SBI Growth

JANUARY 13, 2013

Developing and operationalizing a steady stream of relevant content that engages buyers is the new must-have modern marketing core competency. B2B Marketing has become an inbound world. Marketers today must build an effective content engine designed to deliver compelling insights to customers and prospects alike.

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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. Any marketer knows that some of the best sales content stems from times your customers do the talking for you.

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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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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Though the Harvard Business Review prematurely declared it dead a decade ago , today’s top sellers have found new ways to leverage solution selling that speak directly to the attitudes and needs of modern buyers. Related: Top 14 Sales Methodologies for Your Selling Systems. Table of contents. What is solution selling? Simple, right?

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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. Engage Existing Customers Using Intent Signal Data Buyer engagement does not end when a buyer signs their contract.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 30, 2023

Does your sales approach take buyer personas into consideration? In this article, we will explore the concept of buyer personas and how sales reps can apply the principles of perception and persuasion for improved performance. Does last year’s persona prepared by marketing still apply to this prospect?

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Increase Sales

DECEMBER 22, 2015

What has changed in marketing is the amount of messages being received by ideal customers and target market. However even with shorter attention spans, what is the best marketing times is still “relative.”. Time in marketing is relative. * * * * *. Time is short or at least business people believe it to be.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason! Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. But buyer personas only work if they’re accurate and include the right kinds of information.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

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. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 27, 2023

During economic downturns or recessions, connecting with buyers at the beginning of their decision-making process can be a significant challenge. Jim Kraus: The Voice of Experience At the core of our exploration is Jim Kraus, President of Buyer Persona. His perspective revolves around the concept that marketers and sales professionals.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 29, 2017

How are these concepts related to marketing and sales in B2B environment? However, when marketing or selling, you can’t simply lead with the ultimate benefit. Most buyers are focused on compensation, security and recognition. What ultimate benefit or benefits does the buyer desire? In a couple of ways. Save lives.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Not just in ZoomInfo’s sales and marketing technology bubble, but everywhere. Its primary purpose is to help companies identify prospects interested in specific topics related to their value propositions. . It unlocked another dimension in identifying when target buyers were actively in-market for a particular solution.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I believe shifting our vocabularies from Buyer/Seller to Buying/Selling is much more than wordsmithing. The problem with the terms Buyers/Sellers is we focus on certain roles or people of our and our customer’s organizations. We really no longer live in a world of buyers and sellers. Buyer Beware Seller Be Aware!

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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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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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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They were forced to change priorities, work methods as many of their markets changed, as they face severe shifts in demand, supply chain problems, and challenges to their own ability to work effectively and efficiently. ” We have always thought of things in terms of a seller interaction directly with a buyer.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 8, 2024

If your B2B client’s target audience includes technical buyers, they may be focusing on the wrong types of ads. According to a report from TREW Marketing and GlobalSpec, your client should be focusing more on popular social media sites. This is important because 33% of these buyers say that they learn better by seeing.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. It will serve no purpose to rehash how much buyers have changed since then. You Have Entered New Markets.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. Landing pages serve as a litmus test to digital marketing campaign success — you get to see who is interested in your content and how many. What is the Landing Page’s Importance in Digital Marketing? An example of a landing page design.

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Mereo

JANUARY 31, 2024

But much like with dating in the personal world, most buyers have a frustrating story of no-deal with a salesperson who fails to serve — and thus fails to sell. THE DEAL WITH PREVAILING STATUS QUO More sales deals end in no decision than in a solid “no” from a buyer who moves on to a competitor’s offering. Buyers ask.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2017

It reinforced the need for sales people, and their respective organizations to have a much better understanding of how others “work”, in this case buyers. Not that buyers needed help in that, given the numerous internal interests involved in any given purchase, CEB research showing there are up to 6.8 Illuminating the buyer’s journey.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2019

This transformation is permeating all areas of the enterprise – from marketing to sales to product development and even finance and human resources. Amongst the plethora of enterprise AI solutions available, marketing platforms probably come to mind first.

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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. The modern buyer knows exactly what they want and they expect their buying experience to be seamlessly tailored to their preferences.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Author: Ron Carson Just about every marketer today has been told to listen to the voice of the customer to inform marketing strategy. First, marketing teams only receive this information second-hand – through sales, product management, etc. And it is why I encourage marketers to have regular “voice of the market” conversations.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

In this blog, you’ll learn how to create a sales territory plan in 3 steps: Identify buyer-centric market opportunities. Calculate your Total Addressable Market (TAM). Step 1: Begin with a buyer-centric approach. These pain points represent an opportunity in the IT market. What are your buyer needs?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2021

People like Hank Barnes , Scott Gillum , Ardath Albee , and Maureen Blandford are doing some great work in helping us rethink the question of “Who is our buyer?” ” In addition to helping us define our buyers in much richer terms, they are helping us think about how to incite them to buy. The post Who Is OUR Buyer?

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SBI

AUGUST 6, 2019

Transforming Sales: Why B2B Sellers & Marketers Need to Add Value to Each Buyer Interaction. Even if a business’ product doesn’t look or work anything like Netflix, B2B sellers and marketers must figure out a way to accommodate buyers’ demands for highly personalized experiences. Saving Sales and Marketing Time.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sellers are responsible for educating their buyers digitally through multiple channels. Here is how to think about ownership and process: Ownership Who should take ownership for the creation process and content that the sales team uses – marketing or sales? Well… it’s a bit of a trick question. Have a great weekend.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Generic content just doesn’t cut it with the modern-day buyer, seller or tenant, especially when they’ve got plenty of options to choose from. How then, can your commercial real estate business personalize your marketing campaigns ? Here are CRM personalization tips and marketing strategies you can use to get started.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Last week I posted a piece on LinkedIn, based on discussions at CEB’s Sales & Marketing Thought Leader Roundtable this past August, titled “Why Do We Need Sales?” , Exploring the relationship between marketing and sales, and how it needs to evolve and change with relation to the markets they serve.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Sync your HubSpot fields into your conversational marketing platform to make this happen. Speed to Lead.

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Corporate Visions

JANUARY 15, 2020

The post How to Make Sure Your Buyers Remember Your Message by Carmen Simon appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re in Sales or Marketing, you’re in the business of influencing other peoples’ choices. So, if you want to persuade your buyers to act in your favor, you should make sure your message sticks in their minds.

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Allego

JULY 31, 2023

Further, sellers spend 11 hours a month looking for and modifying content for buyers, Forrester’s Q4 2020 Global Sales Enablement survey found. They need access to multiple things related to their job, such as how to use sales tools, sales collateral, product information, presentation decks, HR documents, and training materials.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2023

Related: The Data Points You Need for an Effective Account Targeting Strategy. Related: Slide Into the DMs: LinkedIn for Lead Gen. Related: 9 Steps to Send The Perfect Event Follow Up Email (Template). Related: 30 Best Probing Questions For Sales to Use In Your Next Call. The reason? Keep reading Nikki’s practice, here.

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