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5 Steps to Account-based Marketing Success

Pointclear

Most marketing and sales folks I talk to agree … in theory. Zero in on prospects with the most propensity to buy to keep you from incurring marketing/sales costs that don’t deliver return. Then deliver it via all media (inbound and outbound), across multiple sales cycles, at just the right frequency. Analyze, Analyze, Analyze.

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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 You can probably guess what the vice president of sales told his team: Just ignore all leads from marketing, because they suck.

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

Pointclear

Our organization has done some extensive research over the last two years trying to understand how high performing sales reps qualify [opportunities] and nurture those [opportunities] through their pipelines to higher success. Simply driving large numbers of respondents and dumping them on sales does not work. This is not an anomaly.

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Lead Generation: A Watched Pot Never Boils

Pointclear

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Qualified Rate includes leads, pipeline (specific action required by PointClear) and nurtures (qualified companies with no immediate pain/need or interest). Managing “No Response” dispositions is not an art, it’s a science.

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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. Now what is needed, they say, is to provide support to sales people in the middle and late stages of the buying process. Sales Accepted Leads.

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PowerViews with Nick Stein: The Role of Games in the Sales Office

Pointclear

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight. Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. That has pros and cons, Nick said.

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

Pointclear

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. 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. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc. How do you measure that?

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