Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 16, 2010

View of the Shawsheen River at Rt 133 from Green Leads' parking lot Those of you living in New England know that the past four days have been brutal, with constant rain, the White Mountains melting and all of it heading downhill towards towns like Andover. A flood of leads! Is your team able to work remotely as Green Leads did?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2011

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. When do we see our first leads?

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 1, 2010

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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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

On a recent sales call, the prospect told me he is working with a pay-for- performance appointment setting company like Green Leads. Vice versa, if you are to supply inbound leads or lists, you deliver, too. Was I dreaming? Did I hear that right? Establish and manage to a Service Level Agreement (SLA).

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

Quantity in demand gen has been a constant debate. Whether it's inbound marketing or outbound marketing there are costs associated with a lead, there are costs associated with the time and effort needed to convert that lead to an opportunity, and there are costs tied to the quality of those leads and how that impacts conversion rates.

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

How often do demand gen experts ask their sales team, "How are your leads?", "Are your appointments meeting your expectations?" How often are your leads under-cooked? Set your lead gen standards and expectations between sales and marketing, and then formalize them into a Service Level Agreement (SLA).

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 29, 2010

Most sales people today have found that using LinkedIn as a research tool to identify specific prospects has been a fantastic way to find the needle in a haystack of potential leads. If you have any LinkedIn tips, or Lead Gen Tips in general, please share them. Just three more clicks. So Tanya, expect my call.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

and I were both panelists discussing: Linked, Tweeted, and Profiled:Using the Power of Social Media to Generate Sales Leads and Expand Client Relationships Despite a minor glitch from the webinar hosting provider during the first minute, the event was successful due to Richardson's impeccable planning process. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

and I were both panelists discussing: Linked, Tweeted, and Profiled:Using the Power of Social Media to Generate Sales Leads and Expand Client Relationships Despite a minor glitch from the webinar hosting provider during the first minute, the event was successful due to Richardson's impeccable planning process. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

Quantity in demand gen has been a constant debate. Whether it's inbound marketing or outbound marketing there are costs associated with a lead, there are costs associated with the time and effort needed to convert that lead to an opportunity, and there are costs tied to the quality of those leads and how that impacts conversion rates.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 10, 2011

They just don't work any longer and they're not helping anybody succeed at generating quality b2b leads. It had everything you needed to pass a lead or book an appointment with your targeted prospecting base. Top of the list: Stick to the script - There was a time when it was imperative that you stick to your prospecting script.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies and the net-gen crowd. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, but in my opinion it is just traditional lead generation, demand creation and marketing with some new twists. But don't be afraid to hire specialists.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lead generation in the world of b2b can be enhanced by social media, especially with early adopters, techies, and the net-gen crowd. Call it Lead Gen 2.0, but in my opinion it is just traditional lead generation, demand creation and marketing with some new twists. But don't be afraid to hire specialists.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 13, 2019

There is no place for BANT in a lead gen scenario, it is for later in the sales cycle. BANT is dead as it pertains to Lead Gen. And in Lead Gen, especially b2b appointment setting , the goal is to get the conversation started. Thank you Ken! Check out the Inside Sales Virtual Summit on June 20.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 26, 2010

google: demand generation appointment setting company site:linkedin.com Trying to find a lead at a company that has a specific title, try something similar to this example where I'm trying to find someone at the director or VP level responsible for network security at company.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

Guest Post from Gareth Morfill, Inside Sales Blackbelt at Green Leads. If you were talking to a prospect face to face, do you think that would make you pitch any differently? More confidently? We feel that it absolutely does.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Outbound sales, lead generation and demand gen in general are all about the numbers, too: forecasting good numbers, hitting those numbers and then pushing those numbers to new levels. Do you have dashboards that track your lead generation and pipeline activity? The winning team was The Flatlanders with a 20% lead over the rest.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Green Leads has a complete virtual workforce, which we implemented after a flood – years before Covid – lead gen experts need disaster recovery plans. From Green Leads to you all…Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and please…a legendary New Year! She recalled Green Leads’ first Christmas Party with just 10 attendees.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

pictured left to right: front row: Lisa, Linda, Cheryl, Amie, Stacey (holding Louie), Kathy, Josh, John T. second row: Kerry, Sarah, Gill, Mira, Bill, Gareth, Anna Marie, Mike S., me), Lenny, Levi. third row: Sam, Dawnia, Coleman, John V., missing: Tim, Ursula, Olivier, Vanessa, Ian and Joe.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

