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Reaping the Value of Long-term Leads

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Your sales team likes nothing better than getting leads with a high probability of closing soon. So much so that many reps often ignore every lead they don’t consider hot. Long-term leads often prove to be more valuable than those slated for a short-term decision. Here’s an example: Marketing spends $60,000 to generate 80 leads.

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Long-Term Leads Demand Attention Now

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Your sales team likes nothing better than getting leads with a high probability of closing soon. So much so that many reps often ignore every lead they don’t consider hot. In reality, long-term leads often prove to be more valuable than those slated for a short-term decision. In many cases hot opportunities are already baked.

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PowerOpinions: Making Lead Scoring a Success Part 1 [Expert Advice]

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Marketing Automation makes it easier than ever to deliver more poor-quality leads to sales. A key to this trend is lead scoring. According to SiriusDecisions’ Research Brief 1 , the problem with lead scoring at many organizations is as follows: Lead scoring models are based on assumptions or inadequate sales input.

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PowerViews with Tim Riesterer: Targeting Prospects via Status Quo Clusters

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Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has or hasn’t happened in marketing and sales in 2012 that surprises him, Tim notes that lead generation and sales activity are up—providers are getting the “at bats.”. When a salesperson gets a lead, that’s all well and good.

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How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline

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Qualified leads can be generated any number of ways: phone calls email, webinars, direct mail and even marketing automation if done well. It's not, however, the quantity of leads that counts. It’s the quality of the leads. Management is measuring marketing on the number of leads turned over to sales and on a cost-per-lead basis.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

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Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. But many are going for cold, hard, qualified leads.

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Proof that Account-based Marketing Works

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This account-based marketing effort was laser focused on ideal prospects (right size and right criteria); and the right role (targets with the right titles). Their time and money was applied to generating leads that paid off, and included extensive nurturing across multiple buying cycles. More Leads.