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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

In the last blog in this series we discussed lead nurturing , and how an advanced lead generation program that includes nurturing can triple your sales. Note that at this step sales is not saying the lead is qualified (that would be terming the lead sales qualified lead or SQL).

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The 11th Question to Ask Before Buying a Marketing Automation Solution

ViewPoint

As I read the article, it occurred to me that I would add an eleventh critical question: Do you have best-practice lead generation and lead nurturing processes in place before you implement a marketing automation solution?

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers. Demand for customization and integration from large customers may increase time and cost to complete sales and divert sales and professional resources. Target market challenges.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

ViewPoint

A deeper dive pointed to the fact that the relatively low cost per lead was offset by the relatively poor quality of the leads as indicated both by the percent of qualified leads generated, 1.28% as a percent of raw leads, and the overall percent of qualified companies. Almost 47% of sales reps miss quota.

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Sales Pipeline Radio Episode 162: Q & A with Dan McDade @dandade

Heinz Marketing

Matt Heinz: Y ou were The President and CEO of PointClear, for over 20 years, and so saw a lot of this development happen. Can you talk a little bit about sort of your approach to, I guess whether you would call an appaudointment setting or approach to sort of demand generation for sales organizations. What led to this?

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Top 47 B2B Marketing Posts - Hot Topics Ning and Facebook - July 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Blog to Generate Leads - Lead Views , July 16, 2010 The importance of Corporate blogging is known to all, but few companies are able to use this medium as a lead generation tool. Yes, corporate blogs are an excellent resource for Lead generation. Landing pages are where a business captures leads.

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