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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

Zoominfo

. “Using marketing-sourced pipeline as a KPI oversimplifies the complexity of the B2B buying cycle,” she says. For example, if a prospect downloads a whitepaper and six months later sales runs an outbound motion to re-engage them — who gets the credit? So, what metrics should marketers report on ? Everyone’s happy.”

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PowerViews with Tim Riesterer: Targeting Prospects via Status Quo Clusters

Pointclear

Tim is also co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale: Using Power Messaging to Create More Opportunities, Differentiate your Solution, and Close More Deals and Customer Message Management: Increasing Marketing's Impact on Selling. So we’re getting more opportunities to have conversations, but we’re not necessarily closing anymore.

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How Well Do You Know Your Customer?

SBI Growth

The insights gathered and analyzed help inform and shape your marketing strategies: Demand Generation, Content Creation, Branding and Lead Nurturing. The framework facilitates interviewing techniques designed to allow interviewees to engage in free flow conversations. What things stimulate them to enter a buying cycle.

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Key Take-aways from 3 Compelling Sessions at #DemandCon

SBI

Umberto Milletti , CEO of InsideView spoke of better lead conversion through ‘enrichment.’ He was referring to the importance of relevant knowledge about your prospects and buyers. Most interesting stat : 92% of prospects NEVER respond to a cold call or email. Those are the 3 kings that will influence your prospect to engage.

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5 Ways to Better Leverage Your CRM Data for ABM

SugarCRM

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. There’s a lot of rich information about current and prospective customers.

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2019 Sales Kickoff Meeting Themes: Three Profitability “Moments of Truth”

Corporate Visions

Filling the funnel, driving pipeline, and acquiring net-new customers will always be the sexy, swashbuckling side of B2B sales—which is why so many sales meetings are overwhelmingly focused on preparing salespeople for success in exactly this stage of the buying cycle. As for keeping current ones? Not so much.

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Gartner: The Technology Sales Rep Has Lost Their Mojo!

The ROI Guy

Gartner research showed that Sales came in last place after Technical and Industry Expert, Service and Support and Senior Executives as ‘the most influential personal interactions across the entire buying cycle’.