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Unlike standard industry compiling data lists Sales Leads are individuals in a position to immediately purchase a specific product or service. A Sales Lead Database can be invaluable to a business in the time it saves for the sales people by directing them towards pre-qualified individuals.

Sales Lead Databases allow your businesses?? sales people to focus their energy on individuals who have already been determined to be viable customers by telemarketing or through other marketing communications.

Sales Leads allow a businesses sales people to focus on closing deals as opposed to tracking down leads. If you're interested in Sales Leads the companies on this page are some of the leaders in the industry.

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10 Ways to Better Manage Sales Leads

If you're not following these ten tips for managing your sales leads, you're probably letting good prospects slip through the net. April 01, 2005

By Greg Anderson

If you're looking for ways to increase revenue--and what smart entrepreneur isn't--one of the fundamental processes you need to review is your lead management program. Prospect leads can originate in a variety of ways, and there is often only a very loose structure in place to manage and react to those leads. Your sales pipeline and your ability to hit revenue targets all begin with good lead management. Try these ten strategies for improving your lead management efforts.

1. Develop a concrete definition of a lead and make sure all employees understand it. One of the biggest disconnects between sales and the rest of the company is the definition of a lead. When does a prospect become a lead that a salesperson will actually work on? It's estimated that 90 percent of the leads that are sent to sales staff are never acted upon. And there are generally two primary reasons for that. First, the lead is routed to the wrong person and never gets passed along to the correct person or at least not in a timely fashion. Second, the lead isn't ready to engage with a salesperson yet. So the sales person will make one, maybe two contacts with that prospect and then move on to "lower hanging fruit." For better sales effectiveness, your sales staff and the rest of the company need a more granular definition of when a prospect becomes an actual lead that should be forwarded to sales.

2. Install an effective customer relationship management (CRM) tool. For optimal sales effectiveness, you need to provide employees with a tool that captures information about each and every interaction with your prospects and customers. This includes integrating your different channels, such as your website.

3. Track the source. People most often hear about your company and products and services through ads, referrals, online banner ads or some other form of advertising. You need to keep track of what actually caused these suspects to raise their hands so you can better determine what works and what doesn't. In addition, it's important to capture the source of each intervening event so you can determine such things as how many times you need to touch a customer or what order of touches work best. If you don't capture the source, you have no way of figuring out what's working.

4. Distribute your leads quickly. Studies have shown that if you respond within 48 hours of a prospect contacting you, your sales closing rate goes up dramatically. Think about your own experiences. How many times have you tried to contact a company to request information and they never get back to you? By responding quickly, you set yourself apart from your competitors.

5. Nurture your leads. Depending on the products and services you offer, most people are probably not ready to buy based on their first interaction with you. Best practices call for nurturing your leads over time. You need to develop campaigns that allow you to touch your prospects multiple times so you can move them through the sales cycle until they're ready to think about actually purchasing from you.

6. Excite your sales staff about each prospect. The best salespeople focus on detailed qualifying, and so should the rest of your staff. The more information you have about a prospect, the more excited your salespeople will be about the lead. Whoever's collecting prospect information needs to extract additional information from every prospect with each interaction, including such things as "what interested you about our products" and "why is it important to you." They should also try to may the organization so your salespeople are getting in touch with the decision-makers in each company.

7. "Tag, you're it." How do you save those interesting bits of information about customers and prospects? If you tag your records with the names of your competitors on deals, what their objections are, whether they'll be a referral or not, which products they already own and so on, you can then find those detail fast in the future. This allows you to leverage what you learn in order to be more successful.

8. Treat your prospects like customers. By capturing the source I mentioned above in #2 about each prospect, anyone at your company can answer a call from that prospect and more effectively answer their questions. This will have a significant impact on your prospects and will cause them to want to engage with your team further.

9. Measure everything you do. But in order to measure your results, you need to decide what you want to measure and why. Then you can capture the correct information upfront. And once you have the right information, you can determine the return on investment of your campaigns and focus on the campaigns and prospects that will increase your sales pipeline.

10. Hold regular meetings with your sales staff and anyone else involved in the sales process. You should meet with appropriate staff members on a regular basis to review lead quality, win/loss records, and tracking CRM systems so you can continue to improve your sales effectiveness.

Bonus Tip: Preload your database with the right prospects. Your customers are the first step in prospecting sales leads. Most people think they already know who their customers are, but many companies tell us they find a few surprises when they do an analysis of their customer base. So confirm what you know about your customers. Then, once you know who your customers are, define a few key attributes about them. This could be external attributes such as geography, SIC code, company size (employee count and revenue), or internal attributes such as products, territory, credit type and contract type. Now you can use the profile of your best customers to better define and acquire new prospects.

