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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing

Pointclear

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Marketing Automation Software That Delivers the Most Data Wins. Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn.

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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?

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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. At PointClear, our average associate is 50. Our group is capable of navigating a prospect organization to find the right decision-makers. Testing and data over opinions and conventions. They can’t.

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Sales Lead Management Association Honors

SBI

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.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

Pointclear

The two groups of characteristics speak to a question posed in Lauren’s article, “Why do you need that much money to build a software company?” Extensive pricing pressure from competing services/products at lower prices. Customer needs can shift quickly. Frequent and rapid new competitor product introductions.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

Pointclear

Here’s a real-life example: We once provided services to a large software company and I got a call from our day-to-day contact one morning about our lead cost—he said we were too expensive. I asked him what percentage of leads delivered by PointClear were considered high quality and he said 100%. They said the quality sucked.

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Lead Generation and Appointment Setting—Know When to Pull the Trigger and Outsource

Pointclear

As a lead management software provider, we sit uniquely in the middle because we provide the software that drives the activities of both the end-user as well as professional lead gen and appointment setting companies. It was a big win for both groups. They hired us, and we took over their sales from soup to nuts.