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Customer Purchase Intention and Use in B2B Marketing

Heinz Marketing

By Sarah Threet, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketin g What is Purchase Intention and Intent Data? Purchase intention (or buyer intent) is a measure of each shopper’s propensity to buy a product or service. Intent data is the dataset that provides insight into the customer’s journey.

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How to Recognize and Respond to Buying Signals (and Close More Deals!)

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You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. How to spot buying signals.

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Purchasing Intent Data – How To Select A Intent Data Vendor

Only B2B

The majority of clients complete their buying process without ever interacting with a salesman. How are marketers using intent data to increase revenue? According to Trust Radius , Intent monitoring is used for prospecting by 70% of the 40% of businesses who employ it. Image Source: TrustRadius.

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Hey Marketing: An Inquiry Is Not A Lead

Marketing Insider Group

The main goal for Marketing in B2B companies is to generate leads for sales teams and increasingly to deliver direct revenue. Some marketers define anyone who fills out a form or attends an online or physical event as a lead. And in the process, I somehow managed to accomplish both. Why is this important? More on that in a bit.

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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. billion (Polaris).

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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

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B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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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.