Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 5, 2023

The main goal for Marketing in B2B companies is to generate leads for sales teams and increasingly to deliver direct revenue. Some marketers define anyone who fills out a form or attends an online or physical event as a lead. And we accomplished this by focusing on giving sales what they wanted: truly qualified leads.

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Inbox Insight

MARCH 13, 2024

Effective lead prioritization is essential. With limited resources and increasing competition, it’s crucial companies focus their efforts on quality leads that are most likely to convert into high value customers. For many businesses this has led to growing frustrations and wasted marketing and sales efforts.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profiles Demand Generation 52

DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, if a user searches and reads an article about “cloud computing” and “big data,” that means that they have an interest in, and potentially the intent to purchase, services related to those topics. Opening and/or engaging with emails with subject lines and body content that indicate possible purchase intent.

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Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

Manufacturing lead generation is a perennial top priority for most manufacturers. To thrive, these companies must consistently attract qualified leads to fuel their sales pipelines. For more on these challenges, see my earlier blog post, “Industrial Lead Generation for Sales – It’s Complicated!”

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markempa

JULY 6, 2017

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Here’s why: First, B2B lead conversion to actual revenue conversion is low. According to Forrester, top performers convert 1.54% of leads to revenue. And average performers turn less than 0.75% of leads into closed deals.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

The B2B lead generation landscape is constantly evolving, and 2023 is no exception. Applying the right lead generation tactics throughout the entire year can make all the difference in ensuring an organization meets its business goals. Looking to elevate your organization’s lead generation through content marketing?

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cutting through competitive noise is difficult for B2B marketers, making lead generation tricky. Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. Intent data is your key to simplified B2B marketing lead generation. Final Thoughts What is Intent Data?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. Let’s break that down.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 21, 2022

Intent data is a set of behavioral and search signals to help marketers and sales professionals understand potential customers’ likelihood to purchase a product or service. According to surveys, an average B2B prospect is 67% of the way through the purchase experience before connecting with a salesperson.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 3, 2022

But among all sales roles, the one most essential to a company’s profitability is the lead generator. Sometimes companies keep lead generation teams in-house; sometimes they outsource lead gen efforts to a third-party company. How’s My Lead Gen Looking? Unsure whether your lead gen methods need a tune-up?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether you’re pursuing an inbound or outbound marketing strategy, lead generation is a constant struggle. Nestled within that challenge is an even more daunting task: finding enough qualified leads. Any good B2B marketing campaign will attract the attention and leads but at different stages of the funnel.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 25, 2024

For the past eight years, NetLine’s annual analysis of B2B content consumption and demand has stood as a lighthouse for marketers navigating the stormy waters of content strategy and lead generation. Getting your lead to move from warm lead to closed-won business requires patience. So what did we learn from this?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2020

If you ask most sales and marketing teams what their ultimate goal is, you can pretty much guarantee that they will say it is generating more leads and conversions. After all, if you have more leads coming in, then you’ll have more conversions too, right? This is why a good lead scoring system is so important.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads Account Based Marketing 272

Only B2B

JUNE 14, 2023

B2B Intent Marketing is a strategic approach that involves identifying and leveraging intent signals to capture high-quality leads. B2B Intent Marketing: Capturing Business Leads Understanding the Buyer’s Journey and Intent Signals The buyer’s journey is a critical aspect of B2B Intent Marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 11, 2020

Lead generation and nurturing often take center stage for digital marketers. As a result of excessive focus on lead generation or lead nurturing, marketers might be ignoring an important factor that is hurting conversions further down the funnel: Call-to-Actions or CTAs. The placement of CTA buttons is incredibly important.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You might have a fantastic product and the perfect sales pitch, but none of that matters if you don’t have leads who might want to buy what you’re offering. For B2B marketers, finding new and promising leads is a never-ending challenge. 60% claim that marketing personalization plays a key role in improving lead quality.

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The quest to understand and engage potential leads with precision and relevance is a linchpin for success. Enter the realm of data enrichment – a transformative practice redefining how businesses perceive, interact with, and convert B2B leads.

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DemandBase

MAY 7, 2020

Dear Sales Friend, Once, It was all about the form fill for lead generation. My entire universe once revolved around “the lead.” Back then, sales reps lived and died by the lead. We would tell ourselves that however hard it was to chase a lead, at least it beat cold calling. The days of qualifying leads are over!

