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.

Outsourcing Services 173

Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

Research 253

Research B2B Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 253

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2012

My guest today is Craig Rosenberg, Vice President, Sales and Marketing and Co-Founder at Focus. He is also author of a popular sales and marketing blog, Funnelholic , where he shares B2B content with an edge. Craig specializes in lead generation, lead qualification, and B2B marketing and sales. Their ideology is pervasive.

Software 187

Software Software B2B Top of Funnel 187

Pointclear

MAY 1, 2013

Frank Donny is founder and CEO of Marseli , a marketing and sales analytics and performance software company. Frank is responsible for the firm’s capabilities, software vision and services. For marketing and sales leaders, your work stream is your CRM system.

Analytics 216

Analytics Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Negotiation 216

Pointclear

APRIL 4, 2011

I recently read an article by Jeff Pedowitz about the state of marketing automation and it caused me to think back to a lunch I had with Jeff just a couple of short years ago. If so, why has that occurred and what should marketers do about it? Marketing should embrace it. This is not a problem, but an opportunity.

Marketing 173

Marketing Vendor Enterprise Enterprise 173

Pointclear

MAY 23, 2017

Those results factor in lead leakage of between 52% to 86% of the marketing qualified leads put into the top of the funnel. Sales isn’t qualifying down from 1000 marketing qualified leads to 14 sales qualified leads. Imagine Spending $208,350 on Marketing Leads That Are Trashed Immediately. So, what happens?

Sales Qualified Lead 160

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Closing 160

Pointclear

MAY 21, 2013

How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? Ask any group of marketing communications managers, exhibits managers or even marketing managers and less than 40%, overall, know the quotas for the sales channel they represent. Marketing is a part.

Quota 191

Quota Hiring Marketing Forecasting 191

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

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Software 124

Software Software Marketing 124

Pointclear

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Lower level workers give up their digital body language (score points in marketing automation) while more senior executives do not. During another PointClear prospect call, the contact stated that his source of leads, appointment setting, ended up with just four out of every 10 leads delivered being qualified.

Lead Rank 157

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 157

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

Analytics 164

Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For this company ‘someplace else’ had been growth, but at low margins, with chaos in the sales ranks, and a poorly installed CRM system…all because of a marketing plan that wasn’t a plan. Shelly, the president, looked at me and said, “Yes we have a marketing plan, right Don? Get new CRM software: Sales doesn’t like the one we have.

Margin 203

Margin Marketing Hiring Lead Rank 203

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As an editor and marketer, I spend a lot of time thinking about the “how to”—in other words, how to translate the best and more interesting marketing ideas into truly actionable steps for organizations looking to grow their business. In other words: B2B marketers + social = lots of room for improvement.

Trends 180

Trends B2B Social Media Marketing 180

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I spend a lot of time on the phone every day, talking to sales and marketing leaders—including prospects. I’m often asked what kind of companies PointClear serves. What they have in common are complex sales processes, and the need for outbound account-based marketing services that generate high-quality leads for sales.

PointClear 100

PointClear Sales Qualified Lead Transportation Lead Qualification 100

Pointclear

AUGUST 22, 2011

And, for many, the goal for 2012 will be to finally implement marketing automation. Unfortunately, too many marketers begin this process with the question, “Which automation tools should we look at?” First, you’ll become more efficient in your marketing and sales efforts. What's the point of that?

Marketing 164

Marketing Lead Qualification Lead Management Lead Nurturing 164

Pointclear

APRIL 11, 2018

One of PointClear’s business development representatives, working on behalf of a global software company, made 11 touches (calls, voicemails and emails) and his persistence paid off. As an example, PointClear targets two contacts within each account location. He landed a huge lead for our client (with a $1 billion company).

Sales Qualified Lead 113

Sales Qualified Lead PointClear System Leads 113

Pointclear

AUGUST 21, 2012

Such a failure may happen in many types of systems, including power transmission, computer networking, finance, bridges, sales and marketing, (the last two are our words). Of course what I am thinking about are the functions of sales and marketing. No marketing automation system. No lead management system. Keeping It Zipped.

Marketing 168

Marketing ROI Follow-up Lead Generation 168

Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Twice over the past two years I blogged about the dangers of using cost per lead as a metric to measure marketing. B2B sale complexity impacts cost-per-lead —to recap, I have heard marketers (even senior ones) state that cost per lead for anything from life insurance to a $100,000 plus software solution “should be about $300”.

Cost per Lead 169

Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 169

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The question which begs to be answered is, “What is the Keystone in the sales and marketing process?” ” There are numerous software products attempting to take credit for being the Keystone (much better than a corner stone). Is it the Marketing Automation system, without which 100% follow-up would be lost?

