ViewPoint

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. That is why you frequently hear sales say: “the leads suck.”. In it I state: “How much should a lead cost?

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ViewPoint

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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Belkins

JANUARY 24, 2021

Indeed, lead scoring is essential since it helps businesses to identify the most promising prospects and detect the ones that aren’t prone to conversions at early stages. We’ve prepared a few tips for you to master the art of reading your leads’ minds using progressive strategies and state-of-the-art technologies. What is lead scoring?

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ViewPoint

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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The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And now that chat is becoming a staple of the B2B tech stack, creative marketers are finding ever more innovative ways for leveraging their investment to drive engagement throughout the lead lifecycle. Lead Nurturing. Trial & Demo Conversions. Responding to those specific companies, by name (“Hey Google! Progressive Profiling.

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ViewPoint

MAY 23, 2018

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing. The numbers speak for themselves.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 18, 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. All real salespeople love sales leads and don’t ever believe anyone who tells you differently. A failure of lead generation and marketing.

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ViewPoint

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. Filtering out real buyers.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What is a lead? While all of these scenarios have potential, none could be called a lead. Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Sales won’t spend the time it takes to cull through 100 so-called leads for 3 to 4 good ones. Leads aren’t leads unless: They’re qualified.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 12, 2012

Contrary to popular belief, reps don’t need more sales leads. They need fewer leads—or more accurately, fewer raw, unfiltered, unqualified leads. Good sales reps are by nature hunters, eager to close in on highly qualified leads for the kill. Take Steve, for example. Budget undefined?

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ViewPoint

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?

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Binary Demand

MAY 6, 2024

[ps2id id=’introduction’ target=”/]The B2B SaaS sales process typically spans around six months on average, with nearly half of all cycles lasting seven months or more. In this context, there is no room to waste time on leads that are unlikely to convert. Why BANT in Lead Generation? How BANT is Unique?

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The Point

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In 2015, JW Player piloted a small-scale, in-house SEM program on Google AdWords to gauge the potential efficacy of using search advertising to drive qualified leads for its enterprise video platform. JW Player contacted Spear Marketing Group , a leading B2B demand generation agency , for help.

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New North

MAY 8, 2023

The primary metric of interest in any meaningful B2B marketing strategy effort will always be generating leads. But many B2B businesses struggle to find their momentum when it comes to successful lead generation via digital marketing. If you’re an MSP in the early stages of defining a lead gen strategy?

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The Point

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Bear with me as I relate a quick story about lead nurturing: A few months back I became a sales lead. A question: at this point, what kind of lead am I? By my own reckoning, I’m an MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead). Perhaps I was an SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) at one point in the conversation, but no longer.

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BOP Design

APRIL 6, 2020

There has been much debate among B2B salespeople on what an inbound lead looks like: Is it someone completing a contact form? With inbound leads to your B2B website, there are conversions that are more sales-ready leads and there are some conversions that require nurturing. need to be treated like viable, promising leads.

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The Point

MARCH 22, 2019

Lead scoring – as a fundamental part of a company’s lead management strategy – has officially fallen out of fashion. Two reasons I can think of: One is that lead scoring is routinely set up as part of an initial implementation of a marketing automation platform. 3 Key Reasons Not to Give Up on Lead Scoring Click To Tweet.

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Binary Demand

APRIL 28, 2023

Moreover, BANT helps salespeople focus on strong prospects and is popular B2B lead generation tactics. Each factor plays a crucial role in the sales process and can help you determine whether a lead is qualified and ready to purchase. If they need a solution immediately, utilize that haste to your advantage.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. I detailed 7 lies to be aware of to avoid a lead generation disaster (read the blog for the specifics): Any list will do. Automated systems accurately score (prioritize) leads. More leads are better than fewer leads.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Walk out of your office and ask the first three marketers and the first three sales executives you encounter one question: What constitutes a lead? With technology it is now possible to get more poor quality leads to sales faster than ever before. Watch this brief video to learn how to establish a lead definition.

