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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

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B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. Ah, the never-ending quest for qualified leads!

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5 Ways to Drive Revenue With Your B2B Social Media Strategy

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Social media is not just about creating a buzz; it can be a powerful tool for strategically influencing your customers at every stage of the sales funnel. While many businesses recognize the importance of maintaining a social media presence, the full potential of these platforms in driving B2B revenue often goes overlooked.

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How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals  

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What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. But how does it work?

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How Virtual Events Can Outperform In-person Events to Drive Sales

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It’s now common wisdom that the big shift from in-person to on-screen sales engagement is here to stay. Still, according to a 2021 Forrester study , most marketers admit to having a tough time replicating the “compelling storytelling and lead-generating aspects” of in-person events. Greater flexibility to attend multiple sessions.

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4 Ways to Nurture Prospect Relationships and Close More Deals

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Hitting targets and meeting sales quotas has become harder for most sales teams over the past year. The impact of the economy has slowed down the pace of B2B sales, leaving sales teams wondering how to meet their KPIs. So, in order to efficiently guide prospects to closed-won, nurturing relationships is key.

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Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM

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Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. With a complex sale, many personal touch points in customer relationship management are present – such as directly answering a question posted on social media or an online forum. Marketing, Sales (and IT) alignment.

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

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But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. Our ability to succeed through haphazard marketing and sales acquisition efforts is rapidly coming to an end.