Inbox Insight

MAY 9, 2024

Lead generation has become an essential aspect of every company’s growth strategy. While some B2B companies choose to keep lead generation in-house, there are significant advantages to outsourcing this critical function. In fact, outsourced lead generation can produce 43% more outcomes compared to in-house lead creation.

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Only B2B

MAY 23, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of B2B sales, generating high-quality leads and securing qualified appointments can be costly and time-consuming. This blog explores the transformative power of SDR-as-a-Service in reducing the cost of obtaining qualified B2B leads and appointments.

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SalesGrape

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Introduction: The Power of Telemarketing in Driving Business Growth Telemarketing has long been recognized as a powerful tool for businesses to generate leads, increase sales, and fuel growth. Agents should be trained to listen attentively to prospects’ needs and pain points, allowing them to offer relevant solutions.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. Understanding and actioning on the moment that a buyer is ready to talk is only possible with a Lead Management Framework. This is how you contact leads at the right point in their journey.

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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. A high contact rate indicates efficient targeting or accurate contact information.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s important to follow through on leads. Upon receiving a new lead, it should be categorized, accessible, and tracked for the most relevant ongoing marketing campaigns. We know that lead management is defined as the process by which marketing acquires, evaluates, nurtures, and hands off leads to the sales team.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. Is this a person with authority to buy?

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ViewPoint

JUNE 5, 2015

In the first 2 parts of this series we discussed the role of executives and best practices for planning and preparation when outsourcing your lead generation program. I n the first two weeks of the program you will see disproportionately more unqualified dispositions than qualified dispositions or leads. (In Guess what?

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

To really be effective, these teams require specialized training and support. If inside sales doesn’t know how to work marketing leads, is frequently asked to do things that aren’t part of their normal responsibilities, or is incentivized to simply pass leads along, you’ll never achieve efficiencies of scale and the teams can’t be maximized.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That’s essentially what PointClear clients do when they engage us for outsourced lead generation. They get a cohesive team of B2B teleprospecting associates—experienced, educated and trained—who can deliver immediate results. Read Is it Better to Insource or Outsource Lead Generation? Plus they get support that’s hard (i.e.

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Unbound B2B

JANUARY 10, 2023

Quick Summary: Outsourcing Lead Generation means hiring an external company to help you generate business leads. The cost-per-lead acquisition is different for every business based on size and market competition. Outsourcing lead generation services can save you time and money. Lead gen is not a simple exercise.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 22, 2018

I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (We They tele-prospect on behalf of our clients using a value-selling approach, applying their training and experience to advance the pipeline and deliver return that's well worth the price of our services. Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter.

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PureB2B

APRIL 5, 2022

Bad leads are the scourge of any B2B business. Your salespeople are often clamoring for more and more B2B leads to meet their quotas, so your marketing team is rushing through their work to meet those numbers, right? It’s pointless to play the blame game because the root of bad leads extends far deeper into the heart of your business.

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PureB2B

APRIL 5, 2022

Bad leads are the scourge of any B2B business. Your salespeople are often clamoring for more and more B2B leads to meet their quotas, so your marketing team is rushing through their work to meet those numbers, right? It’s pointless to play the blame game because the root of bad leads extends far deeper into the heart of your business.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

1: Hire and train more inside sales. Increased opportunity/lead cost efficiency. When utilized correctly, they have a huge impact on qualifying and converting leads, resulting in a lower opportunity cost. ? Which content pieces has the lead engaged with? ? Inside sales provides: ? Faster time to qualify. Ease of scale.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. Does it offer a solid integration with Salesforce (or other, leading CRM), including a view into the lead, contact, account and opportunity objects? Ease of use.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On the other, there’s pressure to build positive, engaging relationships with prospects, without being pushy about lead generation. Both teams aim to increase revenue, but different approaches can lead to conflicts. Ruthlessly Filter Your Prospects Obviously, not every lead is the same. Think about an IT services firm.

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markempa

OCTOBER 6, 2014

How does your sales team perceive the leads Marketing produces? They complain about lead quality. They complain about lead volume. The say leads, what leads? Marketing gives us leads? Lead generation is an iterative process that requires consistent closed-loop feedback. If you chose answer No.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 7, 2018

If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you know that we have a rigorous hiring process—I maintain that the quality of our people is key to our ability to deliver high quality leads that sales will follow up on. Pay attention.

