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In the chaos of the marketing and sales tech stack, it is easy for marketing management to be misled into thinking the prospect’s experience is taken care of by the CRM system, Marketing Automation and eventually salespeople, but this isn’t the case. Author, sales guru, and lead generation professional Dan McDade, is our guest from Prospect-Experience  and he discusses the over-looked field of prospect experience management. McDade says this failure is needlessly costing companies 10-20% of closed sales every month. McDade has a history of knowledge in the sales lead management and lead generation fields having been the CEO of PointClear for 20 plus years. He is now the managing partners of Prospect-Experience which solves the weaknesses in B2B companies he sought to repair when the leads he created for clients went begging for attention from his clients sales and marketing people. 

  SLMA guest host and board member Dan McDade (recent CEO of PointClear) and now of Prospect Experience interviews Karen Hayward a managing partner of Chief Outsiders on the subject of what separates winners and losers in the revenue wars. The interview covers three tactical areas that winners use and loses fail to implement. Very interesting.  ----more---- About the Guest: About Karen Hayward Karen Hayward is a Managing Partner with Chief Outsiders, responsible for West Coast Operations. She is a results-oriented marketing, sales, and operations executive with a proven track record for building and executing strategic programs that accelerate revenue. Karen joined Chief Outsiders from EarthLink where she completed the integration of their acquisition of CenterBeam. At CenterBeam, she spent a decade as CMO. Karen’s early career set the stage for her later successes; while at Xerox Canada Ltd., she held a variety of corporate marketing, and sales leadership positions, ultimately developing and leading the company’s first industry-focused go-to-market effort as VP and General Manager for the Financial Services sector. From 1995 to 1998 she held VP of Marketing and Director of Product Marketing roles within Xerox Canada. Karen was our “boss” during her time at CenterBeam. During one five-year period, CenterBeam credited PointClear with helping them grow 45% per year compound annual growth. Karen, welcome to the broadcast.    About Chief Outsiders Chief Outsiders, LLC is a nationwide "Executives-as-a-Service" firm, with more than 60 part-time, or fractional, Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) engaged from coast-to-coast. Unlike other strategic marketing and management consulting firms, each CMO has held the position of VP Marketing or higher at one or more operating companies. Chief Outsiders have served on the executive team of over 600 client companies to drive growth strategy and execution plans for a fraction of the cost of a full-time executive. Because of its market-based growth plans, quality of leadership, and experienced team, Chief Outsiders has been recognized for the past four years by Inc. Magazine as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the US, and was recognized in the Houston Business Journal's Fast 100.  About the host Dan McDade McDade is the founding partner of Prospect Experience.  Dan McDade founded PointClear in 1997 to help B2B companies with complex sales processes drive revenue through lead generation, qualification and nurturing. For close to 20 years, he’s been instrumental in developing strategies that assure 100% of leads delivered to client sales organizations are fully qualified to client specifications.  Dan is the author of The Truth About Leads, a book about how to focus lead-generation efforts, align sales and marketing, and drive revenue. He also wrote From Chaos to Kickass, an ebook detailing the benefits of sales and marketing optimization.  The Sales Lead Management Association named Dan one of the 50 Most Influential People in sales lead management for five consecutive years. In addition, he was named one of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for three years by Top Sales World.   

  It is easy for marketing management to be misled into thinking the prospect’s experience is taken care of by the CRM system, Marketing Automation and eventually salespeople, but this isn’t the case.  The more we automate the more we rely on software to do a job that needs a personal touch.  Author, sales guru, and lead generation professional Dan McDade, is our guest from Prospect-Experience and he discusses the over-looked field of prospect experience management. McDade says this failure is needlessly costing companies 10-20% of closed sales every month.  This except is taken from his original program which can be heard here: The Prospect Experience Isn’t Marketing Automation or CRM McDade has a history of knowledge in the sales lead management and lead generation fields having been the CEO of PointClear for 20 plus years. He is now the managing partners of Prospect-Experience which solves the weaknesses in B2B companies he sought to repair when the leads he created for clients went begging for attention from his clients sales and marketing people. 

