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B2B Lead Generation: Are You Killing the Golden Goose?

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This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created and detailed program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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The Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy in Measuring B2B Lead Generation Investments (Pt 1 of 3)

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As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. The problems and costs of a cost-per-lead approach.

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B2B Sales Lead Management: A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush

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This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

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What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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Internet Radio - Its Time Arrived Several Years Ago!

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SLMA Radio - Since 2010. That brings us to what the Sales Lead Management Association started 28 months ago in August of 2010 with its first interviews of Dan McDade of PointClear and Phil Fernandez of Marketo. Is the Traditional Sales Compensation Program for B2B Dead? with Daniel Perry.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 3]

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I recently asked fellow industry leaders to weigh in on the rising popularity of Account-Based Marketing among B2B companies. Account-Based Marketing, because of technology, is steadily advancing from the B2B big dollar, small prospect list marketplace, into mid-market B2B sales arena. Click here for part 1 & part 2.).

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New Response Databases - Valuable Resource for B2B Marketers?

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Have a look at the reports here: 2009 and 2010. To get some answers to questions like these, Bernice Grossman and I have undertaken a series of research studies on the quality and quantity of data available to B-to-B marketers in various industries. Over the last two years, we published reports on the data coming from compiled data vendors.

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