SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. The buyer has changed.

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Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout 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? Get a Demo Why Do You Need a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 147

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. What should the org chart for your marketing department look like? Not all marketing departments are created equal.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 319

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2013

At a high level, your marketing strategy must be driven by the stated corporate goals. Once the corporate vision has been established, your marketing plan must align itself completely. Additionally, there must be 100% synergy between the sales and marketing strategies. Too often, the sales and marketing leaders work in siloes.

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Buyer Persona Lead Rank 281

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We have to cut the budget substantially in this upcoming last quarter; I need $400,000 from marketing. This was a 40-person direct sales force driven by leads. Before we go on to the next item, the 100,000 units of direct mail would have given us 2,000 raw inquiries and 900 potential buyers. Sales were going well, so far. “We

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Marketing Trade Show Direct Mail Top of Funnel 149

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

The faster you can connect with a lead the greater your chance of success. This makes routing marketing leads to your sales team a critical step for driving revenue growth. Without proper attention to your lead routing system, you’ll spend resources to generate leads that may not go anywhere. They become reality.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revenue Leads 130

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. Buyer Intent Data Sources Buyer intent data is typically sourced from first (internal) or third (external) parties, which, when combined, offers a complete view of target account activity.

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Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Buyer 100

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The majority of Lead Development Reps are inexperienced, undertrained, and ill-equipped for today’s buyer. However, buyer behavior has changed. Informed buyer’s are entering the sales process with companies later than ever before. We are now living in the era of the self-directed buyer. Guess what?

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Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Training Leads 293

SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

B2B Chief Marketing Officers are enthusiastic about sharing tangible results. There is a strong desire to connect marketing spend to revenue. Lead Generation is the surest way to drive tangible return on marketing investment. The decks show a healthy growth curve of leads being generated for Sales.

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Opportunity Demand Generation 325

SBI Growth

JULY 7, 2013

In this ever-changing environment, how does a marketing leader keep pace with the Informed Buyer? A byproduct of today’s buyer experience is information overload. Whether on their mobile device, PC or tablet, the Informed Buyer is subjected to an unrelenting torrent of noise. In the B2B world, most buyers are at stasis.

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Marketing Lead Nurturing Demand Generation Agencies Social Media 310

SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2013

I recently had a conversation with a marketing VP of an equipment manufacturing firm. Justifying her marketing spend and showing an ROI on her initiatives. C-Suite Marketing Ignorance was her biggest impediment to success. As the conversation progressed, I suggested she engage her CEO like she would a buyer persona.

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Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 296

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

You’re the newly minted marketing leader. Every marketing leader in similar circumstances asks themself these two questions: What do I need to accomplish in year 1? There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. All eyes are on you.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation 300

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

You can waste literally days out of every month looking for the wrong buyers. Does Outbound Lead Gen Still Work? . Outbound prospecting does work and it works well when you know who your target market is, what your buyers are looking for, and you have a compelling message to offer that extols value for those buyer.

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Inside Sales Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? Perhaps in the past you laid out a multi-year marketing plan, or simply went year-to-year. It’s a solid marketing plan with an agile process approach.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing Buyer Persona 310

SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

How do you know it’s time to restructure your marketing organization ? We also never thought that Marketing’s technology spend could outpace the IT spend. She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support.

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Outsourcing Services Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets 296

SBI Growth

MARCH 8, 2013

Based on the closure rate of the current sales process, how many sales qualified leads (SQL) do you need to make your number? Download the Lead Gen Calculator to determine how many leads you need. We see more and more marketing executives carrying a bag (quota) these days than ever before. Is my team good enough?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Leads 310

Zoominfo

MAY 19, 2017

Sales and marketing alignment should be one of your organization’s top priorities. In fact, when both departments communicate effectively, they can generate more leads and increase revenue. Aligning sales and marketing also leads to 38% higher sales win rates ( source ). 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales.

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 130

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

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Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Case studies. Training webinars.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 99

SBI Growth

JANUARY 24, 2013

Speed, it is the most commonly used word among Sales and Marketing leaders today. It is now a critical attribute of successful B2B sales and marketing organizations. Because Sales and Marketing organizations are adjusting to the new B2B buyer behavior. The change has been driven by evolving B2B buyer behavior.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 297

SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

If you are a small company marketing leader, updating your CEO can be a challenge. Complete extensive buyer research to understand the customer’s needs, wants, goals & objectives. Align your Lead Generation strategy with your buyer research. Implement Lead Management to nurture leads until sales-ready.

