Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The Heart of Growing Conversion Rates," 2008): Best in Class Average % higher Inquires to Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) nearly 10% 3.9% Eloqua “ The Business Case for Integrated Demand Generation ” offers data from Forrester, CSO Insights and several Eloqua clients. 16% % firms w/lead to first call conversion > 50% 48.7%

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Marketing Qualified Leads 120

The Effective Marketer

JUNE 1, 2012

Make sure that you have documented (yes, written somewhere so that everyone can see) a few important definitions such as: What is a lead (and expand it to include MQL, SQL, SAL and any other relevant lead stages)? How and in which stage will marketing hand leads off to sales? Grande Guide to Lead Nurturing , by Eloqua.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Automation Work Management 100

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

There is something of an irony at work here in that the MA offerings focus on generating inbound leads, and it’s a requirement that MA vendors need to supplant their own functionality with huge investments in outbound lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing if they want to achieve enterprise-level, complex sale success.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

PathFactory

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As marketers, our collective definition of the marketing qualified lead (MQL) is an important one. Yet most lead qualification models don’t allocate scores based on a person’s actual level of self-education or interest. Traditional lead scoring models don’t take time into account. And that’s a big problem. But then what?

Lead Ranking 45

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Leads MQL 45

Markempa

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

So, my history before Nudge was Eloqua, in the marketing space, obviously, it’s a space you’re very familiar with, you’re working a lot with marketers. So, my history before Nudge was Eloqua, in the marketing space, obviously, it’s a space you’re very familiar with, you’re working a lot with marketers.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel B2B Sales Eloqua B2B 52

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

So the waterfall concept is Inquiry > MQL > SAL > SQO > Close. So the waterfall concept is Inquiry > MQL > SAL > SQO > Close. Given the current state of the economy, I find companies in the industrial sector only recognizing SAL’s and SQO’s.

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Envy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

If the SDR/BDR “sits with” marketing, the criteria to become an MQL or SQL will be somewhat looser in order to ship over to sales as quickly as possible. If the SDR/BDR “sits with” sales, the MQL acceptance criteria will be far more stringent.

Lead Ranking 95

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Leads 95