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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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Sales Qualified Lead Forecasting Outsourcing Services PointClear 100

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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. Sales reps did not know how to prospect for new business so the 20,000 “leads” were ignored and wasted.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Decision Maker 145

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Should marketing and sales agree on the definition of a lead? According to James Obermayer ( Sales Lead Management Association ), the fact that there is no agreement between marketing and sales on lead definition results in these problems: Salespeople say that they are not getting enough qualified leads. Decision maker engaged.

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Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Decision Maker 100

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

So, what do you want from Marketing?” It’s interesting…ask salespeople their opinions about a marketing campaign, copy, creative, or any number of marketing’s creative options and you’ll hear very little. How about the marketing department putting a little skin in the game to help us increase sales activity?

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Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Commission Quota 221

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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

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Should your company be all in on inbound marketing. On average, inbound leads drive smaller deals with lower level decision makers. Heinz Marketing – “Inbound marketing can be both highly effective and highly inefficient. Short answer: no. Here are three reasons why: Senior executives are 2.5 Read more here.

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Inbound Account Based Marketing Scale Marketing 100

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JULY 16, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

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MARCH 31, 2011

A new eBook reports on sales rep perceptions of marketing-generated leads, and the findings run from surprising to shocking to downright scary. Note the following question and responses: What Percentage of Marketing-Generated Leads do you Feel Fit your Sweet Spot? Of particular interest—and concern!—to

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 172

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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. Are these truly leads?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. This time we are going to talk about managing the “No Response” rate and the importance of having patience when it comes to working prospects—including resting them and then recycling re-segmented prospects to improve overall results.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services Leads 167

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JANUARY 10, 2012

There are some common poker Tells that you should know about and then we’ll see how this connects to your sales prospects and even your sales reps behavior. I’ll bet your Customers Give You Buying “Tells” In most instances, for marketers, the mark ( oops I meant prospect) gives you Tells that they are ready to buy.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Discount Field Sales 178

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AUGUST 28, 2012

This is the second in a series of four blogs about B2B sales lead management, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in marketing and sales circles is the importance of certain metrics. Due to this, outbound prospecting is less expensive than inbound prospecting assuming that you paid at least $.50

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Management 133

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MAY 24, 2016

Document the cost per lead is the fourth 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. In the last blog in this series we discussed the need for marketing to be more accountable for driving revenue.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 145

Pointclear

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The selling proposition is that someone agreeing to see your sales representative has to be more qualified than another prospect who is simply forwarded to you as a lead. Putting a good salesperson in front of the wrong prospect is unlikely to generate revenue.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Account Based Marketing 100

Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

Lead Generation 51

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 51

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. Are we marketing to IT decision makers in the Fortune 100? Not 50 things.

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Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Lead Rank Cost per Lead 113

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Calls were split between five to decision-maker/influencers and five to executive assistants. We spoke with three decision-maker/influencers and two executive assistants. In another example, our target market was CFO’s at the fifty largest utilities in the US. You can read more about this subject here.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Co-hosts Paul and Allan tee up the show by discussing several hot news items relevant to the B2B market - Here’s what they noshed on, on Episode #5: According to the latest CMO Survey, 85% of CMOs either have not shown any impact from social media spending or have only a qualitative sense of its effectiveness. Voicemails work.

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Social Media Media B2B Decision Maker 223

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Walk out of your office and ask the first three marketers and the first three sales executives you encounter one question: What constitutes a lead? Generally speaking, companies define their market too broadly, resulting in wasted time and effort applied to too many prospects. Are we marketing to IT decision makers in the F100?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100

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AUGUST 16, 2018

A longer-term lead may lack urgency, but it makes up for it by giving your team a very real chance to form relationships with decision makers, and in fact define and manage the buying process (including designing the RFP). Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI. Forty are short term, and 40 are long term.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 113

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JUNE 28, 2016

I posted a question on LinkedIn's Sales and Marketing VP's Group and the results have been fascinating. First, here is the question as posted: "What is the minimum acceptable close rate for leads provided to sales in a complex selling situation (long sales cycle and multiple decision-makers)?".

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Closing 133

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AUGUST 29, 2017

How are these concepts related to marketing and sales in B2B environment? So, you can’t wait for that condition to occur to begin selling to the prospect. Ultimate benefits resonate with your prospects’ or customers’ professional desires. However, when marketing or selling, you can’t simply lead with the ultimate benefit.