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Q: I have successfully generated hundreds of leads for a child safety product I'm selling on the Internet. I brought the leads in by offering a free audio CD on safety tips. I have both e-mail and mailing addresses. To date though, no one has come back to buy the actual product. I need advice on what to do next and how.

A: At a golf lesson the other day, the instructor analyzed my swing: He said I have a great backswing, I keep my head down and my form is excellent. However, he also said the one thing I lacked to be a good golfer was a consistent follow-through.

The same thing can be said here. The initial promotion achieved the goals set for it: to collect leads by offering a free item. Potential customers have freely given their online and offline contact information. They've indicated a high degree of interest in the primary topic of child safety. The stage is set. Unfortunately, there's no performance being given.

Lack of follow-through is the primary element missing. Even though you have hundreds of leads with a great deal of potential, that is all they are: potential. To turn that potential into sales, you now need to actively market/sell to this group.

Planning the Message

The first step is to plan the message. In order to do that, you need to scrutinize your product: What are the primary selling points? What is appealing about the product? What are the emotional drawing points? What are the pricing points? What are the value benefits in comparison to pricing? Write the answers down to these questions. They will form the key points for your sales message.

For instance, a product dealing with child safety will have a strong appeal for parents, grandparents and other relatives. It will also have a number of emotional drawing points, especially in today's sensitive climate where child safety is a huge concern for parents. In that vein, a strong visual along with the principle benefits of your product can form the basis of your message. If you have a strong pricing strategy, use that as one of your selling points. If not, are there other benefits you can highlight? This is especially important when forming the headline and subject of your message.

Are there any additional offers you can make to spur your prospects into action? For instance, you gave away an audio CD in order to capture the leads. Perhaps there is another premium you can offer to capture the sale. It may be something as simple as simple as an electrical outlet cover or whistle. If you do choose to offer a premium in your sales message, be sure to include it in your subject line, headline and within the body using a large colorful burst.

Forming Your Message There are four basic elements you need to consider when forming your message. They are:

Subject. When it comes to e-mail, the subject line has to motivate the prospect to open the message. You can concentrate on either the emotional pull of the product, a pricing point or a special offer. Unfortunately, the competition for attention in today's spam-filled environment is tremendous, so you're going to have to write something that really stands out.

Headline. Like the subject line, the headline needs to motivate. Unlike the subject line, however, the motivation here is to sell. Benefit, price and special offers will all be important here. If you have a special offer or a premium you're giving away, highlight it here. Body. Don't overwhelm the prospect with an incredible amount of copy. Get to the point. Use bullets to highlight key selling points. As mentioned above, augment the selling points with a strong visual. The idea is to reinforce the subject and headline with the sales proposition, which should include a description of the product, how it will help the prospect, product features and price.

Call-to-Action. Most people say end with a call-to-action. I believe that you begin, intersperse your message, and end with a strong call-to-action. I want people to buy, so I'm going to ask for their business every opportunity I can with an offer that, hopefully, they can't refuse. Many times, this is a special offer such as "BUY NOW and get a FREE GIFT WITH YOUR PURCHASE!" If you don't have an e-mail distribution program, you can use online services such as SmallBizMailer or Constant Contact to upload your list, load your text and images, and distribute your message.

If you have collected e-mail preferences for your prospects, then you can specify those preferences when you load your list of names into your e-mail distribution tool. If you haven't, you should be prepared to form your message in three different formats: HTML, text and AOL.

Finally, there is one other point my golf instructor had for me: Make my swing efficient. In your marketing, you need to be efficient as well. The concept of giving away something for FREE is a good strategy; however, I would have offered the audio CD as a premium to capture the sale. I would have used some other enticement--perhaps a downloadable safety tip sheet--to collect the lead. Also, in the outbound package containing the CD, I would have had an insert to drive the purchase of your product. Follow-through is key but efficiency is important as well.

» Help Finding and Generating Sales Leads - Help Finding and Generating Sales Leads

In this section those involved in selling can learn how to expand their prospect lists with information and how-to information for helping to find new sales leads including prospecting for federal government work, international buyers and other selling opportunties.

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A site visitor writes:

Regarding research on specific industries, where can you find a listing of companies within a specific SIC/NAICS code that is either free or inexpensive? Also, where can you find detailed information (Sales, # of employees, etc) for private companies that is free or inexpensive?

I'll respond first to the issue of cost. Information is not necessarily free. When it accurately, and in a timely fashion, adds to what you know, it has value. The sooner you accept the fact that such information incurs a charge, the sooner you can get on with your research and obtain an answer.

While many resources exist for obtaining business prospect lists, and sales and employee data, one that I've used from time to time, and have found to be relatively inexpensive, is Zapdata. I first heard about Zapdata during a presentation at WebSearch University by Amelia Kassel, a business and marketing researcher.

