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Introduction to Lead Management

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Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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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. Something else not well understood in marketing and sales circles is the importance of certain metrics. In the last blog we talked about lead rates. 50 for the inbound response.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

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Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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6 Sales & Marketing Strategy Recommendations for 2012

ViewPoint

Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. He does a great job of clearly presenting, assessing and recommending solutions for today’s pressing sales lead management challenges.

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Marketing & Sales Alignment; We’ve Aligned to Optimize Your Lead Funnel & Pipeline

NuSpark Consulting

Content drives leads into the funnel; content nurtures leads into sales opportunities. Marketing and Sales alignment is essential to a well-oiled lead funnel. I understand the importance of a sound media, social media, conversion and content strategy that generates quality leads until they are sales-accepted.

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32 Resolutions to Prepare for Your 2012 B2B Lead Generation Program

NuSpark Consulting

Thought I’d give it a shot as well, running through a master list of “resolutions” as preparation for improving your inbound marketing and lead generation strategies for 2012 and beyond. Process: Set your lead generation campaign goals. How many qualified leads. Cost-per-lead. Revenue-per-lead.

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2012 Resolutions for the B2B Marketer

ANNUITAS

Although there are five, I’m hoping that each B2B marketer should resolve to focus on at least one for 2012. In most of these cases, I’ve never spoken with the sales rep. If this is still the marketing and sales approach for your organization, you should resolve to stop it in 2012. They’re right. Change is hard.