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Ingram Micro and CloudBlue reduce sales cycle from 12 to 2 months with Demandbase
CloudBlue's sales cycle ran 12 months and many accounts stalled in the funnel without progressing to sales-qualified status; there was no unified view of funnel stages or way to personalize outreach at scale.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · ICP scoring model setup
The CloudBlue team set up a scoring model to define the appropriate ideal customer profile.
Tools used
Demandbase One
Outcome
CloudBlue reduced their sales cycle from 12 to 2 months and, within 2 months of their first campaign, converted previously stalled accounts to sales-qualified status while launching multi-channel campaigns in minutes.
Results
Time saved12 to 2 months
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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