Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

In January I wrote the blog: How to Diagnose if Inbounditis is Killing Your Sales Pipeline , which was published by DemandGen Report. 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.

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Pointclear

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first 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. For whatever reason (was it beneath him?) the CEO failed to step in and act.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Decision Maker 145

Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

The entire day was spent talking about prospecting. One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 movement harshly declare that proactive targeting and prospecting for new business is dead. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 27, 2013

We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. With a pleading voice and a frown his mother would not be proud of, this was one concerned sales manager. How many sales inquiries did Marketing give you, on average, per month for the last year?”

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Telemarketing Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Management 184

Pointclear

MARCH 24, 2015

I was particularly impressed with the first speaker Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. Mike''s presentation, “4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015,” blew me away. So, what is prospecting , exactly?

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Handbook Prospecting Outbound Inbound 100

Pointclear

APRIL 21, 2015

My favorites are from John Ford movies, and I think each can be adapted to the circumstances sales and marketing people face each day. This is easily adapted to, "Well, there are some things a salesman just can''t run away from, and that''s sales lead follow-up." B2B Marketing B2B Sales' As Sheriff John T.

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Film Marketing Sales Qualified Lead ROI 100

Pointclear

MARCH 26, 2015

In the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff earlier this year, I had the pleasure of hearing for the first time, Mike Weinberg—sales coach, consultant, and author of the book New Sales. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. A compelling message is a sales rep’s most valuable weapon. Simplified.:

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

What you should do: Nothing new here — keep your crew well-trained in professionalism, product, and market. What you should do: Get your sales team “in the mix.” Everyone thinks of social selling as a way to understand the prospect (it is), but it is also important to think about social selling in terms of your online persona.

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Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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Research B2B Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 253

Pointclear

MARCH 27, 2015

Here we are at the fourth and final installment of the series, 4 Tips to Power Up Prospecting in 2015 , from Mike Weinberg’s presentation at the 2015 Virtual Sales Kickoff. His final tip is a passionate plea calling all sales reps to return to the telephone. Sales Process Sales & Marketing Management'

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Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. Not 50 things. Measure what matters.

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Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Lead Rank Cost per Lead 113

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2012

SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. Jim's career has been equally divided between marketing and sales.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Database management. Inside sales. Marketing automation. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While attending the recent Barnes Buchanan annual conference, which focuses on the various market and financial elements impacting the security industry, I listened to the perennial lender panel discussing the metrics associated with the industry. An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear].

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Revenue Hiring PointClear Inside Sales 52

Pointclear

OCTOBER 16, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. "So I asked the marketing manager. I wish that salespeople would use the CRM system instead of spreadsheets for a sales forecast.”.

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Trade Show Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead CRM 217

Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2016

One of the best responses to this question that I have seen is from a somewhat dated (2015) article in Eyes On Sales in which the author asks: “How many callbacks do you get if you DON'T leave a voicemail?”. The following is from my favorite author (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. Simplified.”

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Account Based Marketing B2B Call-back Marketing 100

SBI

APRIL 25, 2011

Guest Post By Dan McDade, CEO & President, PointClear. The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential.

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Harvest Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Jonathan Farrington

JUNE 12, 2013

The primary objective of a professional Sales Manager has to be: “ To achieve consistently superior results through the performance of every key individual.”. Yesterday I provided you with an opportunity to complete the “Sales Manager’s Health Check” – if you missed that post, do simply scroll down.

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PointClear Forecasting Construction Loyalty 42

Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts. For instance: Leadership Changes.

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Territories Quota Sports Compensation 124

Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Why it’s Important: “The companies that lag behind in adopting new ways of selling and marketing are slated for the trash heaps of failed businesses.”. At the Funnel Media Group we believe that AI is the future of sales and marketing operations. About CRM Radio Guest Mike Plante, Chief Marketing Officer.

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InsideSales Inside Sales Revenue Webinar Metrics 113

Pointclear

MAY 15, 2012

Marketing managers regularly ask me how to predict the number of leads (really raw inquiries) needed to achieve quota (I wish more sales managers would also ask). Quota dollars / average sales price / buying percentage (45%) ii / close ratio (your market share) = inquiries needed to make quota.

