16 Mar |
ALEA’s Universal Definition of A Lead |
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When Does a Lead Become a True “Sales Lead?” Your demand generation campaigns are bound to generate responses. But are these all leads, worthy of follow-up by your sales reps? Even inexperienced marketers know that the majority of responses are simply inquiries: people seeking more information or responding to a promotional offer. Distributing raw inquiries to your sales reps without at least some basic qualification mechanism to categorize the ones that are true sales leads can be a suicidal experience. So, the real question is: how do you identify a legitimate “sales
Read more...10 Mar |
Break Your Lead “Pusher” Habit for More Sales |
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“Pushing” sales leads out to field reps and resellers is a traditional industry habit for most B2B marketers that is terribly inefficient. Sales people, like all human beings, simply don’t value something as much if it is given to them without cost or condition. As a result, leads that are “pushed” to the field are often not followed up in a timely manner, resulting in poor conversion rates and lost sales opportunities. Implementing a “pull” lead management system, on the other hand, can produce dramatically better results. Because the lead has been specifically requested by
Read more...05 Feb |
Lead Generation….Clarity of purpose |
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One of the issues surrounding lead generation is the lack of clarity around what constitutes a lead. In our practice, we hear people refer to leads as a purchased list, a tracked visit to their site, tradeshow “leads”, response to an email and or direct campaign etc. This lack of clarity will cause a whole series of challenges down the road. A company should categorize their funnel in different buckets or levels and only the most qualified leads should ever make it to sales. There should be a migration path from bucket to bucket and a consistent process to build organizational
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