Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? While MQLs don’t translate to immediate revenue or even pipeline contribution, the value isn’t equivalent to open rates, page views, and the like. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2023

When it comes to lead generation and new customer opportunity qualification, many businesses have traditionally relied on the waterfall approach which leverages the concept of a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Wondering why the percentages are so high? Customer Qualification Cycle: MQL vs. SQL.

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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? Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing.

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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. Table of Contents What Is a Lead List? Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

But not entirely unlike when a colleague sends you a link to a gated ebook, you give your contact info to download it, and then get a phone call from a sales rep the same day. Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. For marketing and sales teams, that handoff is a potential minefield. How does lead scoring work?

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Biznology

JULY 5, 2018

If you are in marketing, you are used to handing off your leads to the sales team and hearing two complaints back: First, the leads are no good. Such is the relationship between sales and marketing. And part of the reason is the two definitions of exactly what a lead is. Second, there aren’t enough of them.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 14, 2020

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Add to that the fact that many prospects are cancelling face-to-face sales meetings as companies mandate social distancing. These SDR/BDR teams need lead flow in order to do their jobs.

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Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. Measure Content’s Impact on Lead Qualification & Scoring. Overall, this will slow down your sales team.”

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Unbounce

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Leads are potential customers that can turn into sales and profit for your business. But leads aren’t all alike. Splitting your leads into marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and sales qualified leads (SQLs) helps you sort them so you can best nurture each relationship.

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MarketJoy

MARCH 24, 2025

Your sales team is always on the hunt for leads, but only a few convert from leads to business? This is a classic pain point for all B2B companies: how to populate their sales pipeline with leads that are actually qualified and do convert. What Are B2B Lead Generation Services? Sound familiar?

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 23, 2019

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. At better-aligned organizations, you’re likely having conversations about improving the conversion rate of your leads.

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Single Grain

APRIL 29, 2025

Yet, across industries, organizations struggle with lead conversion rates averaging just 3-5%. The difference between thriving companies and those merely surviving often comes down to how they made their lead-to-sale process not only effective but also efficient and adaptable.

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Martech

MAY 6, 2025

In large B2B companies, marketing and sales teams continue to operate in silos, resulting in wasted resources and missed opportunities. Marketing complains that sales ignores their hard-earned leads. Sales complains that marketing leads are garbage. Qualifies them through scoring. Sound familiar?

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The answer lies in lead nurturing—a process that not only broadens your reach but also ensures that leads are continually engaged and guided through every stage, ultimately leading to higher conversion rates. The Importance of B2B Lead Nurturing Multiple decision-makers. Lead nurturing is about delivering value.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What is the difference between lead generation and demand generation? A broken marketing funnel, wasted budgets, and frustrated sales teams. Demand generation and lead generation are not the same. Meanwhile, the lead generation captures that interest and turns it into potential revenue. What is Lead Generation?

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FunnelEnvy

APRIL 14, 2025

The top of the funnel (TOFU) sets the foundation for successful B2B lead generation. Its where potential customers first engage with your brand, making it a crucial stage in shaping lead quality. Addressing these weaknesses is essential for improving lead quality and maximizing return on investment.

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Televerde

JUNE 2, 2025

Lead generation should never be a guessing game. Today, high-performing sales and marketing teams rely on data to fine-tune their efforts, cut waste, and focus only on what works. To optimize lead generation, you need more than access to data. Use behavioral data to prioritize leads showing real interest.

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 17, 2025

The real challenge is converting those visitors into Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) prospects with enough interest and engagement to be nurtured into sales opportunities. Without a strategy to qualify and capture MQLs, businesses risk losing high-intent prospects who may leave the site without taking action.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2016

Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that nurturing leads is essential to maintain a digital connection with buyers who want to learn about a business pain, product, or service—but who are not yet interested in talking to a sales person. But can the sales impact of nurturing be quantified?

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Aberdeen

APRIL 13, 2020

In a previous post, I gave a few examples of how to optimize the use of MQL’s as a starting point for qualifying opportunities. Now, for those of you with a taste of adventure, we move beyond the MQL and look at other ways to determine how an account’s behavior can be the equivalent or better of what an MQL represents.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether you’re pursuing an inbound or outbound marketing strategy, lead generation is a constant struggle. Nestled within that challenge is an even more daunting task: finding enough qualified leads. Any good B2B marketing campaign will attract the attention and leads but at different stages of the funnel.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 2, 2017

Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that nurturing leads is important. The reason: it’s essential to maintain a digital connection with buyers who want to learn about a business pain, product, or service—but who are not yet interested in talking to a sales person. The results were striking.

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Sage Marketing

APRIL 27, 2025

Want to generate leads faster? HubSpot workflows can automate and simplify B2B lead generation. From nurturing leads with email sequences to re-engaging inactive contacts, these 10 workflows help you save time and focus on high-priority prospects. Marketing-to-Sales Handoff : Streamline transitions between teams.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the past, we’ve discussed three key measurements: Volume based metrics (the change in amount at any given stage i.e. # of leads). Conversion rates (output / input i.e. MQL rate). Sales cycle times (measure of time for state i.e. # of days from opp creation to close). You have a very green sales development team.

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Lead Forensics

JUNE 20, 2025

Born from traditional advertising methods such as TV commercials or billboards, outbound lead generation has evolved over time and taken on digital forms. Outbound marketing describes any activity where you initiate contact with a prospect. What is an Outbound Lead? What Are the Main Types of Outbound Lead Gen?

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And every customer is a “converted” lead. But, not all leads will convert. That’s where marketing qualified leads, or MQLs, come into play. You might be asking, “What exactly is an MQL?” “How How do you identify an MQL?” and “Why do MQLs matter?” What is a marketing qualified lead (MQL)?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. Research shows the average sales team ignores 50% of marketing leads ( source ). A bad lead?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 28, 2020

For most inbound campaigns, success is measured by the number and quality of leads generated. 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. Overall Contact Growth.

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Lusha

JUNE 13, 2023

Sales qualified leads are beloved by salespeople everywhere. What is a sales qualified lead? What is a sales qualified lead? A sales qualified lead (SQL) is someone who has passed the first stage of lead generation as a marketing qualified lead (MQL).

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Lusha

JUNE 13, 2023

Sales qualified leads are beloved by salespeople everywhere. What is a sales qualified lead? What is a sales qualified lead? A sales qualified lead (SQL) is someone who has passed the first stage of lead generation as a marketing qualified lead (MQL).

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Are your leads ready for market? The age-old conflict between sales and marketing appears to always come down to one thing: leads. While marketing teams have historically been judged on the amount of demand they drive, sales teams are frequently seeking for more quality prospects to sell to. Lead Scoring And MQLs.

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SmartBug Media

MAY 12, 2023

One of the most interesting and useful methods of reporting is done by breaking down your contacts by lifecycle stage and the date they converted to that particular lifecycle stage. Lifecycle stages are a contact property that demonstrates where your contacts are in the marketing funnel. What are leads, MQLs, and SQLs?

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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? Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing.

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Rev

MARCH 29, 2023

That’s exactly the case with MQL and SQL. We know that MQL stands for marketing qualified lead, and SQL stands for sales qualified lead. What is a marketing qualified lead? What is a sales qualified lead? MQL vs. SQL MQLs and SQLs are both leads.

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