These experts can be vendors or end users. The criteria is that you contribute at least one article or white paper to the articles section of the SLMA site. You must be recognized in some manner as an expert in some form of inquiry management. Please send requests to be considered a subject matter expert to [email protected].
Please list:
►Area of expertise. If you don't see a category, suggest a new one.
►Number of years in the area of expertise.
►Name, Title, Company Affiliation, Address, E-mail address.
►Send a 100 word biography.
►If you have written articles, speak on the subject of inquiry management or written books on related subjects, please put these qualifications in your request.
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By Jill Konrath
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CEO | Selling to Big Companies
Founder, Get Back to Work Faster Initiative.
When your solution is expensive and the sales cycle is long, it is essential that you find ways to help your sales channels be more productive. Providing them with highly qualified leads when the prospect is ready to talk to sales helps move the sales activity from prospecting to selling. The key is making sure that the lead is truly qualified. There is no substitute for a live discussion with a highly skilled teleprospecting manager to insure that the prospect is ready to talk to your sales person.
Lisa Cramer is president and co-founder of LeadLife Solutions, a provider of on-demand lead management software that generates, scores, and nurtures leads for B2B marketers.
For more information on lead management call 1-800-680-6292.
Membership is approaching 1500 after being formed in October of 2007. Titles of members remain skewed toward senior management.
The SLMA Web site is visited by thousands of professionals every month. Since our site launch in Oct '07, people from over 100 countries have visited the SLMA site. We have had over 34,700 unique visitors with over 144,121 page views. In addition, we have had 55,852 total visitors plus the Linkedin Group has 847 members.
A sampling from the new membership of the last two weeks shows people from all over the world.
People from these companies have joined in the past few weeks.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Chamblee, GA
San Jose, CA
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Woburn, MA
Bangalore, India
Middlefield, OH
Boston, MA
Cleveland Heights, OH
Dartford, Kent, UK
Harrisville, RI
Sydney, Australia
Brenda, Noord Bradant, Netherlands
Port Klang, Selangor Parul Ehsan, Malaysia
Dundee, UK
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
The most popular surnames are:
14 Smiths
8 Browns
8 Lees
6 Johnsons
5 Campbells
Aljazira Bank
DemandROMI
Executive Forums
Liberty Mutual
Masco RCG
The MarketFarm
Microsoft
Plus/2
Redhat
Strikeforce Sales
Sage
SalesForce
Thinksoft Global Services
Titan Sales Leads
Screen Vision
The Prime Objective
Yellow Spring
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm 1956
Imagine this scenario: you are at a professional services firm that has just come off a fairly good year of growing revenue and profits. You want to continue this growth going into the coming year and have decided you are finally going to take some of these profits and invest in marketing. You have accumulated a list of 1,000 clients, former clients, and prospects to target. Everyone turns to you and asks,"Well, how are we going to invest our hard-earned profits?"
John Doerr is President of Wellesley Hills Group, a consulting and marketing services firm that helps professional service companies to grow, and Founder of RainToday.com, the premier
online content site for insight, advice, and tools for growing a service business.
Applied DM
Research does target marketing research to improve the accuracy and
productivity of direct mail, email, and telemarketing programs. We believe
that target marketing accuracy is the foundation of successful marketing
programs.
Whether you're
just beginning to grow your business or have to manage a national or
global expanding business, we have the services, resources and
experience to meet your needs!
Please visit their sites to learn more about these companies.
NEW SPEAKERS
Thank you to the following people who have signed up to become part of our speakers bureau resource.
Carlos Hidalgo - Partner, The Annuitas Group
Carlos Hidalgo is a partner with The Annuitas Group. a firm that helps companies maximize their return on sales and marketing investment.
Prior to The Annuitas Group, Hidalgo was responsible for overseeing the SMB marketing at BMC Software. In this role, Hidalgo was responsible for all aspects of marketing and customer relations for the SMB line of products including creation of strategic messaging, go-to-market strategies, management of all customer communications and demand generation activities.
Dan
McDade founded PointClear in 1999 with the mission to be the first
and best company providing prospect development services
to business-to-business companies with complex sales
processes. He has been instrumental in developing the
innovative strategies that drive revenue for PointClear clients nationwide.
Prior to starting PointClear,
Dan served as president of UST, The Business Marketing Group, a
high-tech B2B marketing services firm. The company grew over 500%
during his tenure. Dan and his team provided consulting services to
leading technology companies including Sun Microsystems, Texas
Instruments, Oracle and SAP.
Since we posted the
first Blog entry the reception has been great. We
have discussed how Marketers are the Builders of Wealth, Sales Lead
Management Week, and how Closed Loop Lead Management Systems = Lead
Quality and Lead Management (guest author Danny Head from Avaya).
When you subscribe to the Sales Lead Management Blog, you get immediate
e-mail notification of new article postings. The SLMA Blog allows
you to respond to posted articles with your thoughts, opinions, and
comments - anytime, day or night!
SLMA accepts
original articles on the subject of inquiry management (including CRM), fulfillment, telemarketing, inquiry nurturing, etc. We will also publish articles that have been previously published if the author submits proof that he or she has permission from the magazine, newsletter (print or on-line) or book publisher to reprint the material. Please submit content to [email protected].
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Membership is approaching 1500 after being formed in October of 2007. Titles of members remain skewed toward senior management. 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Carlos Hidalgo - Partner, The Annuitas Group
Dan
McDade founded 
ActOn Software
Applied DM Research, Inc.
CartoonLink, Inc.
ClickPoint Software
eti Sales Support
Event Technologies
The Hill Group
ITN International
Invenio Solutions
InterlinkOne
LeadLife
New Business Strategies
The Pedowitz Group
PointClear, LLC
Sales Benchmark Index
SalesFUSION
Sales Leakage Consulting
Sandler Training
Validar Inc.
The Vanella Group
VanillaSoft
Velocify
The Velos Group, Inc.
Vorsight