Just got back from the Aprimo Marketing Summit. Great event. Great speakers. Great hotel room too (with a great ocean view). Jeff Hayzlett was a hoot, and   the fly that kept landing on Seth Godin’s head as he talked via satellite was hilarious!

By now, we have our weekly leads report from Marketo.

Why can’t other firms provide a quality weekly report via email like Marketo does? We use this report to sent Marketo a bill each month, which they promptly pay.

Very proud of our new cheat sheet entitled

“7 Keys to Successful Lead Nurturing“

Frankly, everyone doing lead nurturing should download it. It’s really easy. Point, click, click, done. We don’t even use a signup form.

I’m shocked how many companies don’t “get b2b lead generation.” Sales lead generation is critical to deliver business sales leads. Look at this list of challenges for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs):

When almost 8 out of 10 CMOs say generating high quality leads is a problem - and it has increased since 2010, it is a BIG problem. And SiriusDecisions said that companies who are best practices get 5X better results than those who are not. CSO Insights says quota achievement is at an alltime low and quotas are going up. A huge problem and companies who do it well get 500% better results - duh! I really feel sorry for B2B salespeople - hung out to dry by their leaders.

It’s clear this needs to be a top corporate focus. But most CEOs simply don’t understand it. It seems most of them think the way to improve revenue is by flogging the salespeople. I sent an email to the head of sales of a technology firm sharing the 500% number. His reaction: Please remove me.

IMHO, those business leaders are brain-dead. They will never achieve the fiscal results they want, because they are oblivious to the need of fixing root causes.

Enjoy what’s left of your weekend.

Jeff Ogden is President of Find New Customers “Lead Generation Made Simple” Check out the online show every Friday at 11am ET, “Laugh and Learn with the Fearless Competitor.” Find New Customers is one of few lead generation

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Find New Customers helps companies like yours(with 150 to 5,000 employees and complex products) implement lead generation programs to improve the way you find and acquire high quality sales leads using best practices in online lead generation. Quality leads matter. In fact, a recent study found that sales teams with fewer, high quality sales leads closed more than sales teams with more leads of dubious quality.