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What is Lead Scoring for Marketing and What Are the Benefits?

Act-On

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. For marketing and sales teams, that handoff is a potential minefield.

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Key Differences Between MQL and HQL for B2B Lead Generation  

Only B2B

Did you know that only 5-10% of marketing qualified leads (MQLs) convert into paying customers? This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team?

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The Basics of Lead Scoring and Grading in Pardot

Heinz Marketing

Yet, one of the most interesting features that I have been playing around with is lead scoring and grading. Essentially, this automation assigns values to your prospects to further segment and understand their intent. In my opinion, I believe every B2B organization using Pardot should implement lead scoring to some extent.

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Set Yourself Up for Lead Scoring Success

Heinz Marketing

By Lisa Heay, Marketing Planning Manager at Heinz Marketing. Lead scoring is defined as a shared sales and marketing methodology for ranking leads in order to determine their sales-readiness. Organizations who implement lead scoring often experience lower marketing costs and higher conversion rates.

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Mapping Personas in Your Marketing to Maximize Value

Speaker: Samantha Stone, author of “Unleash Possible: A Marketing Playbook that Drives Sales”

We rely on titles, company size and industry to define personas – but there is so much more! It’s a fatally flawed approach that leads to lackluster results. We use Personas for messaging but then lose steam and focus regarding the segmentation part of our strategy.

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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. But ignoring MQL altogether is a costly mistake. Let’s delve into the complexities of converting B2B leads into MQLs.

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How to Measure the Success of Lead Generation

Zoominfo

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. So, yes, MQLs matter.

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Customer-Centric Websites: Successful Strategies to Engage B2B Buyers

Speaker: Kellie de Leon, Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, The Mx Group

Chances are, you’re under the gun to convert more leads from your website. And wouldn’t it be great to see some real-world examples from B2B companies that are doing it successfully? You'll walk away with insights and examples from effective B2B websites, including: What “customer-centric” really means (and what it doesn’t!).

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7 Winning Lead Generation Strategies to Drive Growth

As B2B companies pivot to keep pace with a quickly changing marketplace, a data-centric approach to lead generation can be the difference between remaining competitive or being left behind. In this whitepaper, you’ll see real-world examples from leading B2B businesses and learn new ways of using data to: Improve lead quality.

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Lead Gen and Engagement: Find your Marketing Sweet Spot

Speaker: Dawn Colossi, CMO, FocusVision

A shift is occurring for B2B Marketers. We were measured by the number of leads we generate. Over time, we’ve become much better at measuring conversion rates and lead quality. But as a B2B Marketer, what does engagement mean? How do you show value to the business? How can you get there?

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.". B2B organizations struggle with bad data. The primary takeaway? Forrester found “only 1.2%

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The Marketer’s Guide to B2B Swag Strategy

Plus, amidst a barrage of advertising messages that tend to interrupt and distract people, swag is the only marketing medium that consumers actually thank companies for! Smart companies are realizing tremendous business value by implementing a swag marketing strategy – so, are you ready to get started?