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Intent Data: Beyond the MQL

Aberdeen

In a previous post, I gave a few examples of how to optimize the use of MQL’s as a starting point for qualifying opportunities. Now, for those of you with a taste of adventure, we move beyond the MQL and look at other ways to determine how an account’s behavior can be the equivalent or better of what an MQL represents.

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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. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Many marketers view MQL as flawed because less than 1% of these leads typically reach the final stage of the buying process, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll convert.

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Is Your Lead Really Sales Qualified? Here’s How To Tell

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Not only this, sales reps ignore 50% of the marketing leads according to a study by the TAS Group. Sound familiar?

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How to Assess the Relevancy of 3rd Party Intent Data

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Now, savvy marketers are turning to intent data to listen to their target audience. What is Intent Data? Intent data is time-based, information collected about a person’s activities which tell you the topics they are showing interest in or researching. How do I use intent data in practice? A Nascent and Confusing Market.

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7 Ways to Align Marketing and Sales Teams

Zoominfo

You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.” The following metrics will give you a good idea of how misaligned your teams currently are: Percentage of marketing-generated leads that sales follows up with.

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How to Leverage Social Intent Data for Email Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. Since we adopted Marketo in 2015, we’ve been nurturing our leads with weekly emails that provide educational content. This shift to intent-driven email campaigns has helped us dramatically increase our email performance and opportunity creation rates.

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How Metadata Fundamentally Changed My Approach to B2B Marketing

Metadata

Seriously: our lead-to-conversion rate increased by 15X and our cost per opportunity (CPO) went from $40k to $800. Here’s a closer look at my journey, why I joined the Metadata team, and how our users can realize Metadata’s total value. I ran demand and operations, so my job was simple: generate and optimize leads.