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Marketing funnel

The marketing funnel represents a prospect’s progression from Awareness (top of funnel), to Interest and Consideration (middle of the funnel), and finally to Intent or Purchase (bottom of the funnel).

In B2B, the marketing funnel is how businesses guide prospects through the buyer journey, from the moment the prospect becomes aware of a product to the point of purchase and beyond. It requires a mix of content, education, personalized engagement, and close collaboration between marketing and sales teams to move leads down the funnel. Longer and more complex sales processes make understanding and optimizing the B2B funnel critical for driving conversions, increasing revenue, and retaining customers.

Increasingly, in B2B and B2C, prospects do more of their own research before raising their hand to request a demo or make a purchase, which makes parsing intent signals even more important.

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