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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales? Or just go with inside sales? Good question. Step into my time machine.

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5 (doable) ways to drive revenue growth now

Pointclear

PointClear has proven methods for driving sales—and they’re discussed in detail in a white paper available for download now. Identification and leveraging of the sales force’s strengths. Don’t ask field sales folks who specialize in closing deals to prospect. You’ve come to the wrong place. That’s marketing’s job.

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Who Owns the Pipeline, Marketing or Sales?

Pointclear

I recently talked to Dan McDade with PointClear as part of a series on SLMA Radio that I’m hosting that deals with the issue of pipeline ownership. He maintains that technology alone doesn’t address the need for marketing to generate more leads for sales. Dan has some interesting perspectives, as have other guests on my show.

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Parallels: Social Manufacturing & Outsourcing Manufacturing Lead Generation

Pointclear

The comment made me think about our outsourced B2B lead generation services and the way we have successfully partnered with manufacturing, technology and start-up companies to cover their markets, develop their prospects and deliver highly qualified sales opportunities to their field sales teams.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

Pointclear

Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. At PointClear, our average associate is 50. They won’t get followed up.

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Get 3X B2B Marketing ROI by Nurturing Leads

Pointclear

Advanced lead generation—the approach PointClear employs on behalf of its clients—nets 154 highly qualified leads against a list of 1,000, or a 15.4% Sales leaders who need their expensive field sales people focused on closing highly qualified leads, not sourcing them. More reasons nurturing matters.

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Depend on Recurring Revenue? Here’s How to Contain Creation Costs

Braveheart Sales

This article is written with field sales teams in mind. However, if you run an inside sales team exclusively, don’t despair, you may still find a nugget or two of helpful information as well. An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear]. Source: com].

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