Pointclear

JULY 23, 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. It’s way ‘old-school’ to try and kick-start sales by dramatically jumping up sales lead quantity, and then rely on the sales channel to deal with it.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Finding leads isn’t the hard part, but unqualified leads are just “ash and trash”, according to my latest PowerViews guest, James Obermayer, sales manager extraordinaire. Marketing automation in the hands of a fool is still a fool’s tool.”. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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Sales Lead Management Association

APRIL 22, 2019

He also guides us into how we can use cold calls as an amazing tool for working with our prospects towards solving shared problems and eventually making that sale!

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While the sales process can be complex and time-consuming, targeted automation with the right tools can ease the burden on your sales team. That includes simplifying lead distribution and management. To help, our team has gathered our 25 favorite lead distribution platforms. Lead rotation (round-robin lead distribution).

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Jonathan Farrington

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even when marketing qualifies a lead through Step #3, sales often starts selling at Step #5. We even had one sales rep follow-up on a lead by saying: “Some telemarketing company in Atlanta said you were interested in buying our solution. Most sales people start selling at Step #5. What is it that you want to buy?” I say baloney.

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Vengreso

JULY 10, 2023

I’ve spent 25 years in the industry, starting at the age of 19 years old when I got my first big break as a telemarketer (now called SDR) at a software organization. Within 6 months, I was promoted from a Telemarketer into a Jr. In that year, I learned from some of the greatest sales managers that I’m friends with today.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Inbound prospects are typically more aware and more engaged to start, whereas outbound leads are normally less aware and less engaged… at least in the beginning. In fact, both techniques can be powerful tools for growing a company. Thousands of sales teams around the world use Close as their tool of choice.

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