Pointclear

JUNE 5, 2017

I recently chatted with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales world about the transition from finger pointing to collaboration between sales and marketing. The status quo--where marketing complains about sales not following up on their leads and sales says the leads are no good--is not the place to be. You can listen to the webinar here.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 13, 2017

Most marketing and sales folks I talk to agree … in theory. If you fall into this category, and are looking for actionable how-tos, take a look at the account-based marketing primer just published and available now on SlideShare. Determine which portion of your market you can reach and close most cost effectively. Dan McDade.

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Pointclear

JULY 19, 2017

a prospect asked me, following our discussion about PointClear’s lead generation, qualification and nurturing services. We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. “What could derail this project?”

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Pointclear

APRIL 26, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Via B2B Marketing Insider. Report: Data, content drive email marketing. Via Marketo.

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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

JUNE 29, 2017

PointClear has proven methods for driving sales—and they’re discussed in detail in a white paper available for download now. Involving planning, collaboration and accountability processes, these sure-fire action items will help marketing leaders like you make real sales impact. Marketing measurement. That’s marketing’s job.

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Pointclear

APRIL 11, 2018

As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location. There are six dispositions that we assign a prospect: Lead, Pipeline, Nurture, No-response, Not Qualified and Bad. Here’s what a cadence might look like, depending on the market and offer: Attempt Number. That is a moment of truth for the prospect.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I spend a lot of time on the phone every day, talking to sales and marketing leaders—including prospects. 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.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 25, 2016

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. The idea that sales people are helpless to go outbound and speak to prospects is very dangerous to your business.

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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. At that point, a prospect has received an average of 41 different touches over a period of 15 months.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? The tone of the prospect is generally clear almost immediately. Because I heard them, and responded to them as a person, I greatly increase my chance at getting time with this prospect. One simple trick. The moment a phone contact is made, we’re all ears.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Jim recently interviewed PointClear’s Dan McDade about the five most important things he’s learned in business and life—in one of an ongoing series of radio programs featuring sales and marketing industry leaders. In my work the first question I ask marketing leaders is “what does success look like to you?”

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 3, 2017

If you are paying (just as an example) $750 per appointment, and on average 40% or more of those appointments are with someone who cannot or will not buy, then you are actually paying $1250 per appointment—if you consider, as PointClear does, that unless it’s a qualified prospect it doesn’t count. Long term, things get even worse.

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

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

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.

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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 Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 162

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. Lower level workers give up their digital body language (score points in marketing automation) while more senior executives do not. Not every deal has to be sold to the President or CEO.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 157

Pointclear

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. A good one differentiates between prospects and SQLs—which have way different potentials to impact revenue. We’ve found that marketers often overestimate this contribution—it needs to be measured.). . …

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Lead Scoring 100

Pointclear

JANUARY 10, 2018

There would be, assuming you could find them, some real prospects. Back during the bingo card days marketers were thrilled to get a list of “leads” and distribute them to sales. PointClear associates see this in action every hour of every day. IEN became the first publication to include a "bingo reply card.’". Sound familiar?

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Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 173

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.

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Pointclear

JULY 24, 2017

One of the uncloseables on their list was a company from which PointClear generated a sales-qualified lead that we turned over to a client in the middle of 2016. At PointClear, we approach our client’s lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing by combining persistence with professionalism. Everything is testable.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Prospective clients often tell us “we can do what you do, in house, for less.”. Marketing and sales leaders often don’t account for all the expenses involved in building and maintaining an inside team. per hour for a PointClear outsourced teleprospecting resource. Costs Less. On the surface it might make sense. How can this be?

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Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Outbound calling is interruption marketing. I received a lot of positive feedback about the article and decided to ask our PointClear PowerViews Alumni (those who have been on the PowerViews show ) for their input on the most dangerous lead gen lies out there. Here’s what they had to say: Ardath Albee | Marketing Interactions.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

Pointclear

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The most reliable and scalable approach to finding new B2B customers is outbound communications, whether by mail, phone or email, to potential prospects, using rented or purchased lists. B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title.

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Pointclear

JULY 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Marketing reports an increase in the number of sales ready leads, but sales reports they have no good leads. This was the situation shared by Christine Nurnberger, VP of Marketing at SunGard Availability Services. Via Heinz Marketing.

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B2B PointClear Lead Rank Lead Scoring 174

Pointclear

JUNE 4, 2018

There's another win-win value proposition that applies to outsourced tele-prospecting: “Costs Less. The fact is, insourcing tele-prospecting is harder, and more expensive, than most imagine. Generates More.” The misconception that building an internal team gives you more control and costs less is widespread.

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Outsourcing Services Revenue Prospecting Inside Sales 140

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

In the article I assert: "A healthy, driven inbound marketing department is great, but over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I call ''inbounditis'') negatively affects the revenue backbone of any company. From Matt Heinz , president of Heinz Marketing : "Inbound marketing can be both highly effective and highly inefficient.

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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. These are fully qualified prospects who are not immediately interested.

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Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 145

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.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2011

How does it relate to B2B marketing? And I was treated accordingly, no doubt thanks to some nifty lead scoring algorithms that have become de rigueur for B2B marketers. Bottom line: While I may not have been scored as a valuable prospect, I was valuable in other ways—as an influencer. Two years ago, my B2B Marketing 2.0

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Prospecting 185

Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2018

How can you dramatically improve ROI on marketing automation investments? Read these top three tips for when and how to use marketing automation—and when not to. If your targets are senior, I recommend you test a multi-touch campaign against an automated marketing effort to determine which method results in more revenue.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Direct Mail Marketing 140

Pointclear

JANUARY 21, 2014

I was sitting in a meeting of marketing and operations people when I worked at Inquiry Handling Services (long ago scooped up by Harte Hanks). This month we tackle the issue of Marketing not delivering on an ROI responsibility. I believe I have heard all of the excuses for Marketing’s failure to measure the ROI for marketing efforts.

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Harte Hanks Marketing ROI Sales Qualified Lead 226

Pointclear

JANUARY 22, 2018

Can companies reach the holy grail of marketing—the 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. Is the prospect a match from an environment standpoint? Well, what is a perfect lead?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 106

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. greater than “cold” outbound prospecting and nurturing.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 247

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Never before have marketers had so much information about prospects, customers, the competition, and the markets they hope to reach. But say “Big Data” instead of “information,” and marketer smiles will turn upside down in a hurry. Marketers just need fishing hooks to find it and fish it out of the river.

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Top of Funnel Opportunity Data Revenue 239

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. But what are the most effective outbound marketing channels for kicking off a business relationship? billion on search marketing for the same purpose. billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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Media Direct Mail netFactor Trade Show 233

Pointclear

APRIL 10, 2014

In the digital age, more and more communication takes place via email and text messaging, but a person-to-person conversation is still the most engaging way to contact a prospect and convert him into a customer. Research has shown that the best time to contact a prospect is between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. Why Cold Calling Still Works.

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