Pointclear

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That brings us to what the Sales Lead Management Association started 28 months ago in August of 2010 with its first interviews of Dan McDade of PointClear and Phil Fernandez of Marketo. The shows fall into 33 categories covering a wide spectrum of marketing and sales topics. Mike Schultz of the Rain Group. Jim Meyer of eTrique.

Aprimo 199

Aprimo Aprimo Marketo PointClear 199

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Continued engagement in the form of account-focused outreach (also referred to as Account Based Marketing) makes sure your company is on their radar when the right disruption happens to necessitate a decision, when their current solution’s weaknesses reach the boiling point, or when competition encroaches and fear sets in.

Sales Qualified Lead 100

Sales Qualified Lead Forecasting Outsourcing Services PointClear 100

Pointclear

MAY 23, 2017

Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. Sales isn’t qualifying down from 1000 marketing qualified leads to 14 sales qualified leads. Imagine Spending $208,350 on Marketing Leads That Are Trashed Immediately. So, what happens?

Sales Qualified Lead 160

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Closing 160

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Lower rates typically indicate a breakdown between marketing and sales.

Follow-up 154

Follow-up Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 154

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

Analytics 164

Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

Outsourcing Services 173

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Pointclear

JUNE 2, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. True Nurture Opportunities.

Lead Nurturing 145

Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 145

Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing, The Quality of Sales Leads is Abysmal. Marketers and sales people need to be working towards the same goals. percent were quality.

Inside Sales 235

Inside Sales Social Selling Outbound Lead Rank 235

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The marketing team? But for a strategy to be consistently successful, a company’s sales and marketing teams need to be operating with shared goals — which is easier said than done, says my latest guest and longtime friend, Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing. Aligning Sales and Marketing. Is it the salesperson?

Leads 250

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Twitter 250

Pointclear

MAY 18, 2016

How to drive revenue from all sources is the second of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. I developed this simple formula to illustrate the risks of overdependence on inbound marketing.

Revenue 140

Revenue Inbound Outbound Marketing 140

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My guest today is Dave Munn who has been President and CEO of ITSMA since 2000, having led ITSMA's global expansion to become the leading B2B marketing association for technology, professional services, and telecom companies. 2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. New marketing channels.

Social Media 170

Social Media Marketing Outsourcing Services Hiring 170

Pointclear

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Lead nurturing triples marketing's ROI, but only if done properly. I propose that nurturing is the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. Note that there are three groups of prospects that benefit from nurturing: 1. Marketing Pipeline. True Nurture Opportunities.

Top of Funnel 157

Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing B2B Epiphany 157

Pointclear

AUGUST 5, 2016

The core idea behind this book is that marketers need to embrace and take responsibility for the entire sales funnel, not just the top half. The book covers a wide range of “full funnel marketing” areas, including technology, sales enablement, productivity best practices and more. So how do Full Funnel Marketers measure their work?

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Funnel Lead Rank Marketing 100

Pointclear

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of, Off The Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and a social sales training speaker. Is your business-to-business (B2B) content marketing plan creating re-action beyond sharing?

Top of Funnel 189

Top of Funnel Social Media Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 189

Pointclear

MAY 21, 2013

How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? Ask any group of marketing communications managers, exhibits managers or even marketing managers and less than 40%, overall, know the quotas for the sales channel they represent. Marketing is a part.

Quota 191

Quota Hiring Marketing Forecasting 191

Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2012

My PowerViews guest today is Rich Vancil, IDC Group Vice President for Executive Strategies. As a member of the Executive Advisory Group, he delivers CMO and Sales Advisory Services that provide senior technology marketing and sales executives with insights into how to improve productivity and efficiency in their organizations.

Marketing 247

Marketing Outbound Inbound Vendor 247

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2012

” But in a recent post on the Sales Lead Management Group on LinkedIn, Kevin McArdle, the regional sales manager for Eloqua (Chicago), advocated that sales departments should take over lead gen and he makes the following points: Sales departments are responsible for revenue. Marketing’s plate is full. Kate Maddox.

Lead Generation 172

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 172

Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

Anthony Iannarino – Anthony has helped people in a wide variety of industries and markets think through and overcome their biggest business challenges. I have been featured in major publications including featured by Automotive News, Advertising Age and Edmunds.com for my unique social media marketing and self-promotion efforts.”

