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

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RESEARCH: Are folks responsible for reaching out to your market knowledgeable and prepared for quality conversation? There is disagreement on the value of research. Employing a 4 x 4 research approach (this is how our team is trained) is to spend a total of four minutes looking at four different data sources: The prospect’s website.

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Prospecting data accuracy

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Over the last decade, my colleague Bernice Grossman and I have studied this issue, producing a series of five research reports on the quality of the data B2B marketers can rent or buy for prospecting purposes. We actually verified the accuracy by outbound phone, thanks to the call center at PointClear. . The research results.

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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Selling at Every Level

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Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. University of Pennsylvania’s researcher Adam Grant says ambiverts tend to be the best sales people, not the clichéd aggressive extroverts. PointClear related: Powerviews with Dan Waldschmidt - Changing the Conversation. Via Funnelholic.

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Get 3X B2B Marketing ROI by Nurturing Leads

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Advanced lead generation—the approach PointClear employs on behalf of its clients—nets 154 highly qualified leads against a list of 1,000, or a 15.4% You can see from the above breakout that standard lead generation—the approach most organizations take —nets 50 highly qualified leads against a list of 1,000, or a 5% lead rate.

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The Flavors That "Sales Ready" Leads Come In

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This offer was made because marketing was providing option #6 above (using PointClear to generate the highly qualified leads), but sales follow-up was poor. If they responded at all, it was with one or two phone calls, without any research and without any compelling message other than “looking forward to talking to you.”

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - 6 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2013

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The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. 6 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2013: New Research. Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. Running A Successful Business Blog: Why It Pays to Post.

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Good Reads for B2B Sales - Are You Drowning in Sales Quota?

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Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. With the tap of a button a prospective buyer can quickly research competitor’s prices or on the flipside a salesperson can quickly search the LinkedIn account for a prospect and have immediate research in hand. Via Selling Power Blog.

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