Templates

• The marketing and sales SLA: definitions, response times and the handoff rules: A service level agreement between marketing and sales is a short document both teams sign: what counts as each stage, what marketing commits to deliver, how fast sales responds and works each lead, what happens to leads sales rejects, and the weekly review that keeps both honest. Fill in the brackets with your own definitions and numbers.
• Lead scoring that sales believes: fit, intent and decay, with a scoring sheet: A lead score sales trusts has two parts kept apart: fit, for who the lead is, and intent, for what they did lately, with intent points halving over time. This sheet lists the attributes and behaviors to score, a points column to fill in, the rules for setting the threshold, and a calculator that shows how a lead's score decays toward the line.
• The demand gen dashboard: fifteen metrics, their definitions, their sources and the weekly review: Fifteen metrics in four rows, from spend to revenue, each with its formula, where it comes from and how often to look at it. The dashboard is built for one weekly meeting: what moved, why, and what changes this week. Download the definitions as CSV to build it in your own reporting tool.

• Marketing attribution models: first touch, last touch, linear, W-shaped and data-driven, compared on one B2B deal: First touch, last touch, linear, U-shaped, W-shaped and data-driven attribution models compared, with the credit math worked on one $100,000 deal.
• CAC payback benchmarks for B2B: by ACV band, motion and growth rate: The median B2B SaaS CAC payback was 16 months in 2025, 10 months for the fastest quarter. Benchmarks by ACV band, growth rate and the gross-margin formula.
• MQL to SQL conversion rate benchmarks and B2B funnel conversion rates by stage: B2B SaaS MQL to SQL conversion runs about 38%, or 26% to 51% by channel. Stage benchmarks, definitions and worked math for each funnel step.
• LinkedIn ads benchmarks: CPC, CPL and CTR by objective, from published data: LinkedIn ads benchmarks: the median B2B advertiser paid $376 per lead in 2025, against a $202 spend-weighted figure, with a $9.39 CPC and 0.67% CTR.
• Average B2B Sales Cycle Length by Deal Size and Segment: B2B sales cycles run from within 14 days under $2,000 ACV to 6 to 18+ months over $500,000. Gong data puts a $97k average deal at 69 days.

• Guides (4): Explanations of the ideas demand teams argue about, with the definitions and the numbers on the table.
• Calculators (5): Each calculator shows its formula and a worked example before you touch an input, so you can check the arithmetic by hand.
• Funnel benchmarks (5): Stage-by-stage conversion, cost and cycle numbers from published sources, with the median, the middle half and where each number came from.
• Playbooks (6): Programs written as steps, each ending in the number it should move and how to read it.
• Methods (3): How to measure: attribution, scoring, service levels between marketing and sales, and the definitions behind them.
• Glossary (12): The words of pipeline work, defined once, the way this site uses them.
• Tools (11): every calculator and template, with its formula and a worked example.
• Agencies: demand and pipeline agencies, listed alphabetically and never ranked, with facts from their own pages.
• Voices: what practitioners published that a reader can learn from, with our take.

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