Pointclear

AUGUST 27, 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. We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. Man we are hurting. What am I gonna do?”

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Telemarketing Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Management 184

MarketJoy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Outbound marketing has been the backbone of businesses for centuries, serving as a key driver for generating leads, closing sales, and boosting revenue. The Early Days: Print and Posters The roots of outbound marketing extend back to the invention of the Gutenberg press in the 15th century.

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Direct Mail Outbound Marketing Advertising 52

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and

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Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

To stay ahead of the competition and thrive, it’s essential to identify and adopt sales techniques that can boost your productivity and results. The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Automated sales prospecting.

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2022

As privacy compliance regulations become more stringent, an increasing number of organizations are being penalized for activities that were once seen as standard practice for sales and marketing. This eliminates the chance that a salesperson would reach out to someone who has opted-out of sales and marketing phone calls.

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Telemarketing Scale Strategy How To 100

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. An essential tool for doing that deep dive to gain intelligence about the account is your inside sales team or telemarketing firm.

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Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Account 174

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Sales prospecting techniques are the tactics a salesperson uses to find new customers. Sales prospecting techniques are the tactics a salesperson uses to find new customers. Let’s jump in.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

LeadBoxer

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We all encounter an endless barrage of marketing every day. Some of that marketing is effective, and some of it’s, well, annoying. This division between effective and ineffective marketing strategies can be acutely seen when comparing inbound vs outbound marketing. What is Outbound Marketing?

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Inbound Outbound Lead Rank Lead Scoring 104

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. Sales is sales. No one outside gets us. No solution is that difficult.

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Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113

Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 17, 2019

Around ten years ago, the consumer market was a totally different landscape where the sales process involved telemarketing and setting appointments for sales professionals to gain clients and close deals. Thanks to advancements in technology, even the consumer market is now different from how it was behaving a decade ago.

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Telemarketing Marketing Consumer Outbound 63

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2016

Sales Lead Management is a complicated process. Sales lead management is a tough subject to truly get your arms around. There are dozens of outside vendors who say they manage some portion of the sales lead process and more than two dozen internal departments that contribute to the process and the decision making. Inside Sales.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 145

Sales Lead Management Association

MAY 24, 2019

If company presidents were to measure the amount of revenue created per marketer, they would be astounded. Marketers and their surrogates, the agencies (on-line, branding, direct marketing, content creation, digital marketers, PR) telemarketing and trade shows are the hammers by which B2B marketers create wealth.

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Telemarketing B2B Trade Show Company 48

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 2, 2023

To help you out, we’ve outlined the five worst types of sales emails and how to fix them. 5 Worst Types of Sales Messages 1. The “Me Me Me” Message When was the last time you interrupted what you were doing to take an unexpected call from a telemarketer? Does Hermagenix have a word-of-mouth marketing strategy in place?

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Hiring Telemarketing Face-to-face How To 121

Pointclear

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Eliminate the time, expense and distraction of setting up your sales telemarketing, business development or inside sales organization. And, as Finkelstein says, “change the game on competitors, operating in bold, unexpected ways that are simply better” by outsouring your marketing and B2B sales lead generation.

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Telemarketing PointClear Company Hiring 133

Go for No!

MARCH 1, 2021

Network Marketing famously got 20 no’s a day. That kind of production is not easy although, for someone in telemarketing, they could do probably do that by lunchtime. There’s a saying that goes: sales solves all problems. Ray Higdon, the co-author of our book, Go for No! He was prospecting like mad.

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Workbooks Telemarketing Referrals Lead Generation 139

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association. SLMA is the sponsor of the yearly Sales Lead Management week and initiatives to identify both the Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management. Jim is seeing a lot of companies lifting off as a result.

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Lead Management Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 15, 2017

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? What has changed though is what we are selling, and how we now go to market.

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Telemarketing Lead Rank Margin Retail 150

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it.”. _.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Territories Sales Qualified Lead 124

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Many organizations may closely meet your company’s ideal customer profile (ICP) criteria and warrant sales reps to proactively reach out to them. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 94

Pointclear

AUGUST 2, 2017

There are many factors that impact the percent of leads that should be closed by sales. The five main factors in lead close rate are: Market definition. Market definition : We once did work for a company that had two different views of the market. Sales was focused on $1 million opportunities in big companies.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Closing 160

Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Last August I wrote a blog for Top Sales World titled “Lead Generation Hogwash: The Top 7 Lies.”. Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Here’s what they had to say: Ardath Albee | Marketing Interactions. Their fear that you’ll turn on the hard sale based on that form is one reason they lie. Leads suck.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 257

Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2021

One of the main challenges every marketer face is getting more leads. The adage, “more calls equal to more leads” has influenced many salespeople and marketers. Sales is definitely a contact sport where success is obtained not just in the first outreach, but in the follow-up. . Michael Kawula. Co-Founder, CBA. Jeff Walker .

