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Why Do My Leads Suck? 5 Benefits of an Agile Marketing Methodology

By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyon, Senior Analyst and Research Writer In our “Why Do My Leads Suck?” series, we’ve covered a few different ways to address the quality of your leads: aligning your marketing and sales teams, changing how you define “good” and “bad” leads,...

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Why Do My Leads Suck? Your Lead Nurturing Isn’t Effective

By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer The crucial step between attracting a lead and closing a deal is often misunderstood or ignored altogether: lead nurturing. Educating and connecting with leads while they’re still in the research and...

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The Plague of Production: Why Marketing Teams Get Caught In The Production Trap

By Chris Brunau, Content Specialist Marketing teams who don’t adopt an agile marketing approach may find themselves falling into a production trap. Traditional marketing practices require a considerable amount of planning and production work up-front, and too often they are based on guesswork and...

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Why Do My Leads Suck? Because You're Not Focusing on Qualified Leads

By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer While marketing is the most powerful tool businesses have to attract qualified leads, smart marketers can also use it to keep leads that are a bad fit out of the sales funnel. Last week, we showed...

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4 Marketing Team Dysfunctions That Harm Performance

By Matt Pilon, Content Specialist Successful marketing teams today are more nimble and data-driven than ever before, launching minimum viable products and then utilizing performance data to tweak and optimize their strategies. This strategy is part of an agile marketing methodology, which can boost...

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Why Do My Leads Suck? Because You Haven’t Defined “Good” Leads

By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist, and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer Before you can begin attracting better leads, you need to have a solid definition of what makes a lead “good.” Relying on salespeople to review and analyze every lead to determine if it’s worth...

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Do Digital Events Help B2B Companies With Sales?

By Ross Lancaster, Content Specialist Think back to where you were two years ago at your B2B company. Chances are you were working at least some of the time in a “traditional” office space or building. Zoom or Teams calls probably weren’t the default mode of internal team communication, and you...

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Why Do My Leads Suck? Because Sales and Marketing Aren’t Aligned to the Buyer

By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist and Lauren Lyons, Senior Analyst and Research Writer There are many reasons that bad leads find their way into your sales funnel, but a fundamental problem for many teams is that marketing and sales do not have a shared buyer definition. Without working...

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How Functional Silos Can Undermine Marketing Team Performance

By Scott Dame, Content Specialist Although their methodologies differ, marketing and sales teams share a fundamental objective: to increase revenue. It’s logical, then, that those teams would share information and align themselves strategically toward their common goals. Unfortunately, this isn’t...

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Do Chat Flows Work?

By Chantel Hall, Marketing Content Specialist The option to talk to a customer service agent (real or robotic) through a website chat function is growing in popularity with both businesses and buyers. But do they work? Or are they just a fad? The answer depends heavily on how you implement it. Chat...

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