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Schubert B2B

JUNE 23, 2023

Did you know that 89% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn for lead generation? And 62% say that the platform generates over 2 times more leads than the next-highest social channel. The good news is that anyone can turn the platform into a lead-generating machine. Let’s get started! Look no further. Choose ‘all filters’.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

ZoomInfo’s streaming intent tool lets your team know when buyers are searching for solutions like yours — the moment they start searching. That way, it allows you to capture surges in purchase intent with web activity from companies searching for your business in real-time. VIDEO] Exactly how does intent data work?

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RDIGS

MAY 25, 2023

Data-driven strategies have evolved to become an absolute necessity for companies who want to create high-quality B2B leads. You need to embrace the power of B2B data to make informed decisions and tailor your approach if you want to generate high-quality B2B leads. B2B Data can help you do both.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

ZoomInfo’s streaming intent tool lets your team know when buyers are searching for solutions like yours — the moment they start searching. That way, it allows you to capture surges in purchase intent with web activity from companies searching for your business in real-time. VIDEO] Exactly how does intent data work?

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Binary Demand

MARCH 26, 2024

increase since March 2020, signifies a major change in how we perceive B2B intent data. The reason is that businesses recognize a fundamental truth that purchasing decisions aren’t solely made by companies. This realization underscores the immense value of understanding the intent of these individual decision-makers.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cutting through competitive noise is difficult for B2B marketers, making lead generation tricky. Lead generation is proving difficult for 68% of B2B companies, and 61% of marketers pinpoint it as their top challenge. Intent data is your key to simplified B2B marketing lead generation. Final Thoughts What is Intent Data?

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Intent Data Lead Gen Intent Lead Scoring 62

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While this approach can generate traffic, it often fails to convert them into leads and sales. Moreover, it brought us 19 highly qualified leads and 10 conversions to opportunities from it. Potential risk alert: If you create lists of competing companies in your niche, be prepared to hand them leads. Get more leads.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 5, 2018

How is it different from a lead list? True sales intelligence needs to include both information on the account, such as reporting structure, budgets and, technology install base data; as well as intelligence on the individual prospects, like job responsibilities, verified contact data, and predictive indicators around purchase intent.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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Sales Management Lead Management Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 120

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By re-aligning your marketing efforts with your audience’s needs, you can generate quality leads and turn them into paying customers. Our Approach A shocking 63% of marketing professionals say their biggest challenge is driving traffic and generating quality leads. Identify the target mix of the best 50-100 keywords.

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Martech

JUNE 15, 2023

Purchase intent segmentation: Segments are based on individuals who show high purchase intent according to their online and offline behavior. Lead generation: For some businesses, the goal might be to generate leads.

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Porch Group Media

JULY 14, 2020

According to research by the NRF , 90% of parents say their children influence their purchase decisions. This purchase influence does not just extend to products or services specifically for the child. Online videos lead the pack at 24% with social media posts (19%) and TV adverts (19%) also ranking highly.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 31, 2024

Understanding Koala Unlike traditional methods that rely on generalized data and assumptions, Koala provides an in-depth understanding of individual accounts’ intentions and behavior. Benefits Galore Precision Targeting: Koala enables marketers and sales teams to target accounts accurately.

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DealSignal

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For example, if a user searches and reads an article about “cloud computing” and “big data,” that means that they have an interest in, and potentially the intent to purchase, services related to those topics. Opening and/or engaging with emails with subject lines and body content that indicate possible purchase intent.

Intent Data 52

Intent Data Intent Marketing Automation Services Ideal Customer Profiles 52

DealSignal

MARCH 2, 2024

Recent surveys have shown that retargeted ads are 70% more likely to convert users into paying customers, bringing back around 26 percent of those who left mid-purchase. Intent data can be used to build a solid, wide-reaching retargeting and remarketing strategy.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We’re entering a new era where personalization reigns supreme and the key to unlocking its potential lies in a powerful tool: intent data Think of B2B intent data as the secret sauce that unlocks a deeper understanding of your prospects. What is Intent Data, anyway? Implicit Intent: This is where things get interesting.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 13, 2022

When potential buyers conduct research, such as website visits, product reviews, or content downloads, they indicate some intent to purchase products or services. For example, if a prospect account searches “what is B2B marketing software,” you can infer that they have relatively low purchase intent.

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