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Why Marketing Best Practices May Sabotage Your Results

NuSpark Consulting

In 2005, HubSpot gave birth to the concept of inbound marketing , which was all about attracting people to your company with informative content, search-engine-optimization and social media marketing. The goal was to fill the sales funnel with many leads, then filter them down to the golden nuggets — the sales qualified opportunities.

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Why Sales Needs Social Media Engagement Insight

Oktopost

“No matter what you do, don’t pass your leads directly to the sales team’ – Jon Miller, Marketo. It’s fantastic when marketing gets a good number of leads and passes them over to sales to ultimately convert into Sales Qualified Opportunities and finally closing a sale.

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41 Execs Discuss Key B2B Marketing Metrics to Watch in 2018

SnapApp

This answers the question: "Is the opportunity pipeline increasing or decreasing in size?". . This answers the question: "What percentage of leads are sales-qualified?". . Opportunities by Lead Source. This answers the question: "Which lead source drives the most amount of opportunities?". . Kyle G Bradley.