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Quota Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Follow-up 165

Pointclear

APRIL 23, 2013

As CEO of UK-based Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners , Bob works with the leadership teams of technology-based B2B-focused companies, enabling them to make the critical connections between their marketing messages, their sales conversations, their true differentiators, and their customer''s priorities. Parallel Thoughts.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Guidelines B2B 191

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

” How did Andy know so much about sales, marketing and sales leads? I think what Andy meant for us is that if your salespeople don’t follow-up on a sales inquiry (not to mention qualified leads), the opportunity will default to your competitor who does follow-up. Now I’ve done it.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Follow-up 178

Pointclear

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Anthony is also the Managing Director of B2B Sales Coach & Consultancy, a boutique sales coaching and consulting company. In addition, he is author of The Sales Blog , where he writes about sales and selling, sales management, the sales process, and what it takes to succeed.

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Lead Rank Social Media Sales Qualified Lead Video 201

Pointclear

MAY 15, 2013

As CEO of UK-based Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners , Bob works with the leadership teams of technology-based B2B-focused companies, enabling them to make the critical connections between their marketing messages, their sales conversations, their true differentiators, and their customer''s priorities. What’s the impact on them?

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Top of Funnel Opportunity Closing Film 248

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

As more customers deem sales calls intrusive and interruptive, companies will shrink their sales teams to better fit the market demand. Josiane cites one controversial assessment that the nationwide market for sales professionals will shrink from 20 million to just 8 million over the coming years.

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Inside Sales Cold Calling Face-to-face Video 203

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Last month we discussed Counterfactual Reflection (CR) as it pertains to marketing automation. There were lively comments about where individuals would be if marketing automation had not been invented. This focus helps us refine the use of marketing automation and enhance the arguments for its implementation.

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CRM Journal B2C Customer Service 154

Pipeliner

APRIL 2, 2018

#SalesChats E18: Sales Prospecting with Dan McDade. Sales prospecting is something that a majority of salespeople seem to hate, and is a part of sales that has a high degree of failure. Dan McDade is the founder of lead generation company PointClear, as well as being a sales expert and noted author.

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Pointclear

MARCH 17, 2015

It was an excellent session overall, but I was particularly blown-away by the first speaker, Mike Weinberg, author of the book published by AMA entitled New Sales. The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development. It’s an action-oriented guide for sales people, sales managers and executives.”

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Handbook Face-to-face Outbound Inbound 100

Pointclear

APRIL 7, 2015

And with that the sales manager slapped the table with his hand to emphasize his words. Jake also agreed that the source of leads would be graded as successes or failures based on the sales representatives'' reports. Jake finally admitted: Sales lead follow-up will yield greater sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring 100

Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2011

From a recent survey of new members to the Sales Lead Management Association, we found that generating qualified leads is the biggest issue facing the new members. More than just new inquiries, or managing inquiries or working with sales management on follow-up or even proving ROI, qualified leads are king.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead B2C 160

Pointclear

JUNE 4, 2013

Later in the year we will be creating the most rigorous survey the sales space has ever witnessed, and in 2014 we launch the Top Sales Conferences. But let’s also remember that we still have the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers list to announce in June plus of course the Top 50 Sales Blogs and the annual Top Sales Awards.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Call-back Retention 214

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Tony also served in the role of Vice President in Sales and Marketing capacities for TRW, Knight-Ridder, and Compaq (HP). in Marketing Management. Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. He holds a B.S.

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Sales Process Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Buyer 194

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

2012 Surprise: Slow Adoption of Technology Like Sales Intelligence Tools. Many of these challenges can be traced to a root cause: “Companies haven’t realized how significantly their prospects or target customers have changed, and they haven’t retooled their salespeople to deal with this. It’s not about pitching your stuff.”.

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Buyer Social Media Hiring Inbound 154

Pointclear

DECEMBER 2, 2010

” I’ll tell you what happened to Jim, but first, let’s look at how this pertains to the average marketer. I believe the majority of marketers don’t have confidence in themselves or believe they are contributing enough to the company to win. Sharing in the follow-up of the sales leads (marketing automation).

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ROI Coaching CRM Face-to-face 133

Pointclear

MAY 2, 2011

The ideal situation for a sales organization is to have enough “ripe” opportunities hanging on the tree-of-prospects to simply pick the low-hanging fruit first. Call it laziness if you will (and many sales managers do), but going after the low-hanging fruit first just makes a heck-of-a lot of sense.

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Harvest Vendor ACT Meeting 150