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BANT for Lead Qualification Just Won’t Work

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About two years ago I wrote a blog post on Why BANT No longer applies for B2B Lead Qualification. Given the environment in which we live as B2B Marketers, BANT (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe) is not a trustworthy indicator of the qualification status of the leads. BANT is not Aligned to a Buying Process. “I

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Lead Qualification: The Secret Sauce of B2B Lead Generation Marketing

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In this kind of situation, the lead should stay with the marketing team, where the relationship can be developed, and nurtured, until it’s ready to take up a salesperson’s valuable time. But all this assumes that the marketing team has a clue about what kind of lead is ready for a sales rep. So get going.

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Lead Qualification: Stop generating leads and start generating revenue

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Start by reading this: Universal Lead Definition: Why 61% of B2B marketers are wasting resources and how they can stop. For nearly 20 years, I have worked with hundreds of leading B2B organizations to optimize their lead-qualification efforts — this includes phoning inbound leads to find out if they are truly qualified.

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Webinar Replay: 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report Reveals How Marketers Can Transform Mounting Pressure, Challenges into Revenue

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At the beginning of the webinar, Jen Doyle, MarketingSherpa Senior Research Manager and Lead Author of the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , revealed that 1,745 marketing organizations are reporting remarkable declines in marketing effectiveness in 2011. Marketers are torn between prioritizing more leads vs. better leads.

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Introduction to Lead Management

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I think the major cause for poor lead conversion and ROI is the lack of lead management, also known as passing unqualified leads, or marketing qualified leads (MQLs), directly to sales reps. MarketingSherpa captured some of the key lead management issues in the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report.

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The Dangers of Using Cost per Lead as a Metric to Measure Marketing

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Twice over the past two years I blogged about the dangers of using cost per lead as a metric to measure marketing. As a foundation, I published three blogs in 2012 in which I outlined three critical elements that impact B2B lead generation costs in the complex sale: 1.

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Why 75% of Marketers Are Experiencing Lead Generation Pain and How to Stop It Before It’s Too Late

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This is apparently not enough to make marketers and sales professionals embrace change and develop a formal lead generation strategy, considering that 75% of marketers still don’t have a formal lead generation process or guidelines according to MarketingSherpa’s 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. What is a ULD?