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How to Shorten Turnaround on Inbound Lead Generation

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Outbound marketing does push the brand’s message via cold calling, advertising, and email campaigns. Emails and calls could bring in a new sale, but they could also be ignored or shoved into the spam folder. These aren’t prospects, just noisy data points that either inflate or deflate metrics within your sales funnel.

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How to Shorten Turnaround on Inbound Lead Generation

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Outbound Lead Generation At some point, outbound marketing became a black sheep — the term was once labeled “interruption marketing,” while inbound marketing was often referred to as “permission-based marketing.” Outbound marketing does push the brand’s message via cold calling , advertising, and email campaigns.

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What Is Lead Qualification and How Does It Work?

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While there are other, more detailed ways to qualify a lead, you can generally disqualify them if those two factors aren’t met. This process is often a team effort between marketing and sales. Done well, sales lead qualification helps your teams prioritize which deals to pursue so they can use their time wisely.