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Leads are Hard 

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According to Wikipedia: “a reader service card or bingo card" was a reply card inserted in a magazine and used by readers to request free samples and literature from businesses who advertised in the issue. While the move to digital makes it faster to generate leads, it doesn’t make the leads better. Guess what.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

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Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified. A hand raiser isn’t a real lead (that is, sales qualified) until they’ve had engagement with a representative of your company to find out the answers to the questions above.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

ViewPoint

In average companies, sales reps close about one out of five leads they qualify. Note that on average, sales reps only qualify about one third of the leads they are provided—so close rates measured against delivered leads are often less than 10%. But not 60% to 80% of the leads provided to them.

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What Determines Cost Per Lead

ViewPoint

How much should a lead cost? Understanding what goes into generating a high-quality B2B lead helps you determine whether you're getting a good deal. While most people wouldn't quibble with the above reality, many still measure marketing success based on the cost per lead.

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The Quest for Good Leads: Are You Asking the Right Questions?

ViewPoint

I have been in this business since 1991 and things have not changed dramatically over the past almost twenty-five years. The lead rate for high quality, enterprise opportunity leads has been roughly flat.) movement harshly declare that proactive targeting and prospecting for new business is dead.

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‘The Truth about Leads’ Is Just That

Paul Gillin

My 15 months of hell taught me otherwise, and that’s why I was curious when Dan McDade sent me a copy of The Truth about Leads. McDade Is an entrepreneur whose company, PointClear , helps businesses improve their prospecting and lead nurturing. These tactics can generate a lot of names, but not many qualified leads.