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Report: Why Demand Marketers Should Expand their Focus Beyond the Lead

The Point

The MQL is dead. When Account-Based Marketing (ABM) first arrived on the scene, vendors were quick to pronounce traditional, funnel-based marketing obsolete. One fixture of B2B marketing for more than a decade is the lead funnel, brought to prominence by the analysts at SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester.)

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Optimize your Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) Strategy and Close More Sales

Only B2B

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Many marketers view MQL as flawed because less than 1% of these leads typically reach the final stage of the buying process, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll convert.

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How to fix the broken sales-marketing lead funnel

Martech

You’ve worked hard to turn the engagement from your recent marketing campaign into leads. Once your suspects have become prospects who’ve finally reached the scoring threshold, you toss the leads over the proverbial wall for sales to work. Later, you learn that after an initial push, your warm marketing leads have gone cold.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 248: Q & A with Kelley Hippler @forrester

Heinz Marketing

This week’s show is called “ How Forrester is applying the SiriusDecisions frameworks both within the organization and across the revenue engine to drive results ” and our guest is Kelley Hippler , Chief Sales Officer at Forrester. She is the Chief Sales Officer for Forrester. Or, every week, excuse me.

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Lessons in Buying Group Marketing – Learning to dance with your sales team

Martech

While Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a key strategy today, going forward, B2B marketers will take a more holistic view. While ABM blankets your key accounts with messaging, BGM targets the specific people involved in purchase decisions at your key accounts. So, Penny steps in and guides Baby from behind while Johnny leads.

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The Rise in Popularity of Target Account Activation

Full Circle Insights

In the mid-2000s, marketers began using the original demand waterfall framework to gain insight on marketing’s performance in terms of leads at the top of the funnel, marketing-qualified leads (MQLs), sales-accepted leads (SALs) and closed/won business. A Practitioner's Guide to ABM . Save this eBook for later.

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Forrester Report: AI Will Enable B2B Marketers To Deliver Customer-Driven Engagement At Scale

PathFactory

That’s the question at the heart of an October 2018 report by Forrester: AI Will Enable B2B Marketers To Deliver Customer-Driven Engagement At Scale. Forrester defines AI as “the umbrella term for a variety of techniques and technologies for collecting, applying self-learning statistical techniques to, and acting on data.”