Introduction The current state of things According to the Salesforce 2nd State of the Connected Customer Report (2018), 72% of business buyers expect vendors to personalize engagement to their needs. The same report also found that 79% of customers were willing to share their personal information in exchange for contextualized information that allowed the vendor to better know and understand them. In a nutshell, B2B...Read More
The long-term success of your business is dependent on a full lead pipeline. Lead generation is however not a simple task. As a marketer, you can vouch for how challenging the process can be. As a salesperson, you can attest to how frustrating it gets to receive a list of leads from your marketing team, only to find that none of them are sales-qualified. Figure...Read More
Introduction In a previous article, we talked about SQL and MQL. In this article, we introduce yet another term: HQL, that is, high quality leads. To kick us off, let’s explore what makes a lead be termed as high quality. Looked at in another way, the opposite of high quality is low quality. Though you may have thousands of contacts, if they have not given...Read More
The b2b sales structure is complex. To sustain it, sales people have to not only focus on growing sales and maintaining customer relationships, but they also have to juggle administrative tasks, in addition to responsibilities in the wider team. Such a packed calendar can leave very little time in for any real revenue creation. To achieve sales success, your sales teams have to optimize their...Read More
Sales qualified leads generation is never a straight-forward process. Sales transactions in the B2B world can take long, and even when prospects are interested in your company’s products, only a small portion of them are usually ready to make a commitment. Jeremy Miller talks about this in detail in his book “Sticky branding”.Read More
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