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Advice to Steve, a Down-and-Almost-Out Sales Manager: Telemarket Old Leads First!

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During a breakfast meeting with Steve last week, he got right down to business. My advice to Steve is that when sales are needed in the fourth quarter, first telemarket old leads (older than 3 months), generated on products in stock. The telemarketing time amounted to about 250 hours, over four weeks. Man we are hurting.

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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

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As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Skilled telemarketing professionals can reveal needs, discover market intelligence, form early relationships, and ultimately qualify the prospect as a lead, primed to pass on to sales. Sales is sales.

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Why would a company ever outsource anything?

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Eliminate the time, expense and distraction of setting up your sales telemarketing, business development or inside sales organization. Hiring our team of lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing professionals fills Finkelstein’s bill—and it could be just the ticket for you.

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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

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Jim recently interviewed PointClear’s Dan McDade about the five most important things he’s learned in business and life—in one of an ongoing series of radio programs featuring sales and marketing industry leaders. Jim Obermayer: Dan, let's hear about these five most important things that you've learned in business and life.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

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Discounts weren’t uncommon to close business. By increasing the marketing spend to increase leads, especially qualified leads, I turned the dollars loose on: Telemarketing to previous leads who did not buy. Use a telemarketing service to set appointments. Where Can You Get Qualified Leads & Appointments?

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.'

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Business reply devices. Telemarketing scripts. Now marketing and sales know what a qualified lead is versus an uqualified prospect. Standardize the qualification questions. Use the same basic qualification questions in everything: All promotions. Landing pages. Contact us forms. CRM and marketing automation systems.

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Taking away a salesperson’s excuses!

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The business philosopher, Jim Rohn said, "If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. In most instances, you can have someone call the unqualified to get them qualified; usually a telemarketing service. I think I have heard all the excuses for not following up on sales leads. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.".