Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. Even if they see the value and know how they can use your product, they’re postponing making a decision due to this overriding economic uncertainty. Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Zoominfo

MAY 14, 2018

In marketing, it’s common knowledge that lead quality is generally more important than lead quantity. And yet, marketing lead qualification remains a sticking point for many organizations. In fact, 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to sales, but only 27% are sales qualified ( source ). Let’s get into it!

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether you’re pursuing an inbound or outbound marketing strategy, lead generation is a constant struggle. In fact, 37% of B2B marketers rank it as their number one challenge. Nestled within that challenge is an even more daunting task: finding enough qualified leads. What is the lead qualification process?

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

“The only metric that matters in marketing is how many qualified leads you generate every month.” ” – Seth Godin, Marketing Author and Entrepreneur Generating qualified leads is the heart of lead generation and contributes to your bottom line i.e. revenue.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Red hot leads are the ideal opportunities you want to get into the hands of your sales team. And, your red hot leads are the highest value targets you have to help you hit your goals. These leads are the best fit for your company and where you can expect to win. How Do You Define Your Red Hot Leads?

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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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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By leveraging AI, industrial businesses are streamlining operations and redefining how they engage with their customers. Table of Contents Unlocking AI’s Potential: Top 5 Questions Answered for Improving B2B Marketing for Industrial Companies How Can AI Improve Lead Generation and the Qualifying Processes?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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.” The good news is that if you’re ready to achieve true cross-departmental alignment, we’re here to provide you with proven tactics to implement. What does a bad lead look like?

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

B2B marketing strategies rely heavily on demand and lead generation. You can't generate leads efficiently and consistently unless you're also creating demand, and demand generation loses a lot of its value if it can't be converted into leads. What is Lead Generation? What is Lead Generation?

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RDIGS

JULY 11, 2023

Today, businesses may attract leads from various sources. However, not all leads are equal. Some may merely be curious visitors, others might be casually browsing, while a select few hold the potential to become valuable customers. One of them, a struggling e-commerce business needing SEO services, becomes their focus.

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Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2023

When it comes to lead generation and new customer opportunity qualification, many businesses have traditionally relied on the waterfall approach which leverages the concept of a Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL).

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PureB2B

JANUARY 28, 2020

What is the value of a lead if it cannot be converted into a sale? One of the biggest challenges in sales is converting potential customers to actual customers. In the past, a “lead” was defined as someone willing to pay for something you have. Enter intent data. Challenges Associated with MQL.

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SalesIntel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

B2B lead creation is essential for attracting new prospects interested in what your B2B company has to offer. Every sales funnel depends on leads to scale. How can you stand out from the crowd when there are so many businesses fighting for sales leads? We will go over all you need to know about B2B lead generation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

We nurture our prospects and customers with the goal of increasing conversions and generating revenue, yet many of us are struggling to engage enough of our audience via email. Here at Socedo , getting our leads to engage with our emails is an ongoing challenge. First party intent data can be extremely useful.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Customer Messaging One of the most obvious signs of misalignment between sales and marketing teams is during direct customer interactions. But relying on this alone misses the mark.

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SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

You need to reach the right prospects, fill your pipeline with quality leads , and eventually turn those folks into paying customers. And, it all starts with marketing efforts that fill the top of the funnel with poor quality leads: Or, put another way, poor lead qualification. Leads are the people behind your CRM data.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This involves: Gathering details on their ideal customer profile (ICP). Knowing how they categorize and evaluate leads. Examining lead stages and conversion criteria. This leads to a more strategic campaign optimization throughout the buyer funnel. Familiarizing yourself with their martech stack.

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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As marketers, your job is to deliver leads to sales that will ultimately turn into customers and revenue for the business. But when only 13% of MQLs convert to opportunities it’s no shock that B2B marketers rate generating qualified leads as their top challenge. Improving lead quality can feel like an overwhelming task.

