the Customer Lifecycle
Joel Burke is a data insights and analytics expert and co-owner of Outshine: a data-driven digital marketing agency that specializes in Adwords and PPC management. Burke also lends expertise to Ateko as the Analytics Practice Lead. You can find him on LinkedIn here. Recently, I sat down with Joel to talk about how to manage
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CloudKettle: Year 2 by the Numbers
Archived Content: This article was originally published by CloudKettle prior to its acquisition by Bell and integration into Ateko. It is part of a historical series documenting the growth and benchmarks of the team that now forms Ateko’s dedicated Salesforce practice. It’s hard to believe that year two for CloudKettle has come and gone (some
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NEW eBook: Lead Generation and Sales Enablement Guide for B2B SaaS Companies
This is a must read for any B2B SaaS startup or company that’s scaling quickly. During a decade of working with B2B SaaS organizations, two of the biggest gaps we’ve consistently seen are in lead generation and sales enablement best practices. We wrote this eBook to give fast growing SaaS companies a free resource to
