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3 Ways Interactive Content Drives Shorter B2B Sales Cycles

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Businesses today know that the longer it takes to close the sale, the greater the chance is of losing prospects to the competition. In addition, a longer sales cycle requires more time and resources. Today, quality content alone no longer drives the high conversion rates that once helped shorten sales cycles.

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Conversion of MQLs to SQLs by Integrating Sales and Marketing Efforts

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At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). A large percentage of marketing efforts and resources are wasted when sales and marketing teams are not synchronized. Sales Funnel.

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B2B Lead Generation 101

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At this stage, your major focus should be on answering their problem or alleviating their pain point, rather than attaching the objective to a sale. Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL’s) are clients that have been reached via your marketing efforts but have not yet been contacted by a salesperson.

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Know Your Numbers: The Top Metrics for B2B Inbound Marketing

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Here, the most common examples include someone signing up for your email newsletter or filling out a form to download a longer lead magnet such as an eBook or white paper. Sales qualified leads (SQLs) are the next step beyond an MQL. Knowing your pipeline size can help for a few reasons. Source: HubSpot.

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A Not-So-Boring Guide on B2B Demand Generation

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It’s crucial to measure, track, and predict each of these touchpoints because this is what a sophisticated demand generation program is all about: Making sure that customers have the right information at each of these points to help sway them in favor of purchasing what you have to offer. The 5 key tactics of B2B demand generation.

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Asked and Answered: Which Opportunity Scoring Model is Better & Why

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When it comes to lead generation and new customer opportunity qualification, many businesses have traditionally relied on the waterfall approach which leverages the concept of a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL). ” I wrote this post because I’ve been asked this question by other companies seeking to optimize pipeline management.

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The Trick to Increased Revenue: Better Sales Lead Qualification Criteria

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In one of our recent posts, “ 4 Steps to Change the Game on Sales-Qualified Lead Performance ,” we define sales qualified leads as: “…prospects that have indicated a serious interest in purchasing your products or services. This is a little different than a marketing qualified lead, or “MQL.”