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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

Only B2B

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid.

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B2B Marketing Trends: What to Expect in 2022

Zoominfo

Forrester predicts that “marketing leaders will turn to smarter (more autonomous and automated) solutions with complex tech stacks” — and we couldn’t agree more. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022. You give them air cover and ping it back to sales. a ZoomInfo partner.

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Drive growth with account-based marketing

Martech

This focuses on targeting top potential customers and uses both marketing and sales initiatives to capture the prospect’s interest and nurture them through the buying journey. 74% of B2B marketers say they are seeing customers taking more control over the buying process. a case study, additional zero-touch tactics/assets, etc.)

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How to Generate Leads with Your Digital Marketing

SmartBug Media

Lead generation is broken down into sets of marketing activities that correspond with stages of the buyers journey, starting with generating traffic, then converting visitors into leads, and eventually converting those leads into customers. You can run paid social ads on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and even Pinterest.

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Measuring Customer Experience for B2B Marketers

Oktopost

For B2B, this means buyers expect a personalized, well-developed, enticing customer experience (CX) from first learning of your brand until closing a sale. CX has become an intrinsic part of the B2B marketing funnel. CX is how your leads and customers see your brand throughout your funnel. What makes your CX stand out?

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Content + Intent Data: Informing Content Based on Interest

Content4Demand

If an account is showing high interest based on topics, it could qualify or score high enough to become an MQA for sales to further qualify. Intent also can help sales significantly—for example, if the sales team has a large number of accounts in their territory, intent can help prioritize those accounts for them.

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Redefining ABM: What It Isn’t and What It Needs to Be

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You can see this when you look at the inclusion criteria for a Forrester or Gartner report on ABM Platforms — it reads like a Demandbase features list. B2B companies went all-in on ABM without understanding if they had the sales-marketing alignment and budget to run ABM campaigns and actually make them work. ABM is expensive.