Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. An essential tool for doing that deep dive to gain intelligence about the account is your inside sales team or telemarketing firm.

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LeadBoxer

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We all encounter an endless barrage of marketing every day. Some of that marketing is effective, and some of it’s, well, annoying. This division between effective and ineffective marketing strategies can be acutely seen when comparing inbound vs outbound marketing. What is Outbound Marketing?

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Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Additionally, in-sourced inside sales centers are notorious for their lack of productivity.

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Sales Lead Management Association

MAY 24, 2019

If company presidents were to measure the amount of revenue created per marketer, they would be astounded. Marketers and their surrogates, the agencies (on-line, branding, direct marketing, content creation, digital marketers, PR) telemarketing and trade shows are the hammers by which B2B marketers create wealth.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Eliminate the time, expense and distraction of setting up your sales telemarketing, business development or inside sales organization. And, as Finkelstein says, “change the game on competitors, operating in bold, unexpected ways that are simply better” by outsouring your marketing and B2B sales lead generation. Want more info?

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Go for No!

MARCH 1, 2021

Network Marketing famously got 20 no’s a day. That kind of production is not easy although, for someone in telemarketing, they could do probably do that by lunchtime. Ray Higdon, the co-author of our book, Go for No! He was prospecting like mad. No one was there to tell him how crazy that was.

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Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim's career has been equally divided between marketing and sales. He has written over 95 articles around sales and marketing management and is the author of four books. He is a speaker on sales lead management, sales enablement, and marketing ROI. Outbound vs. Inbound: We Can’t Get Away from Basic Integrated Marketing.

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Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2021

One of the main challenges every marketer face is getting more leads. The adage, “more calls equal to more leads” has influenced many salespeople and marketers. Don’t annoy/stalk by leaving voice mails or hanging up in case they have called ID you will only be labeled a spammer/telemarketer. . Jordan Bishop . CEO, Yore Oyster.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

Whether a sales rep is doing a cold call or following up on a marketing lead, building a relationship with a prospect is critical. Let’s say the rep pitches a new prospect — a marketing director. The director says they’re not in the market for the rep’s solution. Focus on Building Relationships. Make Cold Calling Feel Natural.

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MarketJoy

MAY 30, 2018

The terms inbound and outbound embody a type of cultural shift in the entire way of how marketing works, particularly across different channels. To accelerate the sales and get qualified leads, companies are required to function hand in hand with outbound and inbound marketing while building a strong strategy to power it all.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In most instances, you can have someone call the unqualified to get them qualified; usually a telemarketing service. If you have a marketing automation program it will hammer away and help to segment the 75% who say they want to buy, from the 25% who are competitors, students and prisoners. It can be done if the manager has the will.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2021

Gopkiran “Gop” Rao, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at MindTickle, recently joined Matt Benelli, Managing Director at Sandler Training, on the ACTivation Nation podcast. Everyone is now a seller. We now have a pretty wide aperture through which we’re looking at the customer experience and their interaction with a brand.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I don’t see many sales people rehearse, and even less do it out loud; or work with their colleagues, be they from product development, marketing or elsewhere in the process. First, read it again, (out loud), and then see how you can make it more conversational, not read, like the telemarketers you hate.

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Pointclear

JULY 23, 2013

If you don’t implement a nurture program, you’ll waste marketing dollars by giving salespeople more than they can handle, and irritate prospects because follow-up falls. What’s worse, sales will not incrementally increase in proportion to the marketing spend. If you don’t have a marketing automation tool, get one.

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Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 13, 2013

but if anyone knows what happened to Les, please let me know - I created a Sales Camp and a Sales University for Autodesk: One of the modules was “Telemarketing” which was a real challenge for me, as I had no experience. A positive and confident mind-set is essential for successful telemarketing and cold calling.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Here’s what they had to say: Ardath Albee | Marketing Interactions. Why marketers refuse to acknowledge this reality is beyond me, but it’s also a reason that salespeople continue to ignore the leads sent to them by marketing. Marketing is a variable expense.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

What has changed though is what we are selling, and how we now go to market. But today, what we are really selling is change and that takes more than us just knowing our product specs, our pricing and our place in the market – the lines have blurred. Marketing has also impacted the sales landscape.

