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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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Leads are critical for every B2B marketer, but according to the HubSpot’sReport in 2018 , driving traffic and leads is the biggest difficulty for 61 % of marketers. The attention is on number of leads rather than quality leads when it comes to lead generation. What Are The Various Sources Of 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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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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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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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. But when your prospects are moving more slowly throughout their buying journey, our marketing leaders advise their peers to prioritize full-funnel engagement. “We

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Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

In the demand generation, marketers use a mix of active strategies (webinars, email marketing, paid ads) and passive strategies (content marketing, SEO, podcasting, social media marketing) to capture prospects’ interest in making a purchase. Contribution to pipeline and sales impact.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Before marketing automation, companies tracked data in various places. These posed nightmares including inaccurate data, conflicting information and slow processing times. These challenges make it impossible to analyze their data to gauge marketing performance. What is marketing automation?

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PureB2B

JULY 6, 2022

A common challenge in the B2B demand generation world centers around the balance of automation and reporting software. Both of which are tools used in conjunction with your marketing campaigns, meaning your day is mostly full of software management instead of strategic planning. Why Marketing Automation?

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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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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. I don’t agree. 20% off for paid newsletter subscribers.

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Sales Engine

MAY 17, 2016

Marketing automation and lead management systems have allowed for a near-scientific breakdown of the sales funnel. Leads in each stage of the buying process meet very specific criteria and behave in certain predictable ways.

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Valasys

APRIL 19, 2023

Still, with changing times and evolving market trends, knowing what sales-qualified leads tactics will work best can be challenging. To stay ahead in 2023, you must know the best sales-qualified leads tactics to ensure that your SQLs are high quality and more likely to convert.

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ABM in Action

MAY 18, 2023

There are some rivalries that are just legendary: The Hatfields and The McCoys, Biggie and Tupac, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates… and in the marketing world, the rivalry is between MQL deniers and apologists. Are leads alive, are they dead or do they just need some life support?

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2017

MARKETING AUTOMATION AND LEAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS have allowed for a near-scientific breakdown of the sales funnel. Leads in each stage of the buying process meet very specific criteria and behave in certain predictable ways.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

They engage with companies on their own terms, conducting extensive research across various channels long before they want to engage with sales teams. That’s why lead nurturing remains such a key element of a good B2B go-to-market. OK, so now onto the core question: should lead nurturing come from marketing or SDRs?

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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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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2020

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. In fact, marketing automation software can increase sales productivity by 14.5%.

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The Point

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Bear with me as I relate a quick story about lead nurturing: A few months back I became a sales lead. I sent an email to a marketing technology firm, one with whom I was vaguely familiar, about a client campaign for which I thought their technology might be useful. A question: at this point, what kind of lead am I?

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Over a long time, the sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations were thought to be discrete. At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). The Sales Funnel.

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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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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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Martech

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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. New martech tools focus on measuring marketing impact, tracking customer journeys and analyzing sales funnels.

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Varicent

JULY 2, 2020

6 Essential Salesforce Lead Status Options That Align Sales and Marketing What is a Salesforce lead status? A Salesforce lead status is a default field in Salesforce and one of the most important fields to have set up, working, and being used in a consistent way across your revenue organization.

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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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ClickDimensions

MARCH 7, 2023

These two teams are usually Marketing and Sales. Marketing and Sales: An Important Connection For most people, the difference between a marketer and a salesperson is clear, one approaches leads from a one-to-many stand point (Marketing) while the other provides a more personalized one-to-one experience (Sales).

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 2, 2019

This post will provide some strategic tactics marketers can use to better measure B2B advertising effectiveness, and provide a list of KPIs expert marketers are measuring to help them hit their ROAS goals. That lead to lots of top-of-funnel effort: views, impressions, clicks, etc. So don’t stop at MQL.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Stevens & Tate

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once your buyer has been made aware of their problem, searched through your content, and become a lead, their true “shopping” experience begins. Email marketing and marketing automation are the primary avenues for marketing to your buyers at this point. Lead Nurturing Campaigns. Drip Emails.

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Vision6

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The answer is high-quality leads. Research shows that 91% of marketers say that lead generation is their most important goal. High quality leads can not only boost conversion rates and customer loyalty but also significantly reduce marketing costs. What makes a lead high-quality?

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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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The Point

JANUARY 19, 2021

Will B2B marketing, and demand generation in particular, revert to “normal” once the pandemic subsides and economic recovery kicks in, or are recent trends destined to become staple tactics in the months and years to come? These will become incorporated into lead and account scoring, perhaps as criteria for what can become an MQL.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales team are active players in the blame game. While the sales team thinks the marketing team shared only contacts (read, unqualified leads), the marketing team blames the sales team for not being able to convert all the excellent qualified leads they hand off. Sound familiar?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 20, 2023

Aligning marketing and sales goals , although seemingly simple, can be difficult to do internally. From tried-and-true business processes to implementing new business software, your company can be challenged when aligning marketing and sales goals. When is a lead ready to be handed-off to sales?

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