Conference 124

Conference Outbound Social Media PointClear 124

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While attending the recent Barnes Buchanan annual conference, which focuses on the various market and financial elements impacting the security industry, I listened to the perennial lender panel discussing the metrics associated with the industry. An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear].

Revenue 52

Revenue Hiring PointClear Inside Sales 52

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2016

This means that 75% of the marketing dollars spent on lead generation are wasted. Marketing measures the sales contribution value of every campaign. Marketing will be stronger and proud of its contributions to the wealth of the company. Marketing will be stronger and proud of its contributions to the wealth of the company.

Marketing 100

Marketing Lead Generation Top of Funnel Funnel 100

Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Each were covered in detail, and referenced thought leadership from industry leaders. Are these truly leads?

Sales Qualified Lead 160

Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

Pointclear

JANUARY 5, 2017

How well are your B2B organization’s sales and marketing behaviors, practices, and processes reliably and sustainably producing required outcomes? Read on and learn how you can get better ROI on marketing, how you can let your sales people focus on what they do best, and how you can close significantly more deals than you did before.

Account Based Marketing 113

Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing ROI 113

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Marketing automation. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics.

Outsourcing Services 169

Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This year Trish Bertuzzi and founder of The Bridge Group, nominated yours truly for consideration. She is a frequent speaker and blogger on Inside Sales productivity, trends, and effectiveness, and the author of Building Inside Sales: Framing a Best Practice Group and co-author of Sales Speaks: Perception & Ponderings on Marketing Leads.

Lead Management 114

Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 114

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. I encourage you to visit and explore the entire post in which Hugh suggests that leaders should adopt these six sales and marketing strategies in 2012: 1.

Outsourcing Services 170

Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Strategy Lead Nurturing 170

Pointclear

MARCH 31, 2011

A new eBook reports on sales rep perceptions of marketing-generated leads, and the findings run from surprising to shocking to downright scary. Note the following question and responses: What Percentage of Marketing-Generated Leads do you Feel Fit your Sweet Spot? Of particular interest—and concern!—to

Marketing Qualified Lead 172

Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 172

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Account Sales Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

We generate high quality leads, align sales and marketing, and drive revenue. We believe marketing automation has a place in the world, but we are aware that if it’s not properly utilized, it very quickly creates a whole lot of nothing. Tactically this can be easier to do within functional groups (inside sales, paid media, etc.).

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 100

Pointclear

AUGUST 22, 2011

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. To learn more about The Annuitas Group and their proprietary methodology, the Lead Management Framework™ , go to [link]. Well, we’re in the dog days of August.

Marketing 164

Marketing Lead Qualification Lead Management Lead Nurturing 164

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2015

On March 3, 2015, Direct Marketing Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Ginger Conlon, joined me on PowerViews LIVE to talk about “Where Marketing is Going … and Growing … in 2015.” A sales, marketing and customer experience expert, Ginger shares her perspective on current and future marketing trends.

Direct Mail 100

Direct Mail Marketing Lead Rank Buying Cycle 100

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I recently asked fellow industry leaders to weigh in on the rising popularity of Account-Based Marketing among B2B companies. Is ABM the Holy Grail to lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Account Government 100

Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. Are we marketing to IT decision makers in the Fortune 100? Not 50 things.

Sales Qualified Lead 113

Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Lead Rank Cost per Lead 113

Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 16, 2013

This really is a group which represents the “who’s who” in the sales space right now, and I am delighted to be working and collaborating with them. This is the group that will be … Writing articles for the Top Sales magazine. Providing articles and tips on Top Sales World site.

PointClear 55

PointClear Groups Twitter Survey 55

SBI

APRIL 25, 2011

Guest Post By Dan McDade, CEO & President, PointClear. The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential.

Harvest 63

Harvest Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

What you should do: Nothing new here — keep your crew well-trained in professionalism, product, and market. I do believe salespeople can and should write blog posts about their market or selling in general if they are thoughtful and articulate. Those are as much for sales as they are for marketing. PointClear PD.

Report 244

Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

Pointclear

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most sales and marketing teams are looking for ways to generate more leads. Marketing is paid, in fact rewarded for, lead quantity and not quality. Far too many companies evaluate marketing’s success by the number of leads they hand over to sales. The overall result is often wasted marketing dollars and wasted sales time.

Sales Qualified Lead 124

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 124

Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Lead Rank Account 100