Zapdata requires free registration, and will provide a small number of leads free if you tell it where you heard about it. Not only can you specify companies by SIC code, you can request prospect lists using criteria like location or job function (e.g., all companies in X industry, and in Y metropolitan area, having corporate counsel).

Zapdata offers several types of reports. To include sales and employee data, obtain the "enhanced telemarketing record."

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Internet Tools For Discovering Sales Leads

Four Technologies to Find More Prospects By Paul Christ, KnowThis.com

September 2004

Continually finding new sales leads is the lifeblood of many sales organizations. While this task is often a painful struggle, a number of new technologies have emerged in recent years to help lessen the burden. In particular, those involved in selling may find the following Internet-based technology solutions can improve lead generation and help create a more targeted and rewarding selling effort. Three out of the four technologies discussed require little computer knowledge other than knowing how to use a web browser.

Internet Social Networks

One of the most interesting new technologies for generating sales leads is through Internet social networks. The premise of Internet social networks is to build friendship circles based on relationships with others within the network. These circles are often built when one person invites another to join. In this way, theoretically speaking, everyone has some connection to everyone else in the network. For salespeople and marketers the network can be a source of highly qualified business leads. Two sites worth exploring are Linkedin and Ryze. Linkedin has a strong upper-management orientation which may be perfect if you sell products and services to that market. The search feature allows users to narrow potential leads by industry, location and other criteria. But making connections may be a little more difficult than other social networks due to a fairly strict privacy policy. Ryze on the other hand makes it a little easier to get started and see results. However, as with any type of open community site, you are more likely to see overt commercialism and abuse. (For more information see the KnowThis.com Internet Social Network topic area.)

News Alerts

In many industries the company is the primary source for providing sales leads to its sales force. These leads arrive from numerous sources such as contacts purchased from commercial databases, call centers inquiries and website requests. However, depending on company policy, most salespeople should not limit leads to only company provided information. Instead, salespeople should seek new information sources including news aggregating sources found on the Internet. For starters, salespeople may want to look at the news services offered by Google and Yahoo. Both allow users to sign up for service that delivers news to an email account if the news contains keywords selected by the user. Another news collector and a newcomer to the news service game is Topix.net. Topix offers news from over 7,000 sources. Best of all for salespeople, Topix segments the news into more than 100 industries ranging from major industries, such as aerospace, to smaller but fast developing industries such as social networking. The site has a strong leaning toward local news as well with information provided from a large number of local publications. Like Google and Yahoo users can have news alerts emailed, though until Topix allows for better search options such news alerts may results in a huge number of emails.

Virtual Tradeshows

A highly successful form of lead generation is tradeshow selling. Tradeshows offer numerous advantages over individual selling efforts including the ability to reach a large number of targeted buyers in one location. Unfortunately, tradeshows are expensive to manage and attendance by potential buyers has declined sharply as corporations tighten travel budgets due to the recent economic downturn, concerns over terrorist attacks and even contagious disease threats such as SARS. Yet the value tradeshows possess for generating leads has persuaded many companies to explore other meeting options including online or virtual tradeshows. Virtual tradeshows employ web technologies such as video conferencing and push technology to satisfy potential buyer’s demand for information. Salespeople can answer questions in several ways including online chat session, Internet video or simply calling the customer. Operators of virtual show booths can also use push technology to send selected webpages to the web browser of tradeshow participants. Virtual tradeshows have been somewhat slow to develop and may never threaten in-person shows but for some salespeople it may be worth an exploratory look.

Build a Website

Finally, for more technically adventurous salespeople, a productive method for generating leads via the Internet is to build their own website. For those looking in this direction, check out one of the top hosting firms whose service offerings are both extensive and reasonably priced. Many hosting services offer excellent service plans for less than $10 per month. Good places to begin a search for a web host are HostSearch.com and HostIndex.com, which provide directories and reviews of hosting firms. If you choose to create a website, consider using a content management system to build your site (see KnowThis article Marketing With a Dynamic Website). A CMS makes it very easy to create a site and add new information. While there is a bit of a learning curve, the time spent mastering the CMS will translate into a better looking website and one that is more likely to yield more inquiries as a result of good search engine rankings. Another plus is that many of the top web hosting services include CMS within their service package.

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Below is a model for thinking through how to generate sales leads. You might think this model looks too complicated for you and your business - you could be right. However, it still sets out the general principles that should be considered. Once again, my experience tells me that many companies look at the generation of sales leads in an overly simplistic way and as a consequence their plan doesn't work and/or they waste large sums of money. This particular model was used by one of my clients that had an annual turnover of over ￡100 million - hence the need to go into the process in some detail.

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Last Updated: 2005-10-27 13:59:38