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How Much Leads Cost

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Look at this data from an actual PoinClear teleprospecting client: One source of leads was PointClear—we sent them only qualified leads and nurtured leads—at an average cost of $1,357.25. Leads from these sources, most of which will land in a black hole , all cost more than the PointClear qualified and nurtured leads.

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Leads are Hard 

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The variety of today’s “leads” are an even worse mix of “not qualified leads” than those coming from IEN magazine. At least IEN readers were, for the most part, mostly qualified “birds of a feather." High quality B2B teleprospecting and telequalifying are key to turning the garbage into gold. Guess what.

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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

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Or alternatively they use a formulaic approach and say if we close 10 percent and the average deal size is $50,000, then the return on marketing investment would be 10x, and we have to have at least 8x so 10x qualifies, and they approve the program. Jim Obermayer: At a higher price. Nice makes for a great working environment.

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The Perfect Lead

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Those of us at PointClear do not believe in the alphabet soup of acronyms such as BANT, ANUM and the granddaddy of all acronyms, MAN. Requiring budget and timeframe to qualify a lead (other than those for low-priced commodity offerings) ensures that you are eliminating some of the best opportunities. All leads have warts.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

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While most companies say they sell a solution, not a product or service, the message around what that offering (made up of a product, price and delivery mechanism) is more likely than not described differently by marketing and sales executives in the organization. Do we provide staffing, or are we a HR services firm? But that is baloney.

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

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Unless you are the low-price leader, value selling is essential to the success of your business. It's a rather straightforward proposition to sell on price only. Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. We are not the low-price leader.) It is possible however to qualify for an inhospitable environment.

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The Quest for Good Leads: Are You Asking the Right Questions?

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The lead rate for high quality, enterprise opportunity leads has been roughly flat.) It also determines that the price of an inbound generated lead is 3x less than the price of an outbound generated lead, $84 versus $220. Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs; Outbound: Telemarketing, Email, Events). Most companies stop here.)