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Just ask Jim Norton, SVP of QGenda, a 3x PointClear client who recently brought us in on his first day on a new job. He knows first-hand what it takes to succeed: “If you want quality results, PointClear is best-in-class and my go-to for lead generation, qualification and nurturing for over 10 years.”.
If you are paying (just as an example) $750 per appointment, and on average 40% or more of those appointments are with someone who cannot or will not buy, then you are actually paying $1250 per appointment—if you consider, as PointClear does, that unless it’s a qualified prospect it doesn’t count. Long term, things get even worse.
Those of us who use the phone to successfully generate salesleads have picked up an essential trade secret. How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? The PointClear team would like to hear from you about your saleslead generation best practices. One simple trick.
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The Top Sales Expert team includes best-selling authors, builders of large global consultancies, and sales professionals within the Fortune 500 arena. As a prospect development firm providing outsourced sales solutions to B2B companies involved in the complex sale, PointClear shares the goals of Top Sales World.
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At each step of the improved process, research showed that when attention was given to the prospects and they were contacted, sales improved. Marketing became further educated when they asked sales about the customer buying process and the sales selling process. People tried various combinations of email, mail, and calling.
More leads are better than fewer leads. I received a lot of positive feedback about the article and decided to ask our PointClear PowerViews Alumni (those who have been on the PowerViews show ) for their input on the most dangerous lead gen lies out there. James Obermayer | SalesLead Management Association.
81 highly qualified sales opportunities with the right contact who has a need backed by some form of compelling event. This offer was made because marketing was providing option #6 above (using PointClear to generate the highly qualified leads), but sales follow-up was poor. Guess which one they chose? None of the above.
Given that your competitors are facing the same challenges, deploying the same strategies and spending the same or more on sales and marketing, how are you going to make your sales and marketing more effective in capturing greater share, making your company profitable, and growing value for your funding partners and future investors?
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Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear spoke at the BMA Atlanta luncheon on March 10 at Maggiano's. The author of The Truth About Leads addressed the group of B2B marketers (ironically half sales, half marketing) about his philosophy for achieving marketing and sales alignment. Join us at BMA Atlanta!
Jim Obermayer, founder of the SalesLead Management Association. I’ve known Jim for years as a consultant and author specializing in lead management—a generally under-appreciated subject that Jim uniquely understood to be a critical success factor in business selling. These people are making a welcome contribution.
We then loop in your closers when the lead is hot, keeping their focus on directly generating revenue. Beyond the fact that this is too long, and not well written, it was sent to PointClear, my B2B lead generation services company, that does what they purport to do. Any interest in a short chat?
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