Velocify

DECEMBER 5, 2012

A new Leads360 study shows a sales process that drives speed-to-call is critical, with leads contacted in under a minute yielding 391% improvement in conversion. What sales processes and contact strategies have made the most difference for your organization?

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Velocify

JUNE 5, 2013

New Leads360 study identifies several characteristics of duplicate leads that show a higher likelihood of conversion than average. Among lead generators and sales teams alike, there’s often confusion or disagreement about duplicate leads and how to best handle them. appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Leads360 joins Marketo Launchpoint, bringing conversion horsepower to the marketing nation. The growing adoption of marketing automation presents a significant opportunity for inside sales. As marketing automation works its magic, the volume of quality leads creates more opportunity for inside sales. Terrific, right?

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Velocify

MARCH 5, 2013

With Leads360 Express, sales managers will gain more control, visibility and peace of mind. In fact, more than half of small business owner’s project sales will grow in the next year, according to a Bank of America Small Business Owner Report. If you are a small business with BIG ambition, Leads360 Express is for you.

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Velocify

MARCH 20, 2013

Just like a judge on Dancing with the Stars, sales reps all interpret lead quality differently. Take control with Leads Scoring from Leads360. A few months back, we released a study about lead scoring in response to the growing number of customers who voiced interest in leveraging lead scoring to boost performance.

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Velocify

MAY 16, 2013

There are sales strategies from the email era that remain as effective today, and new selling insights that make email even more effective. Not surprisingly, the dawn of email as a remote communication tool helped put a nail in the coffin of the door-to-door sales era. Once you’ve captured a prospects email, use it.

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Velocify

JANUARY 17, 2013

For sales organizations, adding dialer software to a sales automation solution is tremendously valuable. But, when that dialer software incorporates a number of intelligent features it can also result in more efficient lead distribution, faster response times, and increased accountability across a sales team.

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Velocify

MARCH 7, 2013

Leads360 shares its formula for optimizing the sales leads-to-rep ratio. So we put our resident sales scientists to the test, mining millions of sales calls to build out a formula for one of the most common questions we get asked from sales managers.

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Velocify

MARCH 19, 2013

Great coaches can coax peak performance out of their athletes and so can sales managers when they use Leads360’s sales Performance-Based Distribution feature. And with the stakes so high, the coaches need to play to the strengths of each of their players, optimizing for peak sales performance.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Texting: A new frontier in sales. Sales professionals can learn a lot from the pioneers that have come before them, and there is much to be gained by using text messaging in the sales process. The post Infographic: How to use SMS to win love, leads, revenue appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Not all leads are equal, but too often we treat them that way. This new infographic, based on recent Leads360 research , sheds light on attributes that make one lead more likely than the next to convert. The post Taking the lead with lead quality insights appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Leads360 recently published a new study, the Ultimate Contact Strategy, highlighting the importance of sales lead follow-up including prompt response, appropriate persistence, and optimal timing between attempts for both phone and email communication.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The combined results of Leads360 secret shopper studies over the last 24 months revealed that alarmingly, 42 percent of web inquiry forms submitted never received a phone response from the sales teams of those respective organizations, despite the request. attempts per inquiry to be exact). But how many calls are too many?

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Velocify

APRIL 3, 2013

In the 1960’s Don Draper from the popular show Mad Men and his colleagues at a fictional advertising firm on Madison Avenue were the center of the marketing and sales universe, controlling all channels of influence. The post Infographic: How sales has evolved since the Mad Men era appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

New Leads360 study analyzes the contact practices of more than 400 inside sales teams, identifying the methods and actions that drive best-in-class sales performance. But how quickly should sales follow-up? Many inside sales reps make too few calls and send too few emails. What days and times are best?

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In today’s competitive sales environment working new sales leads when others are not could give you a leg up on the competition. There is about a 30 percent drop in lead volume on Fridays and about a 90 percent drop on Saturdays. These findings further support our earlier research on the value of weekend leads.

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Velocify

JANUARY 21, 2013

New study reveals that texting messaging at the right point in the sales process can drive significant conversion gains of up to 328%. With the large volume of flashy new mobile apps out there, the original mobile app, text messaging , has been largely neglected by sales professionals in their selling efforts. Download your copy today.

