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JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Here’s what they had to say: Ardath Albee | Marketing Interactions. Their fear that you’ll turn on the hard sale based on that form is one reason they lie. Leads suck.

Lead Generation 257

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Sponsoring SLMA’s Top Twenty Women in sales lead management got me to thinking about the top 20 women of all time. I bet you use some of these very traits to describe a woman you know doing extraordinary work in sales and marketing today. Nominating is open now and runs to March 16. Nominating is open to members of SLMA.

PointClear 157

PointClear B2C Lead Management ROI 157

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JANUARY 19, 2011

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. I have chosen Marketing Automation for this month and next month I would like to undertake the same exercise for CRM.

Marketing 169

Marketing Journal B2C Exercises 169

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AUGUST 18, 2015

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process. Think about all you’ve done in 2015 to improve sales and grow revenue: Launched a new website. Added an SDR team.

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revenue Leads 100

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AUGUST 15, 2011

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. From a recent survey of new members to the Sales Lead Management Association, we found that generating qualified leads is the biggest issue facing the new members.

Sales Qualified Lead 160

Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead B2C 160

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AUGUST 20, 2015

I challenged marketing and sales leadership involved in 2016 planning to pause and consider conducting the assessment before making any decisions for next year. Marketing and sales technology: Are our systems integrated and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our lead-to-revenue process? Step 2 – Data Gathering.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Revenue 100

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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. Last month we discussed Counterfactual Reflection (CR) as it pertains to marketing automation. ” What would be the state of sales and marketing?

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CRM Journal B2C Customer Service 154