So, marketing have created some excellent content, they’ve deployed a variety of content strategies through blogs, white papers, landing pages and social media and now they’ve generated a number of marketing qualified leads (MQLs). What happens next?
MQLs are not the same as SQL leads. MQLs are leads that have been generated through specific marketing activity, qualified as being the right fit and have the potential of converting into a customer. So, what is the best way to generate this type of lead and how do you properly qualify them?
Que the bad sales and marketing joke! But what are the key differences between a prospect, an MQL and an SQL?
Sales and marketing are the same but different. Both want to bring in new business however; they are responsible for completely different ends of the sales funnel. Marketing are responsible for the attract phase of the sales funnel. They have to take somebody with no prior knowledge of the business,...
Question: How can I turn an MQL into an SQL?
Answer: Teamwork
Converting an MQL into an SQL can sometimes feel like a bun fight between marketing and sales. One of the best ways to avoid this is to agree a way of working and formally capture it in a document this is called a service level agreement...
In an ideal world every visitor to your website, inbound call or event attendee would be a lead worthy of follow up. However, in the real world you know that leads have to be carefully sifted before you can pass them onto sales.
