The biggest challenge marketers face is a lack of clarity on how their department influences the company’s bottom line. This is because they mostly focus on campaign performance data, which is not tied to ROI. Marketers need to focus instead on data points essential to budget planning, such as:
- Number of leads generated
- Number of leads dropping out mid-sales cycle
- Reason codes for dropped or rejected leads
- How close the leads are to purchase
- How much revenue Marketing generates
The Applied Best Practices: Leadership Metrics course explains Marketing’s accountably and contribution to a company’s revenue growth by focusing on the metrics that help drive revenue. The course describes the Integrated Sales and Marketing Funnel and its various stages. It explains how you can build segments in Eloqua to track the Marketing stages of the funnel: Suspects, Prospects, and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). You also learn how to date stamp MQLs in order to maintain lead quality.
To learn more about the Applied Best Practices: Leadership Metrics (WBT) class, read the full abstract.