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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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Lessons in Buying Group Marketing – Learning to dance with your sales team

Martech

More of a dance than a race, marketing is evolving to look at the entire lifecycle and how to care for the customer relationship at each phase. As part of this evolution: Buying Group Marketing (BGM). It does this through carefully crafted buying group personas and delivering custom campaigns to buying team members.

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Forrester Report: 3 Pillars of B2B Marketing’s New Mission

6sense

To wrap up 2015, Forrester Research, Inc. published a report looking ahead to what they believe will be B2B marketing’s new mission in 2016. The report highlights new marketing strategies, predictive analytics, marketing automation tools and content messaging.

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13 Email Workflows You Should Be Using in Your Marketing Automation

Hubspot

If you don't have any automated email workflows set up, your answer is probably the latter -- which means you're missing out on some major opportunities to nurture and engage your existing contacts. Lead nurturing campaigns aren't the only type of email marketing automation you can use to get more out of your contacts database.

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5 critical leadership skills every marketing ops pro needs

Martech

Simply communicating about the MQL to SQL process between teams. To excel in marketing ops, you must possess a strong understanding of marketing analytics , be excellent at discerning valuable insights and communicate those findings in an impactful and concise manner.

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The New B2B Demand Waterfall

Directive Agency

If you’ve been in the Marketing Operations or Revenue Operations world for a while, you’re probably familiar with demand waterfalls. The original demand waterfall was published by SiriusDecisions (now part of Forrester) back in the early to mid-2000s. Now, there’s another version… released last year under the Forrester brand.

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Crawl. Walk. Run. A Phased Approach to Developing an Account-Based Strategy

Engagio

If you would test the water before jumping in or test drive a car before you buy, then why wouldn’t you take the same approach when looking at the potential of overhauling your go-to-market strategy? Adjust your definition of MQLs and MQAs. Not everyone who shows interest in your product or service can be an MQL.