The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

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Pointclear

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact, it makes the whole sales pipeline sick. The 3 major symptoms of inbounditis are: 1) deal sizes slowly decreasing as inbound leads increase, 2) high-performing reps avoiding inbound lead follow-up, and 3) the percent of sales accepted leads decrease while lead quotas increase. How can you cure inbounditis?

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Inbound Pipeline Lead Generation How To 240

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

MAY 2, 2013

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Motivate Your Sales Team with These 13 Ideas That Work. Ready to triple your sales pipeline?

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Pointclear

MAY 23, 2017

I’ve read and heard (from a well-known industry analyst firm) that best-in-class companies close 30% of sales qualified leads while average companies close 20%. Sales isn’t qualifying down from 1000 marketing qualified leads to 14 sales qualified leads. The sales close rate on these leads is zero percent. What a waste.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Closing 160

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. In that blog, I wrote: “When the pipeline is weak, desperation and fear take over. Sales/B2B Marketing execs feel intense need to do something, but are afraid to risk budget.

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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.

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Pointclear

MAY 23, 2018

By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. There are three types of prospects to nurture: Pipeline. Note that with nurturing, 20% of Pipeline prospects (10); 27% of True Nurture prospects (68); and 7.5% True Nurture.

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Sales Qualified Lead ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring 124

Pointclear

MARCH 7, 2018

This is a skill that we teach our associates, who spend their days making dials (80 to 100 a day) and engaging B2B sales prospects on behalf of our clients. They also work really well when it comes to identifying prospects, uncovering needs … and progressing them down the pipeline. Pay attention. As always, I welcome your comments.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lured by the promise of easy money — "sales-ready" leads pouring in — many well intentioned b2b marketers have jumped on the "inbound marketing" bandwagon with both feet. Management is measuring marketing on the number of leads turned over to sales and on a cost-per-lead basis. These measurements drive low-quality leads to sales.

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Pointclear

APRIL 12, 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. Every marketer should take a sales guy to lunch. The 7 Biggest Misconceptions of Successful B2B Marketing.

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Pointclear

APRIL 6, 2017

These firms, like those traveling sales folks who hawked one-size-fixes-all elixirs to those who wanted to believe, make great claims—that inevitably fail to pan out. We quickly become a major outbound sales channel for our clients so I thought we’d have much to discuss. When the pipeline is weak, desperation and fear take over.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 160

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. Document, for each source, the percent of leads actually accepted and qualified by sales.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 247

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

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

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 You can probably guess what the vice president of sales told his team: Just ignore all leads from marketing, because they suck. But by how much?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 263

Pointclear

JUNE 16, 2015

Read what Mike Weinberg, author of New Sales Simplified , says about this pervasive thought: Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance [bold added]. Focusing on the cost per pipelined deal and/or cost per closed deal IS the point.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I quoted experts during the video as follows: Consultant/author Mike Weinberg (“New Sales. and “Sales Management. During the video I talk about the five steps in the sales process and how most sales people only use two steps which results in bad experiences for their prospects and NO DEALS. Simplified.” Simplified.”).

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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

JULY 17, 2012

Our organization has done some extensive research over the last two years trying to understand how high performing sales reps qualify [opportunities] and nurture those [opportunities] through their pipelines to higher success. Simply driving large numbers of respondents and dumping them on sales does not work.

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Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Outbound 217

Sales Lead Management Association

APRIL 4, 2019

Hosts are: Ryan Ball - Lola.com, Dan McDade - Pointclear, John Asher - Asher Strategies, Matt Heinz - Heinz Marketing, Stacy Gentile - Goldmine CRM, Rhoan Morgan - DemandLab, Patrick Morrissey - Altify and Darryl Praill - Vanillasoft.

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Pointclear

JUNE 5, 2015

Now as we wrap up, we’ll address appropriate expectations for a program and two essential components for ongoing success: a shared lead definition and accountability between marketing and sales. Part III: Expectations for ongoing success: marketing and sales accountability. Expect two qualified, sales-ready leads per FTE per week.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Leads 100

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Qualified Rate includes leads, pipeline (specific action required by PointClear) and nurtures (qualified companies with no immediate pain/need or interest).

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services Leads 167

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A variety of industries use inside sales as a popular high-growth sales model. According to Harvard Business Review , 46 percent of high-growth tech companies are expanding through inside sales, as compared to 21 percent growing through outside sales teams. There is a higher turnover among the sales ranks.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in marketing and sales circles is the importance of certain metrics. Not all proverbs (or expressions or sayings) are well understood.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Management 133

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2018

While the customer did not state anything about a lack of sales before the services were implemented, he did state that sales increased 15% within six months of the installation. As an example, see Dan McDade of PointClear and his ViewPoint Blog, and his use of an interview on SLMA Radio about Who Owns the Pipeline.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 12, 2017

To make your forecast for the new year, look at sales for the coming year in terms of units. Review the existing pipeline and your closing ratio. This is the basis for projecting the number of leads needed to make the forecast from sales leads for the new year. You will need 750 sales. How many units must be sold?

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Sales Qualified Lead Leads 138

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 fact, it makes the whole sales pipeline sick. The percent of sales accepted leads decreasing while lead quotas increase.”. It''s time to change how we talk about sales leads.

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Inbound Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Outbound 257

Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2018

Value selling is PointClear's bread and butter. They tele-prospect on behalf of our clients using a value-selling approach, applying their training and experience to advance the pipeline and deliver return that's well worth the price of our services. Sales Performance International. We are not the low-price leader.) Brian Tracy.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Company 157

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Ken Murray is a 30 year veteran of the Inside Sales space. He has designed and built inside sales campaigns for numerous Fortune 500 companies. His sales teams have sold over 168,000 products annually and produced north of 700 million dollars in annual sales. They hired us, and we took over their sales from soup to nuts.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Top of Funnel Leads 160

Pointclear

JANUARY 20, 2015

You’re a sales person. On Tuesday morning, 45 sales "leads" come your way through a variety of sources. In due time, you figure out that three of them are real opportunities and want to take the next step in learning about your services, twelve of them are bogus opportunities, and the rest of them are … well … up in the air.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Building a successful sales force is not easy. Most sales managers will tell you it involves three fundamental steps: Hire the best-qualified candidates; train them; and compensate for results. These three often-overlooked elements are critical to optimizing sales performance: 1. Deploying Sales Resources 2. By vertical?

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Hiring Top of Funnel Compensation Territories 145

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. Seuss'' The Cat in the Hat”.

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Top of Funnel Opportunity Closing Film 248

Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. Inbound marketing is based on developing high quality content that attracts qualified buyers, who are in the early stages of the sales cycle. Another benefit of outbound marketing prospect development is reaching prospects earlier in the sales cycle.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 51

Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. Walk out of your office and ask the first three marketers and the first three sales executives you see these three questions: How do you define our market? Not 50 things.

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Pointclear

MARCH 16, 2011

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. Ten years ago I asked an assembled 200 plus marketing managers how many knew the quotas for the salespeople/sales channels that sold their products.

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Quota Marketing Sales Qualified Lead ROI 212

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. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

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. Requalify at Every Stage.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Guidelines B2B 191