Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2023

Sales lead tracking can answer the million-dollar question: "How do I know if my team is maximizing their opportunity to close every lead?" Or, "how do I ensure my team reaches out to all their assigned leads?” This also leads to cleaner reporting for managers to glance at.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in marketing and sales circles is the importance of certain metrics. In the last blog we talked about lead rates. Cost per Company.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The cause of this huge discrepancy is not that they have no interest in making a purchase from your company but it is due to the negligent amount of nurturing that took place. For an increase in lead conversion, sales lead management must improve and one of the main hurdles that are faced during this process is lead nurturing.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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ViewPoint

JUNE 18, 2013

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. All real salespeople love sales leads and don’t ever believe anyone who tells you differently. A failure of lead generation and marketing.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 12, 2012

Contrary to popular belief, reps don’t need more sales leads. They need fewer leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified leads. But to be fair to Steve, he is paid to sell—not to interpret leads. Next-year decision? Steve is obviously making some poor decisions.

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ViewPoint

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

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. ” How did Andy know so much about sales, marketing and sales leads? I’m giving away the secret.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is the fourth (and last) in a series of four blogs about sales leads, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Why it is important to nurture qualified companies that do not represent immediate opportunity—a step missed by many if not most companies leading to wasted marketing spend.

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markempa

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Today I’d like to discuss the aspects of an effective lead management process. I’m not sure why many organizations think it’s acceptable to only get a return on about 20% of their leads when an optimized lead management process can tremendously help to convert more of those hard earned leads in the sales pipeline.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 19, 2012

When qualifying and nurturing sales leads, the lead farmer (prospect development professional) has a challenging job. The starting point in lead management is usually an inquiry consisting of a name, title, a company, a phone number or email address. The lead farmer is patient, but persistent.

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The Point

JANUARY 14, 2014

In my experience, most of the mental energy and strategic thinking around the practice of lead nurturing and lead management is usually applied to the goal of accelerating prospects through the sales process – from MQL to SQL, from SQL to Opportunity, and so on. Probably not.

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Outbrain

JANUARY 13, 2020

Don’t let hot leads cool down! For B2C and B2B organizations, a working lead generation process is a must, and when done right, it can become the main driver of new business. That explains why 63% of companies consider generating traffic and leads as their most important challenge. This is done via a “lead funnel”.

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ViewPoint

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

However, there are a lot of things good insourced operations and lead generation companies do well. While lead generation (or teleprospecting) is not rocket science, there are a lot of moving parts in a well-run lead generation machine. Failure to execute and coordinate all of the moving parts leads to poor results.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 18, 2024

Business process automation is, hands down, one of the best technological innovations to come along in decades. But how do make the best use of it (or get started, if you’re still stuck in manual processes)? Efficient lead management: Leads are scored and segmented automatically, ensuring timely follow-ups and higher conversion rates.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Our own Kimmy Netterville made the Sales Lead Management Association’s “Most Inspiring” list of 40 outstanding individuals in our industry, announced today. Kimmy was recognized in the category People in Lead Generation Companies for her many contributions in the last decade-plus helping PointClear clients as Program Director.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos is a recognized thought leader in B2B marketing and known for his keen insights on the development and implementation of lead management processes, as well as marketing automation. 2012 Trending: Marketing Is Ahead of Sales in Understanding Buyer 2.0. marketers are ahead of salespeople.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

And whereas the rapid emergence of flexible, easy-to-use, e-marketing tools is good news for marketers, choosing the right solution for your business can be a daunting process. Aligning sales and marketing with automation. Improving lead management through process-driven technology.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Companies that adopt effective lead management processes generate more revenue from their lead generation investment and have overall higher close rates on marketing generated leads than those that do not. But I've encountered very few companies that really do lead management.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

