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What Should the Sales Close Rate Be?

Pointclear

Imagine Spending $208,350 on Marketing Leads That Are Trashed Immediately. 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. were even qualified companies, let alone what could be termed sales qualified leads.

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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. As I say in my book, The Truth About Leads , when talking about cost-per-lead: “How much should a lead cost?

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

Pointclear

During the year, marketing spent a lot of money driving thousands of so-called leads—while sales reported that they got absolutely nothing of value from marketing. When sales executives receive these so-called leads from marketing, here is how they respond: Not a senior enough executive? Budget undefined? Next-year decision?