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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

We even had one sales rep follow-up on a lead by saying: “Some telemarketing company in Atlanta said you were interested in buying our solution. And, to a great extent these sales accelerators are needed because, at least theoretically, buyers are taking themselves through 70% of the buyer’s journey before sales needs to get involved.

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Emptying Your Sales Trash By Colleen Francis

Sales Training Advice

So what do you need to do to keep meeting the needs of your buyers in this new economy? Do you sound like a radio ad or a telemarketer? I recently read a study that found that in 2010, 80% of tradeshows leads never get a follow up. A key element of sales success is about accurately meeting the needs of your audience.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Is Return on Customer (ROC) a good.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales E.

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