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Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 276

Nutshell

AUGUST 30, 2018

So what should you do when you find that leads are dropping off or getting stuck? We’ve compiled some effective lead management strategies that can get your pipeline flowing again. But first… What causes leads to get stuck in a sales pipeline? Your buyer isn’t ready yet. More clicks = more sales.

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Lead Management Pipeline Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 54

SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2012

Marketing, do you have a sales quota tied to Lead Generation ? Do you wait for it to come or will you lead on this issue? Surveyed over 4,500 sales managers. “Why B2B companies are assigning their Marketing teams with lead quotas tied directly to a percentage of the corporate sales goal.

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Quota Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation 276

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Chances are a marketing leader will engage with a new head of sales at some point. Have you ever thought of your VP of Sales as a key Buyer Persona? Most Sales Leaders are ill-versed in marketing. The changes in buyer behavior have placed a heavy burden on marketing departments. Think like a VP of Sales.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Nurturing 267

Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Pivotal stages in the lead nurturing process The actions you take to establish solid relationships with your prospects depend on where they are in the buyer funnel and the next step you’d like them to take. You have to meet your prospect wherever they are in their buyer journey. But how do we do that?

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Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 71

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. When sales reps go hunting for new buyers at this stage, audiences already expect some sort of intervention. So let’s begin our list of tips!:

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

SalesFuel

APRIL 2, 2024

Managers can help sales reps who are waiting for great leads to be passed along by the BDR team. Innovative Ways to Maximize Productivity For BDRs The latest research shows BDR team members are working both outbound and inbound leads. For outbound lead management, BDRs primarily use email and social media.

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Maximizer Face-to-face Social Media Hiring 116

SBI Growth

MARCH 6, 2020

Is It a Lead Generation Challenge or a Lead Management Challenge? It’s quite literally the longest-running conflict in the revenue growth world – sales reps don’t feel that they’re receiving enough quality leads from Marketing to make their number. Either the.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 207

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! Never been much of a black & white guy, and I suspect most long term successful sales professionals have also felt restrained by the box, no doubt leading to the term thinking outside the box. It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! It’s About the Buyer, Stupid!

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Buyer Pipeline Twitter Hiring 219

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. How do you define a lead?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 246

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2016

With so little follow-up, they’re reaching, on average, only 25% of available buyers. This means that 75% of the marketing dollars spent on lead generation are wasted. Sales Lead Management Association. But what if we have a world where: Sales follows up 100% of the inquiries (all inquiries, not just leads).

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Marketing Lead Generation Top of Funnel Funnel 100

Highspot

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Push the envelope of sales enablement by driving efficiency through AI, scaling coaching with actionable insights, tying enablement efforts to business results, unifying the sales tech stack, and engaging buyers with digital experiences. Time-strapped frontline managers need guidance to coach their reps well and provide feedback at scale.

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Scale Sales Enablement Buyer Coaching 72

Pointclear

JUNE 23, 2015

Casey Stengel said, “ Most ball games are lost not won ,” and his comment seems appropriate for most marketers’ efforts in B2B companies. They are not marketers either. They have tackled and surmounted huge technical hurtles, but they refuse to put any sustained effort into sales and marketing. (A available buyers).

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Marketing Hiring Construction B2B 100

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. How do you define a lead?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This post is for the marketing leader trying to bootstrap their department. Your CEO wants one thing from you: leads that result in more business. Your sales team wants one thing from you: leads that are ready to buy. To satisfy both you need to produce not just more leads, but quality leads.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 317

SBI Growth

JULY 25, 2013

The best-in-class marketing leaders have already started planning for next year. They follow an annual planning process that starts in July with a Marketing Productivity Benchmark. A productivity benchmark assesses the marketing organization’s capabilities – its strengths and weaknesses. The best marketers assess both.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Buyer Persona Lead Scoring 257

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems. Lower conversion rates Poor-quality data dramatically reduces the accuracy of lead scoring and prioritization.

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Data Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 130