If you’re a sales, marketing, or revenue leader, marketing qualified leads (MQLs) are stymying your growth. When running a go-to-market function, many teams break the client journey into three pieces: Marketing retrieves information on people in the market and pursues them, classifying these leads as MQLs if they engage. When an MQL exhibits some characteristics,Continue reading “Marketing Qualified Leads are Worse than Meaningless”
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Urgency: The Difference between a Sale and a Fail
Among prospective customers, urgency is the difference between a sale and a fail. Many people incorrectly assume selling requires creating urgency in the prospective client’s mind. This mindset is both hubristic and harmful: Manipulating someone into altered priorities is a speedy way to make them resent you. In subscription sales, especially, it’s a recipe forContinue reading “Urgency: The Difference between a Sale and a Fail”