The Point

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I only recently came across the results of research published late last year by Leads360 , a leading provider of hosted (SaaS) solutions for managing sales leads. In an era of marketing automation and automated lead management, you don’t have to rely solely on phone calls to follow up on leads.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 19, 2014

Here, in the second of this three part series, we will hear from The Funnelholic’s Craig Rosenberg; Annuitas Group’s Carlos Hidalgo; Sales Lead Management Association’s Jim Obermayer; Direct Marketing News’ Ginger Conlon; consultant and trainer Dave Stein; and agency founder Matt Heinz.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the second part of the series, we heard from The Funnelholic’s Craig Rosenberg; Annuitas Group’s Carlos Hidalgo; Sales Lead Management Association’s Jim Obermayer; Direct Marketing News’ Ginger Conlon; consultant and trainer Dave Stein; and agency founder Matt Heinz.

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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. What is lead management?

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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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markempa

OCTOBER 19, 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. So over the years I have been concentrating on this.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

Developing a lead scoring system is a core component of lead management—and no department is better suited to help your company bring this system into fruition than your marketing operations team. This allows human sales reps to limit their focus to building relationships with prospects who are actually worth their time.

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markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. I was recently asked by someone how to utilize lead distribution to gain the best results.

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SalesGrape

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In the competitive world of medical device sales, lead generation is a crucial aspect of success. With advancements in technology, medical device telemarketing has become an effective strategy to reach potential customers and generate leads.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Qualified leads. Closed leads. Revenue just from sales leads generated by marketing. Total Revenue. Is this good or bad?

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

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. Do you report on stats such as touches per conversation, touches per lead, best conversion touches? It was designed for lead management.

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markempa

MARCH 6, 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. " I agree. " I agree.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

If nurturing is instead relegated to a “clean up” role – i.e. making the most of those leads rejected by sales, its value will be a fraction of what’s possible. In a nutshell, the process is: lead comes in, SDR contacts leads, if no response, he/she moves that lead to the nurture program.

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markempa

AUGUST 16, 2006

There, I offer some thoughts on organizing and providing open access to more of your web content to successfully improve your lead generation success. There, I offer some thoughts on organizing and providing open access to more of your web content to successfully improve your lead generation success.

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markempa

JULY 10, 2006

« BeTuitive Publishing Book Review | Main | How Podcasts Impact B2B Purchase Decisions » Sales Leads Are Too Valuable For Sales People Alone David Meerman Scotts blog post, " Sales Leads Are too Valuable for Sales People ," is worth a read. Every salesperson loves leads.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 20, 2005

« Better Sales and Marketing Integration | Main | Telemarketing is the top lead generation tactic » New Cartoon Series Depicts "Sales Lead Hell" Building off my last post, I wanted to share something fun. a new cartoon series by MarketingSherpa called "Sales Lead Hell." Get yours here.

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 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. Heres a summary of Michael Ortners eight points: 1.

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ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2017

This is the place to show how amazingly low the close rate can be to break-even on converting marketing qualified leads to sales qualified leads via lead qualificant and nurturing, a nd what the return is on good sales lead management: Assumptions: Margin is 60% (probably conservative for software and services).

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2011

To have a successful marketing automation implementation start with this question and this question alone: “What does our lead management process look like and how can we automate it?” If you don’t have a solid lead management process in place than a marketing automation platform (MAP) will only automate a broken process.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 22, 2011

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. To learn more about The Annuitas Group and their proprietary methodology, the Lead Management Framework™ , go to [link]. What's the point of that?

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markempa

JUNE 7, 2005

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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ViewPoint

JANUARY 9, 2014

Actually I take that back, it’s not okay if you pass those 10 leads to quota-carrying sales reps. It is okay if you filter those leads via a combination of lead nurturing and sales development (or lead qualification) before you pass to your sales team. Sales is all about value for the dollar.

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markempa

JUNE 14, 2006

« New Book: Lead Generation for the Complex Sale is officially released | Main | PR Has New Rules for Reaching Buyers Directly » Why Most B2B Sites Fail to Convert Sales Leads Most people coming to your website arent coming to your website to buy. They are coming to your site for information.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 24, 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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markempa

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Do you have any other tips on how to get the channel partners to follow-up on sales leads? Do you have any other tips on how to get the channel partners to follow-up on sales leads? Share your comments. What gets measured gets done and what gets paid for gets done. Share your comments.

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Valasys

MARCH 11, 2019

As much as this choice is easy to make, many executives and marketers believe salespeople need more leads in order to sell in this economy and so they focus all their time, energy and resources in getting more leads to their sales team. Salespeople do not want more leads.

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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.

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markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

« Give Lead Generation Some Respect | Main | Podcast: How Trigger Events improve Lead Generation » Sales Leads Via RSS via Salesforce.com Otter Group CEO, Kathleen Gilroy , pointed me Charlie Woods, Moonwatcher Blog , and his intriguing post on the subject of distributing sales leads via RSS.

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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. An effective, accurate, trusted lead scoring model is a vital cog in a company’s overall lead management process. I would argue: no.

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PureB2B

AUGUST 19, 2018

These are the leads who need nurturing before being passed off to sales. Lead nurturing allows your sales team to work on qualified, ready-to-buy prospects for a faster sales pipeline. Clogging up your pipeline with leads that aren’t ready slows down the cycle. Align Content and Reward with the Sales Cycle.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

« Targeting Your B2B Lead Generation | Main | Podcast: Tradeshow and Event Marketing with Ruth Stevens » Target Marketing: What’s a Lead? Many marketers believe generating more sales leads is the key to hitting revenue targets. Read Target Marketing: What’s a Lead? That’s not always true.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 14, 2021

AeroLeads provides a Google Chrome extension to help you search various professional websites like LinkedIn for sales leads. AeroLeads will add these leads to your email marketing lists, so you can start working on those leads right away. After that, you’ll need to contact their sales team for a pricing plan.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In order to provide a practical guide to generating real results, here are the B2B Marketing Insider 5 Steps to achieve Lead Generation ROI: Step 1: Set your objective. The metrics you chose should be quantifiable and aligned to your sales goals. Think sales, leads, pipeline.

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PureB2B

AUGUST 19, 2018

These are the leads who need nurturing before being passed off to sales. Lead nurturing allows your sales team to work on qualified, ready-to-buy prospects for a faster sales pipeline. Clogging up your pipeline with leads that aren’t ready slows down the cycle. Align Content and Reward with the Sales Cycle.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 30, 2015

Today's blog was submitted by James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting. In summary, we have to say we agree with George Carlin who said, “The status quo sucks.”. James is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint.

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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.

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PureB2B

APRIL 21, 2017

With a holistic understanding of buyer intent, your business can improve the lead qualification process and enhance sales conversions. Buyer intent comes down to knowing what makes a great lead. And this means putting your customer’s needs, wants and interests at the center of all your sales and marketing campaigns.

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