Martech

JUNE 4, 2024

If you spend any amount of time among the B2B marketers on LinkedIn, you’re familiar with the arguments for and against lead generation and demand generation. Lead generation is a well-entrenched growth strategy, especially among the marketers at large enterprise organizations. Their growth was built on a lead gen model.

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Are your leads ready for market? The age-old conflict between sales and marketing appears to always come down to one thing: leads. While marketing teams have historically been judged on the amount of demand they drive, sales teams are frequently seeking for more quality prospects to sell to. Lead Scoring And MQLs.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Leads sent to nurture : Number of cold leads you engaged and added to your nurture program. Funnel metrics Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) : Number of leads that an email converts from engaged to marketing-qualified.

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Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The answer is high-quality leads. Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. High quality leads can not only boost conversion rates and customer loyalty but also significantly reduce marketing costs. What makes a lead high-quality?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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MKT1

JUNE 5, 2023

“The marketing funnel is dead,” they say. I agree the marketing funnel isn’t exactly funnel shaped–it's sort of an hourglass. So, I still strongly recommend B2B marketing teams map their funnels. I don’t agree.

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Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

In the demand generation, marketers use a mix of active strategies (webinars, email marketing, paid ads) and passive strategies (content marketing, SEO, podcasting, social media marketing) to capture prospects’ interest in making a purchase. Lead generation and qualification.

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Televerde

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the best ways to smooth out and accelerate that journey is through lead qualification. Without an effective lead qualification process, your sales and marketing teams could be wasting valuable resources on unqualified leads. Lead scoring is an important part of the lead qualification process.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It’s 2018 and virtually all marketers understand the importance of adding video content to the buyer’s journey. Which is why you need to integrate video into your lead scoring models and associate the right scores to the right videos. In other words, what video should we score higher?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. A recent study found that such alignment brings 208% more value from marketing with 108% less effort. Marketing efforts also generate leads.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

ROI is measured along a cycle that could span weeks or months depending on your industry and business model. This post will provide some strategic tactics marketers can use to better measure B2B advertising effectiveness, and provide a list of KPIs expert marketers are measuring to help them hit their ROAS goals.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is the value of a lead if it cannot be converted into a sale? In the past, a “lead” was defined as someone willing to pay for something you have. But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. Challenges Associated with MQL. It was that simple.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is the value of a lead if it cannot be converted into a sale? In the past, a “lead” was defined as someone willing to pay for something you have. But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. Challenges Associated with MQL. It was that simple.

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Marketri

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Which are most critical to measuring, monitoring, and optimizing your marketing? They mostly focus on lead generation (a top objective for many B2B companies), but they’re also high-level indicators of how well your marketing is contributing to your business goals. The key is to establish the right criteria for an MQL.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With the right metrics, you can build more effective campaigns, budget more accurately, and correctly calculate your ROI. Program metrics may be of the most interest to marketers. They indicate what kind of impact your content is making, where your leads are coming from, and how reliable your data is. Conversions per Activity.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perhaps it’s the lingering disillusionment with data-driven marketing, once celebrated as the most groundbreaking trend since I started my journey in B2B marketing 15 years ago but now facing scrutiny ( ”Why are my leads not converting ?!” ). Effectively running always-on, full-funnel campaigns.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 27, 2017

During the last week of December I asked a panel of experts for feedback on our Leads to Revenue Calculator. The above graphic is a sample from our Lead to Revenue Calculator. It’s about honestly and objectively understanding your best way to go to market, determining who has what role, then executing together.

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Belkins

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Qualifying Leads For Appointment-Setting Success. MQL, SQL…Some people who are only starting with their B2B marketing efforts are probably thinking that appointment-setting involves complicated programming languages. Worry not, you won’t need lots of software to score at appointment setting.

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Stevens & Tate

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once your buyer has been made aware of their problem, searched through your content, and become a lead, their true “shopping” experience begins. Drip email marketing and lead generation , however, have a mutual independency on one another for a successful marketing campaign. Lead Nurturing Campaigns.

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Your Content Management System is the mothership running your content marketing campaigns, helping you plan, create, manage, and publish effective content. Cost Per Acquisition is the amount you spend to acquire a new lead or make a sale. Cost Per Click tells you how much it costs to get one person to click on your paid ad.

