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MQL vs. SQL: What Are They How Do They Help You Sell?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Imagine the marketing team as the first runner. They’ve sprinted hard, nurturing each lead with care and precision, and now they’re holding the baton of customer interest. If handled poorly, the lead can slip right through your fingers and you lose the deal. What is a sales qualified lead (SQL)?

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Know Your Numbers: The Top Metrics for B2B Inbound Marketing

FunnelEnvy

Numbers are key in any kind of marketing. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of confusion among marketers today about what numbers are the most important to track. The huge expansion of the marketing technology sphere over the last decade has led to the creation of all kinds of statistics that may or may not be relevant to your business.

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B2B Lead Quality: Guide to Reducing Lead Rejections and Accelerating Sales

Inbox Insight

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. Reading time: 4 minutes Why is Lead Quality the key area of focus for Demand Generation?

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How to Pick the Winning Horse: B2B Lead Quality

Inbox Insight

Determining what a quality lead looks like to not only prioritize these but effectively nurture them is a key area of focus for the majority (40%) of B2B marketers in 2022. Effective lead generation comes down to quality rather than quantity – though ample high quality leads is undoubtedly the ultimate aim.

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The 3 Essentials of a Successful Qualified Leads Program

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Qualified leads would ultimately receive more attention—the sales rep might play 18 holes with them to help close the deal. But with the way modern customers conduct online research prior to purchasing, the human interaction aspect of qualifying leads has all but disappeared. A solid definition of “lead”. What’s a lead?

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The New Sirius Decisions Waterfall (and New B2B Marketing Acronyms)

Digital B2B Marketing

If you measure or benchmark B2B demand generation activity across sales and marketing, one of the best benchmark resources just received a major facelift and a number of improvements. Benchmark conversion rates for each source provide an additional support point for marketers moving towards inbound marketing.

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What Is Sales? The Career of Champions

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Some inside sales reps use purchased contact lists from third-party companies or lists generated by their own marketing teams based on people who have taken action on the website or engaged via email or social media. Instead, their job may be to qualify a lead and turn it over to an account executive who will continue the nurturing process.

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