Sales-qualified leads

Quantity of sales-qualified leads (SQLs) This number signifies the eimount of SQLs that your marketing tecim sends over to sales. These are leads that sales deems good and potentially sales-ready. In some places, this means when the sales depcirtment moves an opportunity to a next stage along the funnel. 

Common terminology and definitions List all common terminology and definitions. Examples cire Sales Qualified Lead, Marketing Qualified Lead, Sales Accepted Lead, and so on, in addition to any metrics and measurements that need to be defined. 

SAL to sales-qualified lead (SQL) Conversion from SAL to sales-qucdified lead... 

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Inquiry to marketing qualified lead (MQL) This is the percentage of conversion from initial inquiry to MQL. A MQL is defined by a lead that marketing deems qualified to push to the inside sales team, based on specific, predetermined criteria. 

MQL to sales accepted lead (SAL) This is the conversion from MQL to SAL. A SAL is defined by a lead that sales accepts but may not have qualified that lead yet. 

Meet a Marketing Qualified Lead definition Signal sales readiness... 

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More Qualified Leads = More Sales Get Results. 

How do you come up with an inside sales quota You take your number of daily meaningful interactions (say, 50 in this case), multiply that by 20 (because there are generally 20 business days in a month), and multiply again by two-thirds (because we know the reps are only spending two-thirds of their time qualifying leads). This gives you a target of interactions per month per inside sales person. 

A marketing-qualified lead can be defined as a lead that is defined as good by marketing. This means that the lead has hit a specific score or has had an interesting moment, indicating that an inside sales rep should call her. 

Sending only qualified leads to sales with lead scoring Defining your lead scoring criteria Creating your lead scoring plan and matrix... 

BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need, and Time, and is a more advanced lead qualification practice than demographics and firmographics. BANT takes into consideration the ability to secure facts about the prospect before moving forward, and therefore these are questions often asked by the sales rep to further qualify the lead. 

Sales lead If the lead is truly qualified and he heis had a good conversation with the inside sales team, he is passed on to an Account Executive (AE). The AE also speaks directly with the lead and heis seven days to either turn the lead into a true sales lead, or send him back to m irketing for lead nurturing, where marketing adds that lead into a ceimpaign to re-engc e him over time. 

Opportunity From there, a lead becomes an opportunity when sales has qualified the lead and it is an active selling opportunity. To give you some insight, at Marketo, about a qucirter of leads generated become opportunities. 

An interesting aspect of an inside sales team is that many companies classify them as peirt of marketing because they help close the loop between Scdes and marketing. As a marketer, you need to be close to your sales team so that they can turn your leads into opportunities and qualify them to eventually be closed/won deals. By including inside sales as part of your marketing, you can cement the bond between the two teams. 

You can take this number, about 650 in this case, and divide that by 2.6 (which is the average number of calls it takes our inside sales reps to qualify a lead), and you can target your inside sales reps to work with about 250 quality leads per month. 

Be sure to take into consideration your own sales cycle. Your inside sales reps may be qualifying more or fewer leads, depending on your sales cycle and how many leads your marketing team generates. 

Sales and marketing need to agree upon a methodology to determine what leads are qualified and what leads aren t. This is a critical element to successful sales and marketing alignment. You need to come up with as/iared sales and marketing definition for what a good lead means. 

But what happens when a lead leaves marketing s hands and goes to sales You need to have a concrete lead qualification path that inside sales reps can follow before they know whether to qualify them and send them onto an account executive, or send them back to marketing. 

After a lead is sent to sales, your inside sales reps need to accept those leads. This step is often absent from many lead funnels, but it s an important step to pay attention to. Your sales teams need to take your MQL and make sure that the lead is close enough to purchasing to be qualified by sales and ultimately sent to one of your outside sale reps. 

According to Sirius Decisions, there are specific reasons an inside sales rep might not qualify a lead. They include... 

If a lead is unable to be qualified by your inside sales rep, the lead should be recycled back to meirketing so it can be nurtured again or removed from the mix. 

After a lead is accepted by sales, it needs to be qualified. SQLs are your golden tickets to be fast-tracked to your account executives to begin the sales process. Why is it important to truly qualify a lead Well, if you send bad leads to sales, they won t close deals and then both you and sales look bad. 

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