Who Owns Lead Enrichment — Sales or Marketing? Lead (or data) enrichment can be problematic because it’s difficult to know who owns different pieces of the puzzle. It usually involves multiple individuals on the sales and marketing teams. Yet in a traditional organization, this can become disconnected as marketing focuses on filling the top of the funnel and sales focuses on the middle to bottom of the funnel, turning leads into customers. So let’s answer the question posed in the title of this article: who owns lead enrichment? 
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