Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 12, 2016

Joe started by highlighting a few problems that marketing organizations are facing today—a sharp decay curve in their subscriber’s interest and attention, the fact that the MQL (marketing qualified lead) is subjective and therefore “eating” marketing, and that inbound is a long-tail strategy that takes a while to fully demonstrate its ROI.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

Generating leads that aren’t a fit for your company’s solution can ruin the selling process , not to mention cause disruption between sales and marketing. These aren’t prospects, just noisy data points that either inflate or deflate metrics within your sales funnel. This is where sales funnel awareness is important.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

Unfit Leads Generating leads that aren’t a fit for your company’s solution can ruin the selling process, not to mention cause disruption between sales and marketing. These aren’t prospects, just noisy data points that either inflate or deflate metrics within your sales funnel.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MARCH 5, 2024

While there are other, more detailed ways to qualify a lead, you can generally disqualify them if those two factors aren’t met. This process is often a team effort between marketing and sales. Done well, sales lead qualification helps your teams prioritize which deals to pursue so they can use their time wisely.

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