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

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What is a lead? Is it the person who signed up for your webinar this week? 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. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified. They’re ready.

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We're entering the era of accountability in sales and marketing

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You can listen to the webinar here. The status quo--where marketing complains about sales not following up on their leads and sales says the leads are no good--is not the place to be. The situation in many organizations today is characterized by: A low number of leads (just 42% on average) accepted and worked by sales.

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The Power of the Human Voice in Lead Qualification & Lead Nurturing

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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. These include custom content, nurturing emails, landing pages, SEO, webinars and podcasts.

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B2B Lead Generation: Are You Killing the Golden Goose?

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This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Over the next four weeks we will talk about all of the statistics on the following table, though today we are going to focus on lead rate: Based on over 60,000 completed company dispositions per year (annualized for 2012).

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - 5 Buyer Behaviors Reshaping B2B Marketing

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The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Only 16 Percent of B2B Consumers Prefer Live Webinars. Live webinars have been a staple marketing tactic for B2B since the decline in trade show marketing. Via BtoBMagazine. Via ClickZ.

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On Becoming a Top Sales Expert at Top Sales World

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Areas of specialization cover a broad spectrum of sales expertise: sales process optimization, inside sales, sales best practices, sales lead generation, sales lead management, strategic account management, and much more. Thank you!

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B2B Sales Lead Management: A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush

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This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. In the last blog we talked about lead rates. Qualified Rate includes leads, pipeline (specific action required by PointClear) and nurtures (qualified companies with no immediate pain/need or interest).