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Conversica

MAY 22, 2020

Across industries, businesses are augmenting their workforces with an innovative technology to help attract, acquire and grow customers at scale, known as an Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA). In this way, IVAs act as a virtual team member assisting revenue-generating teams such as Marketing, Sales or Customer Success.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 10, 2020

With the many different directions you can go in terms of setting up your portal and customizing it to fit your business needs, there comes an increasing need to automate everyday tasks and processes that eat away from time you and your team could spend elsewhere. In fact, marketing automation can lead to a 14.5%

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Envy

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Amit Lavi’s words, CEO of Marketing Envy, “every Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) secured is a gem.”. Part 2: Value of PPC/Paid Campaigns for Cyber Security. But when you master the medium, you can generate high-quality leads while keeping CPC low. It reveals how much you’re paying for every possible lead.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Furthermore, we’ve interviewed leading sales teams to collect 11 AI sales predictions that you should watch in 2023. Contrarily, only 20% of underperformers use AI to automate internal processes and improve customer experience. Finally, 72% confessed they could build rapport faster after implementing AI.

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SnapApp

MAY 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series that explores best practices for nurturing prospects, generating qualified leads, and improving conversion rate. In part one of this blog series, we looked at the ways marketers can lay the foundation for an effective lead generation strategy. Let’s get started.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2016

And in previous posts I’ve written about how critical it is for marketing and sales to work together to create best practices, deliver more quality leads, and drive higher-impact deals. He spoke about “Lead Generation: Strategies that Kill the Competition.”. Lead Scoring. Asset Scoring.

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6sense

APRIL 13, 2016

“When Gartner first wrote about predictive lead scoring in August 2014, the practice was still in its early stages.” In their March Tech Go-to-Market report, Gartner notes that “predictive lead scoring is now a “must have” for B2B technology marketing leaders with high volumes of leads from inbound channels and events.”

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SnapApp

JANUARY 17, 2019

Simply put, sales and marketing alignment is the process of creating a shared vision of the problem your company solves for your customers, and a shared goal of driving revenue. And when sales and marketing teams work together, companies see 36 percent higher customer retention and 38 percent higher sales win rates. Final Thoughts.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you reach out to the right accounts from the start, you make it easier to identify new opportunities and chances to upsell, as well as predict customer churn so that you can take measures to win them back before they’ve committed to looking at their other options. Traditional Marketing and Sales technologies are lead-based.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2020

Over the past few years, Account Based Marketing (ABM) has emerged to be one of the key components of demand generation strategies across all marketing organizations and it has been delivering tremendous results especially for growth marketing teams that are leading the charge for revenue marketing.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Last month, DemandGen CEO David Lewis hosted Scott Broomfield, CMO of Xactly and Zak Garner, Director of Customer Success at 6sense in a conversation about the realities of implementing and using predictive intelligence for B2B marketing and sales. Below you can find the biggest ideas we took away from the discussion: 1.

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Metadata

APRIL 25, 2023

Now, we’re flipping the script (again) with a no-BS buyer’s guide from actual Metadata customers. We interviewed two Metadata customers to look at things like their evaluation process, how they got leadership buy-in, and, most importantly, the good, bad, and ugly of using Metadata. The goal this time around? More like tech mountains.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In an account-based world, landing the biggest, highest-value accounts can only be achieved when all revenue-generating disciplines are closely aligned. Sales and Marketing have historically operated in their own way, with their own goals, culture and values. 1) Stop talking about leads and start talking about accounts.

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Hubspot

APRIL 6, 2017

Today, most marketing teams are structured to drive traffic towards websites, which then converts into leads for the sales team to close. Many websites are designed to convert website visitors into customers. of new customers ÷ lead to customer close rate % = lead goal. Leads generated.

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Engagio

MAY 22, 2017

Inbound marketing was just taking off, and SiriusDecisions was among the first to recognize that sales can also generate leads, and first to stress the importance of teleprospecting. It became more important to focus on buying groups within an organization, and there was an imperative to shift from lead-centric to account-based thinking.

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Customer Success. Our interview with Brandon Redlinger, Engagio’s Director of Growth, simplifies the details of how to implement ABE from account-based metrics to processes and team alignment. Q: What specific metrics can marketers track to prove the impact of ABE outside of leads generated? Check it out!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. But in between, we need to nurture and qualify our leads by encouraging them to engage with our content until they’re sales-ready.

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Martech

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite criticisms that it’s inefficient and ineffective, lead generation remains an important marketing tactic in B2B and in some B2C sectors, including high-ticket items like auto and home sales. Some lead gen strategies are more effective than others, which is why marketing organizations continue to spend on the tactic.

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