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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. Usually, MQLs are the leads that have shown interest in various ways, like downloading content like ebooks, white paper, signing up for a company newsletter attending a webinar or online event. But ignoring MQL altogether is a costly mistake.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 248: Q & A with Kelley Hippler @forrester

Heinz Marketing

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. She is the Chief Sales Officer for Forrester. And the beginning of this month was the Forrester B2B summit, which is a new version of what was always known as the SiriusDecisions summit.

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The Rise in Popularity of Target Account Activation

Full Circle Insights

But the original waterfall tracks campaigns and activities associated with a person, and B2B marketers are selling to buying groups, not individuals. Forrester developed a new B2B Revenue Waterfall based on ABM, and it illustrates why generating MQLs is no longer Job #1 for marketers — target account activation is.

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Important KPIs to measure sales and marketing alignment

Conversica

Forrester Research reports that 74% of business buyers conduct more than half of their research online before making an offline purchase. Furthermore, a Topo blog post on best practices for building a revenue machine cites a SiriusDecisions poll of 300 sales leaders that found: “The top third of the sales cycle has gone away.

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Bridging The Sales and Marketing Gap

PathFactory

Top industry analysts like Forrester have been following this disconnect for years, and found that highly aligned companies grow 19% faster and are 15% more profitable. Marta gets a few email addresses of people who read her blog post, then she tosses those leads over to Sally the Salesperson who takes it from there.

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13 Email Workflows You Should Be Using in Your Marketing Automation

Hubspot

Did you know that B2B marketers who implement marketing automation increase their sales pipeline contribution by an average of 10% according to a report by Forrester ? 2) Blog Subscriber Welcome Workflow. Main Trigger: Subscription to Your Blog. Give your brand new blog subscribers a nice, warm welcome with a blog welcome email.

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I Wanted to Convert on Your Landing Page, But I Couldn’t. Here’s Why.

Unbounce

Sales teams want sales qualified leads (SQLs) who are ready to buy. But when MQL and SQL goals collide , it gives visitors whiplash. You know the adage, people love to buy but hate to be sold to. Why not let me buy from you on my own terms? I’m not on the hook to buy from you or give a reason for leaving early.