Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

But have you considered how a generational shift in your prospects’ demographics might impact the buying environment as well? Today’s B2B buying committees are growing more diverse as Millennials take their seats alongside Generation X and Baby Boomers. What does this mean for marketing and sales tactics?

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Buying Cycle B2C Demographics Intent 76

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

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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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? In fact, over 20% of marketers in a HubSpot survey say that personalization improves their engagement.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. How to spot buying signals.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The right Marketing Methodology can enable you to break this cycle. Your Marketing Methodology is simply your company’s guidelines or procedures for marketing your solutions. In this article we’ll consider ONE Marketing Methodology. It’s one that many best-in-class organizations use today: Inbound Marketing.

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Marketing Inbound Buying Cycle Guidelines 317

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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Conversion Marketing Customer Trade Show 177

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2022

Some observations: This presentation was intended for initial meetings with prospective customers. I hope the presenters were coached to thank the prospect as they closed the presentation. And this is what we must initiate in our initial conversations with the prospect/customer, reinforcing through their entire buying cycle.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Buying Cycle Meeting 80

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your book of business, craft a well-calculated marketing plan, add more places of interest on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads back to your company. The marketing plan lays the groundwork for your team to go forth and execute. Have you made your 2018 marketing plan yet?

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Account Based Marketing Data Ideal Customer Profile eBook 181

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

Marketing 130

Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 130

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Why do we still talk about marketing and sales alignment? In this Expert Insight Interview, Darrell Amy discusses how we can create alignment between sales and marketing by making them both focus on the revenue growth engine. By identifying the ideal client, we also identified the prospects meaning that sales do not need leads anymore.

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Revenue Video Marketing Decision Maker 98

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

A successful traveling salesperson wields the ability to take in their surroundings and use contextual clues to glean what they can about each prospect they interact with. Using these clues, the salesperson then tailors their sales presentation to each prospective customer’s particular wants and needs. The same goes for marketers.

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Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Buyer Persona Marketing 150

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

Go-to-market efficiency is a hot topic for companies looking to succeed in the current market. They rely on ZoomInfo throughout their sales cycle for comprehensive data about accounts they’re targeting — and new accounts that can expand their market.

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Ideal Customer Profile Direct Mail Strategy Customer 130

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 1, 2012

There is an evolving marketing tactic called ‘ Remarketing ’ that your marketing team should embrace. Those prospects will spend time reviewing your content , then leave to compare your products/services with those of your competitor. A world class marketer today leverages remarketing to recapture those prospective leads.

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Advertising Advertising Lead Rank Leads 297

SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In its simplest definition, nurture marketing is a communication strategy designed to place content in front of prospective buyers at various points in a customer’s journey. Nurture marketing involves regularly reaching out to leads and your customer base by presenting important information before they ask for it.

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 26

Pointclear

JANUARY 23, 2017

Companies that spend less on their marketing programs and generate better and bigger deals using a super-targeted approach to marketing are using an approach that you might have heard about—account-based marketing. What really counts is meaningful, personalized engagement with the folks in a position to buy. More Leads.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Cross-Functional Alignment Your go-to-market strategy depends on alignment.

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Sales Cycle Intent Signal Lead Rank Decision Maker 130

BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

An Overview of the Marketing Agency Sales Process The sales process in a digital marketing agency is a multi-step journey that requires a thorough understanding, strategy, and execution. Before engaging potential clients, a marketing agency needs to first identify its target market and generate leads.

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Webinar Metrics Case Study Comparison Small Business 98

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On average, only 3% of your market is actively buying at any given time. You’ll be seen as a combatant, and your prospects aren’t going to be heard. If you take the time to really listen to what your prospects are saying, and if you work with them to explore their ideas and issues, you’ll be seen in a much more positive light.

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Objections Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 122

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re keeping up with the sales and marketing publications, one of the big buzzwords burned into your eyelids is Content Marketing. CMOs and marketing professionals constantly talk about how Content Marketing will increase leads and drive more revenue. Why is Content Marketing Increasingly Important ?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Hiring 267

Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series.

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Buying Cycle Training Lead Rank Lead Scoring 45

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Segment Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 204

SugarCRM

AUGUST 11, 2021

Ever been asked what you do as a marketer? A marketing job description can go in many directions depending on which part of marketing you cover. But one overall goal of a marketing team stays the same–the job of a team of marketers is to help businesses build valuable, personal relationships with their customers.

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Buyer Marketing Buying Cycle Campaigns 49

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Capture 192

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But there is a fundamental question that salespeople fail to take into account, and if they did, they would find it changes the way they see the prospect, and how the prospects respond as a result and become customers. But in how many times have they actually done this, this case how many times have they gone through a buying cycle?

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Buying Cycle Buyer Objections Face-to-face 247

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say webinars are the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). Keep reading!

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics B2B Marketing 100

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels. Reimagining Sales Coverage.

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Lead Rank Quota Face-to-face Hiring 339

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you only had 90 days to penetrate the market and produce sales, what would you do? While you could come up with a complicated plan that won’t deliver results for half a year or more, you can get better results, faster, by implementing a DRIP Marketing Plan. DRIP: The Secret to Reliably Penetrate the Market. As it worked.

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Penetration Industry Buying Cycle Marketing 68

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 14, 2017

My definition of prospecting is trying to take prospects from latent to active need. Another way to phrase that is to say that: Prospecting is looking for people that aren’t looking. There are several advantages of making proactive attempts to start buying cycles: You can start at levels that have the authority to create budget.

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Gatekeeper Buying Cycle Call-back Face-to-face 249

Showpad

MAY 22, 2019

With new sales engagement platforms designed to streamline sales processes being constantly introduced into the market, it can be overwhelming for sales enablement teams to decipher one from the other to determine which to select for their organization. How do engagement platforms align sales and marketing efforts?

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Sales Enablement Marketing Buying Cycle Direct Mail 74

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. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. By Tibor Shanto. Even Less Receptive.

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Buyer Collateral Harvest Demographics 277

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Successful virtual selling is dependent upon using modern technology to nurture prospects, share information, conduct demos and host meetings. As many companies currently slow their buying cycles or freeze them completely, intelligent virtual selling is one of the only ways to overcome these uncertainties. Engage multi-taskers.

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Face-to-face Conference Ideal Customer Profile Hotels 156

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Here’s a snapshot of buying signals.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Marketing Qualified Lead 100

SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged with a vendor 57% of the way through their buying cycle. The reason was simple.

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Buying Cycle Collateral Software Software 314

Pointclear

MAY 12, 2011

Few companies have the sales and marketing resources to adequately cover their markets. It’s logical that if only a fraction of your target market is contacted, only a fraction of the deals are going to you. It’s important to keep your market primed so that when it comes time to buy, these prospects reach out to you.

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Outsourcing Services Channels Penetration Prospecting 140

Pointclear

AUGUST 16, 2018

Often hot leads are really buying companies that have already been sold by another vendor. They’ve indicated they have a short buying cycle and they’re eager to talk, but what these buyers may be doing is validating a decision already made. Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 113