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Persistence Pays—How 42 Lead Qualification Touchpoints Won a $1 Billion Deal

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PointClear is known for its perseverance. While some sales people stop after placing one or two calls (if they don’t get the prospect on the phone or don’t get a call back, they deem the lead no good) our sales support associates keep trying. Here’s What PointClear Persistence Looks Like. Case-in-Point.

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Leads are Hard 

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According to Wikipedia: “a reader service card or bingo card" was a reply card inserted in a magazine and used by readers to request free samples and literature from businesses who advertised in the issue. Many advertisers were listed on the reply card. PointClear associates see this in action every hour of every day.

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing

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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. Among the capabilities Weber Shandwick will market via MediaCo are native advertising and digital media buying.

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Is it Fraudulent to Spend Money on Lead Gen Without an ROI?

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If you intend to spend the investor’s money (AKA company money) based on notions and intuition, without a plan to report the results, you are misleading management. Hopkins’ book Scientific Advertising , published in 1923. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.”. Every statement has been weighed.

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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

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One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance,” he said. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”. Mike Weinberg – Mike stated, “I’m on a mission to simplify sales.

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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

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Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. Social distribution of content and messages isn’t considered all that effective in providing business value to companies, according to a recent analysis by Forrester Research.

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Dead is Dead! (At Least in Sales and Marketing)

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Here are a few more things that are, according to some, dead: design, privacy, advertising, fur, Hollywood, Bitcoin, craft beer, punk (well, maybe), Google Glass, 3D and the American Dream. I wrote another blog about this concept that you can find in Top Sales World’s magazine here. Do sales reps like to cold call?