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Posted by Dan McDade on Mar 19, 2010 2:00:00 PM

Tags: Lead Generation, Lead Management

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What is the Minimum Acceptable Close Rate on Sales Leads?

I posted a question on LinkedIn's Sales and Marketing VP's Group and the results have been fascinating. First, here is the question as posted:

Lead Generation Specialist

Posted by Dan McDade on Mar 2, 2010 7:29:00 PM

Tags: Lead Generation, Marketing Strategy, Prospect Development

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42 B2B lead generation touches on one contact… What… are you Crazy?

My favorite stories are about client successes. The best one of these is work we did for a global consulting company with BPO offerings across a number of verticals. On one project we deployed one of our people for a..

Lead Generation Specialist

Posted by Dan McDade on Feb 25, 2010 1:46:00 PM

Tags: Lead Generation

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What is Lead Generation?

Answering the question, "what is lead generation" is tough when there are so many definitions of a lead:

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Posted by Dan McDade on Feb 22, 2010 10:30:00 AM

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Targeted Lead Generation – Mad Men won’t cut it anymore!

Industry friend and all around character Jeffrey Ogden (Fearless Competitor) recently pointed his readers to an article by Paul Dunay—and it is worth a read. A summary:

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Posted by Dan McDade on Feb 12, 2010 8:58:00 AM

Tags: Lead Generation, Sales Leads

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Lead Generation: 10 Year Tracking of GDP Points to Uptick

For almost 10 years PointClear has tracked lead generation rates against the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and looked for trends. The information displayed below represents close to 6,000,000 touches (phone, voicemail,..

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