Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B marketing, where competition is relentless, and digital marketing strategies continuously shift, the importance of Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) stands out like a guiding light. Generating More Qualified Leads with MQLs: A Pathway to B2B Success What Is Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)?

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the fast-paced world of the SaaS industry, 2023 has proved to be a challenging year. Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Beyond economic challenges, the SaaS industry is also facing the impact of the pandemic on the buyer’s journey.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The drivers behind BDRs and marketing coming together Traditionally, marketing teams take care of inbound lead generation and content creation. At the same time, BDRs focus on outbound lead generation and qualification of inbound leads. Marketing efforts also generate leads. Smoother customer journey.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the fast-paced world of the SaaS industry, 2023 has proved to be a challenging year. Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Beyond economic challenges, the SaaS industry is also facing the impact of the pandemic on the buyer’s journey.

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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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SmartBug Media

MAY 12, 2023

What are leads, MQLs, and SQLs? What is a lead? Typically, a lead has filled out a form with more than just an email address, often for some sort of content-based offer on your website. Companies use the lead lifecycle stage for general, broadly appealing, or top-of-the-funnel offers.

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Only B2B

MAY 18, 2023

In today’s digital era, businesses are constantly striving to enhance their marketing efforts to generate more leads and drive revenue growth. Among the key metrics that have gained significant importance is the MQL to SQL Conversion Rate. Why is the MQL to SQL Conversion Rate Important?

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ClearVoice

APRIL 17, 2024

It guides where the ship is going, leading to: Enhanced team alignment: Tracking metrics improves team cohesion and drives your overall business objectives by keeping everyone focused on your content’s main goal. Sixty-eight percent of B2B businesses struggle with lead generation. Not all leads are created equal.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 17, 2024

It guides where the ship is going, leading to: Enhanced team alignment: Tracking metrics improves team cohesion and drives your overall business objectives by keeping everyone focused on your content’s main goal. Sixty-eight percent of B2B businesses struggle with lead generation. Not all leads are created equal.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 1, 2022

Activate Acquires Green Leads. Green Leads has been our baby, it’s been in our DNA, and everyone we’ve worked with has always been considered friends and family. Today marked a big day in the history of Green Leads. What does this mean for Green Leads’ clients, employees and partners? Green Leads. Enough business.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’ve sprinted hard, nurturing each lead with care and precision, and now they’re holding the baton of customer interest. This is the thrust of converting marketing qualified leads to sales qualified leads (MQL vs. SQL). If handled poorly, the lead can slip right through your fingers and you lose the deal.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

One thing is clear — lead generation has never been more central to a business’ success. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs). Depending on your industry, this might be harder or easier in the status quo.

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a disruptive and transformative force in B2B marketing for industrial companies. By leveraging AI, industrial businesses are streamlining operations and redefining how they engage with their customers. What Role Does AI Play in Personalizing Industrial Marketing Efforts?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.”

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. While these leaders come from different industries, company sizes, and backgrounds, a few common themes emerged. For a long time, my personal goal was to generate a certain number of net-new MQLs.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 31, 2023

This means sifting through lots of leads and focusing on the ones that are most likely to become valuable customers. A super important tool for doing this is called Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) criteria. This blog looks into what MQL criteria are and how they help us find potential customers that matter.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

At ZoomInfo, we use gift-giving with our customers no matter where they are in the demand generation funnel. Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Inbox Insight

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding the key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics associated with B2B demand generation can be a pivotal factor in the success of your marketing efforts. Demand generation refers to any way of creating demand. An SQL is a lead that the sales team deems ready for the next step in the sales process.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Every company is different in industry, size, and goals but typically shares a similar desire of increasing revenue and brand success. Lead Generation & Qualification. Number of new leads,” is a nice KPI to track, but we can go deeper than that. Lead Outreach & Conversion. What Are Common KPIs?

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BOP Design

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The recent pandemic brought digital marketing to the forefront as a lead generation tool – especially for industries that drag their feet when it comes to modernizing ( Source ). Many industries were already relying on digital marketing for lead generation and lead nurturing, but the value became even more clear.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 10, 2023

B2B marketing teams share a common aspiration: generating as many Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) as possible. That’s why, now more than ever, optimizing lead generation strategies to identify and nurture these MQLs becomes paramount to any organization’s revenue generation efforts.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. According to a Gartner survey, a mere 34% of marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) progress to sales-accepted leads (SALs), and only 47% of these SALs become sales-qualified leads (SQLs) , with just over half culminating in successful deals. But how does it work?

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Walker Sands

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That’s why we’re pleased to announce that the work and expertise of our web and demand generation teams have earned our agency a platinum and two gold AVA Digital Awards in 2022. As Sendbird’s needs evolved, Walker Sands remained a valuable strategic partner, ultimately leading to impressive results over a 16-month period including $6.4

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The former is cost-effective, especially when promoting the same call to action, products, and industry vertical. The latter, though more time- and resource-intensive, allows for varied CTAs, products, or industry focuses. Marketers track MQLs and SQLs, while the sales team focuses on leads that are likely to become closed deals.

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Oktopost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, these numbers varied based on the company’s industry. Source: CMO Survey Furthermore, with nearly 80% of marketers saying their industry changed more in the past three years than it has in the last five decades it’s more critical than ever to research your specific industry to maximize your marketing impact in 2024.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 3, 2016

This is Part Two of a two-part blog (read part 1 here) about how to improve accuracy in lead/revenue projections in organizations with a complex sales process: To recap part one, simple lead generation calculators miss these four things: They don’t take critical metrics (like last year’s revenue) into account.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

“When you create a lookalike audience off of your remarketed audience, you go down a rabbit hole of bad leads. Sure, your cost per lead might be cheap, but your cost per marketing-qualified lead (MQL) will skyrocket,” says Colin Chang, a marketing programs manager at ZoomInfo.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

Taking CX seriously is an excellent way to stand out from the noise that’s saturating your industry to help you win loyal customers. Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully. The predictive analytics industry is growing at a rate of 23.2%

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Metadata

APRIL 8, 2024

Seriously: our lead-to-conversion rate increased by 15X and our cost per opportunity (CPO) went from $40k to $800. I ran demand and operations, so my job was simple: generate and optimize leads. For context, our cost per lead (CPL) was around $1,000 before we started using Metadata. I was instantly hooked.

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Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Have you ever wondered what sets industry leaders apart in our constantly evolving business landscape? The answer is high-quality leads. Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. What makes a lead high-quality? Source: Smartinsights What are the four types of leads?

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Marketri

APRIL 17, 2024

Jen Marino hears similar sentiments from CEOs at the accounts she leads: “They value the ability to systematically measure marketing to ensure a healthy ROI.” Every industry has its jargon. And that’s what leads them to Marketri. CEOs expect marketing to leverage data for better insights. See, your eyes are glazing over.)

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

Shortly after, it was rolled out to a wider variety of industries. That’s why PDCA is a favorite approach of organizations of all sizes and industries. Effective marketing isn’t much different from manufacturing or delivering a product/service; it also struggles to improve efficiency, reduce costs and errors, and generate more value.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Your level of commitment to becoming the leading destination of helpful insights for your audience defines your content marketing. Can you generate leads with content marketing? Content marketing generates leads because it helps to attract more potential customers to your business. All of the above?

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. My personal thoughts and experiences as an industrial marketer and consultant. I’ve witnessed countless industrial companies’ challenges and frustrations firsthand. But I’m not just another marketing consultant.

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