ViewPoint

OCTOBER 3, 2017

If you are paying (just as an example) $750 per appointment, and on average 40% or more of those appointments are with someone who cannot or will not buy, then you are actually paying $1250 per appointment—if you consider, as PointClear does, that unless it’s a qualified prospect it doesn’t count. Long term, things get even worse.

Top of Funnel 168

Top of Funnel B2B Sales Sales Leads Sales Qualified Leads 168

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. Scores of X+ went to sales, and scores of <X came to PointClear for lead qualification and lead nurturing.

Lead Ranking 120

Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 120

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

When it comes to improving sales lead generation results, using marketing technology without analytics expertise and business acumen results in a numbers glut devoid of action items. Embedded in every client program, they help us identify the right prospects and convert them to qualified leads. Segmentation and testing.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Sales Leads Sales Qualified Leads Analytics 120

ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2017

I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads while average companies close 20%. Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. So, what happens?

Sales Qualified Leads 192

Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Work Management 192

ViewPoint

MARCH 7, 2018

This is a skill that we teach our associates, who spend their days making dials (80 to 100 a day) and engaging B2B sales prospects on behalf of our clients. Read this post , written by Jim Hall, a PointClear associate, to learn how he applies these listening skills every day. Pay attention. As always, I welcome your comments.

PointClear 159

PointClear B2B Thought Leadership Lead Qualification Thought Leadership 159

ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified. A hand raiser isn’t a real lead (that is, sales qualified) until they’ve had engagement with a representative of your company to find out the answers to the questions above.

Sales Qualified Leads 120

Sales Qualified Leads Forecasting PointClear Peer-to-peer 120

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

There is something of an irony at work here in that the MA offerings focus on generating inbound leads, and it’s a requirement that MA vendors need to supplant their own functionality with huge investments in outbound lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing if they want to achieve enterprise-level, complex sale success.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120