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

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Fortunately, knowing the right strategies and a few expert tips will help ensure sales success. An SQL is a lead that has expressed enough interest in your brand that they’re ready to move into your sales process. In all likelihood, an MQL that gets a hard pitch would disappear or go to a more helpful competitor.

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Gartner: Create Buyer Enablement Tools to Win More

The ROI Guy

Gartner says that today’s customers are spending around two-thirds of the buying journey gathering, processing and de-conflicting information. As the complexity grows, good sales reps still play a vital role, helping buyers find the signal through the noise.

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How to Use Intent Data to Identify Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Win More Deals  

Only B2B

According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. be What is Intent Data and How Does it Help Identify Sales-Qualified Leads?

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Five ways business buying is changing: Ignore these at your peril

Biznology

Comparison sites in the mold of TripAdvisor and Yelp have entered the B2B buying process, especially in crowded categories like software and services. You’ll find ratings sites like TrustRadius , Capterra (now owned by Gartner), Clutch.co A new entrant is Globality’s platform that helps large enterprises buy services.

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts low IT spending growth for 2016

The ROI Guy

Gartner recently published their latest worldwide IT spending forecasts, and with a likely economic slowdown on the horizon, are projecting an anemic 0.6% And Gartner is predicting that by 2020, as much as 90% of IT spending could be driven by the business. YoY increase from 2015. Why Change Now?

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Decoding Customers: B2B Buyer Personas Advanced Insight Strategies

FunnelEnvy

Buyer personas help you map out their needs and preferences at each stage. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a significant catalyst for adopting remote and automated sales processes. Gartner and McKinsey both report that, in general, B2B buyers prefer a DIY sales journey over sales calls and conversations.

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts 5.5% decline in IT spending for 2015

The ROI Guy

Gartner recently published their latest worldwide IT spending forecasts with a sharp downward revision, now projecting a 5.5% This latest estimate from Gartner is a further downward revision of the overly optimistic forecast published to kickoff the New Year, where Gartner was anticipating a 2.4% YoY decline from 2014 levels.

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