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Forrester: B2B Companies Score Low in Marketing Best Practices

The Point

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. LDW: Overall, the scores were quite low. LDW: Overall, the scores were quite low.

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LeadspaceTM Ranked a Leader in the B2B Standalone Customer Data Platforms Evaluation

Leadspace

December 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Leadspace, the industry-recognized AI-powered B2B Buyer Data Platform, has been named a Leader by Forrester Research in its recent report The Forrester New Wave : B2B Customer Data Platforms, Q4 2021 authored by analysts Steven Casey and Katie Linford. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,

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Simplify Lead Scoring with AI

Content4Demand

With this abundance of signals (often mixed with faulty information), how can companies improve their lead scoring efforts to determine the signals that indicate action? AI-powered lead scoring is the practice of ranking leads by the propensity to convert and, ideally, turn them into a customer.

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Key Differences Between MQL and HQL for B2B Lead Generation  

Only B2B

Did you know that only 5-10% of marketing qualified leads (MQLs) convert into paying customers? This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team?

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Optimize your Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) Strategy and Close More Sales

Only B2B

These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Usually, MQLs are the leads that have shown interest in various ways, like downloading content like ebooks, white paper, signing up for a company newsletter attending a webinar or online event. But ignoring MQL altogether is a costly mistake.

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How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals  

Only B2B

You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. But how does it work?

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How to do lead management that improves conversion

markempa

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.