DialSource

JULY 8, 2020

For example, outside sales reps close deals the old-fashioned way, typically face-to-face. These field sales teams tend to travel often, attending trade shows and conferences in order to schmooze prospects over a meal or round of golf. . Related : KPIs Sales Managers Should Use to Track Field Agents Right Now.

Inside Sales 69

Inside Sales Scale Outside Sales Face-to-face 69

Pointclear

OCTOBER 16, 2012

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. "So I asked the marketing manager. That they would follow up all sales leads until the prospect buys or dies.”.

Trade Show 217

Trade Show Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead CRM 217

Pointclear

JANUARY 21, 2014

Management has not asked for an ROI on Marketing. Sales management refuses to enforce lead follow-up. We sell direct, but nobody closes out the leads. I don’t manage the people who control the final step in reporting: salespeople. Get 100 prospect answers and be amazed at what you will learn.

Harte Hanks 226

Harte Hanks Marketing ROI Sales Qualified Lead 226

SBI

APRIL 25, 2011

Guest Post By Dan McDade, CEO & President, PointClear. The lead farm—it may not sound very sexy at first hearing, but its function and resources are critical success factors in overcoming challenges that prevent B2B sales and marketing groups from operating at peak efficiency and delivering full revenue potential.

Harvest 63

Harvest Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

Forecasting 124

Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Pointclear

MAY 15, 2012

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. Quota dollars / average sales price / buying percentage (45%) ii / close ratio (your market share) = inquiries needed to make quota.

Quota 165

Quota Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Follow-up 165

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This year, we’re honored to have published posts from twenty-seven guest marketing and sales bloggers here on ViewPoint, and I wanted to say to all of you how much I appreciate your contributions. Outsourcing lead generation. Return on marketing and sales investment. Revenue performance management. Sales management.

Outsourcing Services 169

Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2011

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. More than just new inquiries, or managing inquiries or working with sales management on follow-up or even proving ROI, qualified leads are king.

Sales Qualified Lead 160

Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead B2C 160

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

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. You lose a prospect, a customer and the sale and your competitor wins. Marketing departments complain about no follow-up or feedback.

Sales Qualified Lead 178

Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Follow-up 178

Pointclear

APRIL 21, 2015

Without the final step and actually talking to a prospect, billions of marketing dollars are wasted every year. With these marketing tools and new ones every day, inquiries can be qualified and non-buyers weeded out so that salespeople spend their time only on qualified prospects. Out here, a man settles his own problems.".

Film 100

Film Marketing Sales Qualified Lead ROI 100

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

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. So the question this week is, “What if Customer Relationship Management ii had not evolved, where would we be today?”

CRM 154

CRM Journal B2C Customer Service 154

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2017

Driving your salespeople to create their own leads, sucking away productive selling time. Starving the pipeline of new prospects. I was hired by a high tech company in San Jose to find sales leakage because of a substantial sales slump. Prospects have a common trait; they lie. A 100% True Story. They are lying.”.

Sales Qualified Lead 140

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Telemarketing 140

Pointclear

DECEMBER 2, 2010

James Obermayer is Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting. Our salespeople are to blame, they don’t follow-up the leads. Our salespeople are to blame, they don’t close the leads. One of the players hung back and was quiet.

ROI 133

ROI Coaching CRM Face-to-face 133

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2015

“Why,” I was asked, “must you manage sales leads in order to manage sales? Sales lead management is a marketing function, isn’t it?”. It was with a slight hesitation that the sales manager added the second sentence about sales lead management being a marketing function.

Outsourcing Services 100

Outsourcing Services Leads Marketing Qualified Lead ActiveConversion 100

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2013

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. Finally, it could be the communications manager who doesn’t manage and/or fails to report the ROI of every campaign. Sales management.

Lead Generation 216

Lead Generation ROI Lead Management Policies 216

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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. Without a CRM the ability to manage large pipelines, prospects, and customers would be difficult. Keep sales management off their backs.

CRM 169

CRM B2B Marketing Hiring 169

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2018

Lowering the cost of driving that revenue means finding new and better ways of getting the sales and marketing work needed done. For companies to transition from where they’ve been to where they need to be, they must understand three truths: Sales lead management (SLM) is a fundamental business process.

Revenue 113

Revenue Forecasting Commission Telecommunications 113