Lead qualification and scoring for better leads

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Submitted by B2B Lead Generation on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 10:46pm.

The biggest mistake made by marketers is to give mere inquiries to a salesperson. When inquiries are handed off without being methodically qualified, it doesn’t take the sales department long to start viewing all marketing-generated “leads” with skepticism.  For this reason, most leads sent from marketing to the sales organization are lost, ignored, or discarded. 

Are you currently sending your sales team qualified leads or merely inquiries? There is a difference. An inquiry is an interested party who has requested information and needs some level of assistance. But inquiries are not leads. A lead isn’t a lead until it’s been qualified. 

I was happy to participate a Lead Scoring & Management Roundtable organized by MarketingSherpa. They posed 10 of the toughest questions B-to-B marketers often ask them about qualifying and scoring leads.

MarketingSherpa: Lead Scoring & Management Roundtable Report

Related post: Disciplined Lead Qualification Improves Sales Performance

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