XANT Research Finds More Companies Are Responding to Leads But Not Fast Enough
SILICON SLOPES, Utah – November 19, 2013 – XANT announced the results of a research study on the lead response practices of companies who attend Dreamforce.
The announcement was made today at salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2013 in San Francisco.
Individual reports are available in .pdf format by contacting an XANT representative. XANT will be in Booth N1300 and W622 in the Dreamforce Expo.
During the past two months, XANT reviewed 3,446 companies who attended Dreamforce in 2011 and 2012 as well as publicized sponsors of Dreamforce 2013.
The average first call response time of all companies that responded by phone was 40 hours and 56 minutes. Of the companies reviewed, 60 percent eventually responded to the leads submitted, compared with just 27 percent last year.
“While more companies did respond to the leads this year, 40 percent of the companies reviewed did not respond at all,” XANT President and Founder Ken Krogue said. “Imagine what a CEO or CMO would think if they knew that their team was not contacting their leads. With better techniques and technologies, they could be speaking to 92 percent of leads. Plus, they aren’t responding fast enough.”
A sales rep is 100 times more likely to get a prospect on the phone if the initial call is made within five minutes from the time the prospect submitted the web form, versus 30 minutes later. The odds of the lead entering the sales process, or becoming qualified, are 21 times greater when contacted within the same time frame, according to the 2012 Lead Response Management Study , an original research study XANT conducted in conjunction with MIT visiting fellow James Oldroyd.
The Lead Response Report also found that 65 percent of companies make their initial response through email. The remaining 35 percent use phone calls to respond — 23 percent called and left a voicemail, and 12 percent called and did not leave a voicemail.
In summary, speed and persistence are paramount for lead conversion.
XANT research is available on the company’s research page: /research_papers.php.
The top 20 companies are listed below:
1. Adapx Inc.
2. MIR3 Inc.
3. Responsys Inc.
4. i2i Systems
5. Sun Microsystems
6. UnityWorks Media
7. DealerFire
8. InMage
9. Didit
10. CPI Security Systems
11. Vindicia
12. CL&D Digital
13. TreeHouse Interactive
14. Advanced Solutions International Inc.
15. Paramount Equity Mortgage
16. Demand Metric
17. Novation Capital
18. Redseal Networks
19. Fairway America
20. SilkRoad Technology Inc.
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