No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads? Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28

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Pointclear

APRIL 12, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. The 7 Biggest Misconceptions of Successful B2B Marketing.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Even when callers are live, they can fall into that same robot mode: Seemingly reading from a script, often talking too fast because they expect you to quickly exit the conversation and hoping against hope that you’ll stay on the line for their sake (not the person’s on the receiving end). One simple trick.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I spend a lot of time on the phone every day, talking to sales and marketing leaders—including prospects. I’m often asked what kind of companies PointClear serves. What they have in common are complex sales processes, and the need for outbound account-based marketing services that generate high-quality leads for sales.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The age-old issue of how Sales and Marketing work together (or not) is still on the table. Marketing complains that Sales doesn’t follow up on their leads; Sales contends that the leads Marketing sends their way aren’t any good. What are your thoughts on the current state of Marketing and Sales alignment?

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Continued engagement in the form of account-focused outreach (also referred to as Account Based Marketing) makes sure your company is on their radar when the right disruption happens to necessitate a decision, when their current solution’s weaknesses reach the boiling point, or when competition encroaches and fear sets in.

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Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Integrating customer relationship management and marketing automation systems can be expensive, complicated and scary, but doing so is necessary for your organization''s optimal performance, writes Justin Gray, CEO of LeadMD. Via Funnelholic.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Marketing and sales leaders often don’t account for all the expenses involved in building and maintaining an inside team. per hour for a PointClear outsourced teleprospecting resource. We’ll have this conversation in Part 2 of this blog series. On the surface it might make sense. How can this be? More Effective.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Popular opinion would have you believe that, however, recent research shows that buyer’s want sales involvement in early stage conversations—in fact they prefer it. Via Sales & Marketing Management. The Death of Salesmen is Overstated.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Outbound calling is interruption marketing. I received a lot of positive feedback about the article and decided to ask our PointClear PowerViews Alumni (those who have been on the PowerViews show ) for their input on the most dangerous lead gen lies out there. Here’s what they had to say: Ardath Albee | Marketing Interactions.

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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

MARCH 19, 2018

It wasn’t an easy conversation. The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent conversation on marketing approaches, friend and colleague Elizabeth Fairleigh, thE Connection , shared an interesting comment: “I was thinking about outbound telephone calls and why they are relevant today. But a live one-on-one conversation also differs from online approaches. Personal connection. Next steps.

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Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2018

How can you dramatically improve ROI on marketing automation investments? Read these top three tips for when and how to use marketing automation—and when not to. If your targets are senior, I recommend you test a multi-touch campaign against an automated marketing effort to determine which method results in more revenue.

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Pointclear

MAY 1, 2013

Frank Donny is founder and CEO of Marseli , a marketing and sales analytics and performance software company. Frank''s remarkable 25-year career of driving marketing and sales operations divisions within Fortune 500 and start-up organizations is highlighted by his passion for business development and empowering others to succeed.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

So, what do you want from Marketing?” And that is how the conversation went with me saying very little for the next hour. It’s interesting…ask salespeople their opinions about a marketing campaign, copy, creative, or any number of marketing’s creative options and you’ll hear very little. I asked the gathered salespeople.

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Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

Anthony Iannarino – Anthony has helped people in a wide variety of industries and markets think through and overcome their biggest business challenges. He is a trust builder focused on leading transformational conversations, those that create and sustain relationships of value. Sales is NOT customer service.”. How could we fix it?

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Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2012

As a member of the Executive Advisory Group, he delivers CMO and Sales Advisory Services that provide senior technology marketing and sales executives with insights into how to improve productivity and efficiency in their organizations. My PowerViews guest today is Rich Vancil, IDC Group Vice President for Executive Strategies.

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Pointclear

APRIL 30, 2013

I''m pleased to have as my guest today Jamie Turner, CEO and Founder of The 60 Second Marketer, an organization that provides tools, tips and tutorials on the newest techniques in marketing. Jamie was recently profiled in Advertising and Promotion , the world''s best-selling college-level marketing textbook.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The biggest disconnect between marketing and sales is the hand-off of marketing qualified leads (MQL’s) to sales and the acceptance of those leads (SAL’s) by sales. When marketing, teleservices, and sales are aligned on lead definition, the SAL rate should be at or above 85 percent. closed/won deals per 1,000 inquiries.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Qualifying criteria are rarely met due to lack of marketing resources. Sales reps actually need fewer sales leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified marketing leads. Sales reps’ calendars are cluttered with unqualified meetings. Money is wasted on sales lead generation programs that don’t work.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Lead nurturing triples marketing's ROI, but only if done properly. I propose that nurturing is the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. Marketing Pipeline. These are fully qualified prospects who are not immediately interested or ready for a conversation with sales. No Response.

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Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Each were covered in detail, and referenced thought leadership from industry leaders. Are these truly leads?

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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? Attract the Bees.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My guest today is Dave Munn who has been President and CEO of ITSMA since 2000, having led ITSMA's global expansion to become the leading B2B marketing association for technology, professional services, and telecom companies. 2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. New marketing channels.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

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. Your Facebook presence needs to be fun, conversational and provocative.

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Pointclear

APRIL 14, 2015

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, Gini Dietrich and Anthony Iannarino joined me on PowerViews LIVE for a value-packed discussion on Why Thought Leadership Matters: What it Takes to be a Sales & Marketing Opinion Leader. Here are some of the key points and quotes from our conversation: “Never try to be a thought leader. Be transparent.

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Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. Are we marketing to IT decision makers in the Fortune 100? Not 50 things.

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Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2018

Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. You just reset the focus of the conversation from price back to value. If she is still in the conversation, she will probably say, “How low can you go?”. I practice it every day in my role as lead salesperson for the company. (We We are not the low-price leader.)

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

What you should do: Nothing new here — keep your crew well-trained in professionalism, product, and market. Buyers want to have an intelligent two-way conversation, and this won’t happen with some over-cologned “closer.” However, I have some other recommendations: Have you read all the marketing blogosphere stuff on buyer personas?

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Pointclear

JANUARY 19, 2011

This month Jim's intention is to stimulate conversation. I have chosen Marketing Automation for this month and next month I would like to undertake the same exercise for CRM. Right now, let’s concentrate on Marketing Automation. ” What would be the state of marketing departments?

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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

MAY 12, 2015

I didn’t know how I was going to break the news to him that if this was the best they can do with their marketing program, they will never have more than an ‘also-ran’ business that earns a basic living for its founder, but never makes a significant mark in the marketplace. Using the complete CRM/marketing automation tool set.

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Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2015

On March 3, 2015, Direct Marketing Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Ginger Conlon, joined me on PowerViews LIVE to talk about “Where Marketing is Going … and Growing … in 2015.” A sales, marketing and customer experience expert, Ginger shares her perspective on current and future marketing trends.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I recently read Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman’s book: “Social Marketing to the Business Customer” I liked the book (so much so that I wrote an Amazon recommendation) for a number of reasons. “Social media isn’t a task to be delegated to the marketing department.” Traditional marketing is push.

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Pointclear

MARCH 8, 2011

Strategic account management and marketing automation: a marriage made in heaven or oil and water? I had the good fortune to discuss how SAM and marketing automation intersect with Bob Thompson, CEO of CustomerThink, during a recent interview about my new book, The Truth About Leads.

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Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. They’re doing what a lot of the marketing automation platforms have been doing.

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