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3 ways to optimize your marketing funnel for driving revenue and leads

Martech

How should marketers approach the daunting task of reining in and improving the marketing funnel? What they discovered was that marketers need to understand all facets of the funnel and have data ready to make decisions. And through it all, keeping aligned with sales helps establish a feedback loop for continued optimization.

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

Only B2B

Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Must Read: MQL vs SQL: Which Lead Matter More & When? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. Sales Accepted Leads (SALs): MQLs that the sales team agrees to investigate further.

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How to fix the broken sales-marketing lead funnel

Martech

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. This is because sales prioritized their list over the leads you sent to them. It’s an illustration of the kind of scenario that can cause a deep divide between sales and marketing.

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Why Turning a Lead into an MQL is More Difficult Than Ever

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Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Jump Ahead What is an MQL? A lead becomes an MQL once they have met certain criteria such as engaging with social posts, downloading content, clicking through a CTA, or interacting with other marketing materials.

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Why Turning a Lead into an MQL is More Difficult Than Ever

Oktopost

Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Jump Ahead What is an MQL? A lead becomes an MQL once they have met certain criteria such as engaging with social posts, downloading content, clicking through a CTA, or interacting with other marketing materials.

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4 Tactics to Measure B2B Advertising Effectiveness

KoMarketing Associates

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. That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. So don’t stop at MQL. Track Every Dollar.

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Marketers: Beware of These B2B Display Advertising Mistakes

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Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Top Display Advertising Targeting Mistakes Getting your audience right is paramount to increasing conversion rates and spending efficiently. Only targeting upper-level management: The C-suite is busy.

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