Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Paul is a speaker, writer and B2B social media strategist. His latest book is Social Marketing to the Business Customer , co-authored with Eric Schwartzman. A lot of B2B marketers have chosen not to get on board the Facebook train for fear that Facebook's freewheeling culture clashes with their serious business.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

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. So the first question is answered: A “real” lead is qualified and nurtured by Marketing—and ready for Sales to take over and turn into revenue. Since 1997, we’ve had 3.6

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Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Lower rates typically indicate a breakdown between marketing and sales.

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Pointclear

JUNE 2, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. ITSMA’s data says that for high consideration technology solutions, this is a myth.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of, Off The Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and a social sales training speaker. Is your business-to-business (B2B) content marketing plan creating re-action beyond sharing?

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Top of Funnel Social Media Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 189

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. Let me clarify: I would argue that the highly trained, effective salesperson is more important than ever. Those are as much for sales as they are for marketing.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Marketing and sales are aligned. The team of experts includes: Ardath Albee, Marketing Interactions , CEO and Business Strategist. Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing , President. In my opinion, marketing should be helping sellers get into conversations earlier. Cold calling is dead. Do you agree these are lies? It is possible.

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B2B Cold Calling Inbound Lead Rank 100

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. However, as with any business, there are specialists.

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Pointclear

MAY 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the first of a 9 part blog series. Whether you are the CEO, or aspire to be, there’s some chance that in your opinion marketing and/or the sales organizations in your company are far from operating efficiently or effectively.

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Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead Marketing Lead Rank 177

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2012

Marketing’s plate is full. Sales and marketing operate on different frequencies. Timothy Wise a VP at Ring2Media jumped in to say that as a lead generation company he has more issues in dealing with sales management than with marketing (the experience issue). Complicates content marketing goals. Kate Maddox.

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

As a sales acceleration specialist he helps sales organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate a high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design. Sales’ biggest mistake: ‘pitching instead of probing.’”.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. Build it and they will come.”

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Pointclear

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is Executive Director of Revenue Optimization at MECLABS where he leads business units that include Applied Research, Strategy Group, Conversion Group, Leads Group, Agency Group, Technology Group and Training Group. The Right Marketing Mix: Blended… and Grounded in Buyer Understanding.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 145

Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2018

Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. 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. I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (We

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Company 157

Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Pointclear

APRIL 14, 2017

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. Sales/B2B Marketing execs feel intense need to do something, but are afraid to risk budget. Marketing complains that they do not get specific feedback from sales on leads.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services Pipeline 147

Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Top of Funnel How To 219

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. Build it and they will come.”

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You may not realize it, but B2B podcasts from you and your company create multi-use content, testimonials, thought leadership, and relationships with industry leaders. Weekly programs published from large companies and marketing departments are better when they can use the enormous amount of content which comes from each podcast.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Case Study Social Media 133

Pointclear

MAY 15, 2013

As CEO of UK-based Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners , Bob works with the leadership teams of technology-based B2B-focused companies, enabling them to make the critical connections between their marketing messages, their sales conversations, their true differentiators, and their customer''s priorities. The alternative close.

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Top of Funnel Opportunity Closing Film 248

Pointclear

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos is a recognized thought leader in B2B marketing and known for his keen insights on the development and implementation of lead management processes, as well as marketing automation. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and contributor to many B2B marketing publications. marketers are ahead of salespeople.

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Outbound Inbound Telemarketing Education 169

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Tony also served in the role of Vice President in Sales and Marketing capacities for TRW, Knight-Ridder, and Compaq (HP). in Marketing Management. Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. He holds a B.S.

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Sales Process Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 194

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell and a social sales training speaker. Here is a proven system to use LinkedIn for B2B sales leads and prospecting. Sometimes those people are us!

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Groups LinkedIn Lead Rank Social Media 176

Pointclear

AUGUST 9, 2016

It may seem counter intuitive, but there are three key reasons why B2B companies need to pay more—not less—attention to opportunities not yet ready to close: 1. Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI. Here’s an example: Marketing spends $60,000 to generate 80 leads. In many cases hot opportunities are already baked.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2012

Tony is a sales and marketing thought leader with nearly 20 years of experience. He has led the research function at SiriusDecisions for more than 10 years, overseeing the creation of content including demand creation, product marketing, marketing communications, general strategy, sales training, hiring and client service.

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Lead Rank Video Inbound Lead Scoring 145

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

there are four primary differences between quality outbound touches and old-fashioned cold calling or “interruption marketing.”. Theoretical calculations of return on investment (ROI) or return on marketing investment (ROMI) are used to judge the success of the program without regard to actual results.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences. But it’s only a tool.

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Marketing Strategy Eloqua Marketo 266

Pointclear

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s as if they wanted to develop a product, get investors, build a website, hire salespeople, ignore marketing people and then intentionally hide from anyone who doesn’t want to buy immediately. And for goodness’ sake, make sure those who do answer the phone are trained in basic phone etiquette. What a surprise!

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Want free access to 9 in-depth interviews from industry experts and data from 3,400 global marketers? Introducing: Not Another State of Marketing Report [link] pic.twitter.com/CDuB1mF967 — HubSpot Academy (@HubSpotAcademy) February 20, 2020. So what’s the motivated B2B seller to do? Heinz Marketing.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 98

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Delivering a superior sales experience is the best way to increase B2B sales success, and the RAIN Group sales training folks have the statistics to back it up. Read on for insight as well about market opportunity and sales productivity—and get ready for a productive new year. As always, I welcome your questions and comments.

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