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

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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. T hat’s because, with longer, more complex buyer journeys, marketers need to be engaging their target audience with their content marketing efforts sooner.

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B2B Content, The Modern Buyer Journey, and Economic Headwinds: A Q&A With Marketing Leader Michael Schultz

PathFactory

The B2B buyer journey isn’t the only thing that has undergone a transformation over the last several years. I sat down with marketing leader Michael Schultz who is no stranger to the changing tides of technology to discuss the importance of B2B content in the modern buyer journey.

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Navigating B2B Buyer Enablement With Michelle Killebrew

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Here are a few ways I keep my buyer’s experience top of mind: Buyers are more informed than ever—keep it that way. We know that 80% of the buying decision is made before a buyer even engages with a salesperson, and only 17% of the buyer journey is spent connecting with sellers. Unify marketing and sales.

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Measuring Success: 12 Key Demand Generation Metrics in B2B

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It begins before you even identify a potential prospect right through to conversion, establishing your brand as an industry thought leader by addressing every touchpoint in the B2B buyer journey and nurturing long-term engagement. Why should B2B marketers focus on demand gen KPIs?

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Bridging The Sales and Marketing Gap

PathFactory

Marta has no idea if her content can be attributed to revenue or closed deals; she doesn’t even know if her content is helping move people through the buyer journey. Using content intelligence, Sally can see that the content Bill’s engaging with are bottom of the funnel pieces, and he’s spending over 5 minutes reading each asset.

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How to Qualify a Lead: The Battle-Tested B2B Framework

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Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. And, it all starts with marketing efforts that fill the top of the funnel with poor quality leads: Or, put another way, poor lead qualification. To put it simply: MQLs need to be nurtured.

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41 Execs Discuss Key B2B Marketing Metrics to Watch in 2018

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This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. . However, if you are in a rush we broke down the most commonly cited metrics across each of the funnel stages. . . 5: Opportunities. .