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Lead Management

Michael Ferree, over at Lead Critic, caught some of my snark when he pinged me on Twitter for my thoughts on lead quality. I can’t think of a topic that is more over exposed and more distracting to sales performance. We have sliced it and diced it a million different ways.
We have one, [...]

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Pay-Per-Call Heats Up: Google, Ring Revenue, LeadClick

by Bill Rice on February 19, 2010

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Ring Revenue, a leading pay-per-call platform for performance marketing, is teaming with lead generation companies like First Advantage Corp’s (Nasdaq: FADV) LeadClick. The value proposition? Enhancing search and landing page listings with phone numbers—making that first contact a little bit easier.
LeadClick Media’s SVP of Marketing, Adrian van Haften, explained that “Ring [...]

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Turn Your Leads into Sales Appointments

by nickmartini on July 23, 2009

Some people in sales think a lead is a name from a list. That’s not correct. A name from a list is not a lead–it’s a suspect, a total stranger and it does not matter if they meet some criteria (e.g. age, occupation, net worth). A true lead meets your criteria AND has expressed interest [...]

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How to Perform Due Diligence on a Lead Provider

by nickmartini on June 11, 2009

These important keys will prevent you from wasting money on bad leads and get you to boost your sales by picking the right leads for your company.

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Setting Up Marketing Automation

by nickmartini on June 8, 2009

If you’re running your own company, chances are the day to day operations can be very time consuming, and this leads to a situation where one department may not get as much attention as it should. In many cases, this means that marketing suffers, and this is one area that you do not want to [...]

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Lead Management, Does Speed to Contact Matter?

by Bill Rice on April 22, 2009

Online lead generation has always been a high intent media for advertisers. The Internet gives marketers a rare ability to directly interact and take immediate response from an interested consumer. Unfortunately, the second leg of that journey from consumer intent to consumer fulfillment is very broken.
Internet consumers expect the same immediate response they gave the [...]

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According to Reverse Mortgage Daily, LendingTree is already enhancing their new reverse mortgage lead offerings:
In early 2009, LendingTree and GetSmart.com announced that their Exchange lenders could begin working with consumers looking for a reverse mortgage. “There is a growing need to serve potential borrowers coming to LendingTree.com and GetSmart.com looking for reverse mortgage options,” [...]

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Are Your Leads Already in Your Social Network?

by Bill Rice on March 24, 2009

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I just returned from REtechSouth, which triggered a firestorm of great new ideas. This single day event, full of some of the smartest Realtors in the business, was packed with innovative thinking.
This crowd of real estate professionals were definitely high on social media. Of course, the big discussion was does it [...]

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If you are going to outsource your online marketing to a lead provider–put consumer protection at the top of your due diligence checklist. Protecting consumers online is a FTC hot button and more than one lead provider and marketing agency has felt their sting. Did you know the lead generation practices of these lead providers [...]

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LeadCritic Announces Closed Beta for LeadTrade

by Bill Rice on January 23, 2009

LeadCritic announced a stealth project he has been very quietly working on for over a year–LeadTrade.com. It sounds promising as a solution to a very real and growing problem in the lead generation industry, managing leads.
It is a common problem to those of us passionate about lead management. At the core, this problem is simply [...]

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