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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. This one caught me by surprise.

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4 Key Variables for Calculating Sales Velocity

Martech Advisor

There are four key metrics needed to calculate your sales velocity: length of the sales cycle, number of qualified opportunities, average deal size, and win rate. The formula for calculating your sales velocity is: To dive into your sales velocity strategy, let’s explore these four metrics.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

A common misconception about B2B demand generation is that it’s the same as lead generation for a particular product or service. Quality via Conversion Rates How efficiently are Marketing Sourced and Marketing Influenced leads converting to Sales Qualified Opportunities and to revenue? What Is Demand Generation Marketing?

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

A common misconception about B2B demand generation is that it’s the same as lead generation for a particular product or service. Quality via Conversion Rates How efficiently are Marketing Sourced and Marketing Influenced leads converting to Sales Qualified Opportunities and to revenue? What Is Demand Generation Marketing?

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41 Execs Discuss Key B2B Marketing Metrics to Watch in 2018

SnapApp

This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. . Now, you’d think this would make measuring B2B metrics easier. The Top 10 B2B Marketing Metrics to Measure in 2018. .

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The Marketing Revenue Accountability Roadmap

Ledger Bennett

As much as this notion of Sales and Marketing Alignment has been pushed, accept it as demand era thinking that at best creates a scenario yielding little more than efficient, contextualized MQL hand-offs, and Marketing still left haggling for revenue attribution. Is the sales cycle shortening? Refocus from ABM to URM.