Score More Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Recently there was a report published on converting B2B sales leads into deals that we blogged about. The study was researched by Leads360. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute ” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling.

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Velocify

JANUARY 17, 2013

For sales organizations, adding dialer software to a sales automation solution is tremendously valuable. But, when that dialer software incorporates a number of intelligent features it can also result in more efficient lead distribution, faster response times, and increased accountability across a sales team.

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Velocify

MARCH 7, 2013

Leads360 shares its formula for optimizing the sales leads-to-rep ratio. So we put our resident sales scientists to the test, mining millions of sales calls to build out a formula for one of the most common questions we get asked from sales managers.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The Ultimate Contact Strategy provides a ready-to-use road map to rev up your sales process in 2013. And if history repeats, Sales leaders are undoubtedly spending a significant amount of time strategizing on how they’ll hit a bigger number in 2013. Improves sales processes and top line sales growth? Enough said.

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Velocify

MARCH 19, 2013

Great coaches can coax peak performance out of their athletes and so can sales managers when they use Leads360’s sales Performance-Based Distribution feature. And with the stakes so high, the coaches need to play to the strengths of each of their players, optimizing for peak sales performance.

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Velocify

AUGUST 10, 2012

Bridgette Marshall of LSI Mortgage achieves Olympic level sales using Leads360 to tap into aged leads. After five months of “turn me on”, “turn me off” emails, LSI Mortgage Plus went live with Leads360 and Marshall was finally free. With Leads360, loan officers work a blend of new and aged leads more efficiently.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Leads360 joins Marketo Launchpoint, bringing conversion horsepower to the marketing nation. The growing adoption of marketing automation presents a significant opportunity for inside sales. As marketing automation works its magic, the volume of quality leads creates more opportunity for inside sales. Terrific, right?

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Pointclear

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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Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Texting: A new frontier in sales. Sales professionals can learn a lot from the pioneers that have come before them, and there is much to be gained by using text messaging in the sales process. The post Infographic: How to use SMS to win love, leads, revenue appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 10, 2012

This new infographic, based on recent Leads360 research , sheds light on attributes that make one lead more likely than the next to convert. Gaining a better understanding of what makes prospects convert to customers can help prevent wasted marketing and sales dollars generating and chasing sub-optimal leads.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Leads360 recently published a new study, the Ultimate Contact Strategy, highlighting the importance of sales lead follow-up including prompt response, appropriate persistence, and optimal timing between attempts for both phone and email communication.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The combined results of Leads360 secret shopper studies over the last 24 months revealed that alarmingly, 42 percent of web inquiry forms submitted never received a phone response from the sales teams of those respective organizations, despite the request. attempts per inquiry to be exact). But how many calls are too many?

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Velocify

JUNE 5, 2013

New Leads360 study identifies several characteristics of duplicate leads that show a higher likelihood of conversion than average. Among lead generators and sales teams alike, there’s often confusion or disagreement about duplicate leads and how to best handle them. appeared first on Leads360 Blog. Think again.

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Velocify

APRIL 3, 2013

In the 1960’s Don Draper from the popular show Mad Men and his colleagues at a fictional advertising firm on Madison Avenue were the center of the marketing and sales universe, controlling all channels of influence. The post Infographic: How sales has evolved since the Mad Men era appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In today’s competitive sales environment working new sales leads when others are not could give you a leg up on the competition. The fact that fewer sales organizations and reps are working Friday through Sunday creates an advantage for those that do work then because they get to enjoy less competition on those days.

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

New Leads360 study analyzes the contact practices of more than 400 inside sales teams, identifying the methods and actions that drive best-in-class sales performance. But how quickly should sales follow-up? Many inside sales reps make too few calls and send too few emails. What days and times are best?

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Velocify

JANUARY 21, 2013

New study reveals that texting messaging at the right point in the sales process can drive significant conversion gains of up to 328%. With the large volume of flashy new mobile apps out there, the original mobile app, text messaging , has been largely neglected by sales professionals in their selling efforts. Download your copy today.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This is not your grandfather’s door-to-door sales world, and for many, the days of wooing prospective customers on the golf course or over a fine dining experience are in the past. We are now in a savvy sales 2.0 world, where sales reps spend more time in the office, armed with a computer, phone, and internet connection.

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Velocify

MAY 16, 2013

There are sales strategies from the email era that remain as effective today, and new selling insights that make email even more effective. Not surprisingly, the dawn of email as a remote communication tool helped put a nail in the coffin of the door-to-door sales era. Once you’ve captured a prospects email, use it.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A sales leader asked me yesterday, “What do we do with the sales reps that are not following up on the 50% of leads coming in that don’t get called more than once?”. This fact is from research previously done by Leads360 , a cloud based leads management and sales automation company. This must stop.

