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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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. This technology must be combined with research, engagement and technical aptitude in order to be effective and produce results. Expect the unexpected. Engage multi-taskers.

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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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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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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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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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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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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. If your offerings are $50K or higher, be prepared when following up to talk with people that: Don’t have the authority to buy. Be Proactive.

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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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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Opportunities are those prospects that have been qualified by your sales team. Qualified leads meet criteria such as having the budget or buying authority for your product or service. The key is to increase the number of qualified prospects in your sales pipeline. You may be in several markets and have many target audiences.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 1, 2022

Digital marketing works wonders for any business that wants to succeed in the 21st century. You may even employ the help of a digital marketing agency, such as [link] to help you with your efforts. . You may even employ the help of a digital marketing agency, such as [link] to help you with your efforts. .

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 78

Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

The average buy cycle is now more than seven months long and involves five to eight (or more) decision makers, most of whom spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. To succeed in the current marketplace, sellers have to use every tool at their disposal to understand their prospects and what drives them.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. So I asked the next logical question: “ Tell me about your buyer research; How do you do it? ” The burden of “selling when a rep isn’t present” has shifted to the marketing department. A Framework for Buyer Research. Are my customers spending?

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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. Surprising fact, research shows that 70% of B2B buyers find their vendors, their vendors don’t find them.).

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

How you research their business. Experience: What processes does the customer go through when they are in the buying cycle? For example, under the heading ‘How customers find you’ you can log the marketing processes you use that gains the attention of the customer. How they make the purchase decision.

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Zoominfo

MAY 30, 2018

In modern-day marketing, data is the new oil. The more customer data you capture, analyze, and act upon, the better you get at creating influential marketing narratives. In fact, 63% of marketing executives feel strongly that data-driven marketing is crucial to success in our hyper-competitive global economy ( source ).

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2019

If you work in sales and marketing, I’ll bet you think a company’s employee count on LinkedIn is the absolute best way to determine how many employees work at that company. Sales and marketing professionals use employee counts to understand a company’s size. Read it: How to Calculate Total Addressable Market. I would know.

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Social Media Media LinkedIn Data 179

Apptivo

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Today, the buying cycle is complex. According to research, leads experience five to 10 marketing interactions before making a purchase. There are so many moving elements, including forms, CRMs, email marketing lists, and eCommerce platforms, to mention a few. How can automation help manage and nurture leads?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 97

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 30, 2023

HubSpot conducted research on the “State of AI,” with over 1,350+ specialists reporting on how AI affects their business. HubSpot’s research says that sales professionals spend 2+ hours daily to automate repetitive tasks. 85% claim their prospecting efforts have become more effective with AI.

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Lead Rank Data Top of Funnel Cost per Lead 91

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Much of this is due to the technology that is beginning to drive the sales process much the way it has driven marketing for the past several years. The range of sales tools is becoming as diverse as those on the marketing side. The growing use of mobile-optimized click-to-call puts reps at the beck and call of prospects.

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Inside Sales Trends Outsourcing Services Face-to-face 209

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This post is for the marketing leader trying to bootstrap their department. Your sales team wants one thing from you: leads that are ready to buy. Are you able to track the online behavior of your prospects and leads? