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So It’s Your First Day as the CMO…

DiscoverOrg

Extending far beyond traditional marketing tactics, today’s CMO shoulders vast and complex responsibilities that now span technology, analytics, revenue and—above all—measurable impact. A longer-term goal might be to get better aligned with sales by integrating a specific cross-functional tool, or improving MQL conversion rates by X%.

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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

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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5 Reasons Your Sales Reps Aren’t Getting Enough Qualified Leads

The Point

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 The lead funnel is obsolete.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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The Real Cost of List-Building: Buy or Build Your Own?

DiscoverOrg

Your sales team is doing double duty: They’re selling to the leads delivered by your marketing department—and they’re de facto researchers. According to a CSO Insights survey, 82% of sales teams feel challenged by the amount of data available and the time it takes to research a prospect before making a call.

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

Heinz Marketing

This past week we kicked off a new series of CMO breakfasts across North America starting with Seattle and San Francisco. The topic: Let’s say in your next job, the CEO banished the venerable marketing qualified lead (MQL). Does this mean marketing and sales actually have the same goal (vs variations on that goal)? Frighten you?

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Mastering B2B Marketing Budgets: The Key to Strategic Growth and Success 

Marketri

Over my many years of participating in the budgeting process, I’ve seen some great ways to approach it, and plenty of opportunities for refinement. What is your average sale/contract value? By the end of Q3, how much did it cost to bring in a lead, MQL (marketing qualified lead), SQL (sales qualified lead), and new customer?

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

Full Circle Insights

to continue nurturing leads through the funnel. Predicting Behavior Through an Account-Based Management Role Lens. They want to control the process, which often means doing their own research. Marketing Attribution and Funnel Metrics Are Still the Key. Funnel metrics enable you to measure velocity and compare results.