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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

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Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified. What’s it take to generate a volume of real leads, the ones you really need?

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

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Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. That is why you frequently hear sales say: “the leads suck.”. Long term, things get even worse.

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

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The real challenge is to learn how to demonstrate that the extra cost of your product or service is worth it. Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (See If the system is down, it would cost $200 to $400 in lost or delayed shipments per hour.

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Parallels: Social Manufacturing & Outsourcing Manufacturing Lead Generation

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The comment made me think about our outsourced B2B lead generation services and the way we have successfully partnered with manufacturing, technology and start-up companies to cover their markets, develop their prospects and deliver highly qualified sales opportunities to their field sales teams.

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Lead Generation Lies That are Wreaking Havoc with Your Sales

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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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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

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One of the biggest software companies in the world has a division that spends over $200,000 per year on leads that sales refuses to follow-up on. Because a few years ago the sales group asked us (PointClear) to validate those so-called leads and it turned out that only 1.8% Cost per sales qualified lead is $1,250.

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The Quest for Good Leads: Are You Asking the Right Questions?

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What’s a good lead rate? How much should a lead cost? It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. What is the equity value of those leads—the lead equity? Just google them.) Bottom line?