Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. But, if there’s one trend that signals what the future of marketing will look like – it’s the rise of virtual and augmented reality. But, here are a few of the most important benefits for B2B marketers: 1.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your book of business, craft a well-calculated marketing plan, add more places of interest on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads back to your company. The marketing plan lays the groundwork for your team to go forth and execute. Have you made your 2018 marketing plan yet?

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

We have run into many B2B websites lately that do not work well on mobile devices. There are still some things that differentiate a B2B (business-to-business) transaction from B2C (business to consumer). There are still some things that differentiate a B2B (business-to-business) transaction from B2C (business to consumer).

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 23, 2023

Somebody wanted to talk to me about the consumerization of B2B buying and selling. The sender had the position that, “most B2B transactions like buying, selling, and customer onboarding will feel the same as B2C transactions today – asynchronous, delightful, and quick.” What are these B2B transactions?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Segment Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 204

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Especially in the B2B Realm?). Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels. Reimagining Sales Coverage.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 15, 2023

Last week’s Forrester B2B Summit in Austin, Texas brought together revenue leaders, Forrester analysts, and rev-tech vendors to share their insights and strategies for revenue excellence. Sales leaders should assign DSRs to solve problems such as substandard buying experiences, inefficient sales processes, and longer buying cycles.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Why do we still talk about marketing and sales alignment? In this Expert Insight Interview, Darrell Amy discusses how we can create alignment between sales and marketing by making them both focus on the revenue growth engine. The truth is, people do not buy products or services, but the outcomes those products or services provide them.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 130

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Corporate Visions, Inc. Teaser: If you believe the hype around studies that say customers feel they are through 60 percent (or more) of the buying cycle before engaging a salesperson, you could be giving your salespeople the wrong content for the wrong conversation.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Since 2015, research by Demandbase has indicated that most marketers believe account-based marketing (ABM) is a “must have.” Deeper Integrations Between Sales and Marketing. B2C salespeople and marketers have focused on customer experience for years. It’s about time B2B professionals caught up.

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 6, 2020

The post Marketing is Moving Further Down the Sales Funnel by Leslie Talbot appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re a marketer, you’re responsible for more of the buying journey than ever before. In 2012, CEB noted that B2B buyers weren’t contacting suppliers directly until 57 percent of the purchase process was complete.

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LeadBoxer

JULY 18, 2021

B2B companies rely on customer experience for conversion rates. This will also improve your marketing focus and accomplish your business goals. This article will cover the best practices for B2B lead generation. Read on or jump ahead to these topics: Distinguishing Between B2B and B2C. What is Lead Management?

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

Go-to-market efficiency is a hot topic for companies looking to succeed in the current market. They rely on ZoomInfo throughout their sales cycle for comprehensive data about accounts they’re targeting — and new accounts that can expand their market.

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MarketJoy

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Because closing a B2B sale requires you to connect and convince not just one buyer, but several of them. And according to one report from Harvard Business Review , the number of people involved in B2B solutions purchases has climbed from an average of 5.4 Now the question is how can you convince people and boost your B2B Sales?

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 11, 2021

Ever been asked what you do as a marketer? A marketing job description can go in many directions depending on which part of marketing you cover. But one overall goal of a marketing team stays the same–the job of a team of marketers is to help businesses build valuable, personal relationships with their customers.

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Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say webinars are the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ).

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MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. As a marketer or salesperson, how can you use these tools and channels to your advantage? This white paper will give you a road map for how to attract more customers and win more deals in a rapidly changing B2B landscape.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management. Buying cycles are changing.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Cross-Functional Alignment Your go-to-market strategy depends on alignment.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. I encourage you to visit and explore the entire post in which Hugh suggests that leaders should adopt these six sales and marketing strategies in 2012: 1.

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Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Strategy Lead Nurturing 170

Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2022

Go-to-market (GTM) tech stacks are complicated — and for good reason. Modern sales and marketing teams need various tools to help them do their jobs. Today, about 54% of B2B businesses say poor data quality is their biggest challenge. But marketing, sales, and operations teams don’t work in cloud data warehouses.

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Lead Rank Buying Cycle 130

SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged with a vendor 57% of the way through their buying cycle. The reason was simple.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. Despite their resurgence, however, tradeshows can result in a bottomless pit of wasted marketing dollars.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2015

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” As a result, the sales professional is key in helping customer initiate the buying cycle.

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Buying Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Customer Education 48

Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Segment Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 100

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

Ultimately, door-to-door sales representatives and marketers have the same goal—to understand each prospect’s wants, needs, and pain points in order to sell them a product. In today’s blog post, we explore the different lessons marketers can learn from door-to-door salespeople to better nurture leads through the sales funnel.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Here’s a snapshot of buying signals. Let’s break that down.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Especially In The B2B Realm?) Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

For instance, according to Gartner, B2B buyers spend only 17% of the total purchase journey with sales reps. And 44% of millennials prefer no sales rep interaction at all in a B2B setting. What about the customer success manager who must ensure a flawless customer buying process? This makes the sales rep’s job easier.

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Showpad

MAY 3, 2019

Research tells us that experiences play a large (and growing) role in the purchase decisions of B2B buyers , even more than other factors like product and price. While many elements factor into the experiences a customer has with your company, experiences are primarily driven by your marketing and sales organizations.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But in how many times have they actually done this, this case how many times have they gone through a buying cycle? The average B2B rep may do 10, 20 30, more deals a year, meaning that they will have initiated and gone through some portion of a sales cycle, two, three or four times their deal number.

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MarketJoy

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Because closing a B2B sale requires you to connect and convince not just one buyer, but several of them. And according to one report from Harvard Business Review , the number of people involved in B2B solutions purchases has climbed from an average of 5.4 Now the question is how can you convince people and boost your B2B Sales?

B2B 49

B2B Referrals How To Buying Cycle 49

Pointclear

AUGUST 16, 2018

It may seem counter intuitive, but there are three key reasons why B2B companies need to pay more—not less—attention to opportunities not yet ready to close: 1. Often hot leads are really buying companies that have already been sold by another vendor. Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI.

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