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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

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Direct mail Direct mail, for decades the workhorse of direct response communications for lead generation, still delivers the goods. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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Lead Qualification & Lead Nurturing: Whose Job Is It?

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They are filled with brand builders or communicators who do not possess lead generation skills and technology, or they are measured on “response rates” and “cost-per-lead,” which are the wrong metrics. Traditional marketing departments are also not the best equipped for this important job.

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Lead Qualification & Lead Nurturing: Who's Job Is It?

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They are filled with brand builders or communicators who do not possess lead generation skills and technology, or they are measured on “response rates” and “cost-per-lead,” which are the wrong metrics. Traditional marketing departments are also not the best equipped for this important job.

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B2B Lead Generation: Are You Killing the Golden Goose?

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It is not as important that you compare your own lead, qualified and no-response rates to PointClear’s experience. We have clients who generate terrific ROI with 3% lead rates and other clients that boast lead rates of upwards to 10%.

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Lead Generation: A Watched Pot Never Boils

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In the last blog we talked about qualified rates. This time we are going to talk about managing the “No Responserate and the importance of having patience when it comes to working prospects—including resting them and then recycling re-segmented prospects to improve overall results.

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Marketing is More than Automation

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Had we simply emailed the 7500 contacts provided and only followed-up on responders we would have missed over half the market AND response rates on email today are so dismal that our client would have been lucky to get 50 responses. But, most lists available on the open market are terrible.

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PowerViews with Paul Gillin: Social Media – Pick Your Spots & Focus

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For example, if I’m using email marketing, the ability that we now have to target our messages and to create effectively customized email messages according to the characteristics of the audience members we’re trying to reach—that adds significant power to your email marketing and dramatically drives up your response rates.”