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Election Day: SLMA's 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management

  

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The Sales Lead Management Association has opened up voting for the 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management.  I'm on the list, so if I've earned your respect in the world of demand gen and lead generation, I'd love your vote.  

The list is vast and full of some fantastic peers of mine, and you can only choose 3.  So choose wisely.  Members of SLMA and non-members are allowed to vote.

Here is the list.  If you find someone you want to vote for, click through and place your vote.

Trish Bertuzzi - The Bridge Group 
Karla Blalock - PointClear 
Bob Bly - Bly.com 
April Brown - Rubicon Marketing Group 
Michael Brown - Purple Pig Consulting 
Michael A. Brown - Business to Business by Phone Troy Burk - Right On Interactive 
Brian Carroll - InTouch 
Jep Castelein - LeadSloth 
Elisa Ciarametaro - Exceed Sales 
John Coe - The Sales and Marketing Institute 
Greg Coleman - LeadQual 
Lisa Cramer - LeadLife Solutions 
Richard Cunningham - Right On Interactive 
Mike Damphousse - Green Leads 
Debra DeCosta - Direct Marketing Partners 
Mary Dedrick - Performark Inc 
John Doerr - Wellesley Hills Group 
Mike Falkson - eti Sales Support 
Bob Felsenthal - BtoB Magazine 
Phil Fernandez - Marketo 
Susan Friedmann - The Trade Show Coach 
Andrew Gaffney - DemandGen Report 
Sanjay Gala - SMARTe Inc. 
Bill Goldsmith - BP Productions 
Pete Gracey - AG Salesworks 
Bernice Grossman - DMRS Group Inc. 
Gerhard Gschwandtner - Selling Power 
Ann Handley - Marketingprofs 
John Hasbrouck - NewLeads C
arlos Hidalgo - The Annuitas Group 
Jay Hidalgo - Annuitas Group 
Christopher Hosford - BtoB 
Tom Judge - Direct Marketing Partners 
Russell Kern - The Kern Organization 
Russ King - LeadMaster 
Victor Kippes - Validar 
Jill Konrath - Selling to Big Companies 
Hilarie Koplow-McAdams - salesforce.com 
Jim LaBelle - LeadTrack 
Cliff Langston - Leads To Sales 
Joe Lethert - Performark 
Dan McDade - PointClear 
JT McDonald - MarketNet Services Inc 
Laura McGuire - Saligent dba SmartTracks 
Mac McIntosh - Mac McIntosh Inc.  
Mark McIntosh - Interlink1 
Robert B Miller- Miller Heiman Inc. 
Dan Morefield - Leads360 
Ken Murray - VanillaSoft Inc 
Bill Nussey - Silverpop 
Kirtan Patel - LeadOrganizer 
Joe Payne - Eloqua 
Jeff Pedowitz - The Pedowitz Group 
James Pennington - Anderson Direct Marketing 
Maria Pergolino - Marketo Barbara Pfeiffer - Nurture Institute Debbie Pierce - NitroMojo 
Eric Rabinowitz - Nurture Institute 
Sam Reese - Miller Heiman Inc. 
Bill Rice - Kaleidico 
Jose Raul Rodriguez - Aon 
Dan Rogers - SmartLead by The AdTrack Corporation 
Anneke Seley - Phone Works LLC 
Tibor Shanto - Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.  
Karen Sheehey - interlinkONE 
Gary Skidmore - Harte Hanks 
Jeff Solomon - Leads360 
Paul Staelin - Birst 
Jim Steele - salesforce.com 
Drew Stevens – Drew Stevens 
Ruth P. Stevens - eMarketing Strategy 
Chris Tremblay - Event Technologies 
Tann Tueller - Harte Hanks 
Frank van Veenendaal - salesforce.com 
Jenny Vance - LeadGen 
Mari Anne Vanella - The Vanella Group 
Chris Williams - Compusystems 
Keith Wolf - Virtual Appoint 
Steve Woods - Eloqua 
Fred Yee - ActiveConversion 
Scott Zimmerman - The Cyrano Group

If you don't see the name of your favorite Lead Gen Experts, drop us a comment...

Lead Generation Tip - Don't Use a Voicemail Script

  

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I know my colleagues in the sales consulting industry are going to fill this page with comments telling me why their Lead Gen Tip of the day would be to craft the perfect voicemail script. My response is -- Don't Bother.

As a result of the recent question on Focus.com regarding "should we leave a voicemail?" we decided to conduct a LinkedIn poll asking only C/VP level respondents (our appointment setting targets) what they do when they receive a well crafted voicemail that is sales oriented:

The results were as I expected, so let the debate begin:  

Want to know the mix by department? It's interesting that the geeks listen more than others:

What do you think? Leave one or Don't?

Voicemail Debate - To Leave One or Not - POLL

  

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This past week on Focus.com, there was an active discussion regarding if we Should or Should Not leave a voicemail when tele prospecting. The opinions are varied, but for those of us in the business, I thought we should put some stats behind the argument. Hence, time for a LinkedIn Poll. I've setup a non-targeted poll, below, and I've also paid for a random C/VP targeted poll. The results will be interesting. Clicking on the graphic below will bring you to LinkedIn to vote.

Take the Poll, then spread the word by Copying and Pasting the following on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Update, Your Blog:

RT @damphoux Contribute to VOICEMAIL Debate. Take the poll (please RT). Results Thu. http://ow.ly/sC19 #sales #b2b #marketing