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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

ViewPoint

More and more marketers understand that agile, which started in the IT development realm, has good application in marketing in general, and in lead management specifically. Intimate customer tribes over impersonal mass markets. Small experiments, testing and data, intimate customer tribes, engagement and transparency?

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing

ViewPoint

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. One of the best practices I've seen associated with that is making sure that any customer communications come directly from either their account manager or assigned salesperson.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

First and foremost, the acceptance process allows marketing to confirm that sales or partners are acting on all delivered leads. The rates of lead acceptance and rejection reveal lead management and quality problems that can be quickly addressed. Develop a lead hand-off process and follow-up best practices.

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

ViewPoint

Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (We Having uncovered the needs, we must probe and find out as much as we can about those needs and the implications to the customer if they are not met or fulfilled. We are not the low-price leader.)

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Lead Generation Lies That are Wreaking Havoc with Your Sales

ViewPoint

More leads are better than fewer leads. I received a lot of positive feedback about the article and decided to ask our PointClear PowerViews Alumni (those who have been on the PowerViews show ) for their input on the most dangerous lead gen lies out there. James Obermayer | Sales Lead Management Association.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

ViewPoint

Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers. Demand for customization and integration from large customers may increase time and cost to complete sales and divert sales and professional resources. Customer needs can shift quickly. Target market challenges.

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The 10 most fascinating people in B2B Marketing in 2015

Biznology

Jim Obermayer, founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. I’ve known Jim for years as a consultant and author specializing in lead management—a generally under-appreciated subject that Jim uniquely understood to be a critical success factor in business selling. These people are making a welcome contribution.