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. Company Blog SEO’s best friend: the blog post.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

At ZoomInfo, we use gift-giving with our customers no matter where they are in the demand generation funnel. Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. 3 Quick Gifting Tips 1.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The rapid rise of generative AI has become the most captivating trend in the tech industry today. Prompted by predictions of massive economic impact and the disruption of multiple industries, professionals in many fields are assessing how this new breed of AI tools will complement and complicate their working lives.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But this abundance demands a focused, strategic approach to lead generation that minimizes wasted spending and drives meaningful results. Demand-Gen vs. Lead-Gen: The False Dichotomy The debate between demand-gen and lead-gen has become quite polarized. Sales enablement Includes playbooks, ROI tools, and battle cards 4.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

My colleague John Staples wrote a great blog on hiring the best talent. Structuring your team depends on your industry, your offering and your customer. Their goal is to know what resonates with buyers: Blog posts, webinars, white papers, etc. Generally, marketing leaders struggle with whether to outsource or use internal SMEs.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

SalesLoft

JANUARY 2, 2020

Sales blogs to go to for insight in every sales role, from sales professionals to sales managers to sales leaders — aside from Salesloft.com, of course! For Sales Professionals: The Sales Blog (Anthony Iannarino) | Anthony Iannarino is an international speaker, author, and sales leader. Not that we’re biased…).

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Lead Rank Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring Inside Sales 52

Pointclear

MAY 20, 2016

In the last blog we discussed the importance of driving revenue from all sources (inbound, nurture, outbound). In a recent blog post SiriusDecisions notes that organizations struggle to measure marketing’s contribution to, and influence on, sales pipeline. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue. Tier 3: SMB/Channel Accounts.

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Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 133

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Here are lessons from two of our key programs last year that we plan to incorporate into our 2021 demand generation strategy: Revamped Webinars. Then, during the summer, we launched a new series of events that were shorter, 20 to 30 minutes long, and focusing on broader industry topics.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

Without a comprehensive lead generation strategy, sales rejection of leads sticks around like a bad rash. This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 276

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. It builds your authority in the logistics industry and boosts inbound lead generation.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There’s a necessity behind re-strategizing go-to-market: 54% of GTM leaders report missing monthly revenue targets and 41% reported missing demand generation targets [source: Pavilion Pulse, Average in Q2 2023]. According to a State of the Industry Report by Crossbeam: ELG deals are 53% more likely to close. Efficiency.

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Conference Demand Generation Targets Account Based Marketing Scale 98

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

Without a comprehensive lead generation strategy, sales rejection of leads sticks around like a bad rash. This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

SBI Growth

APRIL 15, 2021

With new logo acquisitions increasingly scarce across industries, market-leading companies have had to reimagine how to go beyond the install base to optimize revenue generation. What is your plan for achieving your revenue target in 2021? SBI hosts multiple client advisory.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Mimic the workflow that sales would have to do if they didn’t have any support,” says Nina Wooten, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 9, 2021

For many industries and companies, the pandemic has changed sales and marketing forever. In some ways, the changes manifest accelerating trends that were already in motion, and in other ways, the changes are new, permanent disruptions. Of course, every disruption.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The average cost of a B2B sales lead varies by industry. 37% of B2B marketers are using marketing automation to generate leads ( source ). 81% of businesses report that their blog is important or critical in generating leads ( source ). B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than companies that don’t ( source ).

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

The Call to Action in this blog is visually attractive and promises value. This happened with one of my demand generation clients. We encouraged the sales reps to flood the industry with the competitors offer (a Gartner white paper). CMO’s can lead their team to greater results through Offer improvement.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The narrative of a small enterprise soaring to industry stardom is highly compelling. For additional insights on digital marketing strategies and trends, feel free to explore our blog. Small enterprises have unlocked customer engagement, demand generation, and increased conversion rates by harnessing online platforms’ power.

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Small Business Small Business Demand Generation Agencies Case Study 52

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

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. More content equals more insights into connections with these benefits: More precise targeting options for your demand generation campaigns.

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Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 317

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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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

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. More content equals more insights into connections with these benefits: More precise targeting options for your demand generation campaigns.

