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The Dangers of Using Cost per Lead as a Metric to Measure Marketing

Pointclear

Twice over the past two years I blogged about the dangers of using cost per lead as a metric to measure marketing. As a foundation, I published three blogs in 2012 in which I outlined three critical elements that impact B2B lead generation costs in the complex sale: 1. as compared to $1,357.25

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We Asked 9 Successful Sales Leaders About the Economy

Sales Hacker

Hug them out the door: If you have to let people go, minimum 60-day severance and health insurance. In order to do this you would look at a lot of different metrics — cost per lead (CPL), cost per SAL (CPSAL), ROI by each source — channel and partner. Try not to overcut or undercut.

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Sales Skills Online Courses

The Digital Sales Institute

Today, whether selling digital products, financial services, or software etc, thousands of salespeople are enjoying learning sales skills online as the more convenient and retentive way to upskill. Future proofing salespeople will increase the number of skills they have mastered as their insurance policy towards emerging trends.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

Pointclear

This scenario is in stark contrast to what others in our industry do, which can be encapsulated as follows: Send me a list, send me a script, send me some money—and we’ll send you some leads. (Of We can do that because the associates on our team have what it takes to have the interactions that generate quality leads. They can’t.