What is Sales Cycle Length: Lead Generation B2B Metrics

Artsiom Baranouski
7 min readJul 31, 2023

The B2B marketing landscape is experiencing significant changes in lead generation methods in 2024. Many businesses experienced a sudden drop in lead flows and pipeline growth in 2023, followed by a delayed surge in demand during the summer.

For sure, the anticipated sales boost in autumn did not occur as in previous years, indicating a shift in market dynamics.

The Shifting B2B Marketing Landscape in 2024

Emerging markets are changing where and how the world does business. For the last three decades, they have been a source of low-cost but increasingly skilled labor. Their fast-growing cities are filled with millions of new and increasingly prosperous consumers, who provide a new growth market for global corporations at a time when much of the developed world faces slower growth. But the number of large companies from the emerging world will rise, as well, according to a report from McKinsey.

Source: Urban world: The shifting global business landscape | McKinsey

This research shows that the emerging economies’ share of Fortune Global 500 companies will probably jump to more than 45 percent by 2025, up from just 5 percent in 20001. That’s because while three-quarters of the world’s 8,000 companies with annual revenue of $1 billion or more are today based in developed economies, we forecast that an additional 7,000…

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Artsiom Baranouski

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