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Sales Lead Generation: Saving Money – Killing Performance

ViewPoint

The point is, not all sales lead generation firms are created equal, just as not all houses are the same. Instead of highly qualified sales leads, our would-be client will end up with the equivalent of 8’ popcorn ceilings. What else, besides labor costs, factor in to the costs of lead generation?

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Dear CEO: Find out how well your team is nurturing its B2B sales leads

ViewPoint

If you are buying leads on a pay for performance basis (which means the lead generator makes more money by generating more leads) then to the lead generator everything looks like a lead. That is why you frequently hear sales say: “the leads suck.”. Long term, things get even worse.

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Desperate and Fearful: Need Pipeline – Want Sales Lead Generation

ViewPoint

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. Sales/B2B Marketing execs feel intense need to do something, but are afraid to risk budget. The need for sales pressures the CMO to deliver leads fast.

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Forecasting B2B Marketing Activities to Meet Sales Goals

Heinz Marketing

If your organization is not tracking your funnel metrics, I recommend investing in a marketing automation platform, where you can develop your lead and opportunity stages and track your marketing efforts. Forecasting Sales Leads. In this example, the marketing goal is to drive 100 new sales this year.

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How much should you pay for a sales lead?

Biznology

When planning a B2B lead generation program, you need to deliver leads to your sales team at an affordable price. A neat way to determine in advance how much you can spend on a lead is to calculate the Allowable Cost per Lead for your campaign. Let’s look at an example of how this works.

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Beware the Siren Call of Pre-Qualified Leads

The Point

There is a growing trend in the content syndication space, and among Cost Per Lead (CPL) programs in general, for media vendors to offer B2B clients the option of pre-qualified leads. However, over the long term, I’d argue that it’s almost always more cost-effective to qualify your own leads.

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6 Sales KPIs Your Small Business Can’t Ignore

BenchmarkONE

To make sure that you’re revving up action on the sales KPIs that matter most, you need to know which of them are essential to operating your business effectively and which are interesting but ancillary. Below, we’ll go over the six SMB sales KPIs that you should definitely be tracking, with advice on why to measure them and how.