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 135

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In a recent episode of the Expert Insight Interview, host John Golden sat down with Glenn Sandifer , the Senior Director of Securitas Technology US, to discuss the evolving landscape of inside sales. Understanding Inside Sales John Golden begins the conversation by asking Glenn Sandifer to define what an inside sales team is.

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Inside Sales Video Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 4, 2021

It is one of the oldest forms of marketing and, when done properly, can have the best results. These campaigns can be executed for a number of reasons — including telemarketing, audience research, and customer support. Keep your sales database up-to-date. In business, your sales database is essential to your growth.

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Campaigns How To Cold Calling Telemarketing 121

Crunchbase

JUNE 21, 2022

There comes a time when every business needs to decide on its primary sales strategy, which usually means considering inside sales vs. outside sales, or settling on a blend between the two. It’s no shock that the sales industry landscape has changed considerably over the last couple of years. What is inside sales?

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Outside Sales Inside Sales Hiring Face-to-face 97

MarketJoy

MAY 30, 2018

The terms inbound and outbound embody a type of cultural shift in the entire way of how marketing works, particularly across different channels. To accelerate the sales and get qualified leads, companies are required to function hand in hand with outbound and inbound marketing while building a strong strategy to power it all.

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Outbound Inbound Marketing Webinar Metrics 53

Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. 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. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 230

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Eventually, most antiquated models are replaced by more up-to-date, efficient, and sometimes exciting models. Outside sales is being replaced by inside sales but not in the way that most people think. The people in outside sales aren''t being replaced by the people in inside sales.

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Inside Sales Outside Sales Telemarketing Travel 269

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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Sales Qualified Lead NetSuite Leads360 Leads 206

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I don’t see many sales people rehearse, and even less do it out loud; or work with their colleagues, be they from product development, marketing or elsewhere in the process. First, read it again, (out loud), and then see how you can make it more conversational, not read, like the telemarketers you hate.

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Prospecting Telemarketing Call-back Follow-up 120

Pointclear

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I think I have heard all the excuses for not following up on sales leads. Salespeople have said to me that they will follow-up on sales leads: If there is a phone number. In most instances, you can have someone call the unqualified to get them qualified; usually a telemarketing service. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.".

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Sales Qualified Lead Telemarketing Lead Gen Quota 226

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2024

The art of door-to-door sales is timeless — even during the rise of modern sales strategies. There’s no two ways about it: D2D sales can be tricky. So, if you can master the art of door-to-door sales, the juice is worth the squeeze on the income front. Table of Contents What is door-to-door sales?

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Face-to-face Up-Sell Research Sales 104

Pipeliner

AUGUST 18, 2020

Take a forward-looking view at the mindset of sales leaders and how they use the resources available to them. When it comes to sales, you should be asking, “How are these companies handling their sales? Yet building sales capability involves more than just implementing training programs. Adjusting to Change.

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Company Sales Outsourcing Hiring Telemarketing 98

Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 2, 2024

Wendy shares her journey from ballerina to sales trainer and how the principles she learned in ballet class have transformed her approach to sales. However, she worked at a telemarketing agency focused on business-to-business development to support herself financially between dance gigs. It's the same in sales.

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Cold Calling Real Estate Telemarketing Hubspot 40

Jonathan Farrington

MARCH 13, 2013

but if anyone knows what happened to Les, please let me know - I created a Sales Camp and a Sales University for Autodesk: One of the modules was “Telemarketing” which was a real challenge for me, as I had no experience. A positive and confident mind-set is essential for successful telemarketing and cold calling.

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Telemarketing Decision Maker Cold Calling Call-back 37

The Sales Association

MAY 22, 2011

Sharing best practices in sales and sales management www.salesassociation.org. Why Telemarketing Remains the Unsung Hero of Lead Generation. By Kathy Tito Denise Clancey is a true luminary in the field of telesales and telemarketing. How does a sales organization reconcile all of the options? Sunday, May 22, 2011.

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Telemarketing Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 24

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Despite the huge growth in marketing and sales automation, along with the growing popularity and acceptance of self-service sales processes, reports of the death of the salesperson are greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain. Higher value B2B sales still need a competent salesperson to close the deal. The audience.

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Research Sales Process Lead Rank Lead Scoring 94