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Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Before LinkedIn we would rent databases and engage telemarketers to call and set appointments to build our pipeline. And Sales Navigator from LinkedIn is a massively powerful tool for both marketing and sales. But cold-calling yields have been relentlessly trending down and currently have a success rate below 3%.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2016

In fact, after looking at your profile I would like to loop in our VP of Marketing, (Name), and invite you to our free Strategy call for lead generation and list building. He is one of the best in the country when it comes to Marketing strategies. ” It’s exactly the same as telemarketers and their cold calling blitzes.

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Pointclear

JUNE 30, 2015

The status quo—that marketing management doesn’t understand the definition of a qualified lead—is nothing new. Qualified leads, according to sales, are based on criteria they understand but marketing is in the dark about. Marketing tries to qualify a greater number of prospects. Telemarketing scripts. Here’s the problem.

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In today’s world of e-prospecting, social media marketing, texting and sophisticated electronic communication, it seems picking up the telephone is becoming a lost art. Your unnatural sounding voice acts like a warning beacon to the person on the other end of the telephone by projecting the image of the stereotypical telemarketer.

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Pipeliner

MAY 28, 2021

For marketers, the old approaches to brand and product promotion are no longer relevant, and marketing channels that were considered novelties in the past are already well-entrenched. However, the way you use inbound marketing channels will set you apart from your competitors and increase your brand recall and revenue.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

By increasing the marketing spend to increase leads, especially qualified leads, I turned the dollars loose on: Telemarketing to previous leads who did not buy. Use a telemarketing service to set appointments. Brainstorm with marketing to set a qualified lead goal. Where Can You Get Qualified Leads & Appointments?

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Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 14, 2020

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Event marketing had been on the upswing with between 20%-25% of the typical marketing budget being spent on tradeshows, roadshows, etc. Conserve it to ride out the storm, or.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2018

Everywhere we look there’s talk of data-driven sales, data-driven marketing, predictive learning, data hygiene , and so on. Data-driven marketing is never ‘done’. Anna Fisher, Senior Director of Marketing, ZoomInfo. Only last week I heard a story of a telemarketer who asked for a person who had died seven years ago.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This Expert Insight Interview discusses: The history of LinkedIn and how it became a widespread marketing channel. Back in the 70s and 80s, telemarketers figured out that they could reach people on the phone and sell them things. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Inbound Marketing - following up on internet-driven leads. Telemarketing - scripted sales pitch for a specific product or service. Order Fulfillment - taking orders. Telesales - making transactional sales. Lead Generation - generating leads. Appointment Setting - scheduling first meetings or calls.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. He has decades of experience as a marketing communications manager, marketing manager, and sales manager. Marketing automation in the hands of a fool is still a fool’s tool.”.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2021

Gopkiran “Gop” Rao, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Mindtickle, recently joined Matt Benelli, Managing Director at Sandler Training, on the ACTivation Nation podcast. Everyone is now a seller. We now have a pretty wide aperture through which we’re looking at the customer experience and their interaction with a brand.

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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. Here is the formula: Formula.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2021

It is one of the oldest forms of marketing and, when done properly, can have the best results. These campaigns can be executed for a number of reasons — including telemarketing, audience research, and customer support. A calling campaign is a structured plan of contacting these individuals for one-on-one conversations. Generate leads.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JANUARY 30, 2023

Telemarketing call!” Journal of Marketing Research , 346-353. .” And unfortunately, salespeople all too often unwittingly supply those clues. Here’s one: “How are you today?” ” This triggers the schema “Alert! ” Schema: “You’re overpromising just to get my attention.”

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

To understand and support your marketing efforts, you also need to look at the data and, in conjunction with technology, there’s never been an easier time to use data to grow sales. Lattice’s predictive marketing analytics tools fuel sales growth by allowing sales teams to focus on those customers most likely to buy. Author Bio: D.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). Most importantly, no sales messages to links being posted to selling websites or marketing videos. The Social 3.0

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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. Every business needs new customers.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

In the old(er) days, companies used cold calling as a part of business-to-customer telemarketing to sell their products to a broader audience. We tracked [XYZ] market trends and investment strategies for them and pivoted financial operations to their best potential.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Let’s face it they do a good job of keeping interruptions away, better than my son, when I told him to tell a telemarketer that I wasn’t at home, he told the caller “dad says to tell you he is not home”. If the admin responds “he would have Barbara, the VP of Marketing deal with it.”

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