The Point

JUNE 23, 2020

The MQL is dead. When Account-Based Marketing (ABM) first arrived on the scene, vendors were quick to pronounce traditional, funnel-based marketing obsolete. One fixture of B2B marketing for more than a decade is the lead funnel, brought to prominence by the analysts at SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester.)

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In our last piece in this series, we talked about the downsides of sales and marketing misalignment. Let’s talk about how to align sales and marketing on a common strategy. We’ll cover topics like defining a target audience, setting shared metrics and definitions, and buttoning up technology and processes. Enough of that!

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The demand generation tactics of yesteryear are no longer enough, especially if you’re strapped for resources and leadership is asking you to drive more pipeline. You can’t do that if you’re solely focused on MQLs. So, what’s the opposite of tracking MQLs and holding on to demand gen tactics of the past?

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 20, 2022

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. They want to control the process, which often means doing their own research. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Funnel metrics enable you to measure velocity and compare results.

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Vision Edge Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2020

While many companies aspire to have a customer focus, the Hotjar’s State of Customer Experience report revealed that only 12% of the responding companies identified themselves as being extremely customer focused. As a supplier or partner you’ve done a good job integrating your processes with ours. Let go of the outdated sales funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The lead qualification process helps B2B marketing teams focus their efforts and resources on serious buyers and prospects that are likely to take the next step. In this article, we’ll explain the lead qualification process step-by-step. Why is the lead qualification process critical to marketing success? But first, the why.

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Rev

JULY 26, 2023

Frozen, slashed, cut, trimmed, tightened—no matter which word you hear, this is what happens to demand gen budgets in the current economic environment. Our budgets are roughly 75% of what they were in 2022,” reports Kendrick Shuler, Outbound Marketing Manager at Tipalti. Yet we still have very similar lead goals.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Full Circle ABM is the first martech solution that gives B2B marketers the power to measure funnels in an account-based marketing context inside the CRM. This enables closer alignment between the sales and marketing teams and facilitates tighter collaboration on account targeting, which is critical for B2B success.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. In the study, reps gave customers six tubes of toothpaste — a trivial offering. As a rule, the gift increases and matches the opportunity value the further you go down the funnel.

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. In 2022, lead generation was established as the foundation of most organizations’ growth strategies, with a reported 50% of marketers ’ emphasis on lead generation, making it a top priority.

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Inbox Insight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Organizations with aligned Sales and Marketing teams generate more than 200% revenue growth from marketing tactics, experience 24% faster growth in revenue, and are over two-thirds (67%) more effective at closing deals ( MarTech Alliance ). With this in mind, what key tactics can be used to encourage B2B Sales and Marketing alignment?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. 5 Ways to Facilitate Better Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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Top Rank Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2024

In our 2023 B2B Influencer Marketing Report , 93% of the marketers we surveyed said they’re being pushed to prove their ROI. Of them, nearly a quarter reported a “significant increase” in pressure. Here’s how you can build a solid structure for measurement and measure top, middle and bottom of funnel objectives.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

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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Sales Engine

AUGUST 19, 2015

I have a friend in sales who continuously argues with me over the definition of what a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL). As a salesperson, he simply cannot understand how someone that’s not qualified, but demonstrates interest by clicking on a link or downloading a report, can be counted as a qualified lead by any means.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, for those of us deeply immersed in the day-to-day realities of managing B2B marketing audits & campaigns, the nuances between theory and practice are as profound as the gap between your MQL and SQL conversion rate (ouch). Effectively running always-on, full-funnel campaigns. Honing SEO skills.

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MKT1

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With the complexities of go-to-market motions, funnel mapping, and tooling, I understand why this is the case—but it’s definitely something you need to fix! And every marketing, growth, sales, and ops leader has a different recommendation on how to measure success and what tools to use.

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Full Circle Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What are the qualities of great B2B lead management? Some B2B marketers took a major budget hit, while many marketing departments redirected dollars to digital programs. B2B teams can use this opportunity for a reset so they can achieve great lead management. A Well-Defined Process. It’s an important question.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 7, 2016

Sales and marketing alignment has been overused because many B2B companies are still operating with an outdated model where marketing builds branding and awareness and sales books appointments. If that describes your company’s current sales and marketing process, then yes, alignment is just a buzzword.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The funnel, when properly primed, is a well-oiled machine that can pull in leads and convert them into customers in an organized and efficient manner. The funnel gives your marketing team tools to help identify when leads become qualified and ready to deliver to the sales team. How to maximize marketing efforts and sales time.

