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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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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

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We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP. It would be cool if we could do both, but as you will see it appears that lead rates are the result of GDP, not the other way around.

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Which is better in B2B Lead Generation? A $1,000 inbound lead or a $1,000 outbound lead?

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Knowing the B2B lead generation market like I do, here is what I expected to see : “The inbound lead is better because outbound is dead.” I asked this question on Focus.com a few weeks ago and got answers that surprised me. ” “Inbound rules. Stop interruption marketing.” This is not an anomaly.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.