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Lead Scoring: Tools and Tactics to Convert Customers

Act-On

Lead scoring is a process and a framework, not a tool — but technology makes it possible to implement at scale. And while it’s commonly used to determine MQL thresholds , lead scoring can also be used as a layer of segmentation to power marketing automation. If that sounds exactly like lead scoring, you’re onto something.

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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. But when your prospects are moving more slowly throughout their buying journey, our marketing leaders advise their peers to prioritize full-funnel engagement. “We

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MQL Criteria: Identifying Potential Customers Effectively

Only B2B

In the world of marketing and sales, it’s really important to find potential customers in a smart way. A super important tool for doing this is called Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) criteria. This blog looks into what MQL criteria are and how they help us find potential customers that matter.

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The (marketing) funnel isn’t dead

MKT1

“The marketing funnel is dead,” they say. I agree the marketing funnel isn’t exactly funnel shaped–it's sort of an hourglass. So, I still strongly recommend B2B marketing teams map their funnels. This funnel mapping process is one of the key foundational elements of your growth strategy.

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How Sales and Marketing Can Collaborate (+Expert Tips)

Hubspot

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes.

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The universal digital marketing audit

Velocity Partners

However, for those of us deeply immersed in the day-to-day realities of managing B2B marketing audits & campaigns, the nuances between theory and practice are as profound as the gap between your MQL and SQL conversion rate (ouch). Effectively running always-on, full-funnel campaigns. John’s views struck a chord with me.

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11 AI Predictions in Sales for the Next Year [Data + Expert Tips]

Hubspot

But what changes will it bring to the sales industry? Will it be the end of salespeople, or will it become the secret weapon to help sales reps work more efficiently? Furthermore, we’ve interviewed leading sales teams to collect 11 AI sales predictions that you should watch in 2023.