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Velocify

APRIL 7, 2013

How the sales profession has evolved from the Mad Men era, the tools change but the basics endure. Even though a lot has changed in the 50 years since Don Draper and his contemporaries revolutionized the way pitches were made, many of the core sales techniques we see at work on the show each week still apply today.

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Velocify

APRIL 22, 2013

We’ve blogged recently about the importance of leveraging the skills of your inside sales team and playing to each reps strengths like a good coach. In fact, our research shows that after implementing a skill-based routing program, skilled sales reps more than double their conversion. But the science is only part of the equation.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This is not your grandfather’s door-to-door sales world, and for many, the days of wooing prospective customers on the golf course or over a fine dining experience are in the past. We are now in a savvy sales 2.0 world, where sales reps spend more time in the office, armed with a computer, phone, and internet connection.

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Velocify

APRIL 18, 2013

While the Mad Men Era lives on through Hollywood depictions and fashion trends brought back from the past, the era has ultimately come to an end and a new chapter in the history book of sales has begun. Door-to-door sales existed before the 1970′s, but the era became known for the in-house vacuum cleaner pitch.

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Velocify

JUNE 5, 2012

Nick Hedges, CEO of Leads360 talks Telephony. Join us on, Wednesday, June 6th 9 AM Pacific / 12 PM Eastern for a live webinar with Leads360 CEO and President, Nick Hedges. The post Nick Hedges talks telephony; the most powerful yet misunderstood sales tool appeared first on Leads360 Blog. You can register here for free.

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Velocify

APRIL 16, 2013

For many sales organizations the goal is to get new leads into the hands of available reps as fast as possible, often without regard for the characteristics of the lead and related selling expertise available on their team. The post Why getting the right leads to the right reps matters appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Green Lead's B2B

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The Sales Lead Management Association has opened up voting for the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. I'm on the list, so if I've earned your respect in the world of demand gen and lead generation, I'd love your vote. So choose wisely.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Are your sales efforts producing diminishing returns? But how do you know when it’s time to re-evaluate and re-invent your sales processes and technologies? Diagnosing the problem starts with identifying symptoms that go hand in hand with a stagnating sales pipeline. Opportunities slipping through the cracks.

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

At Sales & Marketing 2.0 in San Francisco and B2B Marketing Forum in Boston last month a common theme emerged – the idea of putting the “and” back in sales and marketing. Now this is not a new concept, but it is clear that as technology continues to impact the way buyers buy ( see Retooling in a Sales 2.0

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2012

June 28, 2012 — Are you looking to take your online lead gen and sales efforts to the next level, gain insights about online customer acquisition strategies from more than 2,000 attendees, or connect with your friends from Leads360, Leads Council, DoublePositive, TARGUSinfo and others? Look for us at booth 306!

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Velocify

JUNE 26, 2012

There are so many flavors of CRM from social CRM, sales CRM, call-centric CRM, lead management CRM, marketing CRM and the list goes on and on, tailored by vertical, B2C, B2B, and more. Some systems are focused on doing one thing very well and for Leads360 that one thing is a B2C sales. B2B vs. B2C CRM.

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Velocify

AUGUST 16, 2012

Today we’re sharing a gold mine of valuable insight on what makes for a higher quality lead in insurance, mortgage and education. We’ve mined data from millions of leads and identified characteristics that lead to improved sales conversion. How significant are the findings? Happy scoring!

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Velocify

MAY 31, 2012

Most of our customers are in a sales role, and in a sales situation, listening to understand is such a critical part of the job. Inside sales associates often go from one conversation to the next, and get so stuck in a scripted conversation they can forget no one customer is the same.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A sales leader asked me yesterday, “What do we do with the sales reps that are not following up on the 50% of leads coming in that don’t get called more than once?”. He was commenting in response to the fact that 50% of all leads coming into a company are never called a second time. This must stop.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Recently there was a report published on converting B2B sales leads into deals that we blogged about. The study was researched by Leads360. The big statistic everyone was talking about was that when a lead is contacted within ONE minute of a potential buyer inquiring, the chances to convert that lead increased a whopping 391%.

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