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What Is MQL & SQL and How Do They Differ?

Only B2B

A marketing qualified lead (MQL) is one who has acquired a piece of content or connected with your marketing team but has not yet approached your sales funnel. It’s engineered to help both marketing and sales teams foster leads all the way across to a sale. Perhaps they’re working on a lengthy buying cycle.

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Gartner: Are Your Ready for More Buyers and the IT to Business Shift?

The ROI Guy

When we look at today’s sales and marketing, most content and conversations remain too focused on technology and IT decision makers, missing the mark on what matters most to executives and the business. It is most common for buying teams to spend between three and six months in each major area of the buying cycle.

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How To Generate Leads For A Software Company

Valasys

For a marketing manager of an up-and-coming software company, a dried up pipeline is his arch nemesis – a problem that comes from staying away from lead generation. According to the 2018 State of Inbound survey, 63% marketers consider lead generation their top challenge and for good reason as well. Merely getting clicks isn’t enough.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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50+ Statistics Designed to Influence B2B Marketing Budgets in the New Year

KoMarketing Associates

As we wind down 2015, marketing budgets and planning for the new year begin to take focus. Hopefully, the performance metrics associated with your organization’s marketing programs have yielded success and validation for tactics proposed at the beginning of the year. It is that time in the year again. Demand Generation.

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A Lead Generation Plan Begins With Content Marketing Strategy

NuSpark Consulting

Here’s a sample excerpt of a digital marketing/ lead generation proposal we did recently I thought I’d share because it really is a compilation of recent blog posts in a way. There’s more to the proposal than this, but the basics of a lead management plan is in place. Complement current marketing efforts.