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Tell Marketing They Can Keep Their Leads

No More Cold Calling

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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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

Pointclear

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. Let me go out on a limb and propose the top five media for your lead generation toolkit. Let me go out on a limb and propose the top five media for your lead generation toolkit. Every business needs new customers.

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

A very well respected organization in the marketing and sales alignment business now reports that most companies have done all they can to help sales at the top of the funnel. On average sales reps qualify less than one-third of the leads they are given. Too many marketing qualified leads end up in a black hole.

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Make Marketing More Efficient by Embedding Analytics on Top KPIs

Pointclear

Embedded analytics can make marketing more efficient by providing timely new insights with previously unknown information about how your leads perform once they enter the sales pipeline as opportunities. Having analytics right in your work stream eliminates the "real view mirror" assessment of your marketing.

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