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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Sales 2.0

Nice post today on the Pipeliner CRM blog from that smart man Dan McDade of Pointclear about how you should not buy into the proposition that waiting for your prospects is the right sales strategy. If so, you can thank Doug Davidoff, CEB, Dan Pink, and several analyst quoted in this LinkedIn article published in early 2015.

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Parallels: Social Manufacturing & Outsourcing Manufacturing Lead Generation

Pointclear

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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Internet Radio - Its Time Arrived Several Years Ago!

Pointclear

This is a result of a new study by Edison Research apparently sponsored by Pandora Media Inc. The study found that 53% of web users listen to internet services. Some hightlights of the study: “TuneIn is a Palo Alto company that aggregates online radio stations and streams to more than 40 million active listeners.”.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

Pointclear

In another blog post , SiriusDecisions’ Jay Gaines (vice president and group director, demand) writes that getting sales to accept a lead (thereby terming the lead a sales-accepted lead, or SAL) is the most important (and most overlooked) step in the demand creation process. So, we know how things break down—what do we do to fix the problem?

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Metrics to Drive Lead Generation Performance

Pointclear

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). Here are select highlights from this study. The choice of which metrics to report either reflects the company’s priorities or its’ measurement limitations.

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So How Do You Develop A First Class Sales Team?

Jonathan Farrington

For a group of people to remain consciously competent at optimum performance levels, they require frequent injections of stimulation, motivational guidance, prompting and directing, otherwise they can easily lapse into becoming unconsciously competent or worse, unconsciously incompetent.

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B2B Prospecting Data Just Keeps Getting Better

Pointclear

My colleague Bernice Grossman and I recently conducted a new study indicating that B2B marketers now have the opportunity to target prospects more efficiently than ever before. We conclude from this study that B2B prospecting data is richer and more varied than most marketers would have thought. Today''s guest blogger is Ruth P.