Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2013

Staying current on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be daunting, especially in the the digital space. PointClear''s staff and Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from our digital circles about B2B sales. Sales Coaching - The Use and Abuse of Modeling.

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Pointclear

JULY 18, 2013

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Can Fewer Leads Mean More Sales? The Five Greatest Inhibitors to Sales Effectiveness.

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Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2013

Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Are You Paying Enough Attention To Your Sales Teams? Sales teams are expensive, complex and powerful, so they should be made as productive as possible. Via Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog. Success demands tenacity.”

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Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2013

Keeping up to date on the latest innovations and opinions in sales can be time-consuming, especially in the the digital space. Sales Sphere features relevant blog articles from PointClear''s online B2B sales circles. Via Sales & Marketing Management. The Death of Salesmen is Overstated. Via Forbes.

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Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2017

Some companies have several inside departments to take in, qualify, nurture, and filter sales leads to such a finite extent that few leads go to anyone. If the raw lead count is high but there is a mere trickle going to the salespeople, you have a substantial problem. Starving the pipeline of new prospects.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Telemarketing 140

Pointclear

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. All because the CEO did not insist on a common definition of a lead.

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Pointclear

APRIL 7, 2015

“Cost of sales is determined by a lot of things,” Jake said, “But lead management isn’t one of them.” And with that the sales manager slapped the table with his hand to emphasize his words. Follow-up is the responsibility of the sales reps and as reported in the CRM system it was only 15%.

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Pointclear

MAY 26, 2016

Keep leads from being ignored is the fifth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. How many were accepted by sales? How much did you spend for the leads? Truly, almost no one.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 157

Pointclear

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, SVP of Marketing at Vision Critical Vision Critical is the world''s leading provider of insight communities, currently supporting over 650 brands worldwide. Matt Heinz, Heinz Marketing, The Quality of Sales Leads is Abysmal. The quality of leads being generated nowadays is abysmal. percent were quality.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. 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.

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Pointclear

APRIL 17, 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. Sales and marketing operate on different frequencies. Sales isn’t into sharing data. Marketing’s plate is full.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 172

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. ” How did Andy know so much about sales, marketing and sales leads? Now I’ve done it. I’m giving away the secret.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Follow-up 178

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.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 22, 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. Alice is the marketing manager of a medical device company. Cindy is the sales manager. She didn’t want to ambush the sales manager.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 170

Pointclear

DECEMBER 19, 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. As we plan for the New Year, it’s time to stop following and start leading. Want to increase sales 30% or more? Be an expert.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sales managers have six basic jobs—hire, compensate, train, deploy, monitor and manage, and coach and counsel—and they generally fail at the last three. If hiring, training and compensating are the science behind sales management, then deployment, monitoring and managing, and coaching and counseling are the art.

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Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Deliver fewer, but better, leads to sales. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. What constitutes a good lead? Is a good lead only one where a c-level executive is involved?

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Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

Pointclear

APRIL 19, 2017

I travel a ton, and the Southwest Airlines 737 feels like my personal Sales Force One.” Mike is author of two of my favorite books: “ New Sales. And “ Sales Management. He is a trust builder focused on leading transformational conversations, those that create and sustain relationships of value. Simplified. ”

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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.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead B2C 160

Pointclear

JULY 29, 2014

The sales manager, Mark, was adamant that his salespeople were following up the good leads and only ignoring the unqualified, ‘never-gonna-buy’ leads. “They know instinctively,” he said, “who the buyers are, and Marketing isn’t finding enough ‘good’ leads.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

PointClear PD. Small Business Startup and Sales Tips | Free Web Design Tucson. PointClear PD. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management. Random Walk Down Sales Street. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Pointclear

MARCH 25, 2014

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 was in answer to my questions about lead follow-up by salespeople that he grumbled, “And people in hell also like ice water.“. “If I was wrong.

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Sales Qualified Lead Follow-up Negotiation ROI 247

DialSource

JULY 8, 2020

At the end of the day, AI does not exist to replace sales reps, but to act as a supportive assistant in regard to automation, analytics, and overall productivity. For example, by implementing Salesforce and Dialsource, you can take your remote sales strategies to new heights. . Inside Sales Is Here to Stay — Here’s Why .

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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?

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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. I wish that salespeople would use the CRM system instead of spreadsheets for a sales forecast.”.

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Trade Show Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead CRM 217

Pointclear

JANUARY 21, 2014

Which brings me to the topic for this month’s article, which follows up on the December topic entitled: " Taking away a salesperson’s excuses ," in which I wrote about the lack of sales lead follow-up. Actually, this list is shorter than the one for salespeople’s excuses for not following up on sales leads.

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Harte Hanks Marketing ROI Sales Qualified Lead 226

Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

For salespeople and sales managers, few understand the Prime Directive of Sales Management: Enhance Sales Momentum (Never Interrupt It). Sales momentum isn’t about sales skills. It’s measured as a product of its mass and velocity of your sales efforts. Sales Lead Brownout.

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Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

In fact, it makes the whole sales pipeline sick. Deal sizes gradually decreasing as inbound leads increase; 2. High-performing reps avoiding inbound lead follow-up; and 3. The percent of sales accepted leads decreasing while lead quotas increase.”. It''s time to change how we talk about sales leads.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As companies seek methods of decreasing costs and improving operational efficiencies, technological evolution has made the inclusion of inside sales teams a core component of organizational sales strategies. How much more cost-effective is it for a company to leverage an inside sales team to its fullest?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Marketing complains that Sales doesn’t follow up on their leads; Sales contends that the leads Marketing sends their way aren’t any good. What are your thoughts on the current state of Marketing and Sales alignment?

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Pointclear

AUGUST 2, 2017

There are many factors that impact the percent of leads that should be closed by sales. This blog will take you through five factors that impact lead close rate and a calculation you can use to determine the minimum close rates your product or solution requires. The five main factors in lead close rate are: Market definition.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Closing 160

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Qualified leads. Closed leads. Revenue just from sales leads generated by marketing. Total Revenue. Is this good or bad?

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Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is also an author and often-requested keynote speaker at sales management, CRM and E-Business conferences. Many elements must come together to create quality leads, and among these should be departmental transparency and communication. Lead Generation — Don''t Just Turn Up the Volume. Not Enough Leads.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Time is vitally important to the success of a salesperson—time to research prospects, time to hone the sales pitch, and time to communicate with potential clients. Chris, who previously worked for Green Leads LLC, AG Salesworks, and MEDITECH, talks about the challenges of generating leads in his niche business.

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Twitter Inside Sales Video Motivation 189

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.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 3, 2013

which assists sales trainers in selecting the appropriate providers. Dave, a former sales rep, sales manager, VP of sales, competitive sales strategist, consultant, and sales trainer, has worked in 26 countries—with companies from the Fortune 10 to start-ups. How to Define a Lead.

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