Pointclear

JANUARY 11, 2011

Comment on The Bridge Group's ten predictions for inside sales in 2011. No longer will the Inside Sales Rep be a “jack of all trades” Roles will be clearly defined and measured based on specific desired outcomes. Data will become an integral component for predicting the likelihood of Inside Sales success.

Inside Sales 185

Inside Sales Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 185

Pointclear

AUGUST 1, 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. Inside Sales Power Tip 125 – Grit. The Helpful Sales Person. Are you too helpful?

PointClear 200

PointClear B2B Face-to-face Inside Sales 200

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

How do my colleagues at PointClear and I keep from falling into this trap? The tone of the prospect is generally clear almost immediately. Because I heard them, and responded to them as a person, I greatly increase my chance at getting time with this prospect. One simple trick. The moment a phone contact is made, we’re all ears.

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring PointClear 100

Pointclear

JUNE 26, 2012

But, when I attended the recent Leadership Summit put on by the American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP), I was reminded that sometimes questions can just lead to more questions. So I attended this event expecting to find out more about how and when resources would be flowing to inside sales teams.

Inside Sales 162

Inside Sales Hiring Conference Field Sales 162

Pointclear

MAY 5, 2017

Now there is a rush for software and computers to reason (yes, that is the right word) and to take action for sales and marketing revenue increases by people or in a programmatic fashion. Sales managers must acknowledge that AI is going to make its way into the ways in which sales people work, prospect, and sell.

InsideSales 113

InsideSales Inside Sales Revenue Webinar Metrics 113

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2016

Sales lead purgatory occurs between SAL and SQL, with sales accepting leads but subsequently losing contact or interest. a sales rep reports, ‘I called the prospect three times. With a lack of accountability in both marketing and sales lead purgatory, leads are lost and ultimately reappear as wins for the competition.”.

Follow-up 154

Follow-up Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 154

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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.

PointClear 124

PointClear Sales Outsourcing Webinar Metrics Lead Generation 124

Braveheart Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This article is written with field sales teams in mind. However, if you run an inside sales team exclusively, don’t despair, you may still find a nugget or two of helpful information as well. An outside sales call costs $308, an inside sales call costs $50 [Source: PointClear]. Source: com].

Revenue 52

Revenue Hiring PointClear Inside Sales 52

SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If it does, you’ll want to know how to generate the most leads , how to capture the most leads , how to best score and qualify leads , how to track which leads convert to prospects, and the list goes on. The Sales Lead Management Association (SLMA) is an online resource for answering these questions and more. Thank you Trish!

Lead Management 114

Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 114

Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

It was interesting to see all three companies use similar descriptions in their SEC filings for both their sales and marketing activity and their market challenges. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force. Sales force efforts include field sales and inside sales teams using the phone.

Outsourcing Services 173

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Pointclear

MAY 12, 2011

It’s important to keep your market primed so that when it comes time to buy, these prospects reach out to you. But we advise companies we talk to that it’s an important consideration in setting up their inside sales organizations, assessing current operations, or evaluating an outsourced solution.

Outsourcing Services 140

Outsourcing Services Channels Penetration Prospecting 140

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

Even with the growing number of digital routes, outbound phone calling, or teleprospecting, remains a powerful method to engage personally with your prospects. Skilled telemarketing professionals can reveal needs, discover market intelligence, form early relationships, and ultimately qualify the prospect as a lead, primed to pass on to sales.

Lead Gen 113

Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113

Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2013

TeleSmart is a leader in providing inside sales coaching and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. As publisher of TeleSmart’s “Trend Report,” Josiane has spent most of the last decade tracking the biggest challenges that sales leaders face each year. The Inside Sales Superhero to the Rescue. They’re social.

Inside Sales 203

Inside Sales Cold Calling Face-to-face Sports 203

Pointclear

JULY 14, 2015

Our good friend— Matt Heinz , founder of Heinz Marketing—starts us off: It can be really difficult for organizations to not only measure what’s working, but to also “re-rally the team” (sales, marketing, product, or all of the above) as findings point to slight, and perhaps frequent, direction changes. But what if the message is wrong?

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 100

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. Inside Sales Experts Blog. Predictable Revenue.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Sales Management Hiring Lead Rank 98

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

From Chris Snell , Inside Sales Manager, SMB at Care.com. ISRs (inside sales reps) rely too much on being farmers, and when dry times come (just like they do for real farmers!), With that said, Joanne and I see eye-to-eye on the majority of other issues. Here''s what I see are the top two symptoms of inbounditis: 1.

Inbound 257

Inbound Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Outbound 257

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 said he still has a lot to learn, and sitting in while a sales rep speaks to prospects is a two-way educational street.

Twitter 189

Twitter Inside Sales Video Motivation 189

Pointclear

AUGUST 6, 2018

The misconception that building an internal team of sales development reps gives you more control and costs less is widespread. In-house tele-prospecting costs more than outsourcing and by outsourcing you can find superior services (however, you must be careful because there is a lot of mediocrity in the lead generation space).

Outsourcing Services 113

Outsourcing Services Direct Mail Sales Qualified Lead Commission 113

Pointclear

JUNE 30, 2015

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. Marketing management must travel with salespeople and listen to a few dozen sales presentations. Inside sales? Survey the sales reps.

Sales Qualified Lead 100

Sales Qualified Lead Telemarketing Trade Show Hiring 100

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 said he still has a lot to learn, and sitting in while a sales rep speaks to prospects is a two-way educational street.

Twitter 124

Twitter Inside Sales Video Motivation 124

Pointclear

APRIL 10, 2012

Sales Trends Companies Should be Looking At. Click to start video at this point —Commenting on trends that we need to be looking at, Jonathan talks about the three levels of selling: inside sales, external sales and what he calls new wave selling (i.e., The Fight for Marketing & Sales Alignment.

Face-to-face 184

Face-to-face Social Media Hiring Inside Sales 184

Pointclear

DECEMBER 20, 2011

I appreciate the manner in which each has clearly presented B2B marketing and sales challenges, solutions (in the form of best-practice strategies and tactics), and results in areas like the following: Content marketing. Inside sales. B2B marketing and sales strategies and tactics. Customer acquisition. Demand creation.

Outsourcing Services 169

Outsourcing Services Social Media Marketing Lead Generation 169

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Lead nurturing and initial qualification calls to prospects may lie with marketing automation or inside sales qualification specialists (unless it is outsourced). But the actual, final management of the prospect is square in the lap of the individual salesperson. I wish it were more complicated, but it isn’t.

Outsourcing Services 100

Outsourcing Services Leads Marketing Qualified Lead ActiveConversion 100

Pointclear

MARCH 31, 2011

Sales Speaks: Perceptions & Ponderings on Marketing Leads from The Bridge Group and Vorsight is based on survey responses from 1,150 sales representatives asked to share their perceptions on lead accuracy, lead scoring, pipeline, and sales and marketing SLAs.

Marketing Qualified Lead 172

Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 172

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2016

If no one is completely responsible, the company’s revenue suffers from wasted leads, misused high marketing costs, and uncontrolled sales expenses.”. Sales Lead Management Association. A dozen or more internal departments (a more detailed list here ): Sales Department. Sales Operations. Inside Sales.

Lead Management 145

Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 145

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

If cold calling and proactively targeting ideal profile prospects is truly dead, then why are my clients having so much success creating NEW opportunities and CLOSING new deals from their personal prospecting efforts? Emails sent to me oblivious that I’m not a prospect. And, if you’re not, then you won’t get the conversation.

Outsourcing Services 100

Outsourcing Services Cold Calling B2B Inbound 100

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

Lead Generation 200

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Mostly it is because they have been conditioned to expect poor quality leads—often working 100 leads to find 3 – 7 real opportunities (the chances of good sales people doing this is between slim and none). What a waste: Spending tens of thousands of dollars to generate leads that get sent to sales and go into a black hole.

Sales Qualified Lead 38

Sales Qualified Lead Outsourcing Services PointClear Inbound 38

Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

That means someone like an inside sales rep or a business development rep calls and is more like a concierge. I have this concierge image in my head, of someone who calls a prospect to say “I see you’re downloading a lot of stuff for evaluation. It’s now the job of marketing to guide the buyer through the buying process.

Research 253

Research B2B Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 253

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2012

Craig talks about the critical role of the phone in connecting with the right prospects as quickly as possible: “I was just reading Aaron Ross’s blog post the other day. Marketing & Sales Alignment: Encouraging Signs & Continuing Challenges.

Software 187

Software Software B2B Top of Funnel 187