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APRIL 7, 2014

Jim, who is principal of a California-based sales and marketing consulting firm Sales Leakage Consulting, lays the blame squarely at the feet of sales managers, who aren’t putting the necessary pressure on their sales force to follow up on leads, he said. Sales Managers Are to Blame for Lost Leads.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

to be selected a Top Sales Expert at Top Sales World , the international online community dedicated exclusively to sharing sales best practices. The Top Sales Expert team includes best-selling authors, builders of large global consultancies, and sales professionals within the Fortune 500 arena. Thank you!

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Mike Weinberg – New Sales Coach. plus I pulled some additional comments pulled from Mikogo’s Sales Trends & Challenges in 2016 – 12 Experts Share Their Predictions (I am one of the experts). Author of New Sales Coach is glad to see the return of “reasonable thinking.”. What They Can Do Better in 2016? Simplified. …

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JANUARY 31, 2013

TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. The Inside Sales Superhero to the Rescue. They’re social.

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MAY 21, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. But what about the sales forecast? Accountability and results measurement can be done only through sales lead management. Of course they do.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Anthony Iannarino is an expert in B2B Sales and Marketing and an Executive Sales Coach and Consultant. Anthony is President and CSO of SOLUTIONS Staffing , Director of B2B Sales Coach & Consultancy , and author of The Sales Blog. Almost anything you read can benefit your sales effort.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. "So She said, in no particular order: “Just once I’d like salespeople to admit they made a sale from a marketing-generated lead.”. “I

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. ” How did Andy know so much about sales, marketing and sales leads? You lose a prospect, a customer and the sale and your competitor wins.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Return on marketing and sales investment. Demand creation.

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MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, Vision Critical, Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. Click to start video at this point —The young people entering the sales force are changing the dynamic between managers and their reps. Not so long ago, managers and their sales team were in one centralized location. That has pros and cons, Nick said.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. He does a great job of clearly presenting, assessing and recommending solutions for today’s pressing sales lead management challenges. Forget about branding.

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MAY 2, 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. Motivate Your Sales Team with These 13 Ideas That Work. Ready to triple your sales pipeline?

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. Their fear that you’ll turn on the hard sale based on that form is one reason they lie. If a great conversion rate is 30% of leads to sales qualified leads than 7 out of 10 failed to pass through. Voicemails are a waste of time.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Of course what I am thinking about are the functions of sales and marketing. Cascading failures usually begin when one part of the system fails.

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JUNE 11, 2013

At a recent high school track meet I cheered on our team in several heats of the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays and mused that we can look to track and field athletics for inspiration and tactics for marketing and sales alignment. As prospects convert to qualified leads, the handoff to sales should be smooth and accurate.

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JUNE 18, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. All real salespeople love sales leads and don’t ever believe anyone who tells you differently. A genuine sales lead has qualifying information.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Cindy is the sales manager. She presented the results first to the sales manager, then to the management team. The result: sales increased.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Yet it isn’t the time lost but the things unaccomplished in that time which become a huge problem for sales and marketing people. Sales Example.

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MARCH 16, 2011

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Ten years ago I asked an assembled 200 plus marketing managers how many knew the quotas for the salespeople/sales channels that sold their products.

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AUGUST 27, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. Man we are hurting. What am I gonna do?”

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JULY 25, 2011

This week's guest blog is co-written by Greg Alexander, Sales CEO of Sales Benchmark Index and John Kearney a Consultant with Sales Benchmark Index focusing on sales force effectiveness and inbound marketing. Hunters are sales people with an instinct for closing deals and acquiring new customers.

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MARCH 2, 2011

But incomplete without a means to capture demand and convert it to sales. But doing these things won’t help your business generate leads and convert sales using social media. Step 1: Question your consultants. But when does "engage" connect to sales? And who said you cannot use LinkedIn to generate sales leads?

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Today's guest blogger, Reg Nordman, is the Managing Partner for Rocket Builders , a Vancouver based sales and marketing consultancy for high growth companies. Previously he has worked in direct and channel sales for major firms such as Unisys and Commodore. So before you redo your sales dept.,

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JANUARY 10, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. The field sales representative has a richer field of Tells to choose from. We all have our own Tells, which are tics and habits.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The kind of trusting relationship necessary to close big-ticket IT solutions sales, the kinds that ITSMA’s members seek, require a deeper connection. But self-aware salespeople, with an education in potential cross-cultural pitfalls, are better equipped to avoid misunderstandings, win trust, and make the sale. How to do this?

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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. of No Response prospects (26) became highly qualified sales leads because of the extra effort taken. What sort of impact has nurturing had on your sales activity?

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Contrary to popular belief, reps don’t need more sales leads. Best sales lead management practices continually show that reps need qualified leads that have been carefully vetted, properly and consistently nurtured and appropriately developed, increasing the likelihood of a completed sale. Next-year decision?

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JUNE 24, 2016

A remarkable new book is changing the way that B2B sales professionals think about, approach, and serve their customers. We met and worked together at a software company many years ago, and our paths through the continuously evolving world of B2B sales and sales performance have crossed many times.

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JUNE 2, 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. What sort of impact has nurturing had on your sales activity?

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APRIL 19, 2017

One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance,” he said. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”. Mike Weinberg – Mike stated, “I’m on a mission to simplify sales.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Should CMOs feel confident that these leads from marketing automation are ready for sales to close. Without additional qualification measures (such as tele-qualifying), will these leads inevitably clog and choke the sales pipeline? That’s the overarching question I recently presented to a panel of industry experts.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Should CMOs feel confident that these leads from marketing automation are ready for sales to close? Without additional qualification measures (such as tele-qualifying), will these leads inevitably clog and choke the sales pipeline? That’s the overarching question I recently presented to a panel of industry experts.

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MARCH 26, 2015

In the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff earlier this year, I had the pleasure of hearing for the first time, Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. A compelling message is a sales rep’s most valuable weapon. Don’t be like every other sales call your prospect receives. Simplified.:

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JUNE 15, 2017

Some companies have several inside departments to take in, qualify, nurture, and filter sales leads to such a finite extent that few leads go to anyone. You are: Delaying talking to buyers and reducing your chances of making the sale by 50%, because salespeople, on average, aren’t getting the leads until weeks after they’re created.

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MARCH 25, 2015

In part 1 of this series, I introduced Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. After listening to his captivating and insightful presentation at the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff , I asked him if I could share his “4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015”: Part 1: Tip #1 Believe it works.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Earlier this year I sat in on the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff hosted by my friend S. I was particularly impressed with the first speaker Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. Secondly, it’s hard to be perceived as a consultant and value creator when you arrive so late to the party.

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