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Banish the MQL? Four Fears and Five Breakthroughs from B2B CMOs

Heinz Marketing

By Matt Heinz , President & Founder of Heinz Marketing. This past week we kicked off a new series of CMO breakfasts across North America starting with Seattle and San Francisco. These “no slides, no pitches” breakfasts feature networking and vibrant discussions on highly relevant topics for B2B marketing leaders. Four Fears.

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Why a Single Source of Truth Is a Huge Deal

Full Circle Insights

When marketing teams create leads and monitor their progress through the funnel inside the platform the sales team also uses, marketing can identify issues at critical points, such as MQL-to-SAL conversions, and address any problems to expedite lead progress through the funnel. Optimize Your Marketing Mix in Salesforce.

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The new B2B GTM playbook: an interview with Jon Miller, one of the architects of the old one

Velocity Partners

The other day, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jon Miller, founder CEO of Marketo and Engagio and most recently CMO at B2B Go-to-Market powerhouse Demandbase. Tens of thousands of marketers in B2B tech firms have based their go-to-market strategy (and careers) on his principles. SW : Hi Jon. What are you seeing?

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Interested in Leveraging Predictive Analytics? You’ll Need to Get Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Right First.

Full Circle Insights

There is a steady interest in predictive analytics from B2B marketers – possibly related to the popularity of account-based marketing (ABM). In marketing, predictive analytics is about understanding the customer journey. Can predictive analytics help you accelerate the buying cycle?

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What are the Most Useful Metrics for Planning Season?

Allocadia

In order to plan effectively, a marketing team needs a significant amount of insight into last year: where the organization spent and why, and what the business impact was. But this data takes time to compile, and when the CMO calls asking for a marketing plan in two weeks, it can cause major fire drills. Marketing Ops.

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What are the Most Useful Metrics for Planning Season?

Allocadia

In order to plan effectively, a marketing team needs a significant amount of insight into last year: where the organization spent and why, and what the business impact was. But this data takes time to compile, and when the CMO calls asking for a marketing plan in two weeks, it can cause major fire drills. Marketing Ops.

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The Five Keys to Successful B2B Marketing

Engagio

Traditionally the primary metric by which B2B marketers have been measured is lead generation. The value of B2B marketing has often been connected solely to the quantity of qualified leads delivered per week, month, quarter. The proverbial MQL to SQL conversion has been the bane of many B2B marketers’ existence.