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Market Validation: The One Step You Can’t Afford to Skip

Vision Edge Marketing

It meets all of your opportunity and accessibility criteria. To that we say, “Whoa, Nelly, market validation comes first.” Simply defined, market validation helps determine whether the market and/or customer segment you’ve decided to target will be receptive to your solution. You decide to leapfrog the validation step.

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Social lead validation—the missing ingredient from most inbound LinkedIn marketing programs

Biznology

All sales leads are not equal. I know this is something that most sales and marketing leaders understand and it’s why they put lead qualification and validation into most of their sales, marketing, and lead generation programs. Of those 350,000, about half—178,000—were actual sales leads.

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Your Solution Strategy Is Desperate for Validation

Mereo

A major lack of validation. Before you engage resources and release funds, your teams must take some simple but vital steps toward validating your strategy. With that comes a number of questions to validate a new solution delivery system: Does your technological infrastructure and skillset support these initiatives?

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How To Get The Handoff To Sales Right: Why First-Party And Validated Buyer-Level Data Is Essential For Effective Qualification

NetLine

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information. That handover process between marketing and sales is crucial.

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Top 3 Tips on How to Validate, Calibrate Marketing Automation

ViewPoint

The problem is that the scoring algorithms are infrequently validated or calibrated. You already know how many inquiries or deals you get per 1,000 emails, but do you know the opportunity cost of using email only? In most companies, leads are sent to the sales force too soon. There are many more, of course.)

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What Is Bottom-of-Funnel Marketing? Validating the Purchase

ClearVoice

Marketing activities late in the funnel work to validate the buyer’s purchase through decision-enabling content that helps late-stage buyers confirm their choice and avoid buyer’s remorse. With anyone in the BoFu stage, botching communications or missing opportunities can very well mean that your entire team jeopardized the sale.

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Lead Generation That Converts Leads into Sales Opportunities

markempa

Unfortunately, as little as 5 to 15% of all marketing inquiries (aka leads) turn out to be truly sales-ready opportunities. Marketers who really want to help Sales perform better will focus on higher-quality leads, which have better odds of converting into pipeline opportunities and customers. 1 challenge. 1 challenge.