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ViewPoint

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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Directive Agency

MARCH 21, 2018

Today we’re going to be talking about how to increase qualified B2B sales leads with paid SEO. This is a tactic that we developed here at Directive Consulting to increase sales leads. It has been proven to work on every type of vertical to increase opportunities, increase conversions, and drive leads.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 28, 2011

Today's guest blogger, Reg Nordman, is the Managing Partner for Rocket Builders , a Vancouver based sales and marketing consultancy for high growth companies. Previously he has worked in direct and channel sales for major firms such as Unisys and Commodore. 59% engaged with peers who addressed the challenge.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 19, 2018

It’s no longer enough, she realized, to just take the CRM or marketing automation system stats and determine where to spend the company’s growing marketing budget in order to find qualified leads and buyers. You may also like: Salary: Digital Marketing Manager: Salary.com, PayScale and glassdoor. Does Marketing Own the Pipeline?

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The Point

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For a long time, “ lead nurturing ” was thought of as something you did with the leads that sales didn’t want. The theory was: leads come in, the sales team gets the hot ones, and the rest go to lead nurturing. Today, of course, a comprehensive lead nurturing strategy is much more than that.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 30, 2015

The status quo—that marketing management doesn’t understand the definition of a qualified lead—is nothing new. Salespeople consistently say that they do not get enough qualified leads. Qualified leads, according to sales, are based on criteria they understand but marketing is in the dark about.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 2, 2023

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing There are two core schools of thought when structuring your B2B lead and opportunity stages–simplified or complex. A few arguments exist for using a simplified versus a more complex set of stages in B2B marketing and sales.

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Exo B2B

MAY 8, 2024

In particular, the generation of sales leads. The limits of a pure lead generation approach Today’s B2B marketing culture sometimes places too much emphasis on immediate, quantifiable results. It has to be said, however, that this approach can lead to a myopic vision of marketing. Talent attraction. Brand affinity.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Responding quickly to incoming leads can make or break a deal, particularly in highly competitive markets. Quickly growing businesses require more sophisticated automation to ensure operational efficiency, proper distribution of leads among their sales team, and to make sure no leads slip through cracks.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Sungard AS runs a highly successful demand generation program, an integrated mix of both online and offline campaigns, to generate a consistent flow of leads to the company’s sales force. Design, build and launch a “Welcome” email program designed to improve follow-up and response to new leads. Spear is a Marketo agency partner.)

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ViewPoint

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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The Point

JULY 14, 2015

In an era when “demand generation” and “content marketing” are virtually synonymous, most B2B sales leads are the result of a prospect downloading or requesting content. That latter group becomes fodder for ongoing nurturing, in the hope that further education and brand awareness will ultimately result in conversion to qualified leads.

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The Point

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Do I need it in order to do lead nurturing?”. My answer: “It depends how you define “ lead nurturing ,” but technically: no, you don’t need marketing automation in order to nurture leads. It enables you to deploy lead nurturing programs that are more timely, relevant, and, ultimately, effective. Comments welcome.

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Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Savvy B2B marketers are recognizing the limits of today’s email marketing and web analytics applications for generating qualified sales leads and are switching to a demand generation solution to ensure a continuous stream of qualified leads.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 3, 2018

Let’s assume your landing page grabs ahold of visitors’ eyeballs, leads them down a persuasive path and convinces them to share their contact information with you. What else do you have to do to ensure a high landing-page conversion rate? After all, visitors with little interest in your offering cost the same amount as qualified ones.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 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. “Of Do you create a marketing plan that drives sales based on the sales forecast? Lead Generation Based on Forecast? Backup Plan?

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 12, 2010

A lead is a lead, right? Depends – are you in marketing or in sales? SAL – Sales Accepted Leads is the bridge between Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL). Quantitative lead definitions reduce the friction between sales and marketing.

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