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MQL vs. SQL: What Are They How Do They Help You Sell?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Imagine the marketing team as the first runner. They’ve sprinted hard, nurturing each lead with care and precision, and now they’re holding the baton of customer interest. Next up is the crucial moment: passing the baton to the sales team, set to dash to the finish line, er, close.

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B2B Lead Quality: Guide to Reducing Lead Rejections and Accelerating Sales

Inbox Insight

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. Reading time: 4 minutes Why is Lead Quality the key area of focus for Demand Generation?

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Know Your Numbers: The Top Metrics for B2B Inbound Marketing

FunnelEnvy

Numbers are key in any kind of marketing. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of confusion among marketers today about what numbers are the most important to track. The huge expansion of the marketing technology sphere over the last decade has led to the creation of all kinds of statistics that may or may not be relevant to your business.

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How to Pick the Winning Horse: B2B Lead Quality

Inbox Insight

Determining what a quality lead looks like to not only prioritize these but effectively nurture them is a key area of focus for the majority (40%) of B2B marketers in 2022. Effective lead generation comes down to quality rather than quantity – though ample high quality leads is undoubtedly the ultimate aim.

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The 3 Essentials of a Successful Qualified Leads Program

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

In a way, sales reps are like nurses or doctors. Sales reps would get a good sense of how interested someone was in their company’s products or services by spending some time with them. Qualified leads would ultimately receive more attention—the sales rep might play 18 holes with them to help close the deal.

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What Is Sales? The Career of Champions

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

On the surface, sales seems like a simple concept: One person buys something from another. If you’re interested in starting a career in sales, you’re in the right place to learn the fundamentals. If you’re interested in starting a career in sales, you’re in the right place to learn the fundamentals.

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What Is Outbound Sales? Strategies and Tips

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Outbound sales involves consistently reaching out to potential customers. But don’t worry; in this article, we share strategies to make the most of your outbound sales so you can stand out from the crowd and maximize your window of opportunity. What you’ll learn: What is outbound sales?

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