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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

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In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead.

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Cadence—Multi-touch, Multi-media, Multi-cycle Marketing Multiplies Results

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The result of these touches is what we call a disposition: PointClear's term for completing contact with a decision maker or company (some programs lend themselves to dispositioning by contact and some by company). To reduce sales lead generation cost, you need to optimize the value of each prospect. For one client, it takes 9.82

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Who Owns the Pipeline, Marketing or Sales?

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It’s referred to as the sales pipeline and it’s owned by sales people, right? With the advent of new marketing automation capabilities, AI apps and other technology, marketing is inserting itself deeper in the pipeline at almost every level. Traditionally few would contest who owns the pipeline in any organization.

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6 Things Good Lead Generation Vendors Do Right (That You May Be Doing Wrong)

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RESEARCH: Are folks responsible for reaching out to your market knowledgeable and prepared for quality conversation? NURTURE: Are you getting maximum return on marketing programs? Lead nurture programs done well triples your B2B sales lead generation marketing ROI. There is disagreement on the value of research.

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How Much Leads Cost

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see marketing charts analysis of HubSpot’s “2017 Demand Generation Benchmarks Report” ). Of course, it depends on what you are selling, but common sense tells you that B2B leads for a complex sale (that are worth a sales rep’s time) are probably going to cost more than $200. per gross lead). You can read more here.

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We're entering the era of accountability in sales and marketing

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I recently chatted with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales world about the transition from finger pointing to collaboration between sales and marketing. The status quo--where marketing complains about sales not following up on their leads and sales says the leads are no good--is not the place to be.

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Embarking on a sales lead generation project: What could go wrong?

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We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. And we’d gone into some depth as to how our associates are all seasoned, degreed and sales trained. My answer to his question?