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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

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In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). Earlier today I was talking to my wife about the B2B marketplace. I casually said what we do, which is outbound business development for B2B companies, is not old fashioned, it is timeless. Maybe I was just sensitive.

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6 Things Good Lead Generation Vendors Do Right (That You May Be Doing Wrong)

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(One client has retained PointClear at three different companies because our relationship jelled when I mentioned I had researched his passion for a medical condition he’d survived). Lead nurture programs done well triples your B2B sales lead generation marketing ROI.

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B2B Sales Lead Generation Pros Who Listen, Learn

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Those of us who use the phone to successfully generate sales leads have picked up an essential trade secret. How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? The PointClear team would like to hear from you about your sales lead generation best practices. Think of those annoying robo calls.

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Embarking on a sales lead generation project: What could go wrong?

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We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. And we’d gone into some depth as to how our associates are all seasoned, degreed and sales trained. We’d spent some time on the persistent yet professional cadence we employ.

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Dear CEO: Find out how well your team is nurturing its B2B sales leads

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Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. That is why you frequently hear sales say: “the leads suck.”. Long term, things get even worse. Prospects will move up and down in the funnel.

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Cadence—Multi-touch, Multi-media, Multi-cycle Marketing Multiplies Results

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The result of these touches is what we call a disposition: PointClear's term for completing contact with a decision maker or company (some programs lend themselves to dispositioning by contact and some by company). To reduce sales lead generation cost, you need to optimize the value of each prospect. For one client, it takes 9.82

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How Much Leads Cost

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Others stated that the range is between $35 – $100 for a B2B lead. Of course, it depends on what you are selling, but common sense tells you that B2B leads for a complex sale (that are worth a sales rep’s time) are probably going to cost more than $200. Sales is focused on the quality of the leads and revenue generated.