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5 Steps to Account-based Marketing Success

Pointclear

The deck outlines the 5 steps you need to apply the super-targeted approach to reaching out to prospects that is ABM: Identify Targets and Target Roles. To avoid a scattershot approach to marketing (the antithesis of ABM) figure out the ideal prospect/client profile. Focus on who needs you the most to avoid wasted effort.

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PipeLiner CRM #SalesChats Webinar on Prospecting

Pointclear

Pipeliner’s John Golden hosted me on #SalesChats recently and the topic was prospecting. John asked two questions: Which stage of the buying process should a salesperson engage with a prospect? I also suggest that questions to asks prospects break down into the following categories: pain, priority, process and environment.

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Tell Marketing They Can Keep Their Leads

No More Cold Calling

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 The only way to keep your pipeline full of HOT, qualified leads is to prospect through referrals. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads?

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Lead Generation: A Watched Pot Never Boils

Pointclear

This time we are going to talk about managing the “No Response” rate and the importance of having patience when it comes to working prospects—including resting them and then recycling re-segmented prospects to improve overall results. In the last blog we talked about qualified rates.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail. prospective business buyers in just about every category can be found through the mail, even for obscure products or highly targeted niches.

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Which is better in B2B Lead Generation? A $1,000 inbound lead or a $1,000 outbound lead?

Pointclear

It's harder for a rep to reframe how that customer is thinking about a solution at that point in their purchase process, so reps opt to just fulfill ‘orders’ from those prospects and might end up leaving a lot of money on the table. This is not an anomaly.

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4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015: #1 Believe it Works!

Pointclear

The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. Mike''s presentation, “4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015,” blew me away. We’ll review each tip one at a time—but first, let''s see what they are: Mike Weinberg’s 4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015: Part 1: Tip #1 Believe it works. Simplified.:

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