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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

If you work at any kind of PE or VC-backed firm, or a public firm, everybody’s feeling the same thing: boards are suddenly caring a lot more about efficiency metrics, revenue per employee, and spend metrics.” This year’s theme for the boards is going to be AI and efficiency. If you’re not ready as a CMO, you’d better get ready.”

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CMO Perspective: Struggling with Inbound Lead Quality? Start with a Clear, Quantified Definition

SalesIntel

Lead quality is one the biggest drivers of go-to-market efficiency in your business. It’s vital that you are able to quickly decipher the quality of a lead so that your team can spend their precious time in the most efficient way possible. The answer comes down to this – time is money. This is the first and most important signal.

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6 tips to optimize lead handoff between marketing and sales

Rev

If so, this blog post will give you 6 tips to optimize your lead handoff process by getting your marketing and sales teams working together more efficiently. It needs to be highly efficient. The marketing team decides if the lead meets the criteria for qualification and passes them along to sales as an MQL. Sound familiar?

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Is Your B2B Marketing Working? These 10 Metrics May Hold the Answer

Marketri

Number of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) All marketing leads aren’t equal, so it’s important to target your efforts on the most qualified. A Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) is a prospect who’s shown deeper interest in your product or service but may not be ready to buy. The key is to establish the right criteria for an MQL.

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Going Conversation Qualified | Snack-Size AI Ep. 3

Conversica

It’s a big leap from MQL to truly Sales-Ready, or from new customer to advocate. Conversica CMO David Greenberg explains Conversation Qualified, a new funnel concept that better engages leads, prospects, and customers at every stage of the lifecycle. And then you also have the ability to make your MQL scoring secondary.

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Top CMO Priorities for 2023: Alignment, Efficiency, Consistency

Zoominfo

To be a strategic revenue partner in 2023, B2B marketers need to prioritize sales and marketing alignment, increase efficiencies, and scale consistently. Marketing and sales are often two of the biggest cost centers for businesses, leading executive teams and boards to seek efficiencies across both departments, rather than just within each.

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Six focus areas keeping B2B CMOs up at night

Heinz Marketing

The discussions at each CMO breakfast range widely from strategic to tactical topics, from professional development to managing culture and marketing technology stacks. The focus (and sometimes fear) among B2B CMOs is around how to effectively and efficiently scale the operation and impact of ABM beyond initial or limited campaigns.