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Leads are Hard 

ViewPoint

Readers circled the advertisers they were interested in and mailed back (or faxed back) the card to the publisher which then provided their advertisers with the appropriate leads. Not surprisingly, the “leads” advertisers would get from the magazines were a mixed bag. I recently wrote a blog called How Much Does a Lead Cost.

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

ViewPoint

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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What Do You Sell, Who Do You Sell It To and Why Everyone Has to Have The Same Answer

ViewPoint

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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B2B Lead Generation: Are You Killing the Golden Goose?

ViewPoint

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Over the next four weeks we will talk about all of the statistics on the following table, though today we are going to focus on lead rate: Based on over 60,000 completed company dispositions per year (annualized for 2012).

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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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The Skinny on Lead Nurturing - 11 Experts Weigh In (part 2 of 2)

ViewPoint

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. His lead nurturing program did precisely that. This is part two of a two-part blog. Click here to catch up on part one. ).

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

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

This is a nice, concise document that covers all the bases I can think of. The Sweet Spot: We’re all ‘smarketers’ now - Follow the Lead , July 8, 2010 Sam Zales. Yes, corporate blogs are an excellent resource for Lead generation. version from six months ago can be found here. REQUIREMENTS. Do You Plan For The Content Experience?

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