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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

Act-On

eBook Learn More According to research from Gartner, B2B buyers are spending more time researching online, and less time interacting directly with sales — as little as 5-6% of their total buying journey. With lead scoring, the sales team can have confidence that marketing is handing over leads who are relevant and ready for a conversation.

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What it Really Means to be Data-Driven as B2B Social Media Manager

Oktopost

An expert in B2B social, Stephanie’s experience in social spans a variety of industries, including technology, research, and financial services, working on global brand and corporate social teams at IBM and Gartner. In this episode, she shares her philosophy around social strategy and what it really means to be data-driven.

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This week’s AI-powered martech releases

Martech

Before we dive into the roundup, here’s a quick look at some recent research on AI in the workplace: 60% of seller work will be carried out by generative AI within the next five years, up from less than 5% in 2023, according to Gartner. 52% of business leaders say AI may replace jobs in their businesses, according to Multiverse. Get MarTech!

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6 Ways to Win with Digital Marketing and Buyer Enablement

Content4Demand

Gartner says that 80% of B2B sales interactions between buyers and suppliers will be in digital channels by 2025. Buyer enablement offers support for those who are completing what Gartner identifies as the four buying tasks: problem identification, solution exploration, requirements building and vendor selection.

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ANNUITAS Predicts – How Go-to-market Will Transform in 2024

ANNUITAS

The key drivers of this breaking point are performance issues and budget issues: Performance issues: Conversion rates in paid digital media and content syndication have been trending down for some time, and outbound email is at some of its worst performance levels. This has made for a challenging 2023.

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Revolutionizing Lead Generation with Automated Lead Qualification: A Data-Driven Guide

Only B2B

Increased Conversion Rates : A study by MarketingProfs reveals that automation can lead to a 53% higher conversion rate compared to manual lead qualification. Sales Funnel Optimization : Automation ensures a 30% higher conversion rate through the sales funnel, according to a report by Pardot.

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Webinar Recap: From Lagging to Leading Sales Indicators

InsightSquared

Yet, whether you are looking at Coverage Ratios, Time in Stage or even Win/Loss Rates — these metrics all show you where you are, rather than predicting where you will land. Balance your traditional Lagging Indicators , like Stage Conversion Rates, with Leading Indicators, such as Ideal Sales Motion and Predictive Forecasting.