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The Point

JANUARY 27, 2016

Demand Gen Report just published “ Top B2B Marketers Measure Lead Nurturing Effectiveness to Boost Performance ,” a special report in which they address the whys, whats, and how tos of measuring lead nurturing’s true impact. Most of our clients follow the SiriusDecisions waterfall model (MQL, SQL, etc.),

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Terminus

JULY 27, 2021

We live in a world obsessed with leads. Does sales really care about the magnitude of leads marketing generates? Let’s break this down to see if leads have the impact that we’ve been brainwashed to believe. What Even Is a Lead? Basically, a lead is anyone who shows an interest in your offering.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this webinar recap of “How to Improve Demand Generation with a Creative Video Strategy,” we’ll be exploring how you can increase organic traffic, subscribers, conversion rates, views, and the effectiveness of your next video with our panel: Taylor Biggin from Vidyard , Scott Schilling from Brandlive , and Kristina Argiroff from Rybbon.

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Brandpoint

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the most important lead generation tactics you have at your disposal is your website. If you’re looking to boost your lead generation efforts, your website is one of the first places to start. Here are some common lead generation mistakes organizations make with their website and how you should fix them.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Whether it is lead scoring , database management, or reporting around the performance of the MQLs, marketing teams spend a lot of time and energy at continuously optimizing the performance of MQLs with the sole purposes of driving higher MQL to opportunity conversion.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 27, 2015

What’s the right way to follow up on content to turn leads into sales conversations? Before we get into best practices on content marketing follow-up, Marketing and Sales must be on the same page regarding their lead definitions. The missing step is the conversion of an MQL into an SAL. Nurture, nurture, nurture.

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thePoint

AUGUST 24, 2020

There are certainly many areas where marketing and sales should learn to effectively understand needs and agree on desired goals and outcomes. However, I believe there is one key definition that subtly and yet so definitively will decide how effective these two groups will be in winning for your company. Click To Tweet.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

To help fully achieve your desired business goals, you must track KPIs effectively. Which are the crucial senior sales and marketing metrics? Increasing your senior care occupancy rates is very important in this industry, so here are five crucial metrics that you should track so you can hit that goal: Increase your number of MQLs.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the realm of B2B marketing, building a high-quality and targeted list of quality leads is paramount. B2B list building is the foundation upon which successful B2B lead generation campaigns are built. Secondly, automation accelerates the process, allowing businesses to generate B2B leads at a faster pace.

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Envy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Using LinkedIn's lead generation tools smartly can set your company apart in a crowded cyber security ecosystem. If you are interested in how much you need to invest in your PPC budget and what kind of return you can expect, you should check out our shiny new Cyber Security Marketing Campaign Benchmarks Report.

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InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At Winning by Design, we help implement Sales as a Science by applying the scientific method to all areas of the customer journey which is, in many ways, the kaizen approach to GTM (go-to-market). This direct insight leads to effective coaching and drives the continual refinement of the process as a whole.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . With so many tools out there, marketers are now able to measure anything. . . But, it seems to have had the opposite effect. . “In God we trust. Edwards Deming. .

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. In 2022, lead generation was established as the foundation of most organizations’ growth strategies, with a reported 50% of marketers ’ emphasis on lead generation, making it a top priority.

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to sales—marketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. This limited view of marketing negatively impacts revenue growth and efficiency —both short and long term.

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Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding the key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics associated with B2B demand generation can be a pivotal factor in the success of your marketing efforts. Measuring key marketing metrics also allows for reliable and accurate reporting to senior managers and stakeholders, and to deliver this with confidence.

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Lead Forensics

MAY 14, 2024

They have become masters at using marketing automation and their digital strategies continue to grow in sophistication. Amazon continues to be a leading light in this field, showing how marketing automation can help turn a company into a slick selling machine. They can work just as effectively for B2B businesses.

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Martech

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the keys to implementing a successful BGM strategy requires a fundamental paradigm shift in how you market. As Forrester reinforces in the New Tech report, “sales and marketing must come together to identify and prioritize buying groups for effective ABM.”. How does this relate to Buying Group Marketing?

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