Sunday, February 1, 2009

Lead Generation

Lead generation is a process of identifying different ways of gathering details for prospective customer. This is an important part of selling process as a good database or lead set will help in targeting right customers.

Lead Source:

A lead can be generated from various sources such as:

1) Through a paid database source such as (Hoovers, OneSource etc.)

2) Telemarketing-although a time consuming process but has emerged as an important tool.

3) E-mail Marketing: Most effective means of getting leads and a quicker turnaround ratio.

4) Intermediaries

5) Internal Reference.

In current scenario where every organization want to get more & more business, it is very important to look beyond the traditional mode of selling and use technology such as e-mail marketing & internet marketing.

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