marketing-lead sales 
ViewPoint
JANUARY 4, 2018
I review a lot of content on this topic and am amazed at what I find written about lead cost. For example: “The average cost per lead across all the companies surveyed is almost $200 ($198.44).Admittedly, see marketing charts analysis of HubSpot’s “2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report” ). per gross lead).
ViewPoint
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Those of us who use the phone to successfully generate sales leads have picked up an essential trade secret. How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? I am asking this person for their time and attention so that I can present my (client’s) case and do my job. One simple trick.
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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. None were actually leads.
ViewPoint
JULY 24, 2017
A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. At the bottom of the list were what they called “uncloseables,” meaning these were companies that this competitor was not able to generated leads from.
ViewPoint
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process.
ViewPoint
JUNE 5, 2017
I recently chatted with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales world about the transition from finger pointing to collaboration between sales and marketing. The status quo--where marketing complains about sales not following up on their leads and sales says the leads are no good--is not the place to be.
ViewPoint
MAY 23, 2018
Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing. True Nurture.
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