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The Great MQL Debate: Can Focusing On Fit Generate Higher Quality Leads?

ABM in Action

There are some rivalries that are just legendary: The Hatfields and The McCoys, Biggie and Tupac, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates… and in the marketing world, the rivalry is between MQL deniers and apologists. ABM In Action: Let’s just jump right in here — how did this rumor get started that the MQL is dead?

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Optimize your Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) Strategy and Close More Sales

Only B2B

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. Usually, MQLs are the leads that have shown interest in various ways, like downloading content like ebooks, white paper, signing up for a company newsletter attending a webinar or online event. But ignoring MQL altogether is a costly mistake.

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Making the Most of Modern-Day B2B Marketing Automation

PureB2B

This may seem challenging, but it’s a possibility through the enablement of the modern-day marketing technology stack. When you examine the values and applications of marketing automation, it’s important to look at how it’s going to be used, who’s going to use it, and what the end goal is. Why Marketing Automation?

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How to Roll Back Closed Lost Opportunities to MQLs in HubSpot

SmartBug Media

Closed won opportunities are marked as customers, but HubSpot doesn’t automatically do anything to the lifecycle stage of a closed lost opportunity. Because these contacts’ lifecycle stage is still “opportunity,” marketers often forget about them. Custom HubSpot Processes. + Your MQL-to-opportunity rates will remain intact.

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Why CRM and Marketing Automation Need Each Other

Hubspot

Having the best of both worlds is the feeling you have when your company's marketing automation software and CRM work in tandem. When the two software work together, your company will convert more MQLs to SQLs and make more sales. In fact, marketing automation software can increase sales productivity by 14.5%.

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How to Reset HubSpot Lifecycle Stage After ‘X’ Amount of Time

SmartBug Media

NOTE: You need HubSpot Professional/Enterprise in order to leverage this feature. When you design a lead management process at your organization, best practice is to include service level agreements (SLAs) between marketing, sales, and business development to clearly establish expectations. Defining Marketing Qualified Leads.

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7 Tried & True B2B Marketing Automation Examples

Lake One

With marketing automation, you can serve the right content to the right person at the right time – at scale. And not to mention, it just might be my favorite tool in our marketing tech stack. . So, how does marketing automation apply in the real world? What is B2B Marketing Automation? Lead Scoring.