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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

In the first sales and marketing executive review meeting I attended, there was a lot of flag saluting. In other words, marketing was complaining that sales were not following up on the tons of marketing-generated leads, and sales leadership was shooting back that the marketing leads just sucked.

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

In the first sales and marketing executive review meeting I attended, there was a lot of flag saluting. In other words, marketing was complaining that sales were not following up on the tons of marketing-generated leads, and sales leadership was shooting back that the marketing leads just sucked.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

So the waterfall concept is Inquiry > MQL > SAL > SQO > Close. Given the current state of the economy, I find companies in the industrial sector only recognizing SAL’s and SQO’s. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context.