Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. B2B Lead Generation Sources.

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Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms. So, it pays to ask: How do B2B buyers search for tech solutions and how can you ensure you’re there, at every stage of their buyer’s journey? B2B Buyer Behavior.

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 13, 2020

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? Your buyers interact with your marketing in one moment, but they make the decision to buy in the future. That means the messages and assets you create must stick in your buyer’s mind long enough to influence their purchase decision. Why Most B2B Marketing is Forgettable.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan. Download the 2014 B2B Demand Generation Planning template here to get started. B2B Demand Generation – Building a Base Plan. This research includes accurate buyer personas and buyer process maps.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our B2B blog, you already know the drill. Direct Dials: The Secret to B2B Sales Success. If we told you just one direct dial phone number could help your sales team generate a million dollars in revenue, you probably wouldn’t believe us. B2B marketing often gets a bad rap. Continue Reading.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What Is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What does a “good lead” look like anyway?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

B2B sales prospecting is a stage of the sales process that involves looking for potential buyers, customers, or clients, and then nurturing those relationships as a way to convert them into new business. Sales Prospecting in the Age of Buyer Empowerment. 56% of companies have created higher quality leads using buyer personas.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. Buyer Personas Don’t Create Urgency to Change.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Build Multiple Buyer Personas.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 19, 2022

B2B sales are not transactional. 15:42] We have to make it easier to buy from us, and knowing our buyers better helps us do that. [18:18] a next-generation, AI-powered, SaaS platform for B2B sales and marketing. Click to tweet. It all starts with redefining the sales mindset. 12:47] … being able to hire the right mindset.

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MarketJoy

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Fit: This is the part of the lead qualification process that is based on specific buyer personas or information like job title, industry, company revenue, geography, and so on. Marketing and sales can agree on who a qualified buyer is based on these criteria. There are two key elements you can use to qualify a lead. They are: 1.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Build Multiple Buyer Personas.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

Vendor Neutral

JUNE 15, 2021

Can Drive Massive Growth For Your B2B Sales Organization. A Customer-Centric Framework Can Drive Massive Growth for Your B2B Sales Org. Join our free webinar to learn what sales approach actually engages buyers and makes them willing to have valuable conversations. How A Customer -Centric Framework. REGISTER NOW.

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Mereo

JUNE 30, 2022

At a B2B selling organization, your value messaging is your flavor — while your buyer-facing professionals take the role of melting ice cubes. A buyer may expect one “flavor” of your company they “tasted” on one platform, to be shocked by the “flavor” they find elsewhere. 28% said they lost more than $10 million.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It may be a fool’s errand to predict what B2B marketing strategies will emerge in 2019, but trendwatching is an important skill for business leaders across all industries. B2B industries already automate a range of processes in order to streamline workloads and increase productivity to great success? Video soars.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

B2B Marketing teams are seeing fruit from their investment in content marketing to fuel Lead Generation efforts; 2-3x increase in the quantity of inbound leads. If you haven’t yet implemented Content Marketing into your B2B marketing team, you can catch up. Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

1. B2B Revenue Leadership. If you’re interested in B2B revenue leadership this is the show for you. This Podcast is focused on leadership in the B2B space to drive revenue by using the most modern and scientific approaches. Without further ado, let’s jump into it. The Ultimate List of Sales Podcasts. Listen here.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

We’ve bucketed B2B data into 4 categories: Firmographic data (Marketing’s favorite). According to the same Demand Gen Report , 68% of Marketers have the goal of targeting more specific segments for better engagement in 2019. Industries. Job function and area of responsibility (Sales’ favorite). Seniority level.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. That’s why we’re the only vendor in the world that has the ability to create a very successful B2B marketing platform.”

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Allego

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Heather brings almost 15 years of experience in the marketing industry. A New Generation of B2B Buyers B2B buyers ’ needs have changed dramatically in recent years. Understanding and meeting buyers’ needs will take experimentation and testing of new tactics, messaging, and channels.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. To do this, you must first create an ideal buyer persona/s.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

(Nasdaq: TTGT), the global leader in B2B technology purchase intent data and services today announced that its IT Deal Alert Priority Engine™ platform won two 2019 CODiE Awards in the Best Account Based Marketing Solution and the Best Sales and Marketing Intelligence Solution categories. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. For some, a market means a user or buyer persona. Think of them as industry analysts for your vertical/horizontal market segments (with no direct product responsibility). There are the obvious things product management does.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Product Marketing may be one of the most misunderstood and undervalued functions as evidenced by the fact that so many B2B organizations still don’t have it. The reality of what product marketing actually does should easily justify its existence in every B2B organization. Here’s the funny part. 3 Product Marketing Myths.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We have seen firsthand the power that customer advocates wield in B2B buyers’ decisions in our own sales cycles, as well as those of our customers. If you like stats, here are just a few that tell the story in B2B. Peer recommendations are influencing more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. SiriusDecisions).

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 3, 2018

Nurture closed-dead B2B sales opportunities. We’ve found that a lot of sales organizations are still waiting until buyers are most of the way through the funnel to engage with them. Buyers are already mid-way through their buying process before they ever engage with a salesperson. When they went dark for reasons unknown.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. But all is not lost.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

My presentation, “Customer 2.0, ” focused on how the buyer has changed and has more power than ever before. The new buyer interacts with an organization when he or she is ready (not before), does the vast majority of research online without the vendor’s help, is distracted, and so forth. Buyers buy from people they like (and respect).

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2022

Field work went away because events went away, and field sales and outside sales all went away or went inside,” says Nina Wooten, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. The Best Times to Make Sales Calls: Time-Tested Advice Sales industry experts have spent years trying to determine the best times and days to make sales calls.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. Don’t run ads on the weekend If you’re a B2B company, prospects are primarily searching for you while they’re at work. But how do you know if that’s a good move?

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

What is lead generation? Lead generation can be a mix of inbound or outbound techniques aimed at attracting potential customers to your product or service. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. Cognism provides accurate mobile phone numbers and B2B emails. The best part?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. What happens when you turn suspects into prospects?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 100

SalesLoft

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Make It Happen Sales Blog (John Barrows) | Posts from John Barrows, leading B2B sales trainer and founder of JBarrows Consulting. Follow trending techniques and hear from industry experts. Predictable Revenue Blog | Read about the latest B2B Sales Trends on the Predictable Revenue Blog. For Sales Managers & Sales Reps.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

B2B Revenue Leadership If you’re interested in B2B revenue leadership this is the show for you. From the founder of “The Brutal Truth About Sales & Selling” and “Sales Questions, Brutally Honest Answers” podcast, this show is focused on leadership in the B2B space to drive revenue by using the most modern and scientific approaches.

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Showpad

JANUARY 3, 2019

They provide sales reps with a change of scenery to reset, expand their knowledge, and meet industry experts from across the globe. Unleash brings sales leaders from across the world together for three days of networking and informative keynotes and breakouts from forward-thinking industry leaders. Forrester B2B Marketing & Sales.

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Pointclear

JULY 7, 2015

My question to you and top industry experts is this: As we enter the second half of 2015, have companies made the adjustments necessary to utilize lead scoring or is the status quo killing results? The Flawed B2B Approach. Three flaws: B2B lead scoring focuses on individuals vs. groups. We couldn’t agree more, Trish.

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