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Leads are Hard 

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According to Wikipedia: “a reader service card or bingo card" was a reply card inserted in a magazine and used by readers to request free samples and literature from businesses who advertised in the issue. Not surprisingly, the “leads” advertisers would get from the magazines were a mixed bag. Sound familiar? Guess what.

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Bubble in the Funnel

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We generate, qualify and nurture leads using Account-Based Marketing processes. According to Wikipedia, Root Cause Analysis (or RCA) is defined as “a method of problem solving that tries to identify the root causes of faults or problems. Only 42% of marketing generated leads were accepted and worked in those same years.

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Jill Konrath Reveals How She Overcomes a Problem by Reframing It

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Check her out on Wikipedia , and don't forget to connect with her on LinkedIn! Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. To learn more about Jill, you can read about her professional background , personal insights and sales philosophy.

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Avoiding Cascading Zipper Failures between Marketing and Sales

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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. Marketing creates demand, finding interested people and companies, and gives these leads to Sales; 75% of which are ignored. No lead management system.

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What if CRM had not been invented?

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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. ii Wikipedia: Customer relationship management (CRM) as a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects.

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Prevent Defense or Permit Offense? What a Football Argument Has to Do with B2B Sales Lead Generation

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According to Wikipedia, the Prevent Defense is a defensive alignment in American football that seeks to prevent the offense from completing a long pass or scoring a touchdown in a single play and seeks to run out the clock. Ardath Albee (Marketing Interactions) disagrees (and I do too): “A form completion is a lead. Just ask.

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The “Keystone” of B2B Corporations isn’t CRM or Marketing Automation

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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. Thank you Wikipedia). Sales Lead Follow-Up is the Keystone. Increasing sales by 20-50% from sales inquiries and leads. By now you get the point.