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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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4 Ways to Get Past the Gatekeeper (No Tricks Required)

No More Cold Calling

Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, they (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Think again. Why would they?

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Is Anyone Leading Lead Management?

Pointclear

Telemarketing Inbound. Telemarketing Outbound (qualification and lead generation). Telemarketing Sales. Sales lead acquisition devices at trade shows and conferences. There may be a half-dozen outside vendors managing some aspects of lead management: Sales Lead Management and Fulfillment Firm. Digital Agencies.

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

Pointclear

Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows. 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 Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Prospects and customers either answered the phone (or pager) or their PA did. It was expected that you build a relationship and schmooze prospects with lunches, networking events, in-house days and free giveaways, whereas today so many more people are involved in the decision making process. Contact was relatively simple.

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.'

Pointclear

Marketing tries to qualify a greater number of prospects. Listen to presentations at trade shows. Now marketing and sales know what a qualified lead is versus an uqualified prospect. Telemarketing scripts. Prospects who admit to a short time frame to buy go directly to reps; others may need to be further qualified.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

Pointclear

The same reason you primed the pump for existing territories with qualified prospects that close faster applies to new territories. By increasing the marketing spend to increase leads, especially qualified leads, I turned the dollars loose on: Telemarketing to previous leads who did not buy. Create qualified leads for new territories.