ViewPoint

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. Problem is, most lead to revenue calculators out there are overly simplistic. And an excellent tool provides you with insight into the value of inbound vs. outbound leads. Guess what. This is a key benchmark.

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Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2018

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing. The numbers speak for themselves. No Response.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 1, 2016

At one point he got so angry that he offered sales management the following choices for spending a $100,000 budget to generate leads. They could choose one of the following: 200,000 targeted contacts (name and title) in the right vertical (no email addresses). For details on how sales should follow-up on a lead click here.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 6, 2017

Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. The main reason for these failures is that there is a LOT of mediocrity in the lead generation industry, which is why some say outbound is supposedly “dead.” Often multiple times. It isn’t dead.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 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. 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. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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ViewPoint

JULY 24, 2017

A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. At the bottom of the list were what they called “uncloseables,” meaning these were companies that this competitor was not able to generated leads from.

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ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2017

I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads while average companies close 20%. Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. None were actually leads.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 22, 2018

Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (We The challenge is that lead generators with happy ears don’t ask the questions that might effectively disqualify an account. We are not the low-price leader.) Our people do as well. Tom Hopkins.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 16, 2015

What’s a good lead rate? How much should a lead cost? The lead rate for high quality, enterprise opportunity leads has been roughly flat.) That said, for several years the elephant in the room has been inbound marketing and inbound marketing lead rates. I have seen inbound lead rates reported as high as 11 – 14%.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Cost per Lead PointClear 120

Biznology

APRIL 6, 2016

We actually verified the accuracy by outbound phone, thanks to the call center at PointClear. . We were generally satisfied with the method we used to get at data quantity, where we asked vendors to provide company counts in specified sample industries and contact counts at specified sample companies. . vendors today. .

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In this three-part series, the first article on marketing analytics looked at predictive targeting best practices, and the second article cited two sales lead generation programs to show how these processes actually drive improved results. Sales lead rates decline after the fifth contact cycle. It takes about 1.6

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. I detailed 7 lies to be aware of to avoid a lead generation disaster (read the blog for the specifics): Any list will do. Automated systems accurately score (prioritize) leads. More leads are better than fewer leads.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions. VP level) are 2.5

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ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. All because the CEO did not insist on a common definition of a lead. Define what a lead is. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition. Who are we selling it to?

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Allocation PointClear SIC Ideal Customer Profiles 174

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Elizabeth’s comment got me to thinking about the role a human voice plays in prospect development, what this contact strategy shares with digitally-based media, and how it’s different from them. A live encounter leads to each party gaining better understanding of the other’s position more quickly. Personal connection.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. Scores of X+ went to sales, and scores of <X came to PointClear for lead qualification and lead nurturing.

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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

MAY 9, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. LinkedIn revamps contacts tool to boost relationship management. The LinkedIn Contacts tool that began for some select users could help marketers organize, maintain, and nurture business contacts.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 20, 2011

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? Before continuing, I want to mention that PointClear is a strong advocate of marketing automation solutions.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 2, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn. Marketing Automation Software That Delivers the Most Data Wins.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 22, 2016

Companies need to remember the sales manager’s primary job and stop burying them with unimaginable amounts of crap that has nothing to do with leading the team or driving new revenue. All of their efforts will be focused on converting these accounts from contact information to paying customer.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 28, 2018

Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. What constitutes a good lead? This is all because the company did not agree internally on its market, the definition of a lead or what they sold. Not 50 things. Measure what matters.

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ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. It’s likely that many—if not most—of these same expense activities and market challenges will apply to the SaaS marketing automation companies leading up to and after going public. Sales and marketing activity.

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Biznology

JANUARY 6, 2016

It’s an eclectic list, culled from contacts I happened to make in 2015. Jim Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. Japan’s foremost lead generation marketing company. This round-up represents only a small sample of the fresh thinking that drives the upward march of B2B “modern marketing.” Great job, Mark!

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B2B Marketing PointClear Work Management B2B 48

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

.” “…the technology solutions make it easier to get more bad leads faster to sales than ever before. “ The unsung hero – lead nurturing. But a lot of times what I say is that the current solutions out there, the technology solutions make it easier to get more bad leads faster to sales than ever before.

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Top of Funnel PointClear Work Management Marketing Management 60

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

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. Take a look at the following cost per lead comparison.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Keeping data clean is critical to lead generation success. To reveal segments with higher probability of generating leads, compare your marketing database, which could number thousands of contacts, to your customer database. Most know that there is no such thing as a “good list”. Yet, it is frequently done wrong.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Although correcting basic data fields is an ongoing commitment of time and resources, it’s critical to lead generation success that marketers execute data segmentation and prioritization activities on an ongoing basis as well. Ongoing testing to differentiate characteristics reveals the most valuable segments.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

When it comes to improving sales lead generation results, using marketing technology without analytics expertise and business acumen results in a numbers glut devoid of action items. Embedded in every client program, they help us identify the right prospects and convert them to qualified leads. Segmentation and testing.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

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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ViewPoint

MAY 7, 2015

This topic is of such importance, I reached out to fellow industry leaders and asked them to share their outlook on lead nurturing programs (and processes) and what to expect in the coming year. At each step of the improved process, research showed that when attention was given to the prospects and they were contacted, sales improved.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

The Sweet Spot: We’re all ‘smarketers’ now - Follow the Lead , July 8, 2010 Sam Zales. 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. To Auto Tweet or Not to Auto Tweet? -

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Ning Paid Content Facebook Sales Management 40

Hubspot

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Lead generation , PPC, SEO, website design, social media, PR, content creation. Lead Generation. Wait, you can outsource lead generation? Ideally, most of your leads are coming from inbound marketing -- people who raise their hand to say they want to hear from you by doing something like filling out a form on your website.

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