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6 Things Good Lead Generation Vendors Do Right (That You May Be Doing Wrong)

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There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine.

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Sales Lead Generation: Saving Money – Killing Performance

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PointClear was recently given a verbal approval for a pilot program by the SVP of Sales for a technology solutions provider. Then we got turned over to sales operations and purchasing (supposedly a formality). The point is, not all sales lead generation firms are created equal, just as not all houses are the same.

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Dear CEO: Find out how well your team is nurturing its B2B sales leads

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Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. That is why you frequently hear sales say: “the leads suck.”. In it I state: “How much should a lead cost?

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Five Ways to Avoid Getting Burned by Outsourced B2B Sales Lead Generation

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Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. The main reason for these failures is that there is a LOT of mediocrity in the lead generation industry, which is why some say outbound is supposedly “dead.” Often multiple times. It isn’t dead.

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Cadence—Multi-touch, Multi-media, Multi-cycle Marketing Multiplies Results

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The result of these touches is what we call a disposition: PointClear's term for completing contact with a decision maker or company (some programs lend themselves to dispositioning by contact and some by company). This approach yields a 5% lead rate. We invest about 10,000 touches to generate 50 leads. What Is Multi-Touch?

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

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What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified.

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Get 3X B2B Marketing ROI by Nurturing Leads

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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. The numbers speak for themselves.