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What's a Marketing Qualified Lead? What's a Sales Qualified Lead?

The Center for Sales Strategy

When it comes to lead generation, when does the marketing department’s role end and the sales department’s role begin? Very specifically, when should a lead be passed from marketing to sales? This is a tricky question, and as with most marketing and sales best practices, it’s not always black and white.

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How to Ask for a Referral from a Client

No More Cold Calling

Your customers are your best source of qualified sales leads. “If One of the first things I ever wrote about was enrolling your clients as part of your sales team. Marketing can drum up plenty of leads for your team, but you don’t just need more leads. You need more qualified sales leads.

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Your Lead Gen Is Broken (Here’s How to Fix It)

No More Cold Calling

Not getting the ROI you expected from your lead-gen tactics? Your lead generation tactics aren’t driving bottom line revenue. Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. They complain they don’t have enough leads, or at least not enough qualified leads.

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The Simplest Way to Qualify

Mr. Inside Sales

They pitch features and benefits instead of asking questions and qualifying. They talk over their prospects and generally learn very little about what it takes to close a sale. into your qualifying pitch and find your MUTE button. It goes like this: Ask a qualifying question, then hit MUTE and listen. Try it today.

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It’s Time to Stop Obsessing Over Leads

If leads are no longer the main goal for your marketing and sales teams, what should you focus on instead to measure success? And how can you optimize your program to create more qualified sales opportunities, faster? Pipeline acceleration. Customer retention. Customer expansion.

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Truth Bomb: Salespeople All Look Alike to B2B Buyers

No More Cold Calling

One marketing platform or sales enablement app? Often you can’t tell them apart, because sellers have similar offerings and the same party line about what they do. But that’s not happening in most sales organizations. Instead, sales forecasts are “smoke and mirrors,” and sales leaders continue to complain.

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Lead Generation Marketing 101: How to Find Leads Your Sales Team Wants to Close

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All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

Businesses are tasked with beating pre-pandemic numbers, making marketing more essential than ever before. This is your chance to create unprecedented brand awareness, bring in the best leads sales has ever seen, and play an instrumental role in generating new and existing business revenue. Define and agree on “qualified leads”.

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How to Use Video Throughout the Buyer's Journey

Speaker: Zach Basner, Director of Video Training and Strategy, IMPACT

Forrester Research Group reports that on average 70% of a buyer’s purchasing decision is made before engaging with a sales team. That’s staggering, but what does that mean for us as organizations? You’ll learn: How to get started with your video marketing strategy. What videos work best to engage your buyers at each stage.

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Win Sales Calls with Webinar Production

Speaker: Dawn Baron, President, Passion Profits Consulting, and Shelley Trout, Webinar Producer, Aggregage

As a B2B marketer in 2020, you are constantly asked to fight for attention in crowded markets with limited resources. Smart webinars are one of the best way to address these challenges, efficiently reach your target audience and generate highly qualified sales leads.