SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. Marketing managers enthusiastically produce PowerPoint decks to showcase their contribution to the sales pipeline. But does the sales leader share this enthusiasm?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Early successes we’ve noted include assistance in analyzing campaign performance, creation of email sequences that reflect the company brand, and the summarization of core content into derivative assets, such as video scripts and social media posts. We are in a really unique position as a company and with an offering to fuel that.”

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What Is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. What is a Lead?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Top of Funnel 208

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A simple buyer persona may look something like this: A 25-35-year-old female, working in marketing at a company of 500+ employees, who has ‘specialist’ in her job title. The importance of buyer personas for B2B companies Buyer personas are a marketer’s best friend. 36% of companies have created shorter sales cycles using personas.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2011, Scott Brinker compiled the first of many marketing technology “Supergraphics,” illustrating the rapid growth of companies supplying digital marketing tools. “We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. What is a Marketing Technology Stack?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. Company transformation. Offer expansion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. The result?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 12, 2012

These agencies claim benefits of having a team of highly trained and college educated writers. It’s in a sense, a new department in your company. It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. This is not the only benefit of producing quality content.

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SBI Growth

JULY 12, 2013

The CEO may even be considering moving marketing under sales. At least the Sales team is carrying a number. Heidi Goff, CMO of a Fortune 1000 company recently shared her top 10 priorities. This included leveraging a Sales Productivity Benchmark (SPB) conducted by Sales Benchmark index. The CMO Top Ten.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Millions of companies crowd the B2B universe, vying for the same share of business. As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

SBI’s content marketing offering has helped companies produce the content that buyers seek. It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. Measurement and feedback loops.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

Plagued by Sales Rep turnover? This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Think about boosting your company’s bottom line by $10M a year. Here’s a sales rep turnover example. Your Company. Pay and benefits.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Bad decisions can cause your company to miss the number. Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. Again and again, we encounter sales leaders who are certain they know their customers. Without researching how customers make a purchase decision, your sales force could be misaligned.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. In their simplest form, market segments are how companies describe themselves. Becoming a $1 billion company is a financial “goal” not a strategy. Here’s how this approach benefits your entire organization. It runs the gamut.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 3, 2013

Today’s content approach for most companies is out of date. World-class companies are adopting new content marketing processes. Step 3: Wordsmith gymnastics is applied to transition features to benefits. The art of transforming company self-talk into digestible content used to work. Traditional sales support literature.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. The path to success for year a B2B CMO’s year one includes: Generate quick wins to build momentum. The quick wins will build credibility with sales and the CEO. How long is your honeymoon?

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

Mindtickle

MAY 4, 2022

But most companies don’t have an ideal rep profile to map out the skills and competencies that their sales reps need to nurture those prospects, close deals, and convert them into paying customers. Companies need to identify the skills through which their top-performing salespeople excel. Product knowledge. Prospecting.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Negotiation 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. Company transformation. Offer expansion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? This week I interview Matt Benati , Founder & CEO of LeadGnome.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too. Organizational Goals.

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InsightSquared

MAY 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Outreach , the #1 Sales Engagement Platform, is sponsoring Ramp 2019, the revenue ops event of the year! We are seeing more and more high-growth companies experiment and implement a revenue operations model—including Outreach. When done right, those companies experience the benefits.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However, it was when I had the opportunity to build a sales organization that my perspective and point of view shifted dramatically. Turns out, the leads weren't good, the process was backwards, and sales was shouldering all the burden. If targeted correctly, every one of those accounts can benefit from your solution.

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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. If you go into a meeting and immediately talk about your product or service—its features, benefits, and advantages—you’re setting yourself up for failure. REGISTER NOW. Our Panelists.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Managing a dispersed sales team is a unique challenge. Why are some companies thriving in the current environment while others are falling behind? The secret is modern sales enablement. Today’s winners are mastering virtual selling with an up-to-date approach to content, tools, and knowledge to help their sales teams succeed.

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Women Sales Pros

JULY 27, 2018

Transparency: Details of the process, benefits to the client and expectations are communicated consistently, and often, along the referral lifecycle timeline. Asking Promoter clients (NPS score: 9 or 10) for referrals is given, yet shockingly few companies proactively add this method to their sales process.

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SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

Kathy is the CMO of an emerging software company. She has helped build the company with superb demand generation efforts. There’s a substantial difference in the CPL between companies with and without common definitions.” Aligning with Sales is as important as measuring ROI of Inbound. Top Insights.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

For the first four years of my software career, I was a pre-sales solution consultant, a.k.a. The Product Positioning School of Hard Knocks Early in my pre-sales demo career, I had some demos where my audience was totally engaged and it felt like I hit it out of the park. Luckily, I figured it out early on in my pre-sales career!

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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. Reduced overall sales cycles. Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. Identify the pain and communicate the benefits of the solution.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Have You Read The Sales Book About? Sales eXchange – 121. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. The trend I am seeing at a number of companies goes beyond that.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Like a number of our clients, they are moving towards a stronger sales-led oriented culture, recognizing the benefit of higher growth rates across all parts of the organization. We immediately saw the benefit of their doing so and gladly helped. They sat in the regional office with a sales team of six to 10 people.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2023

A few years ago, companies looking to expand into new markets and territories might see a big budget as the surest sign of a serious campaign. At ZoomInfo, our demand generation team engages hundreds of thousands of global customers and prospects every month using our MarketingOS platform.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

The post Sales Strategy: What’s Most Effective? When you think about it, an effective sales strategy is all about making sure that your reps hit their quota, right? A Forrester Research study revealed that only 15 percent of sales calls add enough value, according to executives surveyed. A Great Message!

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Mereo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

JAY MITCHELL REMEMBERS INDECISIVE BUYERS AND HOPES FOR A 2024 RAMP-UP As trusted advisors to dozens of companies, we at Mereo get to see market and economic trends from not only individual companies but on a macro-level. One of the major AI challenges faced by sales and marketing teams was the issue of the quality.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Most businesses, whether they are small, large, brand new or established, are turning to more high tech sales tactics to gain and retain customers. This of course is an important part of marketing and sales. Due to this shift, more traditional sales practices have been rendered moot. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.

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