ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2018

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing. The numbers speak for themselves.

Sales Qualified Leads 149

Sales Qualified Leads ROI Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 149

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 1, 2016

At one point he got so angry that he offered sales management the following choices for spending a $100,000 budget to generate leads. They could choose one of the following: 200,000 targeted contacts (name and title) in the right vertical (no email addresses). For details on how sales should follow-up on a lead click here.

Sales Qualified Leads 120

Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking PointClear 120

ViewPoint

APRIL 6, 2017

Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. The main reason for these failures is that there is a LOT of mediocrity in the lead generation industry, which is why some say outbound is supposedly “dead.” Often multiple times. It isn’t dead.

Lead Generation 192

Lead Generation B2B Sales Sales Qualified Leads Sales Leads 192

ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

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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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads PointClear 120

ViewPoint

JULY 24, 2017

A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. At the bottom of the list were what they called “uncloseables,” meaning these were companies that this competitor was not able to generated leads from. no email just vm.

Sales Qualified Leads 149

Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Lead Qualification High Quality Lead 149

ViewPoint

APRIL 26, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Staple Yourself to a Lead. Report: Data, content drive email marketing. 5 Tactics to Grow Your Email List. Via B2B Marketing Insider. Via MarketingProfs.

BtoB 120

BtoB PointClear B2B Marketing Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2017

I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads while average companies close 20%. Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. None were actually leads.

Sales Qualified Leads 192

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Work Management 192

ViewPoint

JUNE 16, 2015

What’s a good lead rate? How much should a lead cost? The lead rate for high quality, enterprise opportunity leads has been roughly flat.) That said, for several years the elephant in the room has been inbound marketing and inbound marketing lead rates. I have seen inbound lead rates reported as high as 11 – 14%.

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Cost per Lead PointClear 120

Biznology

APRIL 6, 2016

We actually verified the accuracy by outbound phone, thanks to the call center at PointClear. . Fortunately, an opportunity arrived with a generous offer from Dan McDade of PointClear to televerify the data samples. Sign up for our emails here. vendors today. . Company name, address, URL. . Like this post?

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PointClear Work Management Marketing Management List Brokers 80

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In this three-part series, the first article on marketing analytics looked at predictive targeting best practices, and the second article cited two sales lead generation programs to show how these processes actually drive improved results. Sales lead rates decline after the fifth contact cycle. It takes about 1.6

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Leads Sales Qualified Leads Analytics 120

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation PointClear 120

ViewPoint

JANUARY 13, 2017

You need full visibility into how many touches it takes to generate a lead, your lead rate, and your cost per lead at every stage in the funnel. You need to measure which leads are rejected and why. And you need to know at what rate your leads progress. It is allbound—includes calling and email and more. -It

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing PointClear ABM Cost per Lead 120

ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2012

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).

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Generation 120

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

PointClear’s success doing lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing for our clients is grounded in proactively reaching out and connecting with prospects via a one-on-one telephone conversation. These include custom content, nurturing emails, landing pages, SEO, webinars and podcasts.

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Lead Qualification Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

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?

Allocation 174

Allocation PointClear SIC Ideal Customer Profiles 174

ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. In the last blog we talked about lead rates. Qualified Rate includes leads, pipeline (specific action required by PointClear) and nurtures (qualified companies with no immediate pain/need or interest).

Lead Management 120

Lead Management Sales Qualified Leads B2B Sales Sales Leads 120

ViewPoint

APRIL 2, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. For B2B Marketing, Email Should be Personalized and Targeted. Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn.

B2B Marketing 120

B2B Marketing Linkedin PointClear Marketing Automation Services 120

ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. B2B Email Marketers Focus on Targeting Content. According to BtoB Magazine , lead nurturing and customer acquisition are tied at 29%, leading the list of most important uses for B2B email marketing.

B2B Marketing 120

B2B Marketing BtoB PointClear B2B 120

Biznology

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

When he sold it to Harte Hanks in 1994, Gary went on to thrive as an executive there, and is now CEO of Aberdeen Group , supervising its transformation from industry analyst firm into a really smart marriage of data and content for lead generation. Karla Blalock is COO of PointClear , the prospect development company founded by Dan McDade.

Enterprise Management 80

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing PointClear Advertising Agencies 80

ViewPoint

JULY 26, 2018

As an example, see Dan McDade of PointClear and his ViewPoint Blog, and his use of an interview on SLMA Radio about Who Owns the Pipeline. Email blast. Her open rate on these programs is higher than other emails that are straight product pitches. The artwork from the podcast program will be used in the blog article. Newsletter.

Thought Leadership 120

Thought Leadership PointClear Case Studies Budget Programs 120

ViewPoint

JANUARY 22, 2016

Companies need to remember the sales manager’s primary job and stop burying them with unimaginable amounts of crap that has nothing to do with leading the team or driving new revenue. Dan McDade – PointClear : As lead quality improves (while quantity declines), sales will struggle to approach each prospect as a market of one.

Top of Funnel 149

Top of Funnel Work Management B2B Thought Leadership PointClear 149

ViewPoint

JUNE 28, 2018

Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. What constitutes a good lead? This is all because the company did not agree internally on its market, the definition of a lead or what they sold. Not 50 things. Measure what matters.

Enterprise Management 136

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 136

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 22, 2019

.” “…the technology solutions make it easier to get more bad leads faster to sales than ever before. “ The unsung hero – lead nurturing. But a lot of times what I say is that the current solutions out there, the technology solutions make it easier to get more bad leads faster to sales than ever before.

Top of Funnel 60

Top of Funnel PointClear Work Management Marketing Management 60

Biznology

JANUARY 6, 2016

Jim Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. I’ve known Jim for years as a consultant and author specializing in lead management—a generally under-appreciated subject that Jim uniquely understood to be a critical success factor in business selling. Japan’s foremost lead generation marketing company.

B2B Marketing 48

B2B Marketing PointClear Work Management B2B 48

ViewPoint

AUGUST 2, 2017

There are many factors that impact the percent of leads that should be closed by sales. This blog will take you through five factors that impact lead close rate and a calculation you can use to determine the minimum close rates your product or solution requires. The five main factors in lead close rate are: Market definition.

Sales Qualified Leads 192

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking ROMI 192

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Study: Email Lands More Customers Than Facebook or Twitter, but Still Fewer than Organic Search. Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. Via HubSpot.

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PointClear B2B Marketing Advertising Agencies B2B 120

ViewPoint

MAY 7, 2015

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. Email surfaced with the internet and the mixture of mail, calling and email became a standard for nurture models.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring PointClear 120

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

At least one time per day, every day for three years, someone emails us at Junta42 or submits a project looking for a content vendor wondering how much content marketing (both print and web content) should cost them. With over 20 years of direct marketing experience, Stephanie Miller is an expert on email marketing best practices.

Ning 40

Ning Paid Content Sales Management Facebook 40

Hubspot

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Lead generation , PPC, SEO, website design, social media, PR, content creation. Lead Generation. Wait, you can outsource lead generation? Ideally, most of your leads are coming from inbound marketing -- people who raise their hand to say they want to hear from you by doing something like filling out a form on your website.

Enterprise Management 28

Enterprise Management Work Management Paid Search Agency Marketing Management 28