Lead Qualification, Sales Qualified Leads and Telemarketing

Persistence Pays—How 42 Lead Qualification Touchpoints Won a $1 Billion Deal

ViewPoint

JUNE 9, 2017

While some sales people stop after placing one or two calls (if they don’t get the prospect on the phone or don’t get a call back, they deem the lead no good) our sales support associates keep trying. One opportunity we turned over to a client took 42 touchpoints across 3 months to nurture to sales-qualified status.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Disciplined Lead Qualification improves sales performance

markempa

JANUARY 18, 2005

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead qualification and scoring for better leads

markempa

OCTOBER 19, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! But inquiries are not leads.

Lead Qualification

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Telemarketing big with Xerox

markempa

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

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Telemarketing

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Why BANT No Longer Applies for B2B Lead Qualification

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 28, 2012

Fifteen years ago I worked for a B2B marketing agency that had an outbound call center focused on lead generation. The goal for the majority of our programs was to have our telemarketers qualify names, gather some information and qualify these prospects by the famed BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeframe) criteria.

Lead Qualification

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Why BANT No Longer Applies for B2B Lead Qualification

ANNUITAS

AUGUST 28, 2012

Fifteen years ago I worked for a B2B marketing agency that had an outbound call center focused on lead generation. The goal for the majority of our programs was to have our telemarketers qualify names, gather some information and qualify these prospects by the famed BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeframe) criteria.

Lead Qualification

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5 do’s & don’ts of B2B lead qualification

Biznology

JULY 31, 2015

Lead qualification is one of the primary jobs for B2B marketers, and a great deal of time and money is spent on this step of the sales cycle. Now that I’ve stated the obvious, I see both good and bad lead qualification processes in the market. Which leads me to 5 Do’s and Don’ts of B2B lead qualification.

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How To Nurture Marketing Qualified Leads Into Sales Qualified Leads

Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 28, 2021

Inbound marketing consistently helps organizations generate qualified leads. But if your company cannot convert these leads into customers, the leads you generated will go to waste. This can be frustrating, so here are some strategies you should add to marketing plan to convert your leads into sales: 1.

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5 Best practices of trade show lead qualification

Biznology

AUGUST 19, 2015

Following my last blog on lead qualification, I received some great comments and several questions as to whether lead qualification differs for trade show leads. Yes, it does, and here is a revision of my last blog specifically addressing trade show lead generation and qualification.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. And so we turn to good old-fashioned cold calling to drive leads, identify new contacts or even clean our lists. Thanks for emphasizing the point! This is a constant.

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Lead Nurturing and the Inside Sales / Telesales Role

Avitage

MARCH 7, 2012

We are working with several clients to help them improve their lead nurturing program to deliver a higher volume and quality of sales ready leads to the outside sales team. We have found a tendency on the part of Inside Sales to conduct their work from what I would term a traditional mindset.

Lead Nurturing

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Is Lead Flow to the Reps Too Slow or Gridlocked?

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.

Sales Qualified Leads

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Target Marketing: What’s a Lead?

markempa

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! That’s not always true.

Persistence Pays—How 42 Lead Qualification Touchpoints Won a $1 Billion Deal

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Disciplined Lead Qualification improves sales performance

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Why BANT No Longer Applies for B2B Lead Qualification

Why BANT No Longer Applies for B2B Lead Qualification

5 do’s & don’ts of B2B lead qualification

How To Nurture Marketing Qualified Leads Into Sales Qualified Leads

5 Best practices of trade show lead qualification

11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Lead Nurturing and the Inside Sales / Telesales Role

Is Lead Flow to the Reps Too Slow or Gridlocked?

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Target Marketing: What’s a Lead?

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5 Lead Nurturing Time Factors to Fine Tune Your Messages

Lead Generation Lies That are Wreaking Havoc with Your Sales

B2B Lead Generation Blog: New Lead Nurturing Webinar

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Prospect Experience Marketing: Find the Gold in Your Lead Generation Program

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: New complimentary e-book - Start with a Lead: Eight critical success factors for lead generation results

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Webcast: How to Precisely Define a "Lead" Before Marketing Begins

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Lead generation No Nos: When is a â€œfree downloadâ€? no longer free?

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Getting your sales channel to really follow-up on sales leads

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Speaking at MarketingSherpas B-to-B Demand Generation Summit 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog: B2B Lead Generation Blog Nominated for MarketingSherpas 2005 Readers Choice Blog Awards

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Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

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