Pointclear

DECEMBER 1, 2016

I once worked with the then SVP, Marketing of a large public company who was frustrated with sales. At one point he got so angry that he offered sales management the following choices for spending a $100,000 budget to generate leads. For details on how sales should follow-up on a lead click here. Big surprise.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Last week a prospect told me that he needed higher quality leads than were currently being provided by two third-party outsourced solution providers. His definition of a lead was the loosest that I have ever heard. An employee of a targeted company needed only to download some content to be qualified as a lead.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 157

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. Many sales reps lack insights on the best way to follow up on a lead.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Those of us who use the phone to successfully generate sales leads have picked up an essential trade secret. How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? The tone of the prospect is generally clear almost immediately. Think of those annoying robo calls. One simple trick.

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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. We invest about 10,000 touches to generate 50 leads. How did you do it?”

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Media PointClear Sales Qualified Lead Direct Mail 266

Pointclear

MAY 11, 2017

PointClear was recently given a verbal approval for a pilot program by the SVP of Sales for a technology solutions provider. The point is, not all sales lead generation firms are created equal, just as not all houses are the same. What else, besides labor costs, factor in to the costs of lead generation?

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Pointclear

APRIL 11, 2018

One of PointClear’s business development representatives, working on behalf of a global software company, made 11 touches (calls, voicemails and emails) and his persistence paid off. He landed a huge lead for our client (with a $1 billion company). As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location.

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Sales Qualified Lead PointClear System Leads 113

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.” Stop interruption marketing.” That's not to say that inbound leads are less valuable than outbound leads. ” “Inbound rules.

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Pointclear

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. Problem is, most lead to revenue calculators out there are overly simplistic. And an excellent tool provides you with insight into the value of inbound vs. outbound leads. Guess what.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 22, 2018

Can companies reach the holy grail of marketing—the perfect lead? Well, what is a perfect lead? Those of us at PointClear do not believe in the alphabet soup of acronyms such as BANT, ANUM and the granddaddy of all acronyms, MAN. What is wrong with these formulaic approaches to lead qualification?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 106

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Which means those “leads” land in a black hole, and the money spent to generate them is wasted. They’re ready.

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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

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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Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The comment made me think about our outsourced B2B lead generation services and the way we have successfully partnered with manufacturing, technology and start-up companies to cover their markets, develop their prospects and deliver highly qualified sales opportunities to their field sales teams.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear 189

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Inbound drives organic engagement and attracts leads, while outbound helps you target specific prospects more accurately. These approaches work well in both B2B and consumer marketing, covering the entire length of the lead funnel and the customer journey, respectively.”. “You’ve got it—it’s a healthy combination of both.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Tastes great, less filling—that’s not only one of the greatest campaigns ever ( AdAge says it’s 8 th on the list), it has a corollary in the sales lead generation space. By outsourcing your lead generation, qualification and nurturing activities you get better results for less cost, and I can prove my claim.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation PointClear Leads 124

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. Outbound calling is interruption marketing. More leads are better than fewer leads.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

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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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads? Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 263

Pointclear

JANUARY 27, 2017

During the last week of December I asked a panel of experts for feedback on our Leads to Revenue Calculator. The above graphic is a sample from our Lead to Revenue Calculator. Most people see nurtured leads as converting to a MQL/SQL--which you are already counting. Marketing should not be working outside the sweet spot.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 8, 2011

Jim Lenskold is President of Lenskold Group and author of Marketing ROI, The Path to Campaign, Customer and Corporate Profitability (McGraw Hill, 2003). Jim has published articles and presented internationally on the topics of marketing ROI, marketing strategies and business growth strategies.

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Pointclear

APRIL 6, 2017

Based on my experience over the past almost 30-years it seems that everyone has been burned by outsourced lead generation. The main reason for these failures is that there is a LOT of mediocrity in the lead generation industry, which is why some say outbound is supposedly “dead.” Often multiple times. It isn’t dead.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 160

Pointclear

APRIL 26, 2013

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Staple Yourself to a Lead. Amy Guarino says marketers should follow along as a prospect journeys through the company’s various channels.

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B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring PointClear 185

Pointclear

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in many marketing and sales departments is the importance of certain metrics. Yes, while the cost per so-called raw lead was $23.15, the real cost per qualified lead was 1.96

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

PointClear’s success doing lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing for our clients is grounded in proactively reaching out and connecting with prospects via a one-on-one telephone conversation. A live call leads to an atmosphere of spontaneous and spirited dialog. Personal connection.

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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

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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Pointclear

MAY 24, 2016

Understand the price you are paying for your leads and then optimize. Document the cost per lead is the fourth 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. Have all contacts been engaged?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 145

Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The biggest disconnect between marketing and sales is the hand-off of marketing qualified leads (MQL’s) to sales and the acceptance of those leads (SAL’s) by sales. closed/won deals per 1,000 inquiries, while organizations without a formal SAL stage generate only 4.6

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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. Sales lead rates decline after the fifth contact cycle. It takes about 1.6

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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. Our associates have a range of industry expertise that comes from long experience.

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Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

It was interesting to see all three companies use similar descriptions in their SEC filings for both their sales and marketing activity and their market challenges. Sales and marketing activity. Telesales lead generation supports both field and inside sales. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Pointclear

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There is a counter-intuitive relationship between lead volume and sales performance. 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.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 145

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

AUGUST 20, 2015

In part one , I provided insight into the why and what of a lead-to-revenue assessment. I challenged marketing and sales leadership involved in 2016 planning to pause and consider conducting the assessment before making any decisions for next year. In my world, there are four distinct steps in conducting a lead-to-revenue assessment.

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Pointclear

APRIL 12, 2011

There’s now a virtual destination for a good sales and marketing laugh in the form of the Sales Lead Management Association’s new cartoon series. PointClear is proud to be a sponsor of the first cartoon shown here, a lighthearted look at the “bigger box” solution for handling leads.

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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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