You don’t need more leads. You need better ones.

Enterprise teams—especially in Account-Based Marketing (ABM)—can’t afford to drown in junk form fills, misrouted prospects, and manual lead sorting. Sales time is expensive. And without the right infrastructure, that time gets burned on noise instead of nurturing real opportunities.

Here’s how we helped an enterprise client build a smarter lead qualification experience, drive sales alignment, and set the stage for scalable ABM growth.

Don’t Let Unqualified Leads Into the Funnel

The biggest threat to ABM isn’t your targeting. It’s your qualification strategy—or lack thereof.

In this client’s case, a tidal wave of low-quality leads was flooding the inbound funnel. Sales had to manually vet each submission post-form—burning precious hours on leads that weren’t even in the right state or company size.

So we changed the game at the front door:

• Built multi-step forms that embedded qualification questions
• Used conditional logic to sort leads by tier
• Redirected unqualified traffic to content, not the sales team
• Implemented Reform custom forms to design high-conversion, logic-driven forms that match ABM tiers and audience segments without needing dev cycles

“There are different levels of an unqualified lead—and you need paths for all of them. Some might influence others. Some should just self-nurture. But none should clog your BDR queue.”

Fast-Track Qualified Buyers While You Have Their Attention

If a lead hits your form with the right intent and fit, don’t wait to follow up. Route them directly to a calendar booking experience with their assigned rep. The best time to book a call is while they’re still on the page—not three nurture emails later.

For this client, that meant:

• Using progressive profiling to dynamically adapt form fields based on known user data
• Connecting qualified leads to real-time scheduling links
• Routing form data through an integrated stack—using Reform for real-time segmentation and pushing enriched data into CRM workflows.

Qualification Is Routing. But It’s Also Strategy.

Here’s what most teams miss: ABM isn’t just about who you target—it’s about what you do with the people who don’t fit.

We built three paths:

1. Disqualified → Send to relevant content and exit the funnel
2. Influencers → Enroll in a nurture sequence (word-of-mouth matters in B2B)
3. Qualified buyers → Book directly with sales

That’s how you create a frictionless, intelligent funnel—one that gets smarter over time.

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In theory, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) sounds like a no-brainer.

Personalized campaigns. Sales-marketing alignment. Focused revenue growth.

In practice, it’s usually chaos.

That’s especially true when enterprises with multiple business units and fragmented tech stacks try to roll out ABM org-wide.

In this episode, we’re breaking down a smarter playbook—one that FunnelEnvy used with a global B2B org to build alignment, improve lead quality, and prove ABM value through a tightly scoped pilot.

Don’t Start with a Rollout. Start with the Problem.

This enterprise didn’t come to us asking “how do we run ABM?”

They came asking: how do we fix the disconnect between our sales and marketing?

Sales had long been identifying and prioritizing accounts on their own, handing them off to marketing like an afterthought. The result? Reactive campaigns. Mismatched goals. Low respect for marketing-sourced leads.

ABM was just the wrapper for the real goal: better alignment and impact.

Step One: Scope Down the Chaos

Company-wide rollout? Not a chance.

Different teams used the CRM differently. No global data rules. No shared processes.

Trying to deploy ABM across the org would’ve crushed progress under politics and confusion. So we scoped it down:

• A single business unit
• A subset of the account list
• A few willing sales reps (aka champions)

That made it possible to:

• Test CRM workflows and lead routing logic
• Roll out new sequences and touchpoints
• Get buy-in through results, not slide decks

The Invisible ABM Experience Sales Actually Wants

You know an ABM program is working when sales doesn’t even notice it.

With the right setup, ABM should remove work from the sales team:

• Pre-qualified leads
• Pre-built sequences
• Standardized touchpoints

The pilot was designed to give sales what they wanted: better conversations with real buyers, not more manual follow-up. 

“The best ABM campaigns take work off the sales team’s plate by normalizing touch points and using data to guide the next best action.”

Run the Campaigns That Already Work

Here’s where most marketers go wrong: They default to status quo campaigns: LinkedIn ads, generic outreach, broad nurturing.

We started with what already performed: webinars.

Not because they were easy. Because they worked.

We dug through historical campaign data and found:

• High-intent leads came from live events
• Webinars supported complex, high-ACV sales cycles
• Education-based engagement > ad impressions

So that’s what the pilot focused on: warming accounts through high-touch, educational experiences before the buying window.

Qualify Leads Through the Form, Not the BDR

Unqualified leads were a known issue.

The fix is to just add qualification into the form experience.

That meant:

• Streamlined, multi-step forms
• Embedded qualification questions
• Logic-based routing tied to buyer fit and intent

Not only did this improve lead quality, it reduced manual sales effort. And yes—we built this with a Reform Custom Form as part of the stack.

Want to See the Full Breakdown?

This blog only scratches the surface of what we covered.

Watch Part 1 of the conversation between Arun and David to go deeper into how to:

• Align cross-functional teams on ABM goals
• Roll out campaigns without disrupting the org
• Build a pilot that earns buy-in and scales the right way

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