Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Content marketing ain’t easy… but isn’t that why it’s so valuable? Organizations are taking a more proactive approach to content these days as it relates to audience engagement, lead funnel growth, prospect nurturing, customer loyalty, and strong brand affinity. Are you meeting their needs?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 26, 2024

Imagine the marketing team as the first runner. They’ve sprinted hard, nurturing each lead with care and precision, and now they’re holding the baton of customer interest. Next up is the crucial moment: passing the baton to the sales team, set to dash to the finish line, er, close.

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SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What type of leads and prospects make it into your ‘right fit for my business’ category? Your sales and marketing teams spent a lot of time and effort answering this question. But even if your sales staff calls someone who precisely fits your buyer persona, they fail to close the deal. They know your brand.

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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.

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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. How to Calculate the MQL to SQL Conversion Rate?

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Televerde

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the best ways to smooth out and accelerate that journey is through lead qualification. Without an effective lead qualification process, your sales and marketing teams could be wasting valuable resources on unqualified leads. What Is Lead Qualification?

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Outgrow

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What Is Lead Qualification [Types + Process + Tools]. Leads are as essential to a business as water to a plant. If you envision your business growing, you must pay attention to generating leads. The problem arises when the leads that you generate don’t have the potential to be converted.

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Smarte

JUNE 28, 2022

A Marketing Qualified Lead sits at the top of the funnel. MQLs are at an awareness and information gathering stage. These leads are exploring various solutions to solve their pain points by reading/ accessing your company’s content or responding to a cold email. Handing off an MQL.

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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. ActiveCampaign.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. A recent study found that such alignment brings 208% more value from marketing with 108% less effort. Marketing efforts also generate 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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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Today, we know that across the B2B sales cycle, the key to driving home a sale is the quality of the leads in your pipeline. Yet, lead qualification seems to be a particularly troublesome pain point for marketers and salespeople alike. How we as marketers define what makes a lead marketing qualified.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s a new idea for marketers. We tend to get caught up focusing on more: More sales, more traffic, more leads. Here’s why: Doing more and more marketing work is not better. But doing more effective (and thus better) marketing tasks? And having more leads is also not necessarily better, but having better leads?

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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. Interview your sales team.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 15, 2022

In today’s fast-paced sales race, no matter how great your product or service is, your business will find it difficult to survive without high-quality leads. Defining Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) for your company can be achieved through a collaboration between sales and marketing.

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Televerde

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The goal of any business is to generate leads and convert them into sales. conversion rate , and the key to meeting (and hopefully, exceeding) this number is lead qualification. Once you have a plan that helps you identify leads that are worth pursuing, you can determine which ones are Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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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. Maximized ROI: MQL-focused strategies translate into cost-effective endeavors.

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Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2020

One way to ensure that marketing delivers quality leads to sales is to implement a lead scoring methodology. This is a process used by marketing and sales teams that determine how likely prospects are to buy your product or service. Why is it important to have a lead scoring model?

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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.

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SnapApp

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

What qualifies as a “better” lead? Understanding, for one, that you need more than their name and phone number to convert them into an MQL and future customer. There are lots of ways to gather intel about your leads. That intel shapes your nurture campaigns and fuels productive sales calls. But how do you get it?

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SmartBug Media

JULY 10, 2020

We all know that marketing efforts are what attract your future customers, but at the end of the day, it falls on your sales team to turn those leads into customers. How do you ensure your sales team is equipped to close those deals? This is where sales enablement comes into play. Lead Qualification Matrix.

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SnapApp

MAY 29, 2018

No matter which way you skin it, an efficient sales process is what fuels the high-growth B2B companies. Product planning, marketing funnels and sales enablement will only get you so far — after that, it’s all about scaling the sales machine. If done correctly, it can catapult the bottom line.

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Valasys

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

79% marketing leads never convert to sales. Picture this: Your marketing team generates vast quantities of leads while operating under a set of ambiguous and vague lead qualification procedures. Thus, keeping the quality of their generated leads a mystery. Qualified Leads.

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PureB2B

APRIL 26, 2022

Finding in-market leads for B2B businesses is crucial to achieving revenue goals. The problem is that the B2B market is enormous. And in today’s buyer-focused sales landscape, it’s important for reps to always be developing new techniques and strategies for effective prospecting. Defining “In-Market” Buyers.

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The Point

MARCH 29, 2017

Earlier this year, I talked to a CMO at a B2B tech company whose sales counterpart was lobbying strongly for the company to adopt Account-Based Marketing (ABM) as part of their demand generation strategy. The lead funnel is obsolete. Inbound marketing doesn’t work, or at best is grossly inefficient. The reason?

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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.

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SnapApp

JULY 25, 2019

B2B marketers have long relied on the gated PDF as a critical part of content marketing and demand generation. A downloaded PDF used to be an indication that a prospect is deep enough into the buying process to be quickly nurtured and sent to sales in an inbound marketing model. And why wouldn’t you?

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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? Avoid the Blind Spot During Lead Qualification.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 4, 2012

Our good friend Ardath Albee and I have recently had a series of conversations about the standard funnel that is used by many organizations. (If The standard sales funnel for most organizations is linear with several stages: Inquiry. So that makes them an “Inquiry” according to the funnel definitions, right?

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 15, 2020

But once you’re ready for it, Marketo’s funnel analysis tool can help you score some big wins. The Revenue Cycle Modeler (RCM) is a tool that helps Marketo understand and track your Buyer’s Journey. Once running, it captures historical data about which leads are in each stage of your funnel and how long they stay there.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2023

But what changes will it bring to the sales industry? Will it be the end of salespeople, or will it become the secret weapon to help sales reps work more efficiently? Furthermore, we’ve interviewed leading sales teams to collect 11 AI sales predictions that you should watch in 2023. Let’s jump to the nitty-gritty.

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Belkins

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Qualifying Leads For Appointment-Setting Success. MQL, SQL…Some people who are only starting with their B2B marketing efforts are probably thinking that appointment-setting involves complicated programming languages. We always mention taking pride in our sales leads and how thoroughly we qualify them.

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Strategic-IC

MAY 29, 2018

A considered lead nurture strategy is important to support your sales and marketing activities and ensure prospects keep moving through the funnel. We explore 5 lead nurture tips to consider for an effective process. Why is Lead Nurturing Important? 5 Lead Nurturing Strategy Considerations.

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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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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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PathFactory

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Hello, fellow B2B marketing nerds! Today, I’d like to share some of the cool things the PathFactory marketing team is doing in the B2B digital marketing space. The importance of enabling content bingeing in B2B. Netflix binge-watching and B2B content bingeing aren’t all that different from each other.

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