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. Sales Performance International. We are not the low-price leader.) Brian Tracy.

Lead Rank 157

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Company 157

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A variety of industries use inside sales as a popular high-growth sales model. According to Harvard Business Review , 46 percent of high-growth tech companies are expanding through inside sales, as compared to 21 percent growing through outside sales teams. Growth Carries Challenges.

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Inside Sales Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 40

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Tony Zambito is Founder and Principal of the buyer research and strategy firm Buyerology ?. He is also the originator of the buyer persona research and creation methodology as well as Business Buyergraphics ™ that are widely used to make informed decisions from buyer insights.

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Sales Process Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 194

Pointclear

JUNE 11, 2013

At a recent high school track meet I cheered on our team in several heats of the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays and mused that we can look to track and field athletics for inspiration and tactics for marketing and sales alignment. The training for relays initially focuses on building the individual runner’s abilities.

B2B 247

B2B Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Rank 247

Pointclear

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These are fully qualified prospects who are not immediately interested or ready for a conversation with sales. Nurturing is about talking to your prospective clients at every stage in the sales cycle. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process—even the early stages.

Top of Funnel 157

Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing B2B Epiphany 157

Pointclear

AUGUST 28, 2013

Buyers are increasingly savvy and willing to shop around, and salespeople have to recognize how the landscape has changed and how the interaction with potential customers continues to evolve. I also shared statistics from the Corporate Executive Board that 71 percent of buyers still want sales involved early in the buying process.

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Hiring Consumer Video Vendor 214

Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. Inbound marketing is based on developing high quality content that attracts qualified buyers, who are in the early stages of the sales cycle. Build it and they will come.” But can you build enough content and who will come?

Lead Generation 51

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 51

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

Forecasting 124

Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Pointclear

JANUARY 11, 2011

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. No longer will the Inside Sales Rep be a “jack of all trades” Roles will be clearly defined and measured based on specific desired outcomes. Data will become an integral component for predicting the likelihood of Inside Sales success.

Inside Sales 185

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 185

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Rowley, who oversees social selling enablement for 23,000 sales professionals at Oracle, earned her marketing handle during her previous decade at Eloqua. She spent six years in management consulting and 52 quarters in software sales. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement. She’s Down with OPC.

Oracle 223

Oracle Eloqua Social Media Twitter 223

Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If you’re in sales, you might think this is an odd question or you might have a stronger, more visceral reaction to the question—“Marketing doesn’t sell, we do!” The line between sales and marketing is becoming more blurred every day. Marketing now owns the top of the traditional sales funnel.

Demand Generation Agencies 219

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Top of Funnel How To 219

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. What sort of impact has nurturing had on your sales activity?

Lead Nurturing 145

Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 145

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved. Marketing and sales are aligned. Mike Weinberg, The New Sales Coach , Principal. Today we will take on the second of the three lies: 57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved.

B2B 100

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. Because a phone conversation efficiently replicates face-to-face sales activities, these one-on-one flowing and probing interactions are the most effective method to validate the quality of a lead. Sales is sales.

Lead Gen 113

Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. Inbound marketing is based on developing high quality content that attracts qualified buyers, who are in the early stages of the sales cycle. Build it and they will come.” But can you build enough content and who will come?

Lead Generation 225

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Pointclear

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos has been named three years in a row—from 2009 to 2011—to the Sales Lead Management Association’s 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. 2012 Trending: Marketing Is Ahead of Sales in Understanding Buyer 2.0. He also believes—from the point of view of skill sets and understanding Buyer 2.0—marketers

Outbound 169

Outbound Inbound Telemarketing Education 169

Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

His new firm, which specializes in strategic positioning and provocative sales messaging, is called Visible Impact. But, when I attended the recent Leadership Summit put on by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP), I was reminded that sometimes questions can just lead to more questions.

Inside Sales 162

Inside Sales Hiring Conference Field Sales 162

Pointclear

AUGUST 21, 2013

More musings on the premature death knell for outbound sales. Among the many arguments used to relegate cold calling to the duckpins of history is that educated buyers have access to more information than ever and that 70 percent of the buying process is completed before a sales rep needs to get involved in a sale.

Cold Calling 221

Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Outbound Direct Mail 221

Pointclear

JUNE 2, 2015

In part 1 , we discussed the critical role senior executives play in setting expectations for sales and marketing within their organizations. Now let’s move on to: Part II: Participation in planning & training. With proper preparation, our team can be trained in as few as 4 to 8 hours. Insight into the buyers’ mentality.

Outsourcing Services 100

Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

MAY 30, 2012

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

Cost per Lead 154

Cost per Lead Top of Funnel Outbound Sports 154

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. I’ve been using LinkedIn and blogging to generate B2B leads and sales very effectively lately. Attract the Bees.

Top of Funnel 189

Top of Funnel Social Media Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 189

Pointclear

MAY 12, 2015

The sales manager, Bob, said to me in a gleeful voice, full of enthusiasm and hope: “We’re winning one out of every ten of our proposals, and we’re ecstatic.” This conversation took us down the road that explained average buying ratio of raw leads (45% were buyers), qualified leads (20-40% higher), and then proposals (30-59%).

Marketing 100

Marketing Proposal Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

AUGUST 9, 2016

Your sales team likes nothing better than getting leads with a high probability of closing soon. Often hot leads are really prospective buyers that have already been sold by another vendor. The numbers consistently show that organizations that pay proper sales attention to all leads are better stewards of their marketing budgets.

Sales Qualified Lead 100

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100

Pointclear

JULY 24, 2012

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. More specifically, tell me how you manage your sales leads and I can tell how successful you will be in marketing.

Engineering 150

Engineering ROI Lead Generation System 150

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.

Lead Rank 145

Lead Rank Video Inbound Lead Scoring 145

Jonathan Farrington

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Phase 2 can be a potentially vulnerable time for a sales person, because without the benefit of an established track record, and in the face of possible problems, no matter how minor, this is the time when most newly acquired customers are apt to change their mind. This is often referred to as ‘Buyers Remorse.’

Follow-up 40

Follow-up Lead Rank Lead Scoring Remedy 40

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. Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

Lead Gen 145

Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 145

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Their data shows that companies using automation combined with a reasonable lead management process—inquiry generation, qualification, nurturing and hand off to sales—produced four times the sales volume of companies with automation but with weaker processes. Train up your team. Today''s blog was written by Ruth P.

Marketing 266

Marketing Strategy Eloqua Marketo 266

Pointclear

JULY 10, 2013

Carlos Hidalgo from Annuitas recommends that “organizations should be training their teams on how to use it effectively”. Anthony Iannarino ( The Sales Blog ) said, “It allows you to engage in one-to-one and one-to-many conversations. But that’s the point—increasingly, it’s the place where business gets done.”. Still my favorite!”.

Social Media 239

Social Media Media Tools InsideView 239

Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2017

Amad said, “Yeah, they give us quotas, but the sales managers don’t have the same numbers, and the systems engineers aren’t on the same system; so no one gets punished but us.”. Quotas can be by dollar, by product, and by sales activity; often by all three. No one pays attention.”. James Obermayer.

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Quota Forecasting Policies Pipeline 113

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. Their new infographic is an interesting and timely read—highlighting what differentiates top performing sales organizations.

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Sales Goal B2B Groups Buyer 124