ViewPoint

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. I detailed 7 lies to be aware of to avoid a lead generation disaster (read the blog for the specifics): Any list will do. Automated systems accurately score (prioritize) leads. A form completion is a lead.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. Example 1: A shift in scoring criteria drives higher results. 10% of qualified leads converted to sales opportunities.

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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 120

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. What types of prospects need to be nurtured?

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ViewPoint

APRIL 14, 2011

A recently posted success story describes PointClear’s successful collaboration with Ingenix, a $1.8 Ingenix required a lead generation and lead nurturing team with specialized knowledge of the healthcare sector and experienced professionals who could. Educate them about the Ingenix solution and value proposition.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. Problem is, most lead to revenue calculators out there are overly simplistic. And an excellent tool provides you with insight into the value of inbound vs. outbound leads. Guess what.

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Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads PointClear Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 120

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. They’re ready.

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Sales Qualified Leads Forecasting PointClear Enterprise Management 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.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 7, 2018

If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you know that we have a rigorous hiring process—I maintain that the quality of our people is key to our ability to deliver high quality leads that sales will follow up on. Read this post , written by Jim Hall, a PointClear associate, to learn how he applies these listening skills every day.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association , and host of the Funnel Radio Channel. Jim recently interviewed PointClear’s Dan McDade about the five most important things he’s learned in business and life—in one of an ongoing series of radio programs featuring sales and marketing industry leaders.

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PointClear Ethics Budget Programs Business 149

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

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. This second blog is about the importance of valuing qualified inbound and outbound marketing prospects and the proverb “A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.”. In the last blog we talked about lead rates.

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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. Plus, Gary is one of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet. His blog is a must-read.

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Enterprise Management B2B Marketing PointClear Advertising Agencies 80

ViewPoint

JUNE 6, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. According to a study from the Chief Marketing Officer Council, 9 out of 10 B2B buyers ranked online content as having at least a moderate effect on their choice of vendors. Via iMedia Connection. Via ClickZ.

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B2B Marketing PointClear B2B Trade Show 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. A live call leads to an atmosphere of spontaneous and spirited dialog. Personal connection.

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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.

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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.

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B2B Marketing PointClear Work Management B2B 48

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers. One answer includes applying, tracking and measuring best-practice sales lead management processes. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

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.

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Top of Funnel PointClear Work Management Marketing Management 60

Varicent

APRIL 19, 2018

For example, if you're going to do lead generation and work with sales, you want crisp handoffs that can be measured in an objective way. Agreement on lead attributes like target demographics, job titles, revenue, employees etc. Attributes that can be measured and explicitly agreed upon are key.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

How much should a lead cost? Understanding what goes into generating a high-quality B2B lead helps you determine whether you're getting a good deal. While most people wouldn't quibble with the above reality, many still measure marketing success based on the cost per lead. It’s about value, not cost.

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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.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

B2B marketers are certainly aware that business marketing data degrades quickly. Keeping data clean is critical to lead generation success. To reveal segments with higher probability of generating leads, compare your marketing database, which could number thousands of contacts, to your customer database.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 21, 2017

With today’s business instability and volatility, B2B marketers are well aware that business marketing data degrades quickly. To reveal segments with higher probability of generating leads, compare your marketing database, which could number several thousand contacts, to your customer database.

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Paul Gillin

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

My 15 months of hell taught me otherwise, and that’s why I was curious when Dan McDade sent me a copy of The Truth about Leads. McDade Is an entrepreneur whose company, PointClear , helps businesses improve their prospecting and lead nurturing. These tactics can generate a lot of names, but not many qualified leads.

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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.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

The Sweet Spot: We’re all ‘smarketers’ now - Follow the Lead , July 8, 2010 Sam Zales. 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. Should I be paying attention?

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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. His lead nurturing program did precisely that. This is part two of a two-part blog. Click here to catch up on part one. ).

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Lead generation , PPC, SEO, website design, social media, PR, content creation. Lead Generation. Wait, you can outsource lead generation? So to say that you're outsourcing lead generation as an inbound marketer is kind of like. Let me explain. outsourcing all of your marketing.

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