Some lessons from Dan McDade in this episode include: "There's a real focus on the technology stack and companies are spending more and more on that technology stack. And to some extent, they're automating bad processes." "...the technology solutions make it easier to get more bad leads faster to sales than ever before. " "The total obtainable market or the serviceable obtainable market...it doesn't really matter what they call it. The total addressable market is the market that you want to sell to. And a caveat here is that most companies prospect too broadly. " The unsung hero - lead nurturing. You'll have to tune in to hear decades of success handed to you on a platter - making it simple to understand. About Dan McDade: Author, sales guru, and lead generation professional Dan McDade, is our guest from Prospect-Experience and he discusses the over-looked field of prospect experience management. McDade says this failure is needlessly costing companies 10-20% of closed sales every month. McDade has a history of knowledge in the sales lead management and lead generation fields having been the CEO of PointClear for 20 plus years. He is now the managing partners of Prospect-Experience which solves the weaknesses in B2B companies he sought to repair when the leads he created for clients went begging for attention from his clients' sales and marketing people.

In the chaos of the marketing and sales tech stack, it is easy for marketing management to be misled into thinking the prospect’s experience is taken care of by the CRM system, Marketing Automation and eventually salespeople, but this isn’t the case. Author, sales guru, and lead generation professional Dan McDade, is our guest from Prospect-Experience  and he discusses the over-looked field of prospect experience management. McDade says this failure is needlessly costing companies 10-20% of closed sales every month. McDade has a history of knowledge in the sales lead management and lead generation fields having been the CEO of PointClear for 20 plus years. He is now the managing partners of Prospect-Experience which solves the weaknesses in B2B companies he sought to repair when the leads he created for clients went begging for attention from his clients sales and marketing people. 

My guest on this episode of Accelerate! is Dan McDade, Founder and CEO of PointClear and author of The Truth About Leads. Among the many topics Dan and I discuss are the importance of sales & marketing alignment in lead generation, effective strategies to improve sales & marketing collaboration, the differences between inside sales reps and outside sales executives and how to choose the right candidates for each role, and establishing good KPIs, such as the percentage of sales qualified leads an effective sales organization should expect to close.   KEY TAKEAWAYS [2:46] Dan take a point from his book, The Truth About Leads, to discuss how marketing departments are spending too much for the leads the generate. [4:59] Dan discusses The SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall  and breaks down the difference between the marketing qualified lead, the sales accepted lead, and the sales qualified lead. [7:13] Why companies need to have an independent team, composed of the CFO and executives outside of sales and marketing, to evaluate the causes of lead failure between marketing and sales. [14:11] Dan talks about his 3 categories of salespeople, hunters, beaters and farmers, and explains which type of salesperson best succeeds as an inside sales reps. [16:53] Dan asserts it is a mistake to train account executives by starting them as inside sales reps as each position requires an entirely different skill set. [20:04] According to research from SiriusDecisions, sales reps close about 20% of the sales qualified leads at average companies, while those at best in class companies close about 30% of the sales qualified leads. [24:08] Why companies need to adopt account-based marketing and the reasons why marketing automation doesn't work for everyone. MORE ABOUT DAN MCDADE What’s your most powerful sales attribute?ROI. Who is your sales role model?The late Tom DiPrizio of Dun & Bradstreet. What’s one book that every salesperson should read?New Sales: Simplified: the Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development, by Mike Weinberg. What music is on your playlist right now? Jersey Boys.   CONTACT DAN MCDADE Website: Pointclear.com Book: The Truth About Leads, by Dan McDade Email: dan.mcdade@pointclear.com

Most services firms want short-term leads, leads that are ready to buy now. In contrast, the best service firms focus on the 75% of leads that are long-term opportunities that take six months to two years to develop. It's not easy to do, but successful marketers do just that. In this podcast we talk with Dan McDade. Dan helps B-to-B companies fill their forecasts with qualified revenue opportunities as President of PointClear. Specifically, we revisit a questions-and-answer session we had with Dan in a recent webinar with Raintoday.com. (Time: 9:09)