Sales Lead Management Association Radio

Oct 2015

SLMWeek: Lead Management isn’t about implementing software.

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During this celebration of Sales Lead Management Week, we interviewed Richard Brock of Leadlife in 2014. It's still relevant, we still haven't learned. Richard Brock, who many say is the founder of customer relationship management and consequently modern sales lead management. We tackled the difficult subject of why lead management continues to be a failure at so many companies. Why do they think that by just putting in a software product they will instantly increase sales?

About Richard Brock

Richard Brock is a tech-savvy, entrepreneurial software development professional with over 30 years of experience in CRM Solutions and deep roots in Marketing Automation. He is the co-founder and CEO of LeadLife Solutions, a provider of an on-demand lead management solution that drives revenue by bundling state-of-the art marketing automation technology with lead management systems to maximize sales opportunities. He is a board member of the Technology Executives Roundtable, mentor to various technology companies and Founding Father of CRM.

Richard pioneered the Sales Force Automation space by starting Brock Control Systems (Firstwave Technologies), which became the leading provider of web-based Customer Relationship Management applications.

About LeadLife Solutions

LeadLife was founded and designed by experts with lots of sales, marketing and customer relationship management experiences. We understand the pressures placed on sales and marketing departments to hit numbers. Whether it’s a sales execution tool, a marketing automation solution or both, LeadLife’s proven platform provides companies flawless execution of their marketing and sales strategies. And we are there to help. www.leadlife.com

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Jun 2014

How to ID Your Best Prospects out of the Primordial Slop

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Host Jim Obermayer discusses with Tony Tissot, director of Marketing at eTrigue, how to extract the most qualified prospects from the masses of inquiries that most companies create. When salespeople are surveyed they always say, “ I want more leads.” Three months later they say, ”You misunderstood me, I want more qualified leads.” Tony is going to share how this is done.

About Tony Tissot

Tony Tissot has been an advocate of marketing automation capabilities since before the term was coined, while running marketing and corpcom for a $2B division of a Global 50 company and later, two successful technology start-ups. Tony Tissot is currently Sr. Director of Marketing at eTrigue, a pioneer in marketing automation. twitter @tonytissot

About eTrigue

eTrigue provides easy-to-use Marketing Automation solutions to help you identify hot leads and close more sales. eTrigue DemandCenter marketing automation creates, executes and tracks powerful multi-channel demand generation campaigns, email marketing campaigns, and online activities with real-time lead alerts, automated lead scoring and reporting, and search-based profiling without requiring dedicated staff or IT integration.

Target and nurture your best prospects easier
Align Sales and Marketing to drive revenue faster
Improve ROI and accountability with measurable results

eTrigue helps generate and qualify sales leads, shorten sales cycles, and increase revenue. In addition, eTrigue’s advanced analytics give marketers the tools they need to measure results and demonstrate true ROI.

Software-as-a-service, eTrigue DemandCenter Intelligent Demand Generation solutions combine sophistication with ease of use. No dedicated resources are required to run eTrigue marketing automation or to make changes to achieve a better fit with your marketing and sales process. And because we understand the inherent value of volume in sales, our flat-fee pricing allows for an unlimited number of company users with unlimited campaign frequency and customer activity—promoting, not penalizing, your company’s growth and success.

Successfully enabling customer demand generation programs for 25 years, eTrigue was initially developed by one of Silicon Valley’s leading marketing and demand generation agencies. Inspired by the difficulty of running demand generation programs for startups and for multinational clients within the constraints and limitations of cumbersome, or feature-light applications, the eTrigue marketing automation and sales acceleration solutions were developed to fill a need for a better demand generation solution.

The eTrigue DemandCenter automated marketing solution has been such a success that demand outgrew the high-tech agency. With years of development completed, over 3,000 successful demand generation programs launched, and a strong customer base growing more than 100% per year, eTrigue Corporation was officially launched.

When it’s time for your sales to take flight, contact eTrigue Corporation at 800.858.8500.

Dec 2013

The most listened to show in 2013: Hunting From Helicopters: Getting to B2B Decision Makers in the Real World

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SLMA Radio host Jim Obermayer interviews
Shawn McLaren, Chairman of ConnectAndSell.

In the last interview Shawn told us how a salesperson could have 6-8 meaningful conversations per hour. Maybe this time he will reveal even more.

In 2007 Shawn gave up his quest for the perfect golf game because he discovered, as he terms it, a system that liberates Sales Warriors (aka Conversation Pigs) by providing so many conversations with decision makers so efficiently that it removes all excuses for non-performance and brings smiles to the usually harried faces of VP’s of Sales and CMOs.

Shawn’s early successes included selling encyclopedias door to door in the Michigan winter and building both code and company for the world’s first mainframe storage system; a system that included security algorithms that rivaled the unbreakability of Navajo Codetalkers and would have stumped the Enigma machines that helped the Allies win WW II. Shawn’s only regret in life is his failed tryout as a pitcher for the New York Yankees in his mid-30s. He is plotting his revenge in the form of a hostile takeover of the franchise thanks to the expected growth and success of ConnectAndSell. Shawn is a founder and Chairman of ConnectAndSell and was its CEO for 3+ of its formative years.