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Tell Marketing They Can Keep Their Leads

No More Cold Calling

Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28 Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads.

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

Pointclear

At PointClear, we apply agile to what we do for clients to save time, save money, prevent frustration and get better results. At PointClear, our average associate is 50. Does your CRM manage list segments, cadence, lead data and other outcomes? Testing and data over opinions and conventions. years—twice the industry standard.

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Dear CEO: Fix these three things and increase revenue

Pointclear

Within three years the client, which had superior products, had blown the money and was absorbed in a fire sale by their largest competitor. Marketing marketed point solutions to mid-sized companies while sales was only interested in enterprise deals at larger companies. So, what happened?

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What is Inside Sales (And Why Do You Need It?)

DialSource

It’s no longer about if inside sales are more beneficial and when changes to your business should be made — this is currently happening. The anticipated future of inside sales is here, and it’s here to stay. . For example, by implementing Salesforce and Dialsource, you can take your remote sales strategies to new heights. .

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Is AI impacting Inside Sales Rep Revenue? Mike Plante of InsideSales Says it Is.

Pointclear

Now there is a rush for software and computers to reason (yes, that is the right word) and to take action for sales and marketing revenue increases by people or in a programmatic fashion. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell.

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Do Standardized Sales Processes Really Work Anymore?

Pointclear

I find this to be an interesting tension point—marketing providing more leads while sales is saying I don’t like these leads. For decades now, sales management has put in sales processes and systems to standardize how sales reps manage leads and close deals with prospects.