Each of these often operates independently of each other or at the bequest of various sales teams eliminating the continuity in dialogue with their buyer. Taking a strategic approach reverses this and puts the buyers squarely as the focus and causes organizations to align around their buying process. Workshops will do it.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Our own Josh Baez , Client Engagement Manager, recently joined Jim Obermayer, outgoing president of The Funnel Media Group for a great conversation on SLMA Radio entitled: Is Sales Engagement the Most Important Platform in your Marketing Stack? Lack of sales lead follow-up is a plague on B2B Companies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 15, 2009

Barry is co-founder of CSO Insights , an analyst firm that benchmarks the challenges faced by today's sales and marketing organizations, tracking the trends in the usage of people, process, technology and knowledge to improve sales effectiveness. How can better sales and marketing alignment improve sales performance metrics?

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The Point

JANUARY 17, 2019

Some years ago, our firm conducted a lead management audit for a technology client who was struggling to convert raw, inbound inquiries into sales qualified leads. During the audit, it became quickly apparent that one of the major issues was at the very front end of the lead qualification process.

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Martech

JANUARY 4, 2023

You’ve also got to know their company’s processes, organization and purchasing cycles. He’s an award-winning blogger and has been named many times to Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers. Company: Heinz Marketing. Company: Zen Media.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 16, 2018

What marketing needs to do is leverage technology not to simply send more poor quality leads to sales faster than ever before, but to cultivate the leads that sales needs to close deals that drive revenue for the company. What are your thoughts on pipeline ownership?

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 21, 2022

This week’s show is called “ The (Surprising) State of B2B Lead Engagement “ My guest is Doug Bell , CMO at LeanData. Changing the dynamic of prospecting and lead management strategies. The ability to capture a lead and create a new compelling experience. Investing in your tech stack and Ops tools.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 15, 2017

Some companies have several inside departments to take in, qualify, nurture, and filter sales leads to such a finite extent that few leads go to anyone. If the raw lead count is high but there is a mere trickle going to the salespeople, you have a substantial problem. This cost the company $1.2

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The Point

MARCH 22, 2019

Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. The result, inevitably, is a lead scoring model that fails to take into account the complexity of the company’s selling process. So, is lead scoring a dying art?

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ViewPoint

MAY 21, 2013

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. How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? Of course they do.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Of course, one big mistake – or even a series of little ones – can be the end of a potential sale. Ensure you avoid these 10 worst things you can do with a qualified sales lead in your lead nurturing efforts: 1. Constant phone calling is a sure-fire way to get a qualified leads running for the hills.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 29, 2011

by Carol Fox CSO Insights just released the results of its annual Lead Management Optimization (LMO) Study. The results were encouraging in that marketing seems to be shifting more and more toward alignment with sales objectives. The chart below shows how funds were allocated for 2011 among companies surveyed.

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Valasys

MAY 13, 2024

A good strategy that has proven to work for these businesses is the usage of sales automation apps. These apps have rich features and functionalities to process sales and productivity. This article will talk about the seven essential sales automation apps for B2B businesses that can be integrated with business operations.

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The Point

JULY 1, 2019

Now, I’m not about to advocate that we all dismantle our lead nurturing. programs and hand off leads to sales at the first opportunity, but there are more incremental steps that companies can take to ensure – if buyers are indeed ready to engage earlier in the process – that they have the opportunity to do so.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Gather these marketing insights from your CRM to prove the return on investment your department creates for the company: Revenue sourced by department Funnel velocity Funnel volume Total attribution influenced by department Marketing-to-sales handoff and funnel conversion rates #1: Revenue Sourced by Department What is it?

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ViewPoint

JULY 24, 2012

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. More specifically, tell me how you manage your sales leads and I can tell how successful you will be in marketing.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 10, 2016

According to Terry Flaherty, Senior Research Director, Demand Creation Strategies at SiriusDecisions in this blog, “Measuring the Impact of Successful Sales Handoffs” : “Organizations with a formal SAL stage in their lead management process generate 9.3 closed/won deals per 1,000 inquiries.

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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