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Lead Generation

Research Data

Purchase charts for your industry. This chart shows the breakdown of leads resulting in initial discussions.

Chart showing survey responses on % of Leads that result in an initial discussion

Half the companies in this industry engage with less than 50% of their leads.

 

Purchase custom comparison charts, such as this, which compares companies satisfied with their marketing leads to the others and shows the conversion rate from lead to prospect.

Chart comparing survey responses on lead conversion for companies satisfied with marketing leads vs companies not satisfied

These organizations satisfied with Marketing leads convert more leads to sales calls.

Publications

Order our 2009 Lead Generation Optimization Report (Publish date 5/1/2009) or the 2009 Sales Process Optimization Report, covering over 100 metrics of sales effectiveness, including several analyses of lead generation. This page shows that 18.7% of sales representative time is consumed with lead generation.

Page from Sales Process Optimization publication showing survey responses for sales rep time allocation
 

Order our Demand Generation Insights Series

  • Optimizing Lead Generation
  • Optimizing Sales Messaging
  • Brain Surgery Anyone?
  • Gone Fishing

This Series outlines the hard benefits of optimizing lead generation and sales messaging.

Order the Target Marketing Report
This 2007 report discusses successes and barriers to success for marketing organizations.

Order the Lead Life Cycle Report
This report outlines the benefits of Lead Management technology in converting leads to sales.

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There are many other ways we can help you. Some of these are strategy reviews, comparison of your results with your industry, and analysis of gaps in understanding between your sales managers and your sales representatives.

Email us or phone Jim Dickie (303) 521-4410 or Barry Trailer (415) 924-3500 Let's discuss your situation and come up with a plan.

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