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How to Qualify a Lead: The Battle-Tested B2B Framework

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And, it all starts with marketing efforts that fill the top of the funnel with poor quality leads: Or, put another way, poor lead qualification. Every time a sales rep interacts with an unqualified lead, you’re losing money. Sure, there are literally billions of leads out there, but only a fraction of them are qualified.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals.

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The Role of B2B Marketing

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58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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The Role of B2B Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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How Social Media Drives Better Email Results

Marketing Insider Group

A recent study by GetResponse showed that adding social sharing in an e-mail increased click-through rates by 30%, adding a twitter share option increased response rates by 40% and adding as many as three sharing options increased response rates up 55%. by Michael Brenner, July 6, 2010 Related Posts: Need to Drive Leads?

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What Is Marketing Acceleration?

Marketing Insider Group

But we can use the power of acceleration to help our companies achieve greater success in 3 ways: Pipeline Acceleration: increasing the speed of conversion from initial response to lead, opportunity and sale. Program Acceleration: the rate at which we move from a marketing concept to a campaign that is driving results.

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Holy Cow! That Is A Lot Of Time Spent Online Using Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

The way we consume information is changing rapidly as the growth rate for social media use online and on mobile devices proves. B2B Marketers cannot ignore this channel and need to continue advocating for our brands and with our senior executives to get more involved, become more visible and to engage with customers in this channel.