SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Here’s How Marketing Teams Can Win More With Revenue Intelligence. Specifically for marketing teams, Gong helps to: Hear the voice of the customer. Understand what happens to leads in the funnel (Demand Generation teams). Monitor how new messaging is landing in the field (Product Marketing teams). Just For Sales?

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Product Management University

APRIL 17, 2024

If you want to create a revenue plan with sales that gives you a more realistic chance of hitting your revenue targets, give some thought to a broader market strategy where each product plays a role versus a marketing plan for each product. If you’re in product marketing, you know all too well how this works.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In a previous article, I talked about what often breaks in companies and sales organizations when scaling from Seed to Series A. On the other hand, marketing teams are supported by PR agencies, web developers, design and brand firms, performance marketing agencies, etc. In sales, we tell our managers and reps to figure it out.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 29, 2013

Marketing has plans to help with better Demand Generation and Lead Management. To this end, sales leaders have reached across the aisle and engaged Marketing. Marketing has big plans. People are starting to understand the science of increasing interest and demand. This article is for the senior sales leader.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2013

For example, you may recognize that you have a massive demand generation problem. Will it strengthen your position in the market? My colleague Dan Perry wrote an excellent article on sequence. Dan cites the example of a sales VP facing a decline in revenue. Probability of Success. Possible Return.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Think of this article as a holiday gift. Accompanying each is a link to an article where you can learn more. Ignoring Content Marketing. Take the simple example of Marketing Automation technology. It can be wonderful for helping you stimulate and manage latent sales demand. Are you ahead of the curve?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. Buyer personas can be a big help in aligning marketing and sales around a launch. You Have Entered New Markets. Have you expanded into new geographic or vertical markets? You know this already.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 26, 2013

Sales leaders recognize that marketing has a role. The purpose of this article is for Marketing leaders to; 1. Marketing dollars spent with agencies are multitudes greater than what a sales leader typically spends with 3 rd parties. The sales leader has difficulty seeing the marketing spend as prudent.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Over the last few months, marketers have witnessed one of the biggest changes to LinkedIn’s professional social network since its inception. The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. New to LinkedIn. Endorsements.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. 1) Outreach.io

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Over the last few months, marketers have witnessed one of the biggest changes to LinkedIn’s professional social network since its inception. The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. New to LinkedIn. Endorsements.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 24, 2011

Marketing-Sales Alignment. Much has been written about the Marketing-Sales chasm. That’s why I was struck by a post by Christine Crandell in the Forbes blog on how Marketing and Sales can gain alignment. In that post, four techniques were offered to assist in aligning the Marketing and Sales effort.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As a marketer, you are happy with your campaign since you’ve spent months planning and executing. You nurtured your relationship, demonstrating value through your content—blog articles, emails, webinars. You now have access to real-time data, which allows you to define how effective your marketing strategy was. What was the ROI?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This of course is an important part of marketing and sales. Companies are using this as a reason to focus all of their sales tactics and marketing dollars to the Internet. Probably the most dynamic and important traditional marketing strategy is person to person marketing. And for the most part, it feels like it is.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Other examples of technology that make it easier than ever to connect include calendar and scheduling platforms. What all these examples have in common is that they use technology to simplify processes, thus adapting to a world that expects a more simple solution. Step 1: Open Google calendar or comparable scheduling software.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales?

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SalesHandy

AUGUST 3, 2020

Somewhat similar to affiliate marketing, a lead generation business generates leads and sells existing products and services for a fee. In the United States alone, there are over 30 million small businesses that generate trillions of dollars in revenues combined. Interested in starting your own lead generation business?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Who currently have job openings for marketing help. I would recommend three things to other sales managers: Three sales prospecting techniques are cold calling, lead generation, and referral marketing. This article will discuss how to identify potential customers by employing various tactics. That spend money on Adwords.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2013

The other day, Paul Dunay tweeted about an article on “The Death Of Marketing.” It seems this time of year brings out lots of articles pronouncing the “Death Of Something Or Other.” As an example, US manufacturing has gone through huge transformations. So will sales and marketing die?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

Identify Your Market – Find a market that interests and excites you; a market you’re comfortable with and knowledgeable about. Some examples are: Close-out Sale, Scratch and Dent Sale, Half Price Sale, Birthday Sale, My Dog Maxx’s Birthday Sale, Free 30-Day Trial. Great article! This is done in many places.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

For example, Ferrer explains, Sales Ops might determine your salespeople are moving too quickly through the discovery stage of the sales process — and hurting close rates. Sales Ops also uses internal performance data, along with external market and competitor research , to craft sales strategy and achieve sales goals.

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InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In this article: About My Guest — Blake Johnston, CEO of The Outbound View. Outbound View is a sales and marketing consultancy firm that primarily focuses on outbound marketing strategies, appointment setting, inbound marketing strategies, and demand generation. What Is Inside Sales? Bites Toward Action.

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Costello

AUGUST 16, 2018

When sales teams think about personas, many jump straight to job title and the role that the individual holds in the organization (like a marketing manager versus a vice president of marketing, for example). In fact, personas vastly span demographics.”. 4 Keys to Consider When Developing Top Personas.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

For example, get so-called leads from mailings, trade shows, advertising, networking, newsletters, and speaking. Every sales manager should check out this article to learn that they are creating this problem by actually encouraging these myths and costing sales by wasting time and taking an emotional toll. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

Good article and good food for thought. For example, if the last eight plant managers you sold to placed a higher value on R&D and willing to pay a premium for that, then I think it is safe to use that as a talking point with the next plant manager you prospect. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

What can you quickly achieve to demonstrate your skills and start leading by example? Our co-founder and president, Ed Calnan, is a great leader in this regard and is always pushing the organization’s sales leaders to lead by example and appeal to individual needs. RELATED: How To Manage A Sales Team: 12 Expert Tips For Success.

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Gong.io

APRIL 10, 2018

Following along with the example…. A 20% close rate means you need 40 qualified opportunities to enter your pipeline (if we’re still using the same example as above), since 40 * 20% = 8 closed deals. Each of those opportunities must be generated early enough so they can be closed within the quarter in question.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We were talking about how to open up an account we had never sold to — one of the world’s largest shipping companies — and she said, “I got hold of their Director of Marketing, and there’s no opportunity right now, so I’m not going to focus on that account for a while.”. Let me give you a recent example. So, what was the miss, you ask?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Your article started well but you got lost in HR policy with the C group. First is around who gets training; there are plenty of examples where people in the same department or function get training, or attend events, or any number of things that their colleagues do not get ever or at the current time. Demand Generation.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. The alignment is both quantity and quality-driven, as measured by the conversion rates of the leads generated. The alignment is both quantity and quality-driven, as measured by the conversion rates of the leads generated.

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Gong.io

APRIL 10, 2018

Following along with the example…. A 20% close rate means you need 40 qualified opportunities to enter your pipeline (if we’re still using the same example as above), since 40 * 20% = 8 closed deals. Each of those opportunities must be generated early enough so they can be closed within the quarter in question.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’ve worked at a B2B company that uses an ABM strategy for their Go To Market and has an SDR team you have inevitably run into the problem of lead attribution. In this article, we’ll discuss the fallacies of current attribution models and propose a better alternative. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem.

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Green Lead's B2B

MAY 26, 2010

Since I was spouting all about LinkedIn at Chris Brogan's New Marketing Experience last month, he has recently been on a LinkedIn crusade to find all the tips and tricks burried inside. Although I love taking a little credit, his recent articles have been full of LinkedIn Goodness.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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