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? A lead becomes an MQL once they have met certain criteria such as engaging with social posts, downloading content, clicking through a CTA, or interacting with other marketing materials.

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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? A lead becomes an MQL once they have met certain criteria such as engaging with social posts, downloading content, clicking through a CTA, or interacting with other marketing materials.

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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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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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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. But is it marketing or sales to blame?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes.

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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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Sales Engine

AUGUST 2, 2017

Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that nurturing leads is important. The reason: it’s essential to maintain a digital connection with buyers who want to learn about a business pain, product, or service—but who are not yet interested in talking to a sales person.

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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? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You’ll also use your customer personas to guide future marketing and sales efforts.

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Aberdeen

APRIL 13, 2020

In a previous post, I gave a few examples of how to optimize the use of MQL’s as a starting point for qualifying opportunities. Now, for those of you with a taste of adventure, we move beyond the MQL and look at other ways to determine how an account’s behavior can be the equivalent or better of what an MQL represents.

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Contently

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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. Content is an integral part of that process. Blogs are typically top of the funnel, whereas case studies thrive at the bottom of the funnel.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The efficiency and effectiveness of your sales team directly reflect on the success of your company. To counteract this problem, sales leaders need to find ways to identify possible sales challenges and their solutions quickly before your next sales meeting. Long sales cycles. Disagreement about new processes.

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Seismic

MARCH 25, 2022

Sales reps are always looking for new ways to attract and engage new buyers. Maybe your organization is in the early stages of its social selling journey or looking to take things to the next level—we’d like to help you develop best practices to drive sales on LinkedIn and social media. Build trust at scale.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. In the study, reps gave customers six tubes of toothpaste — a trivial offering. Top of the funnel (TOFU) TOFU is the pre-opportunity stage. The results?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Scoop.it

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Sales productivity is a critical element of your company’s performance. Sales team productivity can be defined as a measurement of how well a sales team meets the demands of their customers, achieves their goals, and satisfies their expected outcome from working with the company they have chosen. What is Sales Productivity?

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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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Valasys

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

79% marketing leads never convert to sales. The marketing team then keeps sending these new leads to the sales team for follow-ups and conversions even though only a small percentage of those leads actually want to make a purchase. This will lead to an inevitable conflict between the sales team and the marketing.

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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. Track Every Dollar.

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SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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. We will dive into the difference between the MQL and SQL, focus on the lead qualification blockage, and how to find those lost leads. .

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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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Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? While we were pleased with the lead generation effort, the sales resulting from those leads were disappointingly low. While we were pleased with the lead generation effort, the sales resulting from those leads were disappointingly low. Not bad, right?

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Only B2B

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The age-old conflict between sales and marketing appears to always come down to one thing: leads. While marketing teams have historically been judged on the amount of demand they drive, sales teams are frequently seeking for more quality prospects to sell to. Both your sales and marketing teams are in charge of capturing leads.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You might be asking, “What exactly is an MQL?” “How How do you identify an MQL?” and “Why do MQLs matter?” This blog post covers all you need to know about MQLs—from definitions to strategies for converting leads into paying customers. What is a marketing qualified lead (MQL)? But, this is not the case with SQLs.

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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.

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PathFactory

MARCH 21, 2024

In fact, 83% of the time, they’ll initiate contact rather than react to any sales outreach. All this to say, it might be time to have another look at you content strategy to ensure your buyers can find what they need, when they need it (and yes, that means not gating your customer case studies!).

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this comprehensive blog, we’ll unravel the transformative journey from SQL (Sales Qualified Lead) to loyal customer. According to a study conducted by Marketo , nurtured leads exhibit a remarkable trait – they tend to make purchases that are 47% larger in scale compared to their non-nurtured counterparts.

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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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Vision6

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Businesses can identify their most promising prospects by assigning numerical values to leads and tailoring marketing and sales efforts accordingly. Businesses with effective lead generation processes experience a 133% increase in revenue. What is the lead scoring process? How to build a B2B lead scoring model?

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the key aspects of gaining an edge is the efficient management of leads. By the end of this journey, you’ll have a profound understanding of how automation can supercharge your lead management strategy. It’s an indispensable part of any successful sales and marketing strategy. The result?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Whether you conduct your sales outreach by phone, social media, or email—it’s undeniably an essential aspect of B2B sales. Today we’ll cover a list of insights around sales follow-up productivity, channels, cadences, and effectiveness. B2B Sales Follow Up Statistics Sales Follow Up Productivity 1. emails, 35.9

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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. Think about it: most companies have no problem generating leads at the top of the funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the 1980s he evolved it into the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle for learning and improvement. As an argument, he pointed out that their version was a quality control program, aimed at serving the management. It’s also an integral part of effective project management, Agile or not. Edwards Deming developed the Deming Cycle.

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Directive Agency

JULY 23, 2020

Through paid channels, marketers are able to segment and target audiences more precisely, leading to higher conversion rates and ultimately, more sales. A great ad campaign is one that is rooted in targeting the buyer throughout every stage of the marketing funnel to provide a more personalized experience. Awareness.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 7, 2016

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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Only B2B

JANUARY 27, 2022

These are some of them: Top Of The Funnel (ToFu): This level mainly relates to digital techniques for bringing fresh visitors and prospective leads into your marketing funnel without really distressing or censoring discussions. Leads in the Middle of Funnel (MoFu). Your sales staff may take control at this point.

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