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3 Reasons for Marketers to Curb Their Lead Addiction

Terminus

It’s similar to receiving a request for proposal (RFP). When you receive an RFP, it typically means a competitor has already been working with the account and helped the buyer put the RFP together. The low-quality nature of inbound leads pits marketing and sales against each other. We call this the TEAM framework.

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The Calls-to-Action Your Website Needs to Capture and Convert Leads

Hinge Marketing

Each offer should cater to prospects at different stages of the sales cycle, serving as guideposts along the conversion path. However, the buying cycle in professional services tends to be longer and the vast majority of your website’s visitors will not be ready to convert when they first visit.

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Poker Equity and Marketing II - Lead Equity Explained

Smashmouth Marketing

Use Case A - This sales cycle is short. The opportunity has a close rate of 25% from the pipeline, and the average deal size is $75k. Typically only 10% of the leads convert to an opportunity and the close rate is a miserable 15%. The projects go out to bid with RFP's. Your conversion rates don't look as good.

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Poker Equity and Marketing II - Lead Equity Explained

Smashmouth Marketing

Use Case A - This sales cycle is short. The opportunity has a close rate of 25% from the pipeline, and the average deal size is $75k. Typically only 10% of the leads convert to an opportunity and the close rate is a miserable 15%. The projects go out to bid with RFP's. Your conversion rates don't look as good.

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Generate More B2B Sales With Lead Nurturing and the Human Touch

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The conversion rates of each respective group will help you persuade those who claim nurturing doesn’t significantly alter the buying process. At Marketo, our prospect-to-lead conversion rate triples with lead nurturing. Marketing’s long term thinking often clashes with sales’ short term thinking.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 334: Q & A with Rishi Dave

Heinz Marketing

I’d love to talk about the old RFP and the idea that of like, if I get an RFP, if I didn’t know the company producing it, I’m probably already way behind. Matt: Talk about what the Day One mentality means about RFPs and whether or not we should be using them. Rishi: Yes. Rishi: Yes.

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B2B Sales and Marketing Terms: A Complete Glossary

Anteriad

Your comprehensive B2B sales and marketing terms glossary: A/B testing Also known as split testing, a way to improve engagement and conversion rates, typically used to compare the performance of email campaigns and landing pages. Conversion When an individual of a marketing message performs a preferred action.