Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. I detailed 7 lies to be aware of to avoid a lead generation disaster (read the blog for the specifics): Any list will do. Automated systems accurately score (prioritize) leads. More leads are better than fewer leads.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

Pointclear

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created and detailed program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 247

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

Lead Generation 167

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services Leads 167

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In this three-part series, the first article on marketing analytics looked at predictive targeting best practices, and the second article cited two sales lead generation programs to show how these processes actually drive improved results. You can’t have one without the other!

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Lead Generation Analytics Sales Qualified Lead Leads 182

Pointclear

MAY 28, 2015

As an outsourced lead generation company, one of the ways we can best serve our clients is to offer insight on what they can do to maximize the results from their program. Over ten years ago I put together a comprehensive list of the top reasons outsourced lead generation programs fail. After all … we’ve seen it all.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The result of these touches is what we call a disposition: PointClear's term for completing contact with a decision maker or company (some programs lend themselves to dispositioning by contact and some by company). This approach yields a 5% lead rate. Make it your mantra (like PointClear associates do). What Is Multi-Touch?

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Media PointClear Sales Qualified Lead Direct Mail 266

Pointclear

APRIL 14, 2011

A recently posted success story describes PointClear’s successful collaboration with Ingenix, a $1.8 Ingenix required a lead generation and lead nurturing team with specialized knowledge of the healthcare sector and experienced professionals who could. Identify high-level decision makers in prospect companies.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 140

Pointclear

JUNE 9, 2017

PointClear is known for its perseverance. While some sales people stop after placing one or two calls (if they don’t get the prospect on the phone or don’t get a call back, they deem the lead no good) our sales support associates keep trying. Here’s What PointClear Persistence Looks Like. We didn’t stop. One billion dollars.

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Lead Qualification Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 183

Pointclear

JULY 10, 2012

We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP. It would be cool if we could do both, but as you will see it appears that lead rates are the result of GDP, not the other way around.

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Lead Generation PointClear Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 150

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. Scores of X+ went to sales, and scores of <X came to PointClear for lead qualification and lead nurturing.

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Lead Rank Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 162

Pointclear

APRIL 14, 2017

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. So, they settle for a cheap solution—which is how mediocre sales lead generation firms survive. You can read the blog here.

Lead Generation 147

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services Leads 147

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. Build it and they will come.”

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Pointclear

JUNE 5, 2015

In the first 2 parts of this series we discussed the role of executives and best practices for planning and preparation when outsourcing your lead generation program. Standard PointClear disposition categories include: Lead, Pipeline, Nurture, Disqualified, No Response, Bad. Closing Thoughts.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Leads 100

Pointclear

OCTOBER 20, 2017

This is the second of a 2-part series that borrows Miller Lite’s super successful Tastes Great, Less Filling campaign theme to make a point about sales lead generation. We’ve done the analysis that shows that PointClear’s outsourced lead generation approach generates 92.35% more revenue.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Sales Outsourcing 124

Pointclear

DECEMBER 9, 2010

With sales organizations facing lower numbers, it seems logical to turn to volume lead generation to fill their pipelines with more and more sales leads in hopes that some will turn into sales. After all, shouldn't more leads deliver more opportunities? In reality, just the opposite often turns out to be true.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 145

Pointclear

JULY 17, 2012

Knowing the B2B lead generation market like I do, here is what I expected to see : “The inbound lead is better because outbound is dead.” I asked this question on Focus.com a few weeks ago and got answers that surprised me. ” “Inbound rules. Stop interruption marketing.” This is not an anomaly.

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Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Outbound Marketing Qualified Lead 217

Pointclear

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Now I know that PointClear will be counted as one among the many thousands of companies contributing to overall sales knowledge trends for 2015. Interesting, because each year the results of this kind of study are valuable to me as we position ourselves for success in the lead generation space. Easy—and interesting.

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Survey PointClear Lead Generation Study 235

Pointclear

AUGUST 8, 2011

Most B2B lead generation marketers are reporting performance metrics to senior executives but the portion also reporting financial contribution metrics are more likely to be outgrowing their competitors. Marketing strategies improve with better insight into lead conversion to opportunities, sales and revenue.

