SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This post is for the marketing leader trying to bootstrap their department. Your CEO wants one thing from you: leads that result in more business. Your sales team wants one thing from you: leads that are ready to buy. To satisfy both you need to produce not just more leads, but quality leads.

Lead Generation 317

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 317

The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing are merging for small businesses and require strong collaboration for larger companies. March 2008. February 2008.

Sales Qualified Lead 266

Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

I recently had a cup of coffee with a good friend and marketing peer. She has been trying to reduce her cost per lead, but have not been able to get below $360 per qualified lead. She has been trying to reduce her cost per lead, but have not been able to get below $360 per qualified lead. Top Insights.

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Cost per Lead Inbound Buyer Persona Cost per Acquisition 323

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MAY 30, 2013

The annual “State of Marketing” Global Survey of Marketers has again been completed, and results were announced at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit last week. You can download the complete results from the IBM State of Marketing 2013 Global Survey. Top marketers act on insights and create a system of engagement.

Marketing 241

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Survey 241

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APRIL 17, 2025

Top Sales Tools for 2025 Breaking down the top sales tools means sorting the market into key categories that satisfy the top needs of your B2B sales team. With its Agentforce functionality, teams can tap into AI-powered agents that support lead management, opportunity tracking, and buyer engagement with speed and precision.

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Sales Tools Tools B2B Lead Rank 130

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JANUARY 23, 2013

They are top sales books, marketing / branding books, training, team building, and a couple of wild cards thrown in too. Since I need to downsize a bit, I decided to pull out 50-75 of these books and instead of dumping them off where they won’t be appreciated, we came up with this idea that is a win/win/win.

Marketing 218

Marketing Outbound Follow-up Influencer 218

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AUGUST 21, 2013

The annual HubSpot INBOUND conference started as a great get-together for fans of the inbound marketing software platform a few years back and has grown now to being one of the biggest and best marketing conferences out there. The post Seth Godin Speaks and Marketers Listen appeared first on Score More Sales. Close More Deals.

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Marketing Hubspot Conference Inbound 195

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

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Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 243

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

SBI Growth

JULY 25, 2013

The best-in-class marketing leaders have already started planning for next year. They follow an annual planning process that starts in July with a Marketing Productivity Benchmark. A productivity benchmark assesses the marketing organization’s capabilities – its strengths and weaknesses. The best marketers assess both.

Outsourcing Services 257

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Buyer Persona Lead Scoring 257

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This article doesn’t touch that subject but addresses another vital topic: how to handle leads as they’re coming in, and the basics of establishing your lead management. Inbound and Outbound. As with many companies, our company deals with both inbound and outbound leads. Lead Management—An Effective Tool.

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Lead Management Lead Scoring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 92

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

On the topic of trust, Ted Rubin, author of Return on Relationship and Chief Social Marketing Officer at Collective Bias was a pleasure to meet, and speaks in a couple of interviews at the summit about seeing major corporations “start” to pay attention to the consumer and how there is still much work to accomplish from the social standpoint.

Marketing 197

Marketing Banking Social Media Consumer 197

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

If nothing else, download some of their stuff and learn how to attract buyers your way while you work on all of your outbound selling efforts. Doing both outbound + inbound = NEW SALES. There are lots of social media marketing sites – we follow a number of them. Contact us to hear our own great success story.

Video 210

Video Social Media Outbound Hubspot 210

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Does Outbound Lead Gen Still Work? . Outbound prospecting does work and it works well when you know who your target market is, what your buyers are looking for, and you have a compelling message to offer that extols value for those buyer.

Inside Sales 232

Inside Sales Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

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JANUARY 29, 2013

In a bigger organization, a marketing team might have specific customer reference team members who focus solely on building up a reference library and referral program. In many SMBs and mid-market companies, often the strategy to ask happy customers for referrals just does not happen. Does your marketing department oversee this?

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Referrals InsideView Outbound LinkedIn 263

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JANUARY 27, 2014

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Lead Rank 281

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 281

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

He was commenting in response to the fact that 50% of all leads coming into a company are never called a second time. This fact is from research previously done by Leads360 , a cloud based leads management and sales automation company. 93% of all converted leads from this study happened by 6 phone calls. This must stop.

Follow-up 250

Follow-up Study Marketing Qualified Lead Leads 250

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AUGUST 5, 2013

They also cobbled together an inbound marketing strategy which already is gaining them visibility on the web. Good outbound calling tied in with a smart inbound marketing program is a great combination to grow sales opportunities. One rep tripled her meetings and the other doubled his. Don’t Make it So Hard on Yourself.

Inside Sales 220

Inside Sales Outbound Inbound Lead Rank 220

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

The big statistic everyone was talking about was that when a lead is contacted within ONE minute of a potential buyer inquiring, the chances to convert that lead increased a whopping 391%. Some ideas you might want to think about heading into 2013: Do you have an inbound marketing tool or set of tools to help attract buyers?

