Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Jump Ahead What is an MQL? Marketing Strategies That Will Help You Gain More MQLs So, how do you get your MQLs to pick up the pace again and move down the funnel?

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SmartBug Media

JULY 26, 2019

How do you know when a lead is ready to be handed off to sales? What makes the difference between a marketing qualified lead (MQL) and sales qualified lead (SQL)? An MQL is primarily a contact that is sales-ready, but is not yet ready for direct, personal attention from sales. Create an SLA.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Lead Scoring 84

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Rev

JULY 12, 2023

Yes, just one hour to follow up with leads and secure the best chance of speaking to key decision-makers and converting them into customers—at least, that’s what a study from the Harvard Business Review found. Low-quality leads make their way to sales, and some of the most qualified leads fall through the cracks.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter.

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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. When the two software work together, your company will convert more MQLs to SQLs and make more sales. CRM and Marketing Automation.

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Martech

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Marketing has always been challenged to demonstrate impact on pipeline and revenue — and it hasn’t gotten easier. Success metrics have evolved beyond impressions, opens, and click rates, with privacy changes like Apple iOS 15’s open-blocking feature pushing marketers to rethink impact measurement.

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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Lead generation for B2B has undergone quite a transformation. Gone are the days when gating all content to meet quarterly MQL KPIs was effective. But have we deviated too far from sustainable lead generation practices and become too reliant on pay-to-play databases to fuel outbound initiatives? Contradiction? Let’s explore.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. 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. These behavior-based buying signals are a goldmine for your sales and marketing teams.

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MKT1

JUNE 5, 2023

“The marketing funnel is dead,” they say. I agree the marketing funnel isn’t exactly funnel shaped–it's sort of an hourglass. So, I still strongly recommend B2B marketing teams map their funnels. But all things go-to-market will fall better into place once you do it. I don’t agree.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

As marketers are asked to move ever faster, it’s easy to abandon anything that’s not active doing. These benefits extend to the management of marketing projects in a big way. Now, let’s delve deeper into how exactly each of these stages manifests in our daily marketing work. Plan-do-check-act in Agile Marketing.

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Televerde

APRIL 26, 2021

Despite all the sales strategy, planning, technology, and analysis, many companies still struggle to nail down concrete cost and value per lead. Below you’ll find a few solutions to calculate the value of leads — whether MQL or SQL —based on things like cost, quality, source, and more. How to Calculate the Value of Your Leads.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads Cost per Lead 93

Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Imagine this: Your agency has created a clear and effective digital marketing plan. For digital marketing agencies, driving campaigns is only half the battle. Knowing how they categorize and evaluate leads. Examining lead stages and conversion criteria. In short, you’ve done nothing at all.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the key aspects of gaining an edge is the efficient management of leads. This is where Automated Lead Qualification steps in as a game-changer. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the intricacies of Automated Lead Qualification, demystifying its key components, benefits, and challenges. The result?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 26, 2018

The other day I was talking to yet another marketing operations manager who has “a duplicate problem*” and “just needs a one-time dedupe job.” (“*Duplicates”—multiple records for the same person and/or company in CRM/Marketing Automation platforms.) Now you have two Anns in your CRM! account and opens an opportunity.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

When you design a lead management process at your organization, best practice is to include service level agreements (SLAs) between marketing, sales, and business development to clearly establish expectations. One of the line items you may want to include in that SLA is how long a lead can sit in each stage of your funnel.

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Lead Liaison

JULY 15, 2020

Qualifying Leads by Lifecycle Stage. Defining Marketing Qualified Lead, or MQL, can be a slippery process because companies, departments and individuals can have very different viewpoints as to what really makes a prospect and MQL. Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL).

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PureB2B

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The Marketing Qualified Lead Dilemma. To some, this may seem obvious, but the current lead generation process is flawed. As marketers, you spend countless hours nurturing leads and fixing campaigns only to have leads still not convert through the funnel. Making Lead Generation Agile.

