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Martal Group:B2B Lead Generation and Sales Blog
B2B Qualifying Questions: 7 Common Mistakes & 44 Best Questions to Ask in 2026
Introduction You’ve probably sat through a discovery call that felt great and then watched the deal disappear two weeks later. Usually the first call never uncovered who else had a say, what the problem was costing, or what had to happen next. Qualifying questions exist to catch those gaps, and they’re the same gate every […]
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Inbound Leads: What They Are and How to Convert More of Them in 2026
Introduction Your form fills are up and your calendar is not. That’s the complaint we hear most often from marketing leaders two years into a content program, and it rarely turns out to be a traffic problem. Somewhere between the whitepaper download and the discovery call, interest stops becoming a meeting, and appointment setting is […]
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Targeted Lead Generation: What It Is, and How to Do It in 2026
Introduction You are not short of contacts. You are short of contacts worth calling. That is the problem targeted lead generation exists to solve, and it is why a smaller list built against real criteria beats a database export. Martal Group has run outsourced sales and lead generation programs for B2B companies since 2009, across […]
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Accelerating B2B Sales: The 2026 Speed to Market Playbook
Introduction You have a product that works, a market that wants it, and a quarter that ends in eleven weeks. So the question is not whether your solution is good. It’s whether you can get in front of buyers before somebody else does, and whether the machinery between “we’re ready” and “we’re selling” is going […]
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The 2026 Lead Generation Funnel: Stages, Benchmarks, and How to Fix the Leaks
Introduction You can usually tell which stage of your funnel is broken by which meeting is unpleasant. When marketing reports 500 leads and sales books nine meetings, the argument that follows is never really about volume. It’s about the fact that nobody agreed in writing on what a qualified lead was, so both teams are […]
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Market Expansion: How to Pick a New Market and Actually Win It in 2026
Introduction You have a market picked out. Maybe the board picked it for you. Either way there is now a revenue number attached to a place where nobody has heard of your company, no reps live, and no reference customers exist. That gap is why so many teams reach for sales outsourcing at exactly this […]
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Lead Tracking: How to Track Every Lead From Click to Customer in 2026
Introduction You know roughly how many leads came in last month. What you probably cannot say, without opening three tabs and making one educated guess, is which of them a rep actually called, how long that took, and which channel produced the two that turned into revenue. Closing that gap is the whole job of […]
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Lead Qualification: Criteria, Frameworks, and a Process Sales Will Actually Trust
Introduction Your reps say the leads are junk. Marketing says the reps aren’t working them. Both sides have the reports to prove it. The argument resets every quarter without anyone winning, and that’s usually the point where teams start looking at an outsourced sales team or a new scoring tool to settle it. But most […]
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What Is a Lead Source? Types, Values, and How to Track Them
Introduction Your dashboard says organic search drove 40% of last quarter’s pipeline. Your VP of Sales says the good deals came from referrals. You are both reading the same CRM. Somewhere between the form fill and the closed-won record, the lead source field stopped telling the truth. It is the smallest piece of infrastructure in […]
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B2G Lead Generation in 2026: How to Win More Government Contracts
Introduction You have a product a government agency clearly needs, and you cannot find a way in. Say you finally spot an opening. It arrives as a solicitation with a three-week response window, an incumbent who already knows the evaluator, and specifications that read like they were written around somebody else’s product. Because they usually […]
