…the first in a series of white papers discussing the forgotten steps to successful marketing. Background Having spent my life in the field of marketing and having had success, it’s probably not surprising that I know many marketing professionals that I worked with and…
Genuine lead generation takes time and costs money simply because a qualified lead often requires that the prospect express a desire to take action (e.g. talk to you). Going from a list of names (which may have cost something to acquire in the first…
Because there is so much confusion in the market about this, we need to talk about the definition of a sales lead. We will go into this in greater depth later, but it is important to define a lead in the context of the…
At LeadGen.com, we are willing to concede that the definition of a “sales lead” has been irretrievably ruined. And so, for our purposes, we use the term “qualified sales lead,” which we define as: A decision maker (or strong decision influencer) who has a…