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PureB2B

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The Marketing Qualified Lead Dilemma. To some, this may seem obvious, but the current lead generation process is flawed. As marketers, you spend countless hours nurturing leads and fixing campaigns only to have leads still not convert through the funnel. Making Lead Generation Agile.

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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. Marketing Qualified Leads.

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6sense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Contents: What is lead qualification? Who is a qualified lead? An information qualified lead (IQL). A marketing qualified lead (MQL). A sales qualified lead (SQL). A product qualified lead (PQL). Unqualified leads. Lead disqualification.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? And when taking a deep look at marketing results, we were a bit surprised that the data actually helped to diagnose asales problem. While we were pleased with the lead generation effort, the sales resulting from those leads were disappointingly low.

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The Marketing Blender

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The 11 undeniable benefits of marketing automation for B2B sales and marketing teams. How automation can transform your B2B marketing effectiveness and results. These days, when most consultants and gurus talk about technology transforming marketing, automation is what they’re referring to. Contact Us.

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GreenRope

JUNE 1, 2020

3 Smart Ways to Empower Your Emails with CRM Data. By setting up your email automations correctly using key email marketing strategies, you can avoid embarrassing brand blunders. WHAT IS CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM)? HOW CAN DATA FROM YOUR CRM INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR EMAILS?

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

I understand that generating high-quality SQLs is crucial to your job as a business owner or marketer. Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. LEADS ARE GREAT, BUT NOT ALL LEADS ARE CREATED EQUAL.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

When you design a lead management process at your organization, best practice is to include service level agreements (SLAs) between marketing, sales, and business development to clearly establish expectations. One of the line items you may want to include in that SLA is how long a lead can sit in each stage of your funnel.

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Golden Spiral

JANUARY 18, 2022

Open and integrated communication between your marketing team and the sales team will make a difference in your organization. In recent years, synergy between marketing and sales has been dubbed Smarketing —the process of integrating marketing and sales processes to obtain a common, integrated approach. Work smarter, not harder.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. 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. As it turns out—neither team is wrong.

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is the value of a lead if it cannot be converted into a sale? In the past, a “lead” was defined as someone willing to pay for something you have. But in today’s highly digitized world, competition is fierce, and leads are practically a dime a dozen. It is no longer about getting a lead, it’s about getting the right lead.

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Cost Per Acquisition is the amount you spend to acquire a new lead or make a sale. Did we miss any?

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The business functions that support your entire customer journey—marketing, sales, and customer success—should all be aligned in their goals and processes. Ultimately, a revenue operations team works to bring together your sales, marketing, and customer-facing departments to collaborate and integrate. What Is Revenue Operations?

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 26, 2023

Companies use B2B data to understand other firms better, make better decisions, develop new business prospects, and support marketing and sales teams. This is especially a boon for mid-market B2B companies that seek accurate and cost-effective data solutions. It is critical to have accurate information on your prospects and leads.

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Vision6

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Lead scoring is a strategy that businesses can use to sort and prioritise potential customers. This is done by giving each lead a specific score based on engagement levels, implementation time, and available budget. The higher the score, the more likely a lead is to become a customer. What is the lead scoring process?

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thePoint

AUGUST 24, 2020

We have arrived at the #5 thing I believe every CEO should know about marketing. In case you are new to the series, you can find #1 – #4 ( The “Ante” , Not all marketing is the same , B2B buyer journey , and B2B website purpose ) in our blog. #5 just wanting “sales ready leads”). just wanting “sales ready leads”).

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Valasys

MAY 22, 2019

B2B companies thrive on the idea of tapping into several niches so as to discover their potential customers, evaluating their potential as leads for their product or services & finally guiding them through their sales funnel to convert to sales. According to a study by Salesforce.com, CRM can improve customer retention by up to 27%.

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ActiveDEMAND

MARCH 25, 2020

Pro Tips: Top 6 Things You Can Automate When You Connect ActiveDEMAND with Zoho CRM. Connecting marketing and sales gives both groups what they need to be successful: Sales get better quality leads and marketing back up where they need it. Marketing gets better buyer persona and conversion data to sharpen their campaigns.

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