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Reaping the Value of Long-term Leads

ViewPoint

Your sales team likes nothing better than getting leads with a high probability of closing soon. So much so that many reps often ignore every lead they don’t consider hot. Long-term leads often prove to be more valuable than those slated for a short-term decision. Here’s an example: Marketing spends $60,000 to generate 80 leads.

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Manufacturers, It’s Time to Take Back Control in the Buying Cycle

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

However, when it comes to sales and marketing, very little has changed despite significant changes in buyer behaviors—the result of which has decreased the volume of leads that sales receives. As much as two-thirds of B2B deals are lost before a formal request for proposal (RFP) process even begins. The Sales and Marketing Blind Spot.

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Long-Term Leads Demand Attention Now

ViewPoint

Your sales team likes nothing better than getting leads with a high probability of closing soon. So much so that many reps often ignore every lead they don’t consider hot. In reality, long-term leads often prove to be more valuable than those slated for a short-term decision. In many cases hot opportunities are already baked.

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Why BANT No Longer Applies for B2B Lead Qualification

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Fifteen years ago I worked for a B2B marketing agency that had an outbound call center focused on lead generation. We were quite successful in developing these programs for our clients and the leads were graded based on the answer to the BANT questions. Not long ago DemandGen Report ran a research report focused on the B2B buyer.

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Why BANT No Longer Applies for B2B Lead Qualification

ANNUITAS

Fifteen years ago I worked for a B2B marketing agency that had an outbound call center focused on lead generation. We were quite successful in developing these programs for our clients and the leads were graded based on the answer to the BANT questions. Not long ago DemandGen Report ran a research report focused on the B2B buyer.

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How to Use Marketing Analytics to Get C-Suite Buy-In for Content Marketing

Hinge Marketing

So how do you get your C-suite to buy in? Presenting website traffic metrics, especially after implementing content marketing efforts, will show how the traffic (and the content marketing and promotion that is driving that traffic) will help lead to increases in revenue. Executives are all about the data and cold hard facts.

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The Calls-to-Action Your Website Needs to Capture and Convert Leads

Hinge Marketing

And to encourage your firm's website visitors to deepen their engagement with you and move through the buying journey, you need a variety of calls-to-action (CTAs) throughout your site. Each offer should cater to prospects at different stages of the sales cycle, serving as guideposts along the conversion path. Additional Resources.