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Experimentation in B2B Marketing Is Hell. Here’s How to Fix It

Convert

In a long sales cycle, the metrics most closely correlated to revenue are lower-funnel metrics. In the B2B marketing context, we often see top funnel (ToFu) metrics such as lead gen, MQLs and SQLs being measured and optimized as a stand-in – or proxies – for the lower-funnel metrics. Here’s why.

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Why Marketers are Pivoting to Sales-Focused Metrics (& How You Can Too)

SnapApp

This metric is useful because, when broken down over time, marketers can easily correlate specific campaigns to the percentage of the company’s pipeline they contributed during a given month. Work with your sales team to benchmark marketing activities against their normal lead-to-conversion rate and scale what works.

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Importance of a Singular Metric for Marketing and Sales

Directive Agency

The reason this is valuable is to illuminate how we think about lead generation and how I can help you learn from our experiences. Success Between Your Lead Gen Teams = One Sales and Marketing Metric. As we know, marketers and sales professionals are dying to add new “opportunities” to their CRM.

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The Top Content Marketing Metrics Used by Results-Driven Managers

DivvyHQ

When leads slow to a trickle, it’s not long before sales revenue shrivels. To prevent that from happening, and to prevent ourselves from resorting to desperate, short-sighted lead gen efforts that hurt the brand in the long run, we need to not just measure lead volume, but also find a way to keep lead data front and center.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department

markempa

FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 correlated directly to growth rates.

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Moneyball for Marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

But technological advances and a better understanding of statistical correlations made these old scouting reports obsolete, uncovering hidden gems amongst the player rosters. And by working with your CRM tool, sales, and customer success team, you can then attribute the lifetime value of the customer back to the lead.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Podcasts vs. Webinars which is better?

markempa

FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0