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The Smart Marketer’s Guide to Accurate Lead Scoring

Marketing Insider Group

If you ask most sales and marketing teams what their ultimate goal is, you can pretty much guarantee that they will say it is generating more leads and conversions. After all, if you have more leads coming in, then you’ll have more conversions too, right? Well, of course, this is not always necessarily the case.

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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.

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Manufacturing Lead Generation: 5 Strategies to Power Your Sales Pipeline

Tiecas

Manufacturing lead generation is a perennial top priority for most manufacturers. To thrive, these companies must consistently attract qualified leads to fuel their sales pipelines. For more on these challenges, see my earlier blog post, “Industrial Lead Generation for Sales – It’s Complicated!”

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6 Crucial Findings From Netline’s 2024 B2B Content Consumption Report

Convince & Convert

For the past eight years, NetLine’s annual analysis of B2B content consumption and demand has stood as a lighthouse for marketers navigating the stormy waters of content strategy and lead generation. Perhaps this current resurgent interest in gated content marks a turning point in how we conceive of value exchange in digital marketing.

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Intent Data: How to Generate Quality Sales and Marketing Leads

DealSignal

For example, if a user searches and reads an article about “cloud computing” and “big data,” that means that they have an interest in, and potentially the intent to purchase, services related to those topics. Opening and/or engaging with emails with subject lines and body content that indicate possible purchase intent.

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Why bottom-of-the-funnel SEO is the game-changer your B2B needs

Martech

While this approach can generate traffic, it often fails to convert them into leads and sales. For instance, we got eight clicks on a page about the SDR approach, which ranked for the “SDR team outsource” keyword, and two opportunities came from it. We already rank in many lists like “best appointment setting companies.”

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Use Your Unspent Marketing Budget On Content Marketing For Next Year

Marketing Insider Group

You’ll start the year with content that attracts relevant buyers and qualified leads and sales right out of the gate. When I first joined SAP in the summer of 2007, I was asked to identify all the marketing programs that delivered actual leads, sales and ROI. Not one lead. We need a brochure.