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B2B Lead Generation: Are You Killing the Golden Goose?

Pointclear

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Over the next four weeks we will talk about all of the statistics on the following table, though today we are going to focus on lead rate: Based on over 60,000 completed company dispositions per year (annualized for 2012).

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The Pipeline ? 3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales.

The Pipeline

December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010. 3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales Funnel & Keep You From Closing More Sales. So stop calling everyone and everything a lead.

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The Four Key Elements to Successful Lead Generation

SBI Growth

To be successful at lead generation you need all four essential elements. Process: Lead Management. Today’s marketing leader can no longer afford to emphasize lead volume over lead quality. The majority of these leads are not ready to buy right away. In this post, let’s cover the first.

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

Pointclear

Given that I run one of the many lead generation companies it will not surprise you to learn that I believe a 3rd party focused on response management, lead generation and qualification and lead nurturing is capable of doing a much better job of those services than you are likely to find inside most companies.

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Lead Generation: A Watched Pot Never Boils

Pointclear

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Leads and expected metrics are defined in carefully created client program plans and lead rates are impacted (particularly in 2010) by the mix and quality of inbound dispositions.

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The Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy in Measuring B2B Lead Generation Investments (Pt 1 of 3)

Pointclear

As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. The problems and costs of a cost-per-lead approach.

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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

Pointclear

In February of 2010, Ben Bernanke began his second term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. We all wish we could predict the future, and for more than ten years PointClear has compared lead rates to the GDP in hopes of finding a way to predict future lead rates and, maybe, the GDP.