Meeting qualification
Meeting qualification is the set of criteria a booked meeting must satisfy to count as 'qualified': typically right account, right authority, and a plausible path to a commercial conversation. It is the honesty layer of any meetings-based engagement.
Why it matters
'Meetings delivered' is only as meaningful as its definition; loose qualification lets a vendor hit targets with conversations that can never become revenue. Agreeing the bar upfront protects both sides and makes cross-channel comparison fair.
The number
The 24–26 meetings-per-month client result in the ThePod.fm Benchmarks counts qualified meetings only. The definition is part of the published methodology.
See the full benchmark, methodology, and counting rules →
How to do it well
- Fix the qualification bar in writing before the engagement starts: account criteria, title bands, and what disqualifies.
- Qualify at booking time, not retroactively: a pipeline review is the wrong place to discover half the meetings don't count.
- Track disqualified meetings too; a rising disqualification rate is an early warning on list quality.
- Resist inflating the bar mid-stream to suppress a vendor's numbers, or lowering it to flatter your own.
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