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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

Only B2B

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid.

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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. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Many marketers view MQL as flawed because less than 1% of these leads typically reach the final stage of the buying process, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll convert.

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Maximizing social media ROI with Social intent data and Oktopost

Oktopost

Social media channels provide organizations with a communication channel they can participate in directly. But being strategic about your brand’s activity on social media means not just figuring out when to post, what to post about, and how to get your team engaged. What is social intent data?

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Lead Generation vs Lead Qualification: The Dynamic Duo of Sales Success

Only B2B

But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more]. And what creates the curves and turns in the journey is- marketers and salespeople focusing on the vanity metrics like: Impressions and clicks. Outreach volume (calls, emails, social media) Session duration and bounce rate.

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ANNUITAS Predicts – How Go-to-market Will Transform in 2024

ANNUITAS

But whether we are talking about well-thought-out ‘growth marketing’ programs or haphazard ‘inside-out,’ interruptive go-to-market tactics, random acts of marketing and sales are at a breaking point. Our ability to succeed through haphazard marketing and sales acquisition efforts is rapidly coming to an end.

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4 Ways to Nurture Prospect Relationships and Close More Deals

Oktopost

Hitting targets and meeting sales quotas has become harder for most sales teams over the past year. The impact of the economy has slowed down the pace of B2B sales, leaving sales teams wondering how to meet their KPIs. So, in order to efficiently guide prospects to closed-won, nurturing relationships is key.

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Optimize Your Buyer’s Journey: A Data-Driven Approach

ClearVoice

Every transaction and conversion comes after a journey of discovery that can take days, weeks, or even months. Understanding your buyer’s journey and pain points can help expedite the sales process and find new customers. Tracking your engagement rate can help you identify what is and is not working.