Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Exo B2B

APRIL 5, 2018

We could be more specific and talk about personas… MQL: Marketing qualified lead: the prospect on which it is justified to spend money and resources to maintain it and lead it in its purchasing cycle. SAL/SAO: Sales Accepted Lead-opportunity: A “mature” MQL to be taken care of by someone from sales.

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Ledger Bennett

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As much as this notion of Sales and Marketing Alignment has been pushed, accept it as demand era thinking that at best creates a scenario yielding little more than efficient, contextualized MQL hand-offs, and Marketing still left haggling for revenue attribution. Rethink Your Key Metrics. Is your pipeline full of ICP prospects?

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