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

Pointclear

More and more marketers understand that agile, which started in the IT development realm, has good application in marketing in general, and in lead management specifically. At PointClear, we apply agile to what we do for clients to save time, save money, prevent frustration and get better results. They can’t.

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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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Marketing Communications Managers Must Know the Sales Quotas!

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? But what about the sales forecast?

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“You Can’t Catch Water With A Fist”

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Lead Management Rules: A one page list of rules holding both departments accountable to each other. 100% accountability, 100% follow-up.

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

DialSource

Based on these different approaches, these models impact variables such as scheduling, software use, sales environment, etc. According to an estimate by PointClear, the average outside sales call prior to COVID would cost over $300, while the average inside sales call would cost just $50.

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Avoiding Cascading Zipper Failures between Marketing and Sales

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Marketing creates demand, finding interested people and companies, and gives these leads to Sales; 75% of which are ignored. No lead management system.

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You’ll never break a horse if you stay sittin on the fence!

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. I think it’s about getting off the fence and creating marketing plans that drive the sales forecast.