The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. But they are completely ignoring the buyers’ state of readiness. That is the time between NOW, and when the buyer indents on making a decision. By Tibor Shanto.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. Their vertical market (i.e.

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Lead411

OCTOBER 23, 2023

8 Types of Bombora B2B Buyer Intent Signals? Lead411 partners with Bombora for B2B buyer intent signals built into the Lead411 platform. Bombora is a company that specializes in providing the most useful B2B intent data and buyer intent signals. Recent Posts 8 Types of Bombora B2B Buyer Intent Signals?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Buyer intent data tools make it easier to identify the when and how of a potential prospect’s consideration for purchasing a specific product or service. Tracking target accounts with these buying signals can streamline the selling process for your sales teams with data-driven efficiency. Buyer Intent Data Sources.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Business to Business , or B2B, sales occur between companies that sell products or services to other companies. This could look like a technology company selling marketing software to other companies and wholesalers selling products to supermarkets. The industrial sales industry is also a very specific market.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

In sales, a business development strategy is central to understanding and engaging with your customers. Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. AI and the pandemic threw a wrench in the typical sales funnel that companies have now realized is too outdated to consistently bring in the profits they want to see. Clients aren’t buying like they used to.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Zachary Ballenger As a marketer, one of your primary goals is to set your sales team up for success. One way to do this is by providing them with the killer content they need to successfully engage with your buyers. Partnering with sales in your podcast efforts provides the ROI you’ve been looking for.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? It’s not the biggest issue, right?

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2024

But when an inside sales professional wants to establish their authority over the phone, they need to use their voice tone and pacing to get the point across. Sales reps who use these words sound like hesitant amateurs, so be very careful to avoid them. It’s not easy to build authority, especially if your prospects can’t see you.

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Showpad

MAY 12, 2022

Yet, working together, they’ve built a high-performance sales enablement function at TOUGHBOOK Europe—the European Mobile Solutions Business Division of electronics giant Panasonic. They designed new industry research methods that include both customers and sales reps. That’s where sales enablement comes in. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 19, 2019

Author: Theresa O'Neil, Chief Marketing Officer of Showpad Today’s B2B buyers have higher expectations than ever before, and their criteria for making purchase decisions is evolving. A study from SiriusDecisions found that 81 percent of B2B buyers today make purchase decisions based on buying experience, rather than product or price.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 11, 2017

In which departments are B2B buyers more likely to give upstart products a chance? Which selling style do B2B buyers prefer? When should a salesperson challenge a buyer’s assumptions about a product, and which industries don’t like to be challenged? We partnered with noted sales linguist and author Steve W.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Industry scoops, trends, and shake-ups. Sound good?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

There’s a growing appetite for artificial intelligence (AI) in business, and for good reason — after years of promise, new AI applications are reshaping how industries operate, from the inside out. With AI, teams can maximize speed and automation for competitive GTM strategies that are interactive and scalable.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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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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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 13, 2019

When we talk to buyers, we often ask what inspires them to remain loyal to suppliers. What is it that makes buyers really want to do business with you? What is it that makes buyers really want to do business with you? Put simply, it’s by dealing with and going beyond the needs of buyers that will make you top of the list.

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SBI

AUGUST 17, 2021

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? So those are the metrics we advise customers to measure.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Author: Jason Liu Sales enablement software has been around for a while now. What you might not know, however, is that the sales enablement market is poised for a major paradigm shift that will forever alter sales enablement platform strategies and set the industry on a new path. Market Oversaturation.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Most sales professionals recommend using a sales methodology that involves uncovering a buyer’s biggest problem or pain point. While this is essential for sales success, it’s also only half of the story. Sellers hear a buyer’s complaint and often jump to problem-solving far too quickly.

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Pipeliner

JUNE 4, 2023

This article concludes our series on mega-threats to the sales industry, inspired by the fascinating bestselling book by Nouriel Roubini entitled MegaThtreats: 10 Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them. Let’s take up the final mega-threat to the sales industry—missing processes and wrong technology.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

There is one factor that is extremely limiting to sales processes worldwide. Most do not accurately follow the ebb and flow of buyers. A customized sales process is an excellent tool. Instead, you must account for the fluidity in the buyer’s journey. Discover insights and market trends from SBI’s research in 2013.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? What Does a Go-to-Market Strategy Look Like?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Their success hinges on buyer engagement — getting the prospect’s attention, holding it throughout the sales cycle , and maintaining interest to build customer loyalty beyond closing. With this type of news, sales reps need to engage as many people as possible. These leaders typically don’t have time for cold sales calls.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? Increasingly, buyers are choosing rep-free buying experiences. Buyer centricity, starts in a very different place than order or seller centric sellers. Buyer centricity, starts in a very different place than order or seller centric sellers. As a result, we focus on the buyer.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

My next guest on Sales Talk For CEOs is Brent Adamson and he’s got some revolutionary ideas about B2B enterprise selling. Stick around to learn what your sales teams need to do to overcome this crisis of confidence. Brent explains decision maker confidence is the main barrier for B2B teams to close deals.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

There’s a saying in marketing that goes, “if you’re targeting everyone, you’re targeting no one,” and for the most part, I agree with it. There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice, one of them being that it’s more effective than any kind of ‘spray and pray’ method.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Let’s examine 3 data-centered predictions from the perspective of a prospective buyer , aspiring vendor, and B2B, at-large. 1) Buyer Beware: Cheap Imitations Are Likely To Flood The Market. Here’s a little secret from an expert in the industry: it’s impossible to curate perfect B2B data. Where Do We Go From Here?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Do a quick Google search on the topic and you will find list upon list of tricks, hacks and sales “secrets” to closing deals and making millions. But if, in your limited free time, you could read one thing, we recommend seeking out reading materials on your buyer’s industry instead. Know Your Customer's Industry.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today’s Guest Blog, ‘‘Marketing Strategies That Work for Any Industry—and 2 Creative Ways to Fund Them.’ When you get down to it, marketing is figuring out how to make more sales. For small business owners, strong marketing begins with examining the data that is already present. All Marketing is Not Equal.

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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. Market expansion. Offer expansion. Build Loyalty.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Emissary

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Retailers rely on technical innovation to compete for consumers in a turbulent post-pandemic market. When considering large technology purchases, retailers expect a customized buying experience with marketing and outreach targeted to their needs. Integrate Your Sales and Field Marketing Organization in the Retail Vertical.

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Pointclear

JUNE 6, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. B2B Trade Show Marketing Circa 2013: Everything is the Same, Everything is Different.

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