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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

The Point

Content marketing is dead. * The MQL is dead. Change in marketing is an evolution, not a coup. Email, as one example, plays a very different (and less dominant) role in the marketing mix than it did only a few years ago, having migrated from acquisition to nurture and customer marketing.

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Conversation Ready Leads

B2B Marketing Analytics

During one of the implementations, I stumbled upon a question related to lead scoring algorithm performance particularly in terms of driving sales efficiency. It prompted me to start thinking about levering the insights from customer journey mapping for optimizing lead scoring algorithms.

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Map Lead Generation Targets to Financial Goals For Campaign Success

Strategic-IC

How can you ensure your marketing campaigns will deliver ROI? To achieve lead generation and revenue targets, it's important to first map those targets back to clear, realistic goals. When planning a marketing campaign, it’s the Marketing Director’s responsibility to ensure the strategy will deliver on financial goals.

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Sales Follow-up of the MQLs – Overlooked Part of Marketing Analytics

B2B Marketing Analytics

Whether it is lead scoring , database management, or reporting around the performance of the MQLs, marketing teams spend a lot of time and energy at continuously optimizing the performance of MQLs with the sole purposes of driving higher MQL to opportunity conversion.

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Top ABM Metrics You Should Be Tracking

Heinz Marketing

Amongst this dilemma, attribution, lead scoring models, click-through rates, MQLs are often some areas of controversy and friction between sales and marketing teams. Activity-based scoring and scoring them to drive it towards an MQL doesn’t give a full picture of someone’s activity, let alone the entire buying committee.

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Cohort Demand Waterfall Conversions – The Framework

B2B Marketing Analytics

While the B2B marketing analytics and the associated KPIs span across the funnel from awareness to demand generation to pipeline acceleration, Marketing ROI , there is one set of metrics that is top of the mind across marketing teams especially the ones with more matured analytics competencies. SQOs to Deals.

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The Marketing Blender

These are called “marketing qualified leads” or MQLs. When MQLs are nurtured to the point where interest triggers a conversation with a salesperson who validates they are able and interested in making a purchase, they become a “Sales Qualified Lead” or an SQL. Cost-per-marketing qualified lead (MQL).

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