Pointclear

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Today's guest blogger, Ann Handley, is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the co-author of the brand-new book, Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business. Why doesn’t our blog have any comments?). Wiley, 2011).

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Trends B2B Social Media Marketing 180

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 178

SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

She is a frequent speaker and blogger on Inside Sales productivity, trends, and effectiveness, and the author of Building Inside Sales: Framing a Best Practice Group and co-author of Sales Speaks: Perception & Ponderings on Marketing Leads. Among those folks are: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions.

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Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 114

Pointclear

MARCH 20, 2014

So, when marketing sent me the new inbound leads, I naturally got excited. What Was Wrong with Marketing''s Inbound Leads. I''m changing the facts of the story slightly to avoid scapegoating the responsible marketing team). Which is relevant when you''re selling social media management software.

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Inbound Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Social Media 262

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 133

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

JO: If you've got 10 or 12 departments, and you've got 15 different software programs that this inquiry is going through, and you've got artificial intelligence spitting out results all along the way, someone has to figure out what that process is going to be and the piece that each process involves. They're running a lottery."

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 124

Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

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. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 51

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2018

At least one software company literally took PointClear’s playbook, which includes details about the multi, multi, multi approach, and turned it into a red-hot piece of software. Sales will ignore these leads because they are conditioned to expect poor quality marketing leads. Wish I had thought of that.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Direct Mail Call-back 100

Pointclear

JUNE 18, 2013

In spite of what Mike Damphousse ( Green Leads ) said recently in his blog BANT is Dead -- Find the Authority , salespeople need information such as B udget, A uthority, N eed and T ime frame to judge if an inquiry is really a lead and should therefore be followed up. A failure of lead generation and marketing.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 200

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales. Walk around.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Pointclear

JULY 17, 2013

The increased sophistication of translation software will enable computers to quickly translate languages, reducing the need to hire reps who speak the native language. If your US business isn’t clued into the needs of emerging markets, China (not the US) will be the largest economy. won’t be so important in 2020.

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Field Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 245

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This cartoon was sent to me in response to a blog I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I just love the simplicity of it; not to mention that it absolutely captures what is wrong with marketing in many if not most companies today. Just 42% of marketing qualified leads are accepted and worked by sales. (Photo Courtesy of Kenny Madden).

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Lead Rank Account Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

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. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Pointclear

MARCH 1, 2012

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute. Lack of alignment between marketing and sales.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Sales Qualified Lead Lead Management 165

Pointclear

MAY 17, 2018

A senior marketing executive once got so frustrated with his sales counterpart that he offered the following choices for spending $100,000 on a lead generation campaign: Option. To be fair, marketing’s mandate was to generate more leads every year with shrinking budgets. A viscous cycle: Marketing generates leads, sales ignores them.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Why it’s Important: “The companies that lag behind in adopting new ways of selling and marketing are slated for the trash heaps of failed businesses.”. At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. About CRM Radio Guest Mike Plante, Chief Marketing Officer. About InsideSales.com.

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InsideSales Inside Sales Revenue Webinar Metrics 113

Pointclear

MARCH 2, 2011

Today's guest blogger, Jeff Molander, is adjunct professor of digital marketing at Loyola University business school, a content marketing speaker and author of the forthcoming book, Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell. He blogs at [link]. Blogging, engaging, listening to customers on Facebook or Twitter.

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Social Media Media Top of Funnel Hiring 165

Pointclear

OCTOBER 23, 2012

You can also catch his popular, award-winning blog here — The JF Blogit. equipment, software, financial products, motor vehicles, clothes, food, etc. Their basic skills-set will include very high levels of commercial acumen, industry/sector/market knowledge. They will speak the language of the buyer.

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Retail Inside Sales Outside Sales Analysis 215

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. This worries me.

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Marketing Strategy Eloqua Marketo 266

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2012

His focus in the Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy practice helps his clients achieve extraordinary results. Prior to joining Aberdeen Group, he spent years in the trenches with companies including Progress Software, LogMeIn, and SuccessFactors. Video Marketing - A Surprising Trend. ” The Role of Social Media.

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Trends Social Media Top of Funnel Lead Rank 157

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Here are a few examples that will help you understand your cost per lead: Example #1 We once worked with the marketing director at a division of one of the world’s largest software companies. I was having breakfast the SVP of sales one day and he told me that they received no leads from marketing. Gross Margin – 60%.

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Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead Lead Rank 100

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The question which begs to be answered is, “What is the Keystone in the sales and marketing process?” ” There are numerous software products attempting to take credit for being the Keystone (much better than a corner stone). Is it the Marketing Automation system, without which 100% follow-up would be lost?

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CRM B2B Marketing Hiring 169

Pointclear

MAY 1, 2012

In the first blog on the fallacy of using the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments, we looked at the nature of the problem and associated costs to the organization. A $250,000 software solution may require connecting with a CEO, a chief line-of-business officer, and a number of influencers.

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Cost per Lead Lead Rank Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead 181

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. Adaptive Business Blog. Sales Management Blog. Heinz Marketing.

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Top of Funnel Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 98

Pointclear

MAY 5, 2015

It's a critical component in the sales and marketing process; yet, most companies aren't implementing it effectively—that is, if they are at all. There were some terrific responses and I’ll share them over the course of two blogs. He had written a blog on this very topic and was so gracious as to allow me to pull from it.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Sales lead management is a marketing function, isn’t it?”. It was with a slight hesitation that the sales manager added the second sentence about sales lead management being a marketing function. With marketing automation it is a growing part of the job. Marketing Automation and Lead Management. are the answer.

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Outsourcing Services Leads Marketing Qualified Lead ActiveConversion 100