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Velocify

JUNE 5, 2012

Nick Hedges, CEO of Leads360 talks Telephony. Join us on, Wednesday, June 6th 9 AM Pacific / 12 PM Eastern for a live webinar with Leads360 CEO and President, Nick Hedges. The post Nick Hedges talks telephony; the most powerful yet misunderstood sales tool appeared first on Leads360 Blog. You can register here for free.

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Tom Hopkins

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

According to Leads360′s latest report, The Ultimate Contact Strategy – How to Best Use Phone and Email for Contact and Conversion Success, “Lead response persistence is critical to maximize conversion. Related posts: Ignoring Clients = Lost Sales. The Survey Approach to Prospecting. Closing from a Distance.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Are your sales efforts producing diminishing returns? But how do you know when it’s time to re-evaluate and re-invent your sales processes and technologies? Diagnosing the problem starts with identifying symptoms that go hand in hand with a stagnating sales pipeline. Opportunities slipping through the cracks.

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Velocify

JUNE 28, 2012

June 28, 2012 — Are you looking to take your online lead gen and sales efforts to the next level, gain insights about online customer acquisition strategies from more than 2,000 attendees, or connect with your friends from Leads360, Leads Council, DoublePositive, TARGUSinfo and others? We look forward to seeing you at the show!

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Velocify

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

At Sales & Marketing 2.0 in San Francisco and B2B Marketing Forum in Boston last month a common theme emerged – the idea of putting the “and” back in sales and marketing. Now this is not a new concept, but it is clear that as technology continues to impact the way buyers buy ( see Retooling in a Sales 2.0

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Velocify

APRIL 7, 2013

How the sales profession has evolved from the Mad Men era, the tools change but the basics endure. Even though a lot has changed in the 50 years since Don Draper and his contemporaries revolutionized the way pitches were made, many of the core sales techniques we see at work on the show each week still apply today.

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Velocify

APRIL 22, 2013

We’ve blogged recently about the importance of leveraging the skills of your inside sales team and playing to each reps strengths like a good coach. In fact, our research shows that after implementing a skill-based routing program, skilled sales reps more than double their conversion. But the science is only part of the equation.

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Velocify

APRIL 16, 2013

For many sales organizations the goal is to get new leads into the hands of available reps as fast as possible, often without regard for the characteristics of the lead and related selling expertise available on their team. The post Why getting the right leads to the right reps matters appeared first on Leads360 Blog.

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Velocify

APRIL 18, 2013

While the Mad Men Era lives on through Hollywood depictions and fashion trends brought back from the past, the era has ultimately come to an end and a new chapter in the history book of sales has begun. Door-to-door sales existed before the 1970′s, but the era became known for the in-house vacuum cleaner pitch.

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Velocify

JANUARY 29, 2013

According to a 2012 Bridge Group study [1] , from 2009-2011 the number of inside sales jobs grew 124% in the U.S. This evolution means an increasingly mature buying market that is driving new CRM-related needs for sales and marketing teams. But how are their sales teams capitalizing on the flow of leads coming their way?

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Velocify

JUNE 26, 2012

There are so many flavors of CRM from social CRM, sales CRM, call-centric CRM, lead management CRM, marketing CRM and the list goes on and on, tailored by vertical, B2C, B2B, and more. Some systems are focused on doing one thing very well and for Leads360 that one thing is a B2C sales. What to look for in B2C Sales CRM.

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Velocify

AUGUST 16, 2012

We’ve mined data from millions of leads and identified characteristics that lead to improved sales conversion. Lead scoring: apply insights to lead scoring methodologies to help improve the quality of leads distributed to sales reps. Capture key data : Update lead forms to gather key data earlier in the sales cycle.

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Velocify

MAY 31, 2012

Most of our customers are in a sales role, and in a sales situation, listening to understand is such a critical part of the job. Inside sales associates often go from one conversation to the next, and get so stuck in a scripted conversation they can forget no one customer is the same.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Sales (12918). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849). Outside Sales (81). Sales Process (1775). Leads360 (168). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? Is your sales process slow or fast? Topics Major Topics. Marketing (6398). Training (4995).

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Green Lead's B2B

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The Sales Lead Management Association has opened up voting for the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. Bill Rice - Kaleidico Jose Raul Rodriguez - Aon Dan Rogers - SmartLead by The AdTrack Corporation Anneke Seley - Phone Works LLC Tibor Shanto - Renbor Sales Solutions Inc. So choose wisely.

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