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

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As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Because a phone conversation efficiently replicates face-to-face sales activities, these one-on-one flowing and probing interactions are the most effective method to validate the quality of a lead. Sales is sales.

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

Pointclear

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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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Why Don’t Sales Reps Follow Up On Leads? The Real Issue

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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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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

These are the five essential channels you can rely on for generating a steady stream of inquiries that you can then convert to qualified leads, and have a prayer of closing enough sales to meet your revenue quota. Your website The source of your cheapest and most qualified sales leads is right at your fingertips: your company website.

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The Slippery Slope Called Sales Enablement

Jonathan Farrington

A very well respected organization in the marketing and sales alignment business now reports that most companies have done all they can to help sales at the top of the funnel. Now what is needed, they say, is to provide support to sales people in the middle and late stages of the buying process. Sales Accepted Leads.

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

Pointclear

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.