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. You need to go out and talk to your market early. It’s fine to be too early.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? I want to clarify to those reading this blog that I am not apologizing for the purpose of my call. My PointClear peers and I have learned as lead generation professionals that adapting a prospect’s style of communication is helpful for immediate acceptance.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In this three-part series, the first article on marketing analytics looked at predictive targeting best practices, and the second article cited two sales lead generation programs to show how these processes actually drive improved results. It takes about 1.6 Sales lead rates decline after the fifth contact cycle.

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Lead Generation Analytics Sales Qualified Lead PointClear 182

Pointclear

OCTOBER 3, 2017

If you are paying (just as an example) $750 per appointment, and on average 40% or more of those appointments are with someone who cannot or will not buy, then you are actually paying $1250 per appointment—if you consider, as PointClear does, that unless it’s a qualified prospect it doesn’t count. Long term, things get even worse.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead Lead Nurturing 140

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Via Harvard Business Review online/HBR Blog Network. Via Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog. Via Selling Power Blog. PointClear related: Powerviews with Dan Waldschmidt - Changing the Conversation.

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PointClear B2B Marketo Sales Qualified Lead 165

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Follow-up Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 154

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Jim recently interviewed PointClear’s Dan McDade about the five most important things he’s learned in business and life—in one of an ongoing series of radio programs featuring sales and marketing industry leaders. In my work the first question I ask marketing leaders is “what does success look like to you?”

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PointClear Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 124

Pointclear

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Marketing and sales leaders often don’t account for all the expenses involved in building and maintaining an inside team. per hour for a PointClear outsourced teleprospecting resource. We’ll have this conversation in Part 2 of this blog series. To make sure you don’t miss it, subscribe to our blog today. How can this be?

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation PointClear Leads 124

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In the process of learning more about Kenandy, I found additional information in Deborah Gage’s Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Dispatch blog in which she talks about Sandy Kurtzig’s initial reluctance to raise venture capital.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear 189

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

Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. I detailed 7 lies to be aware of to avoid a lead generation disaster (read the blog for the specifics): Any list will do. Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Paul Gillin | Paul Gillen Blog. Consistency is essential.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

Pointclear

JUNE 21, 2018

Accurate lead/revenue projections are a powerful tool that all B2B organizations need to manage sales and marketing. PointClear’s Lead/Revenue calculator can help you avoid that sinking feeling when you, as a marketing or sales leader, realize one day that you’re behind, and the quarter or year-end is looming.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Lead Scoring 100

Pointclear

MAY 20, 2014

Yes, we had a CRM system, but Marketing didn’t have an automation system. If yesterday were today, I am sure that John, the CMO, would have a marketing operations manager equal to my sales operations manager. B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy Guest Blogs'

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Marketing Hiring Sales Operations B2B 223

Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Via Sales & Marketing Management. Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. The Death of Salesmen is Overstated.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Continued engagement in the form of account-focused outreach (also referred to as Account Based Marketing) makes sure your company is on their radar when the right disruption happens to necessitate a decision, when their current solution’s weaknesses reach the boiling point, or when competition encroaches and fear sets in.

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Pointclear

JULY 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Marketing reports an increase in the number of sales ready leads, but sales reports they have no good leads. This was the situation shared by Christine Nurnberger, VP of Marketing at SunGard Availability Services. Via BtoB Magazine.

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B2B PointClear Lead Rank Lead Scoring 174

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. Everything is testable.

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Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Lead Qualification Lead Generation 124

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 the article I assert: "A healthy, driven inbound marketing department is great, but over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I call ''inbounditis'') negatively affects the revenue backbone of any company.

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Inbound Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Outbound 257

Pointclear

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Decision Maker 145

Pointclear

JUNE 2, 2016

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. True Nurture Opportunities.

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Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 145

Pointclear

JANUARY 22, 2018

Can companies reach the holy grail of marketing—the perfect lead? Those of us at PointClear do not believe in the alphabet soup of acronyms such as BANT, ANUM and the granddaddy of all acronyms, MAN. This blog , by Frederik Jonsson, is interesting as well as entertaining. Well, what is a perfect lead?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 106

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

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Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

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. Other expressions contain useful advice that you don’t really get—because you don’t understand.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 247

Pointclear

MAY 18, 2016

How to drive revenue from all sources is the second of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. I developed this simple formula to illustrate the risks of overdependence on inbound marketing.

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Revenue Inbound Outbound Marketing 140

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the first of a 9 part blog series. Whether you are the CEO, or aspire to be, there’s some chance that in your opinion marketing and/or the sales organizations in your company are far from operating efficiently or effectively.

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Sales Qualified Lead Cost per Lead Marketing Lead Rank 177

Pointclear

MAY 20, 2016

Make marketing accountable for sourcing revenue is the third of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue. Tier 3: SMB/Channel Accounts.

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Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 133

Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

The interviews are available on our blog and YouTube channel. In the blogs each interview is broken down into smaller segments that allow you to watch brief clips around a specific topic. Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing, The Quality of Sales Leads is Abysmal. Marketers and sales people need to be working towards the same goals.

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Inside Sales Social Selling Outbound Lead Rank 235

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2018

Because the company uses a marketing automation system, George and Jane are always looking for content to fulfill the nurture needs of people who inquire about their products. With the final edited version of the podcast replay and the transcript, Jane can push the content to the blog writer to use in an upcoming blog entry.

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Case Study PointClear Study Social Media 100

Pointclear

JULY 17, 2012

Knowing the B2B lead generation market like I do, here is what I expected to see : “The inbound lead is better because outbound is dead.” Stop interruption marketing.” ” “Inbound rules. This is not an anomaly.

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Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Outbound 217

Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Each were covered in detail, and referenced thought leadership from industry leaders. Not really.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

Pointclear

APRIL 6, 2017

As such, outbound has been replaced by email marketing and marketing automation programs that SPAM CANNON emails to the masses such as the following (I received this one yesterday): I run business development for XYZ, Inc. - There is no strategy in their market approach. I get at least one like this every day.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 160

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The marketing team? But for a strategy to be consistently successful, a company’s sales and marketing teams need to be operating with shared goals — which is easier said than done, says my latest guest and longtime friend, Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing. Aligning Sales and Marketing. Is it the salesperson?

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Twitter 250

Pointclear

MAY 28, 2015

I’ve broken down the information into a 3-part blog series—with each part addressing one of three critical steps you must take to set your lead generation program up for success: Part I: Executive sponsorship and periodic reinforcement. Part III: Expectations for ongoing success: marketing and sales accountability. They set the pace.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of, Off The Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and a social sales training speaker. Is your business-to-business (B2B) content marketing plan creating re-action beyond sharing?

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Top of Funnel Social Media Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 189

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The amount of data available to marketers today can be overwhelming. Ruth has held high level marketing positions at Time Warner, IBM and Ziff Davis. A business professor at Columbia University, Ruth is also the author of “Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers” and a guest blogger at Biznology and HBR.org.

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Trade Show Scale Marketing Direct Mail 221

Pointclear

JUNE 16, 2015

That said, for several years the elephant in the room has been inbound marketing and inbound marketing lead rates. Many of today’s inbound pundits suffer from an over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I like to call “ inbounditis ”). Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs; Outbound: Telemarketing, Email, Events). I beg to differ.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Pointclear

APRIL 30, 2013

I''m pleased to have as my guest today Jamie Turner, CEO and Founder of The 60 Second Marketer, an organization that provides tools, tips and tutorials on the newest techniques in marketing. Jamie was recently profiled in Advertising and Promotion , the world''s best-selling college-level marketing textbook.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 248