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Best of 2017: Top 10 Blog Articles of the Year

SBI

The Sales Tech space has grown dramatically as evidenced by the publication of our 2017 Sales Tech Landscape with 500 solutions. The buzz words for the year were predictive analytics, AI, ABM, ABS, and Coaching. Here are some of Smart Selling Tools stats for 2017: Published over 100 articles on our blog.

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6 Questions to Ask When Creating Your Email Marketing Budget

Zoominfo

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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AI’s Role In Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI trillion to the U.S.

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It’s Time to Pay Marketers Based On Their Financial Impact

Sales and Marketing Management

Business leaders need to be able to meet a marketer or PR pro and say the same thing. The commission model for marketers. As a former CMO and CCO in large technology companies, I’ve worked closely with a lot of marketing teams and agencies. Those same marketers received sizable discretionary bonuses as a result.

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Marketing Automation Vendors Are Not Delivering On Marketers’ Needs For Reporting And Analytics. Here’s Why.

InsightSquared

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer. Here’s why: It’s complex and hard to get right.

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BEYOND IT: The Breadth of DiscoverOrg’s Sales & Marketing Intelligence

DiscoverOrg Sales

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. The proliferation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing created huge changes to the software market. Why are we jumping into these other markets with such fervor?

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InsightSquared’s Dreamforce 2017 Sessions for Sales & Sales Operations Professionals

InsightSquared

Last week, our CMO Joe Chernov explained why InsightSquared is going “all-in” at Dreamforce 2017. Mike Wolff, SVP, Commercial Sales, at Salesforce, Adrian Rosenkranz, Head of SMB Marketing at Salesforce, Peri McDonald, Regional Vice President, Customer Success at Salesforce and Fred Shilmover, co-founder and CEO of InsightSquared.