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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

Pointclear

Because a phone conversation efficiently replicates face-to-face sales activities, these one-on-one flowing and probing interactions are the most effective method to validate the quality of a lead. Please see the table below for an example of typical Inside vs. Outsourced results: I do not want telemarketers calling my prospects.

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Taking away a salesperson’s excuses!

Pointclear

You can do lead gen on products that salespeople carry quotas on. You can generate leads in a specific geographic area the majority of the time. You can give salespeople qualified leads the majority of the time, and then you are left with the question of what to do with the unqualified leads. Get an email address.

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Lead Generation Lies That are Wreaking Havoc with Your Sales

Pointclear

I received a lot of positive feedback about the article and decided to ask our PointClear PowerViews Alumni (those who have been on the PowerViews show ) for their input on the most dangerous lead gen lies out there. A form completion is a lead. James Obermayer | Sales Lead Management Association.

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Lead Gen Scripts: They Have to Go

Green Lead's B2B

There are a lot of great sources for telemarketing and teleprospecting calling tips out there, and just several weeks ago we brought you some great outbound calling tips from the best BDR's our management team has ever worked with. They just don't work any longer and they're not helping anybody succeed at generating quality b2b leads.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

Prospecting is a type of marketing that basically entails telemarketing and what I consider email spam and LinkedIn spam because it is 99% of the time, a sales pitch. The core problem today in B2B marketing and sales not only holds companies back from growth but harms marketers and sellers and their productivity and their fulfillment.

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Why Your Lead Generation is Broken

Klozers

Lead generation is pro-active contact with highly targeted prospects which is not what marketeers do naturally. They will always have a lower qualification criteria and sales people hate this, because these leads then become a distraction and a waste of their time. . Lead Gen is a separate skill and role that requires 100% focus.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

From my lens, relying on lead-gen vaporware widgets or content strategy alone is why only 60% of sales people hit their quota. Challenger Selling has been misinterpreted as hubris toward the powerful which will just get you delegated down to who you sound like: a transactional telemarketer. That's the mouse clicking.