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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

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B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Must Read: MQL vs SQL: Which Lead Matter More & When?

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The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

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The Japanese term “Kaizen” stands for the continuous improvement of a process. Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing.

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40 Marketing KPIs Your Team Needs to Track

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In the earlier stages of the funnel , advertising, branding, and content are key, so choose KPIs that measure their reach. The following types of tools are used to track, measure, and share KPIs: Web analytics CRM systems Data dashboards Business management platforms Data visualizers Business intelligence software. Customer Experience.

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4 ways marketing is different from sales

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Marketing gets a bad rap. Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to salesmarketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. They also need to influence conversion throughout the funnel.

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Does Your Sales Team Know How to Follow-Up on a Lead?

ViewPoint

Nurture leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales is the sixth of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. Set sales straight—it’s a win win.

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Is Your B2B Marketing Working? These 10 Metrics May Hold the Answer

Marketri

Website Traffic-to-Lead Ratio This ratio provides a snapshot of your website’s appeal to your ideal buyer—the target audience your marketing is designed to draw to and through your revenue funnel. A Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) is a prospect who’s shown deeper interest in your product or service but may not be ready to buy.

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How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch

ViewPoint

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing?