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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

Only B2B

Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads! B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid.

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Top Three Signs You Need a Better Lead Gen Plan

PureB2B

Many hands make light work, which is why sales organizations employ a pretty sizable stock of talented people who come together to drive efficiency across the sales cycle. From business development representatives to account executives, everyone does their part to ensure a high-performing, successful sales team.

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What is a content marketing strategy? Your checklist to secure content success

Tomorrow People

But what exactly is content marketing? Content marketing is the approach of fitting your content within a structured and measurable process to create better results in attracting leads and transforming them into customers — and increasing revenue. How content management grows business leaders. Making the leap.

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Content as community

Velocity Partners

Our thinking was based around a definition of an audience as ‘a group (or community) of potential, highly relevant prospects who subscribe to receive your content and regularly return to get it,’ Back then, we were making content in short bursts to hit largely short-term goals — essentially, to feed the ravenous maw of the lead gen stack. (I

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Get 3X B2B Marketing ROI by Nurturing Leads

ViewPoint

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. Successful lead generation—inbound and outbound—requires nurturing.

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Marketing Attribution: Keep It Simple

InsightSquared

When sales cycles are short, marketing attribution can be fairly straightforward. The higher the value of the contract, the longer the sales cycle and the more complex the marketing machine, the harder it becomes to know where marketing spend is achieving ROI. ROI by Lead Source.

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How Much Do Your Leads Cost?

ViewPoint

Understand the price you are paying for your leads and then optimize. Document the cost per lead is the fourth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results.