Thought Leadership

The Silent Sales Tax Of Bad Handoffs

7 mins read

Marketing hands over a lead. Sales calls it late, calls it cold, or doesn't call it at all. Nobody measures the gap, so nobody fixes it.

In every commercial diagnostic we run, the handoff is where the most value quietly disappears — not in a dramatic way, but a few percentage points at a time, at every single stage.

Fixing it rarely means new technology. It means agreeing, in writing, what a qualified handoff actually looks like — and holding both sides to it.

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Nigel Kirkham

Merlin5 is a sales transformation and commercial growth consultancy built by experienced sales and revenue leaders.

Merlin5 is a sales transformation and commercial growth consultancy built by experienced sales and revenue leaders.

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