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B2B Lead Quality: Guide to Reducing Lead Rejections and Accelerating Sales

Inbox Insight

But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. Reading time: 4 minutes Why is Lead Quality the key area of focus for Demand Generation? But that’s not to say it should be disregarded.

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3 Ways Interactive Content Drives Shorter B2B Sales Cycles

SnapApp

Businesses today know that the longer it takes to close the sale, the greater the chance is of losing prospects to the competition. In addition, a longer sales cycle requires more time and resources. Today, quality content alone no longer drives the high conversion rates that once helped shorten sales cycles.

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The State of Demand Generation

The Effective Marketer

A must-watch presentation, though, is the keynote address “ The State of Demand Creation “, by Tony Jaros , SVP Research for SiriusDecisions. The State of Demand Generation 2012. Why is demand generation so important? Create sufficient content (how can we possibly keep up with demand for content?).

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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

The Point

The MQL is dead. In the years since, the authors of the original model (which SiriusDecisions calls the Demand Waterfall ) have re-engineered its design. Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead Click To Tweet. If we’re to believe the experts, the following is true: * Email is dead.

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4 Ways to Optimize the Middle of the Funnel | Lead Management

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the bottom of the funnel, marketing helps close the sale by creating urgency and helping prospects make the business case for purchasing the product or service. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Marketing Play: 5 Strategies to Execute Before the Clock Runs Out

DealSignal

Around this time, there are basically four weeks left for marketers to make an impact, given average B2B sales cycles. If, like most B2B marketers, you’re measured on leads (MQL/SQL), pipeline (opportunity conversion), and contribution to revenue, time could be running out to hit your numbers for the quarter or even the year.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.