BuzzBoard

APRIL 5, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Content Marketing in Lead Nurturing for Small Businesses The significance of content marketing in nurturing leads for small businesses is profoundly essential. Globally recognized, content marketing forms the crux of successful lead-nurturing strategies. Begin by empathizing with the customers.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

Strategy 52

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

Strategy 52

Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

BuzzBoard

APRIL 16, 2024

Explaining the Importance of Lead Generation Strategies for Digital Marketing Agencies Lead generation strategies serve as crucial tools for digital marketing agencies. These strategies are especially vital for agencies marketing to small and local businesses. One impactful strategy is offering free digital marketing audits.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona 201

Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Although typically perceived as software for salespeople, CRMs are the secret sauce behind most successful marketing initiatives. A CRM is an integral piece of software for marketers and salespeople. We’ve got your back, marketers! Skip Ahead: Newsletter distribution. Newsletter distribution. Personalized content.

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Top of Funnel CRM Webinar Metrics Marketing 155

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? 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 is a Lead?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2018

So in an effort to demystify the term, we’re going to dive into marketing creativity in the B2B realm. With the ultimate goal of increasing conversion rates, marketers have to accelerate brand activity through digital channels. Our examples highlight ways companies achieved branding success through creative marketing initiatives.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

A successful traveling salesperson wields the ability to take in their surroundings and use contextual clues to glean what they can about each prospect they interact with. Using these clues, the salesperson then tailors their sales presentation to each prospective customer’s particular wants and needs. The same goes for marketers.

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Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Buyer Persona Marketing 150

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Messaging, distribution, reach and optimization. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. These are just a few pillars that define demand generation.

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Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2018

The world of B2B marketing underwent a dramatic transformation in recent years—and unfortunately for us marketers, we no longer have such rigid control of the buyer’s journey. But, how can marketers comply with the varying preferences of their individual buyer? Enter: Multichannel marketing. And the best part?

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Marketing Retail Channels Social Media 189

Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. 5 Ways to Facilitate Better Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2018

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. Today, we break down the most important categories of marketing tech.

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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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Account Based Marketing Data Ideal Customer Profile eBook 181

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

By understanding the discipline of sales enablement and how to prioritize tactics based on marketing and sales objectives, companies of all sizes can reap the rewards. Successful sales enablement starts with ensuring marketing and sales are aligned , which isn’t always easy, but pays its dividends many times over.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank 194

Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: 11 Actionable Tips for Creating Growth-Focused SaaS Marketing Strategies. Gia Kessler provides our guest Blog, 11 Actionable Tips for Creating Growth-Focused SaaS Marketing Strategies. How can your SaaS brand survive an extremely competitive market? SaaS products are intangible.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy Account Based Marketing 78

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

As a long time Twitter user and fan, I have directly seen how more than 100 companies – mostly B2B find prospects and even close business through their Twitter account. Brands mastered this first, and now even some reluctant CEOs and marketers in small mid-market companies are getting on the bandwagon.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. Specifically, it’s a plan that maps out the way a company introduces a new product or service to the market. It’s more than a product launch, but slightly less than an entire business model.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Buyer Persona Lead Rank 189

Showpad

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Meet Leea Huffine, Creative Marketing and Communications Manager at Atlas Copco. In this interview, Leea shares with us how she’s implemented marketing automation, digital deal rooms, and digital media content to support the sales team in a hybrid sales environment. . “We Technology Leea uses: Showpad, Outreach, and ZoomInfo.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2013

The Marketing team can help support sales rep social sellers by growing their own networks. This gets your sales reps more connected to potential prospects. It also gets your company content in front of more prospects via activity streams. In a time strapped environment, what are the “Must do’s” for Marketing teams?

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LinkedIn Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Networking 332

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

93% of B2B marketers use social media, and with good reason—it works ( source ). We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. Failing to understand the differences between platforms.

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Social Media Media B2B Marketing 147

Highspot

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Dedicated to creating high-value content for every stage of the customer journey, a content marketer’s role is well-defined. What is the difference between sales enablement and content marketing? How does content marketing help sales enablement? Content Marketing and Sales Enablement Defined. Content Marketing.

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing eBook 96

Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 10, 2019

To help you produce personalized content for prospects, let’s take a look at the purpose of the bottom of the funnel, ways to accurately measure this type of content, and content ideas to support the sales department. That’s where content marketing comes in. Content should be designed to convince prospects to purchase.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Case Study Webinar Metrics 74

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. On owned media, digital advertising was once the name of the game.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Prospecting Lead Scoring 62

Jeffrey Gitomer

MAY 20, 2013

Whatever it is you’re selling, take advantage of every new channel of distribution. The old ways of selling , the old ways of marketing, the old ways of promotion, and the old ways of branding are no longer applicable – other than for a history lesson. Begin asking them why they buy from you, on video.

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Data Prospecting Video Social Media 206

Lead411

APRIL 17, 2024

Mastering GTM Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Success The difference between skyrocketing success and stagnation might be a well-executed Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy. Grasping the Core Concepts of GTM Strategy: A GTM strategy, at its heart, is just a detailed plan for getting a service or product to market.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

This blog post is for the small company CSO or VP of Sales. If you’re keeping up with the sales and marketing publications, one of the big buzzwords burned into your eyelids is Content Marketing. CMOs and marketing professionals constantly talk about how Content Marketing will increase leads and drive more revenue.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Hiring 267

Zoominfo

AUGUST 19, 2018

In a 2010 blog post, we state that in order to stay viable, B2B companies need to hire a social media manager. According to one recent study, 93% of B2B marketers reported social media as the most utilized marketing tactic of their teams ( source ). Today, the role of a social media manager is more important than ever.

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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? 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 is a Lead?

Lead Generation 177

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

JUNE 14, 2019

Many distributors have a field sales culture in markets where inside sales models may make more sense. In most verticals, including wholesale distribution, classroom style training is declining. This article originally appeared on MDM’s blog on August 29th, 2018. Classroom Style vs. Digital Training.

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Distribution Selling Skills Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2018

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here and mandates major changes to the modern marketer’s B2B lead generation efforts. Most marketers are (or should be) well on their way to GDPR compliance when it comes to website and landing-page form language, data transfer procedures, and documentation.

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Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen 217

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I’ve heard a lot of talk about “ Content Marketing.” It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. What exactly is content marketing?

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Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Buyer 300

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Messaging, distribution, reach, and optimization. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. The goal is to target the right prospects, as well as bring them along the buyer’s journey.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Author: Silvia Woolard In today’s digital marketing environment, there are unlimited ways to improve your business performance. Your business, marketing, sales, and content strategies are surely different than your competitors’ strategies. Right after he registers, a welcome email is automatically distributed.

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