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

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There’s plenty of mediocrity in lead generation—both in-house and outsourced. 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.

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Embarking on a sales lead generation project: What could go wrong?

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a prospect asked me, following our discussion about PointClear’s lead generation, qualification and nurturing services. We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program.

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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

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We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP. It would be cool if we could do both, but as you will see it appears that lead rates are the result of GDP, not the other way around.

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Lead Generation: A Watched Pot Never Boils

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This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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Why would a company ever outsource anything?

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That’s essentially what PointClear clients do when they engage us for outsourced lead generation. expensive) to justify without being spread across by multiple clients, i.e. strategic planning, list development, analytics, segmentation, coaching and training. Read Is it Better to Insource or Outsource Lead Generation?

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The Right Cadence Creates a New Lead with a $1 Billion Healthcare System

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As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location. While the table above shows the cadence used to disposition a particular contact, the table below shows the production estimation of a PointClear business development associate. This is, in fact, the cadence designed for the client in this example.

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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.