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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

Pointclear

Jim Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association , and host of the Funnel Radio Channel. 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.

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Lead Generation and Appointment Setting—Know When to Pull the Trigger and Outsource

Pointclear

In our final few years of owning the business, we were managing 275 inside sales reps and they were collectively moving 150,000+ products into the market, booking tons of appointments for sales teams and keeping plenty of sales funnels full. In 2005 Ken commercialized the product that was driving his inside sales team and founded VanillaSoft.

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Day 2 Twitter Recap-Sales and Marketing 2.0 Conference-Part 1

Fill the Funnel

Dan McDade/Pointclear posted a good highlight of the conference from his perspective. It was great to meet so many new people and to put names to faces as well. ©2012 Fill the Funnel. After my trip home to Seattle late last night, I came to the realization that the airline industry needs to embrace Airlines 2.0!

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PowerViews with Michael Brenner: The Battle for Customer Attention

Pointclear

Click to start video at this point — Michael sees one of the biggest challenges companies are currently facing is the “battle for customer attention.” With the amount of information on the web it’s a real challenge to reach consumers, get their attention, and hopefully get them into your funnel, whether you’re in marketing or sales.

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The Real Reason Sales People Struggle to Close Opportunities

Pointclear

And, at face value, it looks as if they might be right. You see, the problem with most of the opportunities that seem to be stuck at the bottom of the sales funnel isn’t that the sales person isn’t closing them right, it’s that the sales person never opened them right to start with. Alec Baldwin has got a lot to answer for.

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A 3 Step Process to Make Social Media Produce Sales

Pointclear

Read that again and notice how it flies in the face of what we're being told to do by "experts.". Today's guest blogger, Jeff Molander, is adjunct professor of digital marketing at Loyola University business school, a content marketing speaker and author of the forthcoming book, Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell.

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PowerViews with Trip Kucera: Best Practices & Surprising Trends

Pointclear

His focus in the Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy practice helps his clients achieve extraordinary results. Prior to joining Aberdeen Group, he spent years in the trenches with companies including Progress Software, LogMeIn, and SuccessFactors. Trip is also an author, a speaker, and a blogger. Video Marketing - A Surprising Trend.

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