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5 Ways to Better Leverage Your CRM Data for ABM

SugarCRM

Expansion is another area that ABM can be utilized to generate upsell and cross-sell opportunities. Not only should a strong ABM tool be able to feed actionable insights to the sales rep about account and contact activity, competitive research, and new contacts to engage, but should be able to automate engagement with those prospects.

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What are the 5 stages of sales and marketing alignment?

Showpad

Research tells us that experiences play a large (and growing) role in the purchase decisions of B2B buyers , even more than other factors like product and price. After all, these are the teams interacting with buyers on a daily basis and developing content and experiences to effectively reach them at all stages of the buying cycle.

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PowerViews with Tim Riesterer: Targeting Prospects via Status Quo Clusters

Pointclear

Click to start video at this point — Tim sees two primary focal points for marketing and sales alignment: the lead generation/demand generation element and the content/sales enablement piece. Demand Generation Recommendation: From PDFs to Visuals and Video. The Perils of Ignoring “Why Change?” and “Why Now?”

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

Pointclear

Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before? The responses I received were from Megan Heuer, Vice President & Group Director, and Matt Senatore, Research Director.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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What is Customer Profiling in Marketing?

Zoominfo

Profiling customers allows you to better understand the problems your would-be buyers are attempting to solve, which helps revenue professionals do their jobs more effectively at every stage of the customer buying cycle. With better profiles, demand generation teams can craft stronger advertising campaigns.