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Taking away a salesperson’s excuses!

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I think I have heard all the excuses for not following up on sales leads. Salespeople have said to me that they will follow-up on sales leads: If there is a phone number. Salespeople have said to me that they will follow-up on sales leads: If there is a phone number. If the person is qualified to buy. A time-frame to buy.

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All Real Salespeople Love Sales Leads (but there is a tiny caveat)

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James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. All real salespeople love sales leads and don’t ever believe anyone who tells you differently. The argument comes when salespeople define a lead.

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Wanna Win? Jump Up the Lead Quantity and Add Nurturing!

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James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. It’s way ‘old-school’ to try and kick-start sales by dramatically jumping up sales lead quantity, and then rely on the sales channel to deal with it.

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Buckle Up! Sales Reps Share Perceptions of Marketing-Generated Leads

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A new eBook reports on sales rep perceptions of marketing-generated leads, and the findings run from surprising to shocking to downright scary. The survey sample is nicely balanced with responding reps engaged in field sales, inside sales, and inbound and outbound lead generation and lead qualification.

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2015 Horoscope for Sales Executives: from Danmac the Magnificent

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You were feeling pretty good about work until the new SVP of Sales & Marketing announced that leads sourced by marketing have to be proactively accepted or rejected by sales; AND if you reject a lead you have to say why. Oh, and, Pluto is somehow figuring into your fall. The answers: yes, no and about 25.

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PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software

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My guest today is Craig Rosenberg, Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Co-Founder at Focus. He is also author of a popular sales and marketing blog, Funnelholic , where he shares B2B content with an edge. Craig specializes in lead generation, lead qualification, and B2B marketing and sales.

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PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence

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He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.