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The Right Cadence Creates a New Lead with a $1 Billion Healthcare System

Pointclear

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. As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location. He landed a huge lead for our client (with a $1 billion company).

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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

Pointclear

One of the biggest software companies in the world has a division that spends over $200,000 per year on leads that sales refuses to follow-up on. Because a few years ago the sales group asked us (PointClear) to validate those so-called leads and it turned out that only 1.8% Why don’t they follow-up? Not that they should be.

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - More CMO/CIO Alliance

Pointclear

The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. So is the idea of a waterfall, a pipeline or any other metaphor that leads marketers to believe that leads flow in a linear fashion.”. The 7 Biggest Misconceptions of Successful B2B Marketing.

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Which is better in B2B Lead Generation? A $1,000 inbound lead or a $1,000 outbound lead?

Pointclear

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.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

Pointclear

Here is what marketing should be reporting: “This month, marketing added 14 new prospects to the pipeline. Here’s a real-life example: We once provided services to a large software company and I got a call from our day-to-day contact one morning about our lead cost—he said we were too expensive. Budget undefined? Next-year decision?

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Lead Generation and Appointment Setting—Know When to Pull the Trigger and Outsource

Pointclear

As a lead management software provider, we sit uniquely in the middle because we provide the software that drives the activities of both the end-user as well as professional lead gen and appointment setting companies. It also has to include lost opportunity cost because your sales pipeline is not where you need it to be.

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Make Marketing More Efficient by Embedding Analytics on Top KPIs

Pointclear

Frank Donny is founder and CEO of Marseli , a marketing and sales analytics and performance software company. Frank is responsible for the firm’s capabilities, software vision and services. These analytics can provide critical information on volume and velocity trending from your pipeline at each stage in the sales cycle.

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