Remove customer
article thumbnail

Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

These statistics tell the story: The chart shows that sales reps act on a premise that the buying process is front-end loaded while in fact a relatively consistent percent of leads buy month after month after month. First and foremost, the acceptance process allows marketing to confirm that sales or partners are acting on all delivered leads.

article thumbnail

What Do You Sell, Who Do You Sell It To and Why Everyone Has to Have The Same Answer

ViewPoint

Today you’ll learn why lead definition is important and why you, as the CEO, need to be involved in building your own universal lead definition: Shortly after I started PointClear I worked with a company that blew through $100 million because marketing was selling to one audience and sales was selling to another. Define what a lead is.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Marketing and Sales: Done Well (2015) Do Better (2016) - Part 3 of 3

ViewPoint

Andy MacMillan – Act-On: Marketing will expand from predominantly acquisition marketing to retention, expansion and advocacy, and we will see the role of CRM and the marketer evolve into the new stewards of customer relationship. Mike provides the blueprint for 1:1 meetings, great sales meetings, and how to work with reps in the field.

article thumbnail

B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Recently, I’ve heard from companies like Bulldog Solutions, InsideView, Jigsaw, netFactor, Reachforce, PointClear, Genius, Leads360, among others. I think the lead management platforms hit directly on these problems and will shift marketing’s role from filling the pipeline to managing the customer lifecycle. Here’s the problem.

article thumbnail

Top 47 B2B Marketing Posts - Hot Topics Ning and Facebook - July 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Marketing is getting involved in many more areas that touch the customer along the buying process, multiplied by a dizzying variety of new tactics, online communications and engagement platforms. Best of B2B Marketing. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. Featured Sources. I’ve parroted this advice from the gurus. Share this on Bebo.

Ning 40