Pointclear

JULY 23, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. It’s way ‘old-school’ to try and kick-start sales by dramatically jumping up sales lead quantity, and then rely on the sales channel to deal with it.

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Velocify

MARCH 12, 2013

For many lenders, the mortgage sales process is not much different from the chaos that unfolds in a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos. A dozen or so balls roll around a ring, and your job is to hit a lever that opens your hippo’s mouth and try to gobble up as much of the “hippo food” as quickly as possible. This is why I joined Leads360.

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Velocify

JANUARY 21, 2013

New study reveals that texting messaging at the right point in the sales process can drive significant conversion gains of up to 328%. With the large volume of flashy new mobile apps out there, the original mobile app, text messaging , has been largely neglected by sales professionals in their selling efforts.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This is not your grandfather’s door-to-door sales world, and for many, the days of wooing prospective customers on the golf course or over a fine dining experience are in the past. We are now in a savvy sales 2.0 world, where sales reps spend more time in the office, armed with a computer, phone, and internet connection.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A sales leader asked me yesterday, “What do we do with the sales reps that are not following up on the 50% of leads coming in that don’t get called more than once?”. This fact is from research previously done by Leads360 , a cloud based leads management and sales automation company. This must stop.

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

New Leads360 study analyzes the contact practices of more than 400 inside sales teams, identifying the methods and actions that drive best-in-class sales performance. But how quickly should sales follow-up? Many inside sales reps make too few calls and send too few emails.

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Inside Sales Leads360 Webinar Metrics Strategy 66

Velocify

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

At Sales & Marketing 2.0 in San Francisco and B2B Marketing Forum in Boston last month a common theme emerged – the idea of putting the “and” back in sales and marketing. Now this is not a new concept, but it is clear that as technology continues to impact the way buyers buy ( see Retooling in a Sales 2.0

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