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B2B Lead Gen: Can you do it cheaper and better inside?

Pointclear

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Even with the growing number of digital routes, outbound phone calling, or teleprospecting, remains a powerful method to engage personally with your prospects. In fairness, our industry has created the image.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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Wanna Win? Jump Up the Lead Quantity and Add Nurturing!

Pointclear

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. If you don’t have a marketing automation tool, get one. What’s worse, sales will not incrementally increase in proportion to the marketing spend. How to qualify them?

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

We even had one sales rep follow-up on a lead by saying: “Some telemarketing company in Atlanta said you were interested in buying our solution. It seems sometimes that when the prospect does not have a purchase order in one hand and a pen in the other that the lead was not good. What is it that you want to buy?”

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

Pointclear

Where there were siloed approaches about marketing initiatives and their data, there are now a number of different technologies, tools and capabilities that—when used together—make for a more intelligent, cohesive approach. Lead Evaluation Metrics: A Leaning Curve to Relevance in Reporting.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. What to check out: The Battles of Starting Your First Prospecting Role.

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The Skinny on Lead Nurturing - 11 Experts Weigh In (part 2 of 2)

Pointclear

Telemarketing jumped into the system when a large recession devastated their business model of lead generation, and appointment setting was not enough to keep them going. So they began to sell follow-up as a tool to mix with mail. People tried various combinations of email, mail, and calling.