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70 Words That Win: Sales Terms Every Rep Should Know

Salesforce

A sales qualified lead (SQL) has been vetted and deemed prepared to have a sales conversation. Sales qualified lead (SQL) A lead vetted by the marketing and sales teams who is deemed ready to buy or have a sales conversation. Lead generation Lead generation is the process of attracting and converting prospects into potential customers.

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What Is Lead Qualification and How Does It Work?

Salesforce

Sales qualified leads (SQLs) Depending on how your company uses this term, either an SQL has been qualified, typically by marketing, and passed along to sales for follow-up or a sales rep has qualified the lead themselves and found them to be a good match for the company. Authority: “Do you have purchasing authority?

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SaaStr Podcast #213: Tom Tunguz, GP @ Redpoint Ventures On Why Scoring Leads May Actually Be Dangerous

SaaStr

I went to work at a startup in Washington, D.C. SQL versus the MQL. But as you see a company closing something like 30 to 40% of their leads from the MQL level or even the SQL level, that’s really attractive, particularly for combining that with a shorter sales cycle. When I was about 17 I got my first taste of startups.

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Redpoint Ventures and Cloudflare — January 3, 2020

SaaStr

I went to work at a startup in Washington, D.C. SQL versus the MQL. But as you see a company closing something like 30 to 40% of their leads from the MQL level or even the SQL level, that’s really attractive, particularly for combining that with a shorter sales cycle. When I was about 17 I got my first taste of startups.