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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

Lead to Revenue Journey: Inquiry to marketing qualified lead (MQL) MQL to tele-qualified lead (TQL) TQL to sales accepted opportunity (SAO) SAO to sales qualified opportunity (SQO) SQO to Closed Won or Closed Lost Closed/win rates c. Average days per sales stage d.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

Lead to Revenue Journey: Inquiry to marketing qualified lead (MQL) MQL to tele-qualified lead (TQL) TQL to sales accepted opportunity (SAO) SAO to sales qualified opportunity (SQO) SQO to Closed Won or Closed Lost Closed/win rates c. Average days per sales stage d.

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The Marketing Revenue Accountability Roadmap

Ledger Bennett

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. Is the sales cycle shortening? Is ACV going up?