Constant flow of SQLs (Sales Qualified Leads) is a good sign when it comes to measuring the financial health of any b2b organization. Marketers who invest in SQLs and MQLs are more likely to have a better ROI. Today, SQLs, that are more likely to be converted into customers is a guaranteed way to grow business.
If an organization is simply generating leads without actually converting them, one can monitor certain parameters around the definition of good leads, analyze MQLS and also study the SQL characteristics to see what exactly is preventing the leads from getting converted.
If you haven’t created enough visibility for your brand in the market or haven’t been able to design a good outreach program, chances are that your leads haven’t developed a liking for your brand yet. If you haven’t honed your lead nurturing skills to the point that you lack relationship building with your prospects, then they will most likely move away from your brand or turn into cold leads.
So what’s the magic formula to keep your ROI high when in b2b? There’s no one step magic formula to achieve this, but if you focus on your SQLs then you can turn around the fate of your business anytime of the year.
Here are a few tips and tricks to get more SQLs to keep the fuel for ROI up and running-
Make data priority-
If there’s one powerful tool to give you the best MQLs and SQLs it is surely data! Data is literally a tool nowadays that can make impossible things possible. Make data a priority while analyzing some of the results of your campaigns or the metrics based on which you evaluate your SQLs. This is one of the best ways to make sure that the SQLs that you qualify will give you the expected results. You should use data to track your efforts and see where things are going wrong of you aren’t getting the desired results. This also includes your decisions around revamping content assets that you are using for every outreach. Changing the way you look at data, treating it and using it to determine the SQLs can have a huge impact on your ROI.
Make content outreach effective:
The content assets that you deliver to your prospects play a huge role in the way they perceive your brand or the way they feel the need to connect with your brand. Content assets and content marketing add fuel to your lead generation campaigns and content can almost act like a bridge between your brand and your prospect. The stronger the bridge, the better would be the relationship building activity. This can have a great impact on the SQLs and your sales funnel thus accelerating your business growth and ROI.
Focused Marketing:
Any B2B sales and marketing program would be incomplete without ABM campaigns these days. ABM can be very effective in nurturing leads and making the sales funnel more robust and healthy. In fact, companies are looking at bigger revenue to come in from their ABM efforts.
ABM operates in a different way as compared to other sales and marketing activities. It needs and dedicated resources, metrics to analyze the progress, reports to show how things are advancing and what the weak areas in nurturing are or in the outreach programs. This helps marketers to learn a lot and to make more mature strategies the next time around. But when things are done as per the plan, ABM can boost sales qualified leads and thus help grow your business.
Conclusion:
SQLs as much as MQLs are an important part of sales planning and are also an important part of the sales funnel. It is up to the sales team to make the most out of this highly potential area in b2b campaigns and accelerate results, business and the overall ROI.