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- Hasbro: Pure, Dumb Luck
- Last year Hasbro managed not to manufacture any lead-painted toys in China. Will their multiple lines of movie merchandise for ‘Transformers', ‘Iron Man', and the ‘Incredible Hulk' finally let them outstrip the Mattel toy tyranny?
- Videos 2008-05-26
- 7 Ways To Increase Your Leads, Customers And Sales
- One common mistake that small business owners and entrepreneurs make is they rely on one source for leads. Anyway, if one relies on only one marketing source, like word of mouth, one can nearly guarantee what his business looks like - Feast or famine. Either buried in work, stressed to...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Do Lead Qualification Services Work?
- Getting high quality leads is a never-ending challenge. To cope, some companies split lead generation into two stages. They pay an outside organization to do the initial qualifying and prospecting of the lead, which is then handed over to the internal sales group once it is...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Do Lead Qualification Services Work?
- Getting high quality leads is a never-ending challenge. To cope, some companies split lead generation into two stages. They pay an outside organization to do the initial qualifying and prospecting of the lead, which is then handed over to the internal sales group once it is...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- The Five Rules for Lead Generation
- On Monday, I asked what subject matter to tackle first as we look at selling during difficult economic times. "Lead generation" emerged as the winner, so here goes: According to scientific research from CSO Insights, sales professionals believe that only 23 percent of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- How to Survive a "Prospecting Blitz"
- Every so often a sales manager gets the bright idea to do a prospecting blitz. He hands out a gargantuan list of sales leads and tells everyone to get callin'. Such activities, however, are usually a waste of time because so many of the leads turn out to be dead...
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Help! My Boss Wants Way Too Much
- A reader writes: I am having a problem at my company. I'm desperately trying to be an outside salesperson primary role, inside sales, lead generator and advertising genius simultaneously. I'm also teaching myself how to use SalesForce and InsideView. My management knows they need to be patient, but "how...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- QUIZ: What's the Best Time to Cold Call?
- Most sales reps make cold calls when they feel like it. And that's too bad, because scientific research reveals that timing may be even more important than technique when it comes to cold calling success. This post tests your preconceptions about timing your cold calls, and then...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Creative Work: How to Get Started
- In order to do something awesome, you have to start stuff that, for a long time, will fall embarrassingly short of awesome. And as we all know from personal experience, looking at your own lame ideas or that blank page or blinking cursor can be extremely demotivating. What we don't...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- NYT "Deadly Serious" re: Paid Content? Prove it.
- Among the literally thousands of connversations I have had with media colleagues about how to induce people to pay for online content, one in particular stands out. It was with John Markoff, then and now one of the most talented reporters at The New York Times, way back in the...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Do Your Marketers Produce Good Leads?
- What, exactly, are your marketeers doing? The reason I ask is that research suggest they probably aren't generating good leads -- even though they think they are. Jim Dickie of CSO Insights, speaking at the recent Sales 2.0 Conference, revealed the results of...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- World's Most Clueless Marketer?
- A reader writes: I do sales for a marketing/advertising company. I am interested in building relationships with potential clients, and I am successful in achieving this. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time to get in the door for an initial meeting when making my...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Career Education Corporation Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Robert Craig - Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc. Robert Craig - Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc. Gary I was just wondering if you could provide a little more detail on that breakdown that you mentioned occurred between the...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-07
- Nurturing Sales Leads
- Phil Fernandez, President and CEO of Marketo, says that many companies today are not managing sales leads effectively. He suggests ways to utilize the marketing department to monitor and motivate leads and encourage them into the sales cycle.
- Videos 2008-12-05
- How to Research Prospects Faster
- Chip Terry, VP & General Manager of Sales Intelligence at Zoom Info, explains how his company helps salespeople to qualify, not just quantify, good leads. By gathering data before a sales call, he says salespeople can save time for both themselves and their prospective clients.
- Videos 2009-03-24
- What Are Your Clients Costing You?
- All business owners could benefit by much better tracking and measuring of the numbers. Knowing things like how many leads you generate, how many leads you convert, and the average dollar amount each customer produces is a minimum starting point for those who want to measure the results of their...
- White papers 2009-02-10
- Maximizing Sales Results Through Lead Nurturing
- To maximize their efforts and generate sales, Marketing and Sales teams need to share a common definition of a qualified lead, understand how to nurture it and identify when it is ready to be handed off to the Sales team. This webcast show how to measure the quality of incoming...
- Webcasts 2008-10-16
- Telemarketing Mortgage Leads, Old Tricks Mean New Business
- There's something almost magical about the system: you sign up with a mortgage leads generation company, and they periodically produce a list of potential borrowers for you to follow up with. You question how they come up with those names, and how does that affect your success rate. In reality,...
- White papers 2007-05-26
- Leadership Brings Joy at Work
- Want to reduce stress at work? Don't be a cog in the machine, says Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Take the lead. by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog posts 2009-10-31
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- Improving Lead Conversion Rates
- When trying to grow a business, finding potential new customers—known as leads—is just the beginning. Before they can benefit you in any way, those leads must be turned into sales. This process can be approached systematically. First, you must ensure that the leads are suitable in the first place, which...
- Articles 2007-05-08
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