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Only B2B

JULY 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of B2B sales, the pursuit of success necessitates a precise approach to identify and engage high-quality leads. Enter the BANT framework – a beacon of hope for sales professionals seeking mastery in lead qualification. Source: Implisit ) However, BANT Qualification also has certain limitations.

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PureB2B

JULY 19, 2021

For marketers and their companies, lead generation is critical for growth. To Improve lead generation, you need to boost brand recognition and people’s interest in your products or services. Lead generation techniques, when done correctly, build solid relationships with viable customers with interest in long-term commitments.

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PureB2B

JULY 19, 2021

For marketers and their companies, lead generation is critical for growth. To Improve lead generation, you need to boost brand recognition and people’s interest in your products or services. Lead generation techniques, when done correctly, build solid relationships with viable customers with interest in long-term commitments.

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Belkins

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Qualifying Leads For Appointment-Setting Success. However, you do need a deeper knowledge of leads and how to ensure that only the most relevant sales leads are flowing through your pipeline. We always mention taking pride in our sales leads and how thoroughly we qualify them. What is a qualified sales lead (SQL)?

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The Mx Group

JUNE 4, 2018

With all the advantages technology provides these days in terms of marketing automation, efficiency, speed and data availability, there’s still no guarantee that, as a senior marketer, you’re bringing in enough B2B leads each quarter to meet your goals. Not your father’s telemarketing….

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

During this meeting, I presented a sales document that would help streamline their lead prioritization. The next step was to develop the strategy for building a set of sequences the sales team would assign leads to based on routing criteria and the marketing campaigns they were historically involved in. And she was right.

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Only B2B

APRIL 5, 2023

Companies in the B2B SaaS and technology industries frequently engage an outsourced SDR to fill their pipeline during periods of high growth while they prepare and train their internal sales development team. Typically, a third-party company employs and manages remote sales representatives for their clients.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 8, 2022

It should be listening to questions and replying with helpful answers, routing leads to the appropriate next step with each interaction. To be successful here, your tool must be tied back to a strategy, a content model, and a lead management framework. Your chat tool needs to know when to move a lead from bot to person.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I was speaking with a company this week that was saying their close rates on qualified leads was less than 30%. Pretty anemic if the leads are indeed qualified (we will not explore this on this post as this is not the overall point). I recently worked with one client who took a very different approach to lead qualification.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Once a lead has been deemed qualified (a good fit for the product), they enter the pipeline as a prospect and reps track progress as sales conversations unfold. You can also offer additional training for your reps on how to lead effective demo calls. Lead qualification Not all potential customers are likely to close.

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ViewPoint

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

First, gold calling requires the caller to take strategic approach to call planning, including creating a detailed playbook, identification and segmentation your market, developing lead qualification criteria, efficient reporting on your calls, effective call training, and weekly contact between the callers and the team receiving the leads.

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DealSignal

MAY 30, 2023

Given that there is a certain sales cycle associated with driving leads and opportunities in this fashion, he believed this would blow a hole in the pipeline for six to 12 months due to the product sales cycle. Provide Comprehensive Training: Invest in training programs to equip the outbound BDRs with the necessary skills and knowledge.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Is lead scoring a crucial part of your marketing process? Do you want to improve the quality of leads handed off by marketing to sales? Or do you want to reach the growing portion of your leads that are mobile users? This could include converting more leads, making sales more efficient and improving campaign ROI.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. Is lead scoring a crucial part of your marketing process? What are our goals?

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LeanData

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Leads are coming in. Great playbooks are the foundation of an efficient sales pipeline, keeping marketing and sales aligned on converting leads into customers. Your sales pipeline map should answer the following questions: How do leads first enter the sales pipeline? When leads come in, where will they go? Demo Plays.

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Hubspot

JUNE 15, 2023

Salespeople are leveraging tools that streamline processes, save time, and create a more personalized experience for leads. Sales reps who currently use AI/automation in their role say they most often use AI/automation tools that offer data-driven insights, like sales forecasting, lead scoring, pipeline analysis, etc.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 10, 2020

We all know that marketing efforts are what attract your future customers, but at the end of the day, it falls on your sales team to turn those leads into customers. How can you, as a leader, ensure that they are successfully converting those leads into customers? Lead Qualification Matrix.

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