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Have overarching strategies and detailed tactics to drive growth, including recommendations on new product development. But they do have to be managed by someone. The most recent Gartner CMO Spend Survey fueled even more speculation, reporting that marketing budgets declined to a record low of just 6.4% They didn’t.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 8, 2020

Shifting to the B2B space, I was surprised by the lack of reporting, tracking, and reporting options available in many of the tools. Calculating funnel stage Percentages. I also recommend monitoring lead to MQL percentage, MQL to sales opportunity percentage, and opportunity to closed-won rate.

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Full Circle Insights

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The economic downturn caused by COVID-19 prompted many companies to cut marketing budgets. B2B marketers have redirected budget dollars previously earmarked for in-person events to digital ads instead, driving a 22% increase in spending on digital channels. Process efficiency is the other key to marketing success.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 27, 2021

SAN MATEO, Calif —July 26, 2021 —Today, the Business Intelligence Group named the Digital Source Tracker from Full Circle Insights Product of the Year in the 2021 Sales and Marketing Technology Awards program, also known as The Sammys. The company offers multi-touch attribution, comprehensive funnel metrics and lead management technology.

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Varicent

JULY 2, 2020

6 Essential Salesforce Lead Status Options That Align Sales and Marketing What is a Salesforce lead status? The purpose of the Salesforce lead status field is to give sales reps a way to communicate internally about their lead funnel in a consistent way. What are Salesforce lead status options used for?

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 9, 2020

With no future current participation, we’re seeing a lot of restructuring and planning going on in B2B marketing organizations, where marketing teams are thinking about ways to allocate more of their budget to reinvestments in digital marketing. But what’s the best way to re-plan our B2B marketing budgets?

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Full Circle Insights

APRIL 20, 2021

The share of marketers who report adopting an agile marketing approach has been growing , as we find that the pandemic accelerated implementation of agile techniques – with their budget-friendly and shorter project timelines. The Integrate marketing team monitors conversion rates at every funnel stage.

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Full Circle Insights

JUNE 22, 2021

According to a recent AgileSherpas survey, more than half of all marketers report that they use at least some agile methodologies, with more than a third reporting that the pandemic accelerated their move to agile marketing. Align more closely with colleagues in other departments, particularly sales.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

During uncertain economic conditions, business leaders are often forced to shift budgets amongst growth centers in the business. Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? While we were pleased with the lead generation effort, the sales resulting from those leads were disappointingly low. Only $22,000—ouch!)

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Sales Engine

JUNE 28, 2016

Let’s say you’re a local reporter, and you have been sent to a crime scene to interview witnesses and write a story. The scenario is similar for any quota-driven B2B sales team. The scenario is similar for any quota-driven B2B sales team. To keep their jobs, reps need to close as many deals as they can.

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Full Circle Insights

APRIL 15, 2021

Today, unconnected datasets are more likely to be described as “data silos,” but the essential problem is still the same: how to connect information to get a comprehensive view of a process, whether it be goods moving through a global supply chain or a digital customer journey that leads to a sale.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 12, 2021

In March 2021 , Full Circle Insights launched a new product bundle, Full Circle Enterprise, which combines the company’s popular Response Management, Campaign Attribution and Digital Source Tracker products. The company offers multi-touch attribution, comprehensive funnel metrics and lead management technology.

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PureB2B

JULY 6, 2022

A common challenge in the B2B demand generation world centers around the balance of automation and reporting software. Both of which are tools used in conjunction with your marketing campaigns, meaning your day is mostly full of software management instead of strategic planning. Streamlined Campaign Management.

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Full Circle Insights

MAY 10, 2021

Deloitte Insights report describes the economic effects of the pandemic as “a case of acute disruption,” noting that COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation as a matter of necessity. Lockdowns and social distancing protocols radically changed the way many marketing and sales teams do business, particularly in the B2B world.

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Full Circle Insights

JULY 13, 2023

About Full Circle Insights Full Circle Insights delivers marketing and sales performance measurement solutions to optimize a company’s marketing mix and drive more revenue. The company offers multi-touch attribution, comprehensive funnel metrics, and lead management technology.

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