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Lead Qualification & Lead Nurturing: Whose Job Is It?

Pointclear

Are marketing resources or sales reps the right resources to do lead qualification and lead nurturing in the B2B complex sale? But first, let's take a look at some lead generation challenges. Cahners Research has shown that 45 percent of qualified leads will end up buying a solution from someone within a year.

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Why would a company ever outsource anything?

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Existing groups work well together, they contribute more quickly, and they are more likely to shake things up (in a good way),” Finkelstein, the Steven Roth professor of management and director of the Tuck Center for Leadership at Dartmouth College, wrote. Plus they get support that’s hard (i.e.

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Parallels: Social Manufacturing & Outsourcing Manufacturing Lead Generation

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Kenandy has been founded by Sandy Kurtzig, the former CEO of ASK Group and the creator of ManMan. These points are well illustrated in a PointClear case study that describes our outsourced B2B lead generation and market coverage partnership with a Southeast manufacturer of industrial equipment.

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

Pointclear

At PointClear, we apply agile to what we do for clients to save time, save money, prevent frustration and get better results. We can do that because the associates on our team have what it takes to have the interactions that generate quality leads. At PointClear, our average associate is 50. years—twice the industry standard.

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Inbound Leads: To Pre-qualify, or Not To Pre-qualify? 15 Expert Views, Part 2:

Pointclear

Here, in the second of this three part series, we will hear from The Funnelholic’s Craig Rosenberg; Annuitas Group’s Carlos Hidalgo; Sales Lead Management Association’s Jim Obermayer; Direct Marketing News’ Ginger Conlon; consultant and trainer Dave Stein; and agency founder Matt Heinz.

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Inbound Leads: To Pre-qualify, or Not To Pre-qualify? 15 Expert Views, Part 3:

Pointclear

In the second part of the series, we heard from The Funnelholic’s Craig Rosenberg; Annuitas Group’s Carlos Hidalgo; Sales Lead Management Association’s Jim Obermayer; Direct Marketing News’ Ginger Conlon; consultant and trainer Dave Stein; and agency founder Matt Heinz.

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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

Pointclear

One of the biggest software companies in the world has a division that spends over $200,000 per year on leads that sales refuses to follow-up on. Because a few years ago the sales group asked us (PointClear) to validate those so-called leads and it turned out that only 1.8% Why don’t they follow-up?