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The Truth about Your Lead Generation
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2. Welcome to The
Truth about Your
Lead Generation
Rod Sloane
O2 TCR
#TTAYLG
June 19th 2012
3. About Rod
• Worked for IBM, CA, BAT, BT & BCPD
• Roles Sales, Marketing, Business Development
• Author 2 books, Sales and Marketing Alignment
Podcast
• Married, live in Ealing, play tennis and support
Blackpool FC
• Core Process "Showing Up"
6. What is Lead Generation?
"Lead generation is a marketing term used to
describe the generation of consumer interest or
inquiry into products or services of a business.
Businesses strive to generate 'quality' leads.
Quality is usually determined by the propensity
of the inquirer to take the next action towards a
purchase."
8. How do Sales People define a Qualified
Lead?
1. Buyer in target market willing to meet
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13. Your new responsibility,
should you choose to
accept it is...
"To meet the short and
long term revenue
targets of your company
within the context of the
corporate strategy.”
14. About today
• Not tactical i.e. NOT 121 Lead Generation
Ideas
• Strategic
• What is your current Lead Gen doing for you?
• What's it costing you?
• How you can fix it.
16. CEO Speak on Lead Generation
"We need more better clients!"
"We need to lear n to ear n new
business better than we do today!"
What would your CEO say?
"We need to...."
17. According to the SLMA....
In the average company, what
percentage of marketing generated
raw leads ever make it to a closed
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18. Statistics for Qualified
Leads
10% will close within first three months
Another 16% will close within six months
Another 19% will close within one year
45% of all Qualified Leads buy within a year
How ef fective is your company at staying on
top of qualified leads?
27. Whatever you do don't
give unfiltered,
unqualified raw leads
to your Sales Team
28. Please discuss in pairs, at
a strategic level
• What Sales wants from Marketing
• What Marketing wants from Sales
• What the business wants from both of them
43. "Be an intelligent team,
learn when to do take the
appropriate action at the
appropriate time."
44. Average growth in Annual Company
Revenue
Top 20% had 31.6% average growth
Middle 50% had an 18.2% average growth
Bottom 30% a 6.7% average decrease
45. What do the top 20% do that's
different?
Sales and Marketing 1.9 meetings per
week, 69% more than other firms
Relationship between Sales and Marketing
is strong by 79% average is 61%
46. Percentage of the Sales
Forecasted
Pipeline Generated by Marketing
Top 20% had 40%
Middle 50% was 22%
Bottom 30% was 13%
47. Who is responsible for
what...
hold Marketing responsible for
quality and value of leads...
hold Sales responsible for quality
feedback and results
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49. What your company
needs to do. Focus on
1. Clients
2. Revenue
3. Culture
4. Language
5. People
50. An Action Plan
Plan
Customer Survey
Lead Definition Workshop
Build Customer Buying Cycle
Regular Sales and Marketing Alignment
meetings based on the Plan, CRM & clients
51. Required Actions - Level
1
Establish a formal planning process between
Sales and Marketing (Lead Definition, Scoring
and Go-to-market messaging)
Define roles and responsibility for Lead
Management Activity
Plan to adopt marketing technology
52. Required Actions - Level
2
Identify an individual or group responsible
for improving marketing performance
-- a marketing operations position
Marketing should involve sales in obtaining
"voice of the customer" input
Share results with key stakeholders
and decision makers
53. Required Actions - Level
3
Accelerate adoption of lead management &
MA
Invest in campaign management capabilities
- CBA for individual marketing campaigns
Sales better understands the goals and action
of marketing to better understand the buyers
per-sales journey
54. Universal Lead
Definition Workshop
1. Refine ULD as sales ready
2. Qualify leads based as ULD
3. Nuture early stage leads until sales ready
4. Define handoff process
5. Work on closing the loop
55. What I can work with
you on
Universal Lead Definition Workshop
Buying Cycle Workshop
Sales & Marketing Alignment Plan
56. The Sales Lead Institute
Starting Autumn 2012
6 month programme for you to decide which
of the latest SalesLead strategies you need
to adopt in your business
Small non competitive groups
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58. Thank You for
Listening
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