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Buyer Compensation Forecasting Decision Maker 200

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Are you leaving out a null sample of prospects that do not go through marketing automation to understand what you are not scoring that you should be; OR, what you are scoring that you shouldn’t be. Account profiling: Give sales a leg up by profiling target companies as the first step in utilizing Account Based Marketing processes.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Qualification Segment 100

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JANUARY 24, 2012

He is also co-author of the book No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide To Social Media Marketing , available on Amazon and in bookstores everywhere. Marketing to the business consumer takes a special pedigree. What is a business-to-business marketer to do with all that? You're a P2P marketer.

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B2B Social Media Face-to-face Twitter 192

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

After all, B2B companies usually define strategic accounts as their best customers and prospects based on criteria like potential for revenue, profit and growth. Is our strategic account target market 100% covered? Many previous contacts at potential strategic accounts have been replaced by new decision makers not on your radar.

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Outsourcing Services Account Decision Maker Lead Nurturing 180

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Often hot leads are really prospective buyers that have already been sold by another vendor. They’ve indicated they have a short buying cycle and they’re eager to talk, but what these buyers may be doing is validating a decision already made. Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Watch what happens when he receives a stack of leads from marketing: he rifles through them seeking the ideal prospect. Next-year decision? Steve is obviously making some poor decisions. Moreover, he is jaded from bad marketing practices. None had been filtered or nurtured in any way by marketing.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 189

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

Successfully engaging prospects depends on a mix of tactics to maintain positive awareness of your offering until it’s time to buy. Our clients’ prospects need an average of 12 contacts to engage, and lead nurturing can take even more touchpoints. Results multiply when lead nurturing strategies multiply.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Media Lead Rank 170

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MARCH 1, 2012

Lack of clarity and erroneous assumptions about demand generation, lead management and marketing automation are effectively addressed in two recent Software Advice whiteboard videos by Carlos Hidalgo, CEO, Annuitas Group , and Executive Director, Marketing Automation Institute. Lack of alignment between marketing and sales.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Sales Qualified Lead Lead Management 165

Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 21, 2013

They are really scheduling “appearances” and creating the illusion that these appearances are with qualified prospects. The selling proposition is that someone agreeing to see your sales representative has to be more qualified than another prospect simply forwarded to you as a lead. Earn money setting appointments, no cold calling!”.

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PointClear Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Guarantee 35

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is the fourth (and last) in a series of four blogs about sales leads, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Why it is important to nurture qualified companies that do not represent immediate opportunity—a step missed by many if not most companies leading to wasted marketing spend.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Inbound 157

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JANUARY 16, 2018

You've got a real problem there with your prospect. Her clients include IBM, GE, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Staples and numerous mid-market firms. And Selling to Big Companies provides step-by-step guidance on setting up meetings with corporate decision makers. What are you going to do about it?'

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Decision Maker Microsoft Face-to-face Exercises 100

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JANUARY 27, 2017

I start with Matt Heinz : If we could get more sales and marketing teams to develop and agree on this model TOGETHER, we’d have a foundation for much better, more efficient and effective sales results well into 2017 and beyond. Theoretically, marketing should be attacking and nurturing 100% of the total addressable market (TAM).

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Revenue 100

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JULY 7, 2015

Marketing Automation makes it easier than ever to deliver more poor-quality leads to sales. One of the funniest but also most illustrative responses came from The Bridge Groups’ Trish Bertuzzi who nailed it when she said: Companies are still thinking marketing automation (MA) is the silver bullet. The No Marketing Strategy Approach.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 100

Jonathan Farrington

JANUARY 5, 2013

Over the past couple of months I have been asked by several publications to predict what will happen in marketing and sales in 2013. I started by asking myself two questions: Was there anyone in the sales and/or marketing world that a year ago that accurately predicted what would happen in 2012? Answers: Not so much. Not so much.

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Data Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Inbound 43

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APRIL 28, 2015

They are busy with active sales cycles, OR they operate more like farmers than hunters because they feel more comfortable tending to current and known prospects as opposed to seeking out “cold” prospects. And when you engage with them they certainly expect you to know their company, their market and the competitive landscape.

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Follow-up Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 100