CRM 169

CRM B2B Marketing Hiring 169

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

CRM 178

CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 178

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My guest today is Dave Munn who has been President and CEO of ITSMA since 2000, having led ITSMA's global expansion to become the leading B2B marketing association for technology, professional services, and telecom companies. 2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. New marketing channels.

Social Media 170

Social Media Outsourcing Services Marketing Hiring 170

Pointclear

MARCH 20, 2014

So, when marketing sent me the new inbound leads, I naturally got excited. What Was Wrong with Marketing''s Inbound Leads. I''m changing the facts of the story slightly to avoid scapegoating the responsible marketing team). Which is relevant when you''re selling social media management software.

Inbound 262

Inbound Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Social Media 262

Pointclear

MARCH 22, 2011

How does it relate to B2B marketing? Last year I was looking for forms software to support CustomerThink. And I was treated accordingly, no doubt thanks to some nifty lead scoring algorithms that have become de rigueur for B2B marketers. Two years ago, my B2B Marketing 2.0 OK, this a consumer example.

Lead Rank 185

Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Prospecting 185

Pointclear

OCTOBER 13, 2011

As a lead management software provider, we sit uniquely in the middle because we provide the software that drives the activities of both the end-user as well as professional lead gen and appointment setting companies. Even when they went to the market and recruited outstanding expertise to bring in-house, they still failed.

Outsourcing Services 160

Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Top of Funnel Leads 160

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2013

Maybe it’s the marketing manager who fails to manage the CRM system as a system. If the truth be known, the sales lead management process is complicated, multi-dimensional, and multi-departmental; with multi-software programs, and multi-managers who often don’t understand each other or don’t even like one another. Marketing management.

Lead Generation 216

Lead Generation ROI Lead Management Policies 216

Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is Managing Partner at CSO Insights, a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. Jim has over 29 years of sales and marketing management experience. This makes a more successful marketing campaign.

Customer 240

Customer Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Trends 240

SBI

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

She is a frequent speaker and blogger on Inside Sales productivity, trends, and effectiveness, and the author of Building Inside Sales: Framing a Best Practice Group and co-author of Sales Speaks: Perception & Ponderings on Marketing Leads. Among those folks are: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions.

Lead Management 114

Lead Management Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 114

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Continued engagement in the form of account-focused outreach (also referred to as Account Based Marketing) makes sure your company is on their radar when the right disruption happens to necessitate a decision, when their current solution’s weaknesses reach the boiling point, or when competition encroaches and fear sets in.

Sales Qualified Lead 100

Sales Qualified Lead Forecasting Outsourcing Services PointClear 100

Pointclear

DECEMBER 1, 2016

I once worked with the then SVP, Marketing of a large public company who was frustrated with sales. 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. (Cartoon courtesy to Kenny Madden). Big surprise. None of the above.

Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Leads 100

Pointclear

JANUARY 15, 2013

Here are some truths you should know about selecting a partner among lead generation companies: Virtually 100% of marketing qualified leads should become sales accepted leads. Students, prisoners (yes, there’s a company out there that does this), appointment setters and offshore call center staff should not be contacting your target market.

Lead Generation 200

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 200

Pointclear

JUNE 18, 2013

A real sales lead, because it is qualified, reduces cold calling, feeds the sales pipeline, introduces salespeople to new people within companies, and opens up new markets. Marketing automation companies also say they do this filtering; HubSpot , for instance. A failure of lead generation and marketing.

Sales Qualified Lead 200

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 200

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

CRM 133

CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 133

Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. He has decades of experience as a marketing communications manager, marketing manager, and sales manager. Marketing automation in the hands of a fool is still a fool’s tool.”.

Follow-up 230

Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 230

Pointclear

JULY 23, 2013

If you don’t implement a nurture program, you’ll waste marketing dollars by giving salespeople more than they can handle, and irritate prospects because follow-up falls. What’s worse, sales will not incrementally increase in proportion to the marketing spend. If you don’t have a marketing automation tool, get one.

Sales Qualified Lead 206

Sales Qualified Lead Leads360 NetSuite Leads 206

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

Lead Generation 225

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2018

Companies with optimized sales and marketing organization achieve results by doing three things well. Just three: Agree on your market, media and message. Here is what you must do to fix it: Agree on market, lead definition, message. Are we marketing to IT decision makers in the Fortune 100? Not 50 things.

Sales Qualified Lead 113

Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Lead Rank Cost per Lead 113

Pointclear

AUGUST 28, 2013

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight.

Hiring 214

Hiring Consumer Video Vendor 214

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Rowley, who oversees social selling enablement for 23,000 sales professionals at Oracle, earned her marketing handle during her previous decade at Eloqua. She spent six years in management consulting and 52 quarters in software sales. At Oracle she heads up social selling evangelism and enablement.

Oracle 223

Oracle Eloqua Social Media Twitter 223