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The State of Demand Generation

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MQL to SAL: 66%. Best Practice B2B Company Rates: Inquiries to MQL: 9.3%. MQL to SAL: 85%. Enable (help reps increase productivity, both for sales and marketing-sourced demand). SAL to SQL: 49%. SQL to Close: 20%. The numbers above mean that out of 1,000 inquiries, the typical organization will close 2.9 SAL to SQL: 62%.

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Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation

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Make sure that you have documented (yes, written somewhere so that everyone can see) a few important definitions such as: What is a lead (and expand it to include MQL, SQL, SAL and any other relevant lead stages)? Map out more complex nurturing flows based on different types of customers, products, and behaviors. Rinse and repeat.