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

ViewPoint

Today we will discuss why it’s vital for marketing to develop a training guide for sales so all are on the same page as far as understanding what constitutes a lead in your organization, and what’s the best way to follow up on one. Set sales straight—it’s a win win. Rapid identification of problems.

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The Flavors That "Sales Ready" Leads Come In

ViewPoint

81 highly qualified sales opportunities with the right contact who has a need backed by some form of compelling event. This offer was made because marketing was providing option #6 above (using PointClear to generate the highly qualified leads), but sales follow-up was poor. Fix lack of effective follow-up by sales.

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

ViewPoint

There is a counter-intuitive relationship between lead volume and sales performance. With sales organizations facing lower numbers, it seems logical to turn to volume lead generation to fill their pipelines with more and more sales leads in hopes that some will turn into sales.

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Four Things to Consider Before You Buy Marketing Automation

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Instead reviewing your current lead management process, making improvements where they are needed, and finalizing a plan and map for the improved process will have two effects. First, you’ll become more efficient in your marketing and sales efforts. This post originally appeared on the PointClear blog.

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

ViewPoint

Nurturing is one of the most effective, yet underutilized, activities in the sales and marketing process. 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. It’s not the next new “trick.”

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

There are four primary buckets of technology solutions aimed at solving the “how do I make lead generation activities more effective?” Recently, I’ve heard from companies like Bulldog Solutions, InsideView, Jigsaw, netFactor, Reachforce, PointClear, Genius, Leads360, among others. Chances are, you will fail. Same goes for CRM.)

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

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

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. Yes, corporate blogs are an excellent resource for Lead generation. Name your blog. Mayflower Marionette Gets It All Wrong. Revenue Impact.

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