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Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 200

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2012

I responded in saying it is a leadership issue and having sales control the lead generation task without hiring someone to do it (which just drives up sales expense) is not the answer. Tony Tissot of eTrigue remarked that lead generation is the responsibility of marketing, but getting the outcomes agreed upon should be the goal.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 172

Pointclear

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Our own Kimmy Netterville made the Sales Lead Management Association’s “Most Inspiring” list of 40 outstanding individuals in our industry, announced today. Kimmy was recognized in the category People in Lead Generation Companies for her many contributions in the last decade-plus helping PointClear clients as Program Director.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Is your lead generation plan based on the forecast by product? Lead Generation Based on Forecast? For every lead generation tactic, you should have the cost divided by the inquiries or the qualified leads. 35 leads will find 15.75 Ramping Up Lead Generation to Match Sales Forecast?

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 170

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2011

For the past 11 years, I have been advising organizations on how to plan and execute their b2b lead generation campaigns. B2B lead generation is complex, and there is always work to be done. As a matter of fact, successful lead generation processes rarely run what we know as "campaigns."

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Lead Generation Campaigns Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 229

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

Given that I run one of the many lead generation companies it will not surprise you to learn that I believe a 3rd party focused on response management, lead generation and qualification and lead nurturing is capable of doing a much better job of those services than you are likely to find inside most companies.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2011

” Quite often, I am asked about outsourcing lead generation and appointment setting to professional service firms. All of those years, all of those calls and all of those clients taught us a thing or two about why outsourcing lead generation or appointment setting is perfect for some companies and a disaster for others.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Top of Funnel Leads 160

Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That’s essentially what PointClear clients do when they engage us for outsourced lead generation. Hiring our team of lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing professionals fills Finkelstein’s bill—and it could be just the ticket for you. Plus they get support that’s hard (i.e.

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Telemarketing PointClear Company Hiring 133

Pointclear

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The CMO of a Fortune 500 company offered the CRO the following options regarding spending $100,000 on a marketing campaign. He was willing to provide the sales team one of six choices: 200,000 targeted contacts (name and title) in the right vertical (no email addresses).

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Online lead generation has become a bit like the California Gold Rush. Today, ten or so years after the onset of online lead generation in the B-to-B sector, the scientist, not the lucky prospector, is the one who will win. So, lead generation and lead nurturing really become inseparable.

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Online Lead Generation Lead Generation Lead Rank Leads 164

Pointclear

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. That is why you frequently hear sales say: “the leads suck.”. Long term, things get even worse.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead Lead Nurturing 140

Pointclear

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 185

Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2012

As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. The problems and costs of a cost-per-lead approach.

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Cost per Lead Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 220

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I’m often asked what kind of companies PointClear serves. What they have in common are complex sales processes, and the need for outbound account-based marketing services that generate high-quality leads for sales. I spend a lot of time on the phone every day, talking to sales and marketing leaders—including prospects.

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PointClear Sales Qualified Lead Transportation Lead Qualification 100

Pointclear

AUGUST 11, 2016

For one, there is greater recognition that marketing should deliver qualified leads that are fully vetted, closeable and likely to convert through the buyer’s journey. Marketing must align its B2B lead generation activities and resources with deeper-in-the-funnel outcomes. The cost-per-lead metric accomplishes none of the above.

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Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Lead Rank 100

Pointclear

JUNE 2, 2015

What makes some lead generation programs fail and others flourish? As an outsourced lead generation company we see a wide array of scenarios, which allows us to offer insight into what clients can do to maximize results. The planning involved in setting up a lead generation program incorporates the same principle.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

JULY 24, 2017

A competitor in the teleprospecting business recently published a list of B2B companies based on how easy or hard they were to work from a lead-generation standpoint. At the bottom of the list were what they called “uncloseables,” meaning these were companies that this competitor was not able to generated leads from.

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Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Lead Qualification Lead Generation 124

Pointclear

APRIL 11, 2018

As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location. While the table above shows the cadence used to disposition a particular contact, the table below shows the production estimation of a PointClear business development associate. This is, in fact, the cadence designed for the client in this example.

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Sales Qualified Lead PointClear System Leads 113

Pointclear

MAY 23, 2018

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing. The numbers speak for themselves.

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Sales Qualified Lead ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring 124

Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. Build it and they will come.”

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 51