ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I spend a lot of time on the phone every day, talking to sales and marketing leaders—including prospects. I’m often asked what kind of companies PointClear serves. The short answer is we work with B2B technology, healthcare, financial services and business services organizations, as well as manufacturers.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 18, 2013

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Are You Paying Enough Attention To Your Sales Teams? Are You Selling At Every Level?

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B2B Sales PointClear B2B Opinions 120

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones.

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Sales Qualified Leads Forecasting PointClear Enterprise Management 120

ViewPoint

APRIL 4, 2013

Staying current on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be daunting, especially in the the digital space. PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling.

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Cold Calling B2B Sales PointClear Work Management 120

ViewPoint

APRIL 11, 2018

A typical B2B cadence includes five dials, three voicemails and three emails over a 10-day period (in this case it was nine days). As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location. There are six dispositions that we assign a prospect: Lead, Pipeline, Nurture, No-response, Not Qualified and Bad.

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PointClear Sales Qualified Leads Leads Lead 136

ViewPoint

JULY 24, 2017

A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. One of the uncloseables on their list was a company from which PointClear generated a sales-qualified lead that we turned over to a client in the middle of 2016.

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Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Lead Qualification High Quality Lead 149

ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2018

By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Generally speaking, nurturing programs increase the lead rate significantly: Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate. The numbers speak for themselves.

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Sales Qualified Leads ROI Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 149

ViewPoint

MARCH 7, 2018

This is a skill that we teach our associates, who spend their days making dials (80 to 100 a day) and engaging B2B sales prospects on behalf of our clients. Read this post , written by Jim Hall, a PointClear associate, to learn how he applies these listening skills every day. Pay attention. As always, I welcome your comments.

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PointClear B2B Thought Leadership Lead Qualification Thought Leadership 159

ViewPoint

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. PointClear’s Lead/Revenue calculator can help you avoid that sinking feeling when you, as a marketing or sales leader, realize one day that you’re behind, and the quarter or year-end is looming.

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Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2012

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. Qualified Inbounds Leads are MORE Expensive than Qualified Outbound Leads.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Leads B2B Sales Sales Leads 120

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 1, 2016

I once worked with the then SVP, Marketing of a large public company who was frustrated with sales. At one point he got so angry that he offered sales management the following choices for spending a $100,000 budget to generate leads. For details on how sales should follow-up on a lead click here. Big surprise. None of the above.

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Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking PointClear 120

ViewPoint

JUNE 29, 2017

PointClear has proven methods for driving sales—and they’re discussed in detail in a white paper available for download now. Involving planning, collaboration and accountability processes, these sure-fire action items will help marketing leaders like you make real sales impact. You’ve come to the wrong place. Testing’s a must.

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PointClear Sales Qualified Leads Forecasting Paper 204

ViewPoint

JANUARY 22, 2018

Those of us at PointClear do not believe in the alphabet soup of acronyms such as BANT, ANUM and the granddaddy of all acronyms, MAN. Requiring budget and timeframe to qualify a lead (other than those for low-priced commodity offerings) ensures that you are eliminating some of the best opportunities. Well, what is a perfect lead?

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking PointClear 127

ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads PointClear 120

ViewPoint

JUNE 5, 2017

I recently chatted with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales world about the transition from finger pointing to collaboration between sales and marketing. The status quo--where marketing complains about sales not following up on their leads and sales says the leads are no good--is not the place to be.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Cost per Lead 149

ViewPoint

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Before continuing, I want to mention that PointClear is a strong advocate of marketing automation solutions. We work with our complex-sale B2B clients to leverage their marketing automation initiatives, and marketing automation is a key ingredient of our internal lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing processes.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation PointClear Automation 120

ViewPoint

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The comment made me think about our outsourced B2B lead generation services and the way we have successfully partnered with manufacturing, technology and start-up companies to cover their markets, develop their prospects and deliver highly qualified sales opportunities to their field sales teams.

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Lead Generation PointClear Sales Qualified Leads Generation 120

ViewPoint

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. I received a lot of positive feedback about the article and decided to ask our PointClear PowerViews Alumni (those who have been on the PowerViews show ) for their input on the most dangerous lead gen lies out there. Leads suck.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Sales reps did not know how to prospect for new business so the 20,000 “leads” were ignored and wasted.

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Allocation PointClear SIC Ideal Customer Profiles 174

ViewPoint

APRIL 14, 2011

A recently posted success story describes PointClear’s successful collaboration with Ingenix, a $1.8 Like many businesses selling complex solutions, Ingenix was looking for a way to impact the quality of prospect development practices in order to influence sales outcomes and increase revenue.

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Lead Generation PointClear Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. Scores of X+ went to sales, and scores of <X came to PointClear for lead qualification and lead nurturing.

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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

JUNE 16, 2015

The lead rate for high quality, enterprise opportunity leads has been roughly flat.) Read what Mike Weinberg, author of New Sales Simplified , says about this pervasive thought: Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance [bold added].

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Cost per Lead PointClear 120

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. In the last blog we talked about qualified rates. Qualified Rate includes leads, pipeline (specific action required by PointClear) and nurtures (qualified companies with no immediate pain/need or interest).

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation PointClear 120

ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in many marketing and sales departments is the importance of certain metrics. Yes, while the cost per so-called raw lead was $23.15, the real cost per qualified lead was 1.96

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Generation 120

ViewPoint

MARCH 22, 2018

Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. It is possible however to qualify for an inhospitable environment. A so-called lead with a company that will never buy is going to end up being a waste of a field sales rep’s time. Sales Performance International. We are not the low-price leader.) Our people do as well.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Work Management Paid Search Agency 189

MLT Creative

MARCH 14, 2011

Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear spoke at the BMA Atlanta luncheon on March 10 at Maggiano's. The author of The Truth About Leads addressed the group of B2B marketers (ironically half sales, half marketing) about his philosophy for achieving marketing and sales alignment. Focus on quantity instead of quality.

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Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking B2B Sales PointClear 40

ViewPoint

JULY 17, 2012

Knowing the B2B lead generation market like I do, here is what I expected to see : “The inbound lead is better because outbound is dead.” then went to a car dealership and the sales [rep] tried to convince you that you actually need to buy a completely different car?” ” “Inbound rules.

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Sales Qualified Leads Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 120

Biznology

JANUARY 6, 2016

With a tip of the hat to Barbara Walters , I’d like to introduce ten fascinating people who have brought new ideas and admirable energy to the B2B marketing world this year. This round-up represents only a small sample of the fresh thinking that drives the upward march of B2B “modern marketing.” We are lucky to have them.

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B2B Marketing PointClear Work Management B2B 48

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Understanding what goes into generating a high-quality B2B lead helps you determine whether you're getting a good deal. Not only does this single-criteria measurement perpetuate the downward spiral represented by most companies’ poor sales results, it also reduces ROI on short- and long-term marketing and sales investments.

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Cost per Lead Cost Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 245

ViewPoint

AUGUST 1, 2013

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Inside Sales Power Tip 125 – Grit. Via Score More Sales. The Helpful Sales Person.

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B2B Sales PointClear B2B Opinions 120

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. How Marketing Can Deliver Qualified Leads. Via Chief Marketer. 3 Marketing Mistakes Most Companies Make.

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PointClear B2B Marketing Eloqua Multi-Channel 120

Paul Gillin

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I spent 15 months as a sales manager, which was just long enough to learn how little aptitude I had for the job. McDade Is an entrepreneur whose company, PointClear , helps businesses improve their prospecting and lead nurturing. The Truth about Leads is a short book – only 101 pages – but it’s packed with sales wisdom.

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Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Leads PointClear CPL 50

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

Hubspot

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Qualifying Leads: Similarly, organizations with a high volume of leads don't have time to qualify all of them manually, and sometimes, your marketing team isn't sure how to go about it. Working with a consultant or agency that can help with your lead qualification might be worth it to improve sales efficiency.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 28