Leads360 225

Leads360 Closing Inbound Outbound 225

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

When it comes to improving sales lead generation results, using marketing technology without analytics expertise and business acumen results in a numbers glut devoid of action items. Regular marketing analytics reviews are critical success factors supporting our mission. Data tracking, aggregation and measurement.

Lead Generation 176

Lead Generation Analytics Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 176

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

At the end of January, B2B Sales and Marketing Influencer Craig Rosenberg posted a first ever, annual ranking of Inside Sales Influencers for 2013 on the Radius Intelligence blog. Craig based the list on Kred scores – something I was not even familiar with until I saw this list – drawn from Twitter engagement.

Lead Scoring 224

Lead Scoring Lead Rank Inside Sales Influencer 224

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MARCH 18, 2014

We have always had to communicate with potential buyers, ask for referrals, work trade shows, and advertise / market for new business. It’s funny to hear people debating about how and when social selling will be further adopted. As long as I can remember, selling has ALWAYS been social. The big change now is the tools and technology.

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Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 250

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Working with and talking to many SMB and smaller mid-market companies in the past year, what is certain is the uncertainty some folks have around social selling for business-to-business (B2B) companies. 1) They feel they don’t have the time to “add” social strategies to their sales and marketing repertoire.

Social Selling 236

Social Selling Webinar Metrics Retail Outbound 236

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JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook for small-and -medium-sized (SMB) businesses includes a lot of looking toward cloud computing and improved analytics, according to Ed Abrams, IBM’s VP Marketing and Strategy for SMBs. So many new cloud-based tools have not only come to market, but many are tried-and-true now. They want to be where their customers are.

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Coremetrics Analytics Trends Outbound 238

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Top Sales World recently published their list of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Blogs. At a recent conference, I liked Oracle Social Selling expert Jill Rowley’s comment: “There is no box” It makes me realize that creativity is one of the best traits in selling you can have. But where to get ideas?

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Resources B2B Oracle Lead Rank 232

Pointclear

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. Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Automated systems accurately score (prioritize) leads.

Lead Generation 257

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

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MARCH 5, 2013

We’re also big fans of Salesforce for CRM and Pardot , our marketing automation app. B2BCamp is an unconference for marketing and sales folks looking to use new tech and processes to get ahead. It provides job change alerts and news alerts on the companies and people in my CRM. LR: Do you have any B2B Camps coming up?

Social Selling 243

Social Selling Tools LinkedIn B2B 243

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JANUARY 15, 2013

I like it because it is divided up into sections: Content Marketing & Thought Leadership. Marketing Automation Becomes a Necessity. The piece – 2013 Make or Break Predictions from the Top Sales Influencers Online was just released yesterday. Sales Team Shake-Ups: Fewer Field Reps, More Inside Sales.

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Influencer Social Media Outbound Twitter 215

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APRIL 30, 2013

There are SMB and mid-market sales organizations who have not embraced a cloud-based, customer relationship management system, better known as CRM or SCRM. Now there are very capable CRM products on the market that are extremely low cost – even free for micro businesses. COMPLICATIONS.

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CRM Revenue SugarCRM System 291

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MAY 2, 2012

Here is what Sean told me they do with these at his office: When a sales rep is working within a block of time to make outbound calls, they put their sales funnel (with the dollar sign) on their cube wall so others walking by know not to stop and chat or interrupt for any reason. and one of “20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management”.

Top of Funnel 193

Top of Funnel Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 193

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MAY 2, 2012

Here is what Sean told me they do with these at his office: When a sales rep is working within a block of time to make outbound calls, they put their sales funnel (with the dollar sign) on their cube wall so others walking by know not to stop and chat or interrupt for any reason. and one of “20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management”.

Top of Funnel 193

Top of Funnel Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 193

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JANUARY 4, 2013

But I also had sales leaders who just raised the number by a percentage every year, not taking into consideration changes in the market or in opening up a new territory. Activity goals are goals that you typically come up with together with your sales manager targeting specific actions that you have a whole lot of control over.

Sales Qualified Lead 224

Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker Territories Outbound 224

Pointclear

MAY 16, 2017

Then implement the workflow that encourages both sales and marketing to be acccountable for their role in revenue generation. Finally figure out how you can deliver the marketing-nurtured opportunities that sales will follow up on and close. Then, and only then, it's time to check out your automation options. More about this.

Lead Rank 169

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead Leads 169

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APRIL 4, 2013

I promise this will be a fun, fast, interesting hour that will give you ideas you can put into place right away, and turn your “social selling” efforts into part of a cohesive plan that bridges marketing with sales. We will take questions and comments live during the webinar and look forward to your contributions.

Webinar Metrics 224

Webinar Metrics Outbound Social Selling Buyer 224

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JULY 24, 2019

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change. Ready to learn more?

Lead Generation 172

Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 172