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Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 314

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

In many industries, COVID-19 has acted as an accelerator requiring organizations to get better at their weaknesses, and to get better at them fast. I found that Hubspot has been tracking this pretty well in their blog. Companies around the world are building and using “muscles,” or capabilities they’ve never had. Over 53,000.

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Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation 195

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. Lead Generation programs are fed by leads acquired through Demand Generation. As an industry leading solution they would be foolish not to include you. SEO keywords, most popular blog topics, and highest yield CTA’s yield key insights.

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Direct Mail Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

The prestigious CODiE Awards , hosted by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), recognize the companies producing the most innovative businesses technology products across the country, and around the world. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget. NEWTON, MA – JUNE 17, 2019: TechTarget, Inc.

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Account Based Marketing Engineering Ideal Customer Profile Account 50

Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 1, 2018

Truth be told, customer success storytelling is more than a content marketing and demand generation exercise. That is the power of Industry 4.0, the industrial Internet of Things business and operational ecosystem. Subscribe to my blog. Where are your organization’s hidden stories? Contact me.

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Customer Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Demand Generation 51

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is an average across all industries. Generate leads for your team through effective Demand Generation. This is the actual tool SBI’s blog teams use as a template. You can access an excellent blog on this topic by my peer Tony Zambito here. It is intended to provoke you into wanting to learn more.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Hiring Demand Generation 267

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

In many industries, COVID-19 has acted as an accelerator requiring organizations to get better at their weaknesses, and to get better at them fast. I found that Hubspot has been tracking this pretty well in their blog. Companies around the world are building and using “muscles,” or capabilities they’ve never had. Over 53,000.

Outbound 147

Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation 147

eGrabber

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The marketing/demand generation/lead generation teams are the ones that feed the sales pipeline with a steady flow of potential sales leads. But studies reveal that marketing teams are unable to generate sufficient sales leads to keep the salespeople busy. Manual Process – Time Consuming & Tedious.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Remedy 95

Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Would they be perfect to headline an industry conference and talk about how they use our platform? How to fix it: Give customer success managers industry guides to help them better understand their client’s business context, and to facilitate harder-hitting conversations that drive toward value building.

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Exercises Demand Generation Agencies How To ROI 245

Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The first step in vertical marketing is deciding which industries to target. Cast a broader net to look at propensity to buy in new industries where you might not have a foothold today. As you review your analysis, be careful of sorting exclusively to exceptionally large industries. If you market to verticals, sell to them too.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

As we conduct research across 19 different industries, patterns emerge. Content” means blogs, whitepapers, webinars, slide shares, tweets, reviews, eBooks, podcasts, case studies, etc. It generates leads by pulling people to your website (and in other ways). Over time, we see trends - some good, some unfortunate.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. I did the analysis by sizing the market, profiling potential clients and finding the industry influencers. What more could you possibly ask for?

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 86

Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Despite the counsel of leaders in this field—many of whom were quoted in this blog series—companies continue to waste marketing dollars, and sales continues to struggle to meet revenue goals.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

One way would be to adopt a practice that is usually embraced by certain industries, that is Continuing Education. Demand Generation. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Commentary on Sales Leadership: Dave Stein’s New Blog. Community Marketing Blog. From The Heart Sales Training Blog. Book Notice.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring Real Estate 253

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

Even if your sales team isn’t split up exactly like this, giving certain salespeople instructions on which specific part of the B2B lead generation process they’re responsible for is beneficial to creating a steady pipeline and keeping leads flowing. Tools Defining your ICP is essential, but it can also be time consuming.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

Review & discuss a new perspective, blog post or article you found. Matt Heinz brings more than 12 years of marketing, business development and sales experience from a variety of organizations, vertical industries and company sizes. Demand Generation. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Community Marketing Blog.

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Sales Meeting Pipeline Meeting Hiring 251

The Pipeline

MARCH 31, 2011

Social Selling University : the industry’s first collaborative program designed to educate sales professionals on how to leverage social media technologies and methodologies to increase sales productivity and drive revenue throughout the entire sales cycle. Demand Generation. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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Social Selling Webinar Metrics Pipeline Social Media 216