Inbound lead response should be one of sales teams’ top priorities. After all, inbound leads are closer to the purchase in the buyer’s journey and are already familiar with the companies’ product and services. It’s a no-brainer to get to these as soon as possible…or is it? Most Companies Are Slow to Respond to Leads…

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I was fortunate to be a guest on the Andy Paul Accelerate podcast last week, and we had a very interesting chat about sales cadence. More specifically, we discussed the XANT Labs research, the Response Audit report, that showed how 8,000 companies do lead response management, and the results were crystal clear. Most companies don’t…

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Since 2007, we at XANT have published research on the best practices around how and when to respond to marketing-generated leads.  In October 2007, we presented early findings at both the Boston and San Francisco Marketing Sherpa B2B Demand Generation Summits.  Since then, we have published our landmark Harvard Business Review article, “The Short Life on Online…

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