Act-On

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Marketers are creative, constantly looking for new ways to reach their target market and get results. But we’d argue that small marketing teams like yours must be even more creative … because you don’t have a huge internal team to back you up. How Small Marketing Teams Can Drive Engagement at Scale Superfans.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Between tracking the buyers journey, engaging multiple decision-makers and ensuring marketing and sales alignment, the process can quickly become overwhelming. Add manual follow-ups and the sheer volume of leads, and its clear why many businesses struggle to optimize their sales operations.

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Biznology

AUGUST 19, 2015

Following my last blog on lead qualification, I received some great comments and several questions as to whether lead qualification differs for trade show leads. Yes, it does, and here is a revision of my last blog specifically addressing trade show lead generation and qualification.

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markempa

MARCH 18, 2012

Tweet A couple of weeks ago, I presented an American Marketing Association webcast , “ The One-Two Punch of Effective Lead Engagement: Accurate Lists and Powerful Content” (a replay of the webcast is posted below). These questions hit on key challenges in lead nurturing today. How to define a lead.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has left no stone unturned to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in marketing. From data-driven campaigns, automating processes, and optimizing social media strategies, your marketing efforts can be tripled using AI. AI prompts aren’t rocket science.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. At the same time, the real engine driving CRM and keeping prospects moving through the sales funnel is technology. The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 31, 2025

In B2B marketing, generating high-quality leads is only half the battle. The real challenge lies in converting those leads into paying customersand this is where marketing and sales alignment becomes critical. To prevent stalled opportunities, B2B companies must prioritize marketing and sales alignment.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. Well, for starters, inbound prospects, by definition, choose themselves as leads. What is Inbound Lead Generation? Outbound Lead Generation. Unfit Leads.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Real-time alerts: Lets you know the moment a lead meets key criteria. Behavior tracking: Updates lead details in real-time based on their actions. AI integration: Enhances lead qualification with advanced tools to save time and effort. Automate your email marketing campaigns with AI Everyones inbox is floodedthese days.

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Inbox Insight

OCTOBER 8, 2019

52% of marketers say they provide salespeople with their best quality leads, while salespeople rank marketing-sourced leads last. Now’s the time to scrutinize your lead qualification methodology and understand what a ‘quality lead’ really looks like from both a marketing and sales perspective.

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MarketJoy

MAY 16, 2025

There are various tools to help all aspects of the lead generation process, from customer relationship management (CRM) systems to lead-nurturing software, making your work easy and growing your leads as uncomplicated as possible. A power tool for advanced search, lead recommendations, and direct messaging.

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SnapApp

JUNE 5, 2018

Sales teams are spending too much time working leads that aren’t ready to buy, or don’t have any to work at all. This lead qualification is a major problem for many B2B organizations. Here are 15 lead qualifications stats and takeaways that might make you rethink your lead generation approach.

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They tackle much of the heavy lifting in Salesforce.com (or other CRM systems) and continuously optimize processes to make lives easier for sales reps and managers, giving them more time to focus on what they do best – sell. As the main point of contact for the sales operations team, they’re the first to know when things go wrong.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Agentforce represents a quantum leap in AI automation for customer service, sales, marketing, commerce, and more. Get started The evolution from Einstein Copilot to Agentforce Earlier this year we released Einstein Copilot, which has now evolved into an Agentforce Agent for customer relationship management (CRM). Proactive action.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Opportunity. Evangelist.

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Single Grain

APRIL 29, 2025

Key Takeaways Companies with structured lead-to-sale processes achieve 50% more sales while spending 33% less than organizations without systematic approaches, making this process essential for sustainable growth. At its core, this process bridges the gap between marketing and sales, creating a cohesive revenue-generating system.

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Orange Owl Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

B2B Marketing Chatbots in B2B Marketing: How They Are Transforming Business Strategies Vivek Goel March 6, 2025 Share : Table of Contents Introduction In today’s digital-first business landscape, companies are constantly seeking innovative ways to engage prospects, streamline processes, and improve customer experience.

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Only B2B

JULY 24, 2024

State of Sales report revealed that- A Sales representative spends only 28% of their time on actual selling, with the rest being consumed by administrative tasks, including lead qualification. To meet targets and drive growth, it’s crucial to focus on identifying and converting Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2020

Now, as a marketer, I get it. Having the best of both worlds is the feeling you have when your company's marketing automation software and CRM work in tandem. In fact, marketing automation software can increase sales productivity by 14.5%. CRM and Marketing Automation.

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DiscoverOrg

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Sales has others.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the first article on marketing analytics , I discussed the best-practice processes involved in the review, assessment and continuous enhancement of sales lead generation programs to achieve improved results. Scores of X+ went to sales, and scores of <X came to PointClear for lead qualification and lead nurturing.

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Outgrow

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What Is Lead Qualification [Types + Process + Tools]. Leads are as essential to a business as water to a plant. If you envision your business growing, you must pay attention to generating leads. The problem arises when the leads that you generate don’t have the potential to be converted. Calculators.

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markempa

JANUARY 27, 2010

Tradeshows and events are still being used consistently by B2B marketers for lead generation. With that in mind, Roger Lewis has some useful tips on how to improve your lead management strategy with from tradeshows. Lewis emphasizes how vital lead capture is to the lead management process.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers. Through consistent processes, leaders derive quick insights on how its sales organization attacks their market. Related blog: How to Manage Expectations Around Marketing Vanity Metrics.

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markempa

APRIL 30, 2019

At this stage, you’re moving them from being a lead to a sales qualified opportunity. This is where the hand-off from marketing to sales takes place and where people ultimately make the buying decision. The best marketers approach their work as a portfolio manager would run their mutual fund. Think about it.

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SendX

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Gauging your prospects buying intent is what prospecting is all about and when you can access all this data from the comfort of your CRM, your work is pretty much taken care of. More importantly, without sales intelligence, the leads flowing into your pipeline are baseless, unfiltered and require way too many resources to clean out.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

First party intent data is collected from internal marketing teams via your company website, automation platform, or other in-house applications. According to a Gartner study, by the end of 2022, more than 70% of B2B marketers will utilize third-party intent data to target prospects. Refine Lead Qualification.

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markempa

AUGUST 13, 2009

Ask most executives and marketers what sales people need to sell in this economy and they will say, "more leads." " So their lead generation focuses on getting MORE leads to their sales team but I've found that sales people really don't want more leads. Start lead nurturing now!

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SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

Through extensive persona development and by building out a Buyer’s Journey, marketers can start identifying high-priority leads and begin forecasting lead generation metrics for the upcoming year. Here are five lead generation benchmarks that every marketing team should track month over month: 1.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MARCH 5, 2024

That means sales teams need to hone in on the highest quality leads to make their numbers. That’s where lead qualification comes into play. What you’ll learn: What is lead qualification? Learn more What is lead qualification? This process is often a team effort between marketing and sales.

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Outgrow

MAY 19, 2025

Quizzes are best for engaging, segmenting, and converting top-of-funnel traffic with up to 40% conversion rates , while calculators excel at bottom-of-funnel lead qualification by providing personalized, actionable data. The 2025 marketing landscape increasingly favors a full-funnel optimization! What Is a Marketing Quiz?

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Too often MAPs are associated with tactical email nurturing and simple lead qualification — tactical use cases that dominate immature platform deployments. billion in 2019. billion in 2019.

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ClickZ

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With a fast-approaching, cookieless future ABM needs to move beyond lead qualification based on form fills and start exploring more avenues that are intent rich. As a marketing stack, technological advances in account-based marketing (ABM) have enabled marketers to capture and apply the “intent” of prospective buyers.

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The Point

MAY 31, 2011

A client asks: “On every registration form, we give prospects the option to request contact from a sales rep. Currently the form reads: [Yes/No radio button] I would like to have a sales representative contact me.”. First, think of giving people the option to request contact as a lead qualification device.

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Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2025

With multiple selling reps under its belt, an AI agent learns, refining their lead qualification and engagement strategies. Best for: Sales teams looking to reduce administrative workload, improve lead prioritization, and gain AI-powered insights to enhance their selling strategy. Benefits of AI Sales Agents 1. AI never sleeps.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. Well, for starters, inbound prospects, by definition, choose themselves as leads. What Is Inbound Lead Generation? Sales agrees!

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