When we started Green Leads we set out to build the perfect Virtual Call Center. We accomplished it, and other than not seeing people face-to-face, the way we work is identical to a traditional call center. We can see people's dials, what CRM records they modify, listen in for training, etc.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Lead with leaders. Find the leaders of your tribe and get them to lead by example. I recently saw a Fortune 500 company do this and, whadda ya know, 55 unique twitter addresses tweeted the exact same text at the exact same moment (sounds like an ingenious agency idea to me). Encourage them to step out in front of you occasionally.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. That’s generated a good amount of traffic and leads. Mike: I still wonder about b2b Facebook Fan Pages as a medium for generating leads, but I agree with you that twitter and LinkedIn are an incredible source.

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 22, 2010

Last week, I was out with the team at Focus.com and enjoying "bourbon and proteins" with Craig Rosenberg ( The Funnelholic ) when the subject of campaigns came up from his point in a recent post to " forget campaigns, build a factory. " We agreed completely that marketers that think in the world of "campaigns" are shortchanging their results.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Her presentation about using LinkedIn successfully to generate leads was popular with the audience. That's generated a good amount of traffic and leads. Mike: I still wonder about b2b Facebook Fan Pages as a medium for generating leads, but I agree with you that twitter and LinkedIn are an incredible source.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 16, 2009

When I was on my conference road trip this spring, I heard publicly, from speakers and audience alike the same comment, "Leads Suck". What if you could get your sales team to NEVER say "Leads Suck"? There are lots of terms describing leads. Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL), Sales Qualified Lead (SQL), Sales Accepted Lead (?),

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

If they are tip-worthy, I'll add them to the growing list of lead gen tips. Check out the article I wrote, Take 3 Hour Lunches , which discusses the day in detail and backs it up with data. Just the tip of the iceberg here. What outbound calling tips can you offer?

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 12, 2013

There is no place for BANT in a lead gen scenario, it is for later in the sales cycle. BANT is dead as it pertains to Lead Gen. And in Lead Gen, especially b2b appointment setting , the goal is to get the conversation started. Thank you Ken! Check out the Inside Sales Virtual Summit on June 20.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. We each have two obvious things in common: We are bloggers and we are lead gen practitioners. Competitors are definitely worthy of being part of the Lead Gen Tips collection. Already this month a lead has come of it. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0:

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. We each have two obvious things in common: We are bloggers and we are lead gen practitioners. Competitors are definitely worthy of being part of the Lead Gen Tips collection. Already this month a lead has come of it. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0:

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

Check out the interview of me discussing how having good data impacts lead generation success on ReadyContact's Blog. Tags: data lead gen interviews demand marketing sales2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 12, 2010

I started penning this piece about summer last week when AG Salesworks published a great article touching on some of the tactical issues of lead gen in the summer. The implication for those of us in the B2B lead generation business is crystal clear: DO NOT SLOW DOWN. Not so, my friends.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2009

When we're selling our outbound marketing demand gen solutions, we get asked all the time, where can I find inexpensive b2b sales leads ? So below is a collection of data sources we've used in our lead generation work. Online Data Suppliers: Typically an annual subscription basis. Although, see Jigsaw, below.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2009

We hear this all the time, even from our own reps when they are having a slow week: "December is terrible for lead gen. End of year and the holidays.". True, people have other things on their minds. Some might be closing out the year, but many are willing to help those elves with their heads down making appointments.

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