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6 Things Good Lead Generation Vendors Do Right (That You May Be Doing Wrong)

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Don’t be surprised if you talk to six different people at your company and get six different definitions of a lead. See this article for my advice on “How to Establish a Meaningful Lead Definition.”. TARGET, SEGMENT AND TEST: How often does your team analyze lists? Unless you crack this problem, nothing else is going to work.

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Who Owns the Pipeline, Marketing or Sales?

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I recently talked to Dan McDade with PointClear as part of a series on SLMA Radio that I’m hosting that deals with the issue of pipeline ownership. Listen to Dan’s segment below. He maintains that technology alone doesn’t address the need for marketing to generate more leads for sales.

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

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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.

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Improve Sales Lead Generation via Marketing Analytics Part 2: Two Examples

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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.

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B2B Sales Lead Management: A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush

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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 Qualified. Cost per Company.

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Lead Generation Best Practices Part 6: Fewer Leads Are Better

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There is a counter-intuitive relationship between lead volume and sales performance. With sales organizations facing lower numbers, it seems logical to turn to volume lead generation to fill their pipelines with more and more sales leads in hopes that some will turn into sales.

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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 Response” rate 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.