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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

Pointclear

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Maybe I was just sensitive.

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26 Personalization Statistics for the B2B Marketer

Zoominfo

In today’s marketing landscape, personalization has quickly become the gold standard—and for good reason! In this content-saturated marketplace, personalized marketing is the only way for companies to stand apart from the competition. Luckily, as technology advances, it’s easier for marketers to personalize their efforts. .

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Sentiment Analysis: A Primer for B2B Marketers

Zoominfo

‘Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. B2B products tend to be complex and more practical than flashy– so B2B organizations often value logic and reason over emotions. . But, emotions play a larger role in B2B purchase decisions than you may realize. Enter, sentiment analysis.

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Sentiment Analysis: A Primer for B2B Marketers

Zoominfo

‘Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. B2B products tend to be complex and more practical than flashy– so B2B organizations often value logic and reason over emotions. But, emotions play a larger role in B2B purchase decisions than you may realize. Enter, sentiment analysis.

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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

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B2B Guide to Brand Storytelling (With 9 Great Examples)

Zoominfo

Marketers often employ brand storytelling in campaigns containing creative narratives, showcasing a brand or its product in more relatable, human contexts. Brand storytelling is a staple of B2C content marketing, but it’s less common in the B2B world. Keep reading! ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust.

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Sales climate warming?

Sales 2.0

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. For many, this means learning new skills and processes—no more relying on a sales development team or their marketing department for all their leads. We will use fewer cold approach techniques.

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