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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

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What sales and CEOs care about are qualified opportunities—real deals involving real decision-makers. Just like marketing, sales has very limited resources, mainly measured as selling time. What sales wants and needs to do justifiably, is to work and close real deals—not vet through hundreds of “leads.”

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B2B Demand Generation Best Practices: 7 Critical Success Factors

DealSignal

What sales and CEOs care about are qualified opportunities—real deals involving real decision-makers. Just like marketing, sales has very limited resources, mainly measured as selling time. What sales wants and needs to do justifiably, is to work and close real deals—not vet through hundreds of “leads.”

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Making Sense of Marketing Acronyms: Part 1

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KPI (Key Performance Indicator) The metric(s) used to track and measure the success of your goals and objectives. PQL (Product Qualified Lead) A lead who has shown interest in your product and is likely to buy. SQO (Sales Qualified Opportunity) A potential customer who has shown interest and is ready to move forward with a sale.