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. Jim is seeing a lot of companies lifting off as a result.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. But what are the most effective outbound marketing channels for kicking off a business relationship? billion on search marketing for the same purpose. Every business needs new customers.

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Media Direct Mail netFactor Trade Show 233

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

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Trade Show Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Webinar Metrics 154

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As Account-Based Marketing continues to rise in popularity among B2B companies, I decided to pick the brains of fellow industry experts and get their input on the matter. Today, in part 2, we hear from Adam New-Waterson , Chief Marketing Officer at LeanData. Account-Based Marketing is a philosophy, not a product. Buy more lists!

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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. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Sales is sales. No one outside gets us. No solution is that difficult.

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Pointclear

JUNE 30, 2015

The status quo—that marketing management doesn’t understand the definition of a qualified lead—is nothing new. Qualified leads, according to sales, are based on criteria they understand but marketing is in the dark about. Marketing tries to qualify a greater number of prospects. Inside sales? Survey the sales reps.

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Jonathan Farrington

JULY 31, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear Leads 51

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Pointclear

DECEMBER 17, 2013

B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title. My colleague Bernice Grossman and I recently conducted a new study indicating that B2B marketers now have the opportunity to target prospects more efficiently than ever before.

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Harte Hanks Lead Rank B2B Data 232

Pointclear

MARCH 13, 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. When it comes to measuring marketing’s ROI most marketing managers hesitate to bite off more than they can chew. How else can companies grow?

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Sales Qualified Lead ROI Lead Generation Trade Show 140

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. Trish Bertuzzi - The Bridge Group Karla Blalock - PointClear Bob Bly - Bly.com April Brown - Rubicon Marketing Group Michael Brown - Purple Pig Consulting Michael A. So choose wisely.

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Harte Hanks Lead Management LeadMaster LeadQual 29

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We are republishing this blog by Ruth Stevens (originally run January 29, 2014) because she hits the nail on the head about marketing automation. In the opening paragraph she states: “Marketers sometimes see automation as a silver bullet. Marketing automation doesn’t identify your best target audiences. But it’s only a tool.

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Marketing Strategy Eloqua Marketo 266

Pointclear

APRIL 13, 2012

In this second episode of PowerViews, I have the pleasure of talking with Jeff Ernst who provides advisory services to CMO and marketing leadership professionals as Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Jeff joined Forrester after spending 20 years in sales and marketing.

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Marketing Social Media Scale Trade Show 169

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2016

Sales Lead Management is a complicated process. Sales lead management is a tough subject to truly get your arms around. There are dozens of outside vendors who say they manage some portion of the sales lead process and more than two dozen internal departments that contribute to the process and the decision making. Inside Sales.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 145

Pointclear

JUNE 12, 2018

The sales manager has only a few weeks to make his or her first-half numbers and if they’re behind, he or she is not sleeping. Also, getting a new sales manager at mid-year won’t have an impact until the following year. Why it Matters: “In B2B, most companies have sales cycles longer than three months. One Lead Gen Option.

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Forecasting Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead Discount 113

Pointclear

MAY 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. Let me tell you a story about a Marketing-Lead-Generation-Wizard* and How He Created Demand. Each sales territory needed about 25 inquiries a month.

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Direct Mail Territories Lead Generation Social Media 150

Pointclear

MAY 5, 2015

It's a critical component in the sales and marketing process; yet, most companies aren't implementing it effectively—that is, if they are at all. According to MarketingSherpa research, 64% of B2C and 48% of B2B marketers send out some automated version of this. It’s good to think outside of marketing automation.

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