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33 Questions to Ask B2B Appointment Setting and Lead Gen Vendors

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Outsourcing some or all of your appointment setting or lead generation activity to a third party vendor is a task that shouldn't be undertaken by responding to one cold call. I believe this across lead gen: the most important thing to look at is cost per opportunity not cost per lead.

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Demand Generation Provider Activate Marketing Services Acquires Green Leads

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Acquisition Accelerates Activate's Full-Funnel Demand-to-Pipeline Demand Generation Services and Adds High-Value Sales Appointment Setting Capabilities. Activate MarketingServices (ACTIVATE), a high-growth provider of demand generation for B2B brands, announced today the acquisition of lead gen and appointment setting firm Green Leads.

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Lead Generation Tips - Take 3 Hour Lunches

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There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. Gerhard Gschwandtner of Selling Power just highlighted last year's MIT / InsideSales.com study of outbound prospecting lead conversion. More Lead Generation Tips. It got me thinking.

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Lead Gen Strategies: Sales People Should Be Selling, NOT Prospecting

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This past week a prospect commented that she wanted to explore a third-party lead gen program because their sales reps were spending too much time prospecting and not selling. She said that if they had enough leads they would be SELLING and CLOSING -- not having to do lead gen. Sounded like a LinkedIn Poll to me.

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28 Questions to Ask B2B Appointment Setting and Lead Gen Vendors

Smashmouth Marketing

Outsourcing some or all of your appointment setting or lead generation activity to a third party vendor is a task that shouldn't be undertaken by responding to one cold call. I believe this across lead gen: the most important thing to look at is cost per opportunity not cost per lead.

Lead Gen 100
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Lead Gen Experts Need Disaster Recovery Plans - A Flood of Leads!

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A similar situation occurred last year with the ice storms and power outages in New Hampshire where one of the other lead gen firms went down completely for three days. For our sales rep clients, lost production from their lead gen partners means lost opportunity. Is your team able to work remotely as Green Leads did?

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Lead Gen Tip for Q2: Face Time

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Measuring the effectiveness of lead gen programs is always at the top of a demand gen expert's list of priorities. One of the gating factors happens to be out of their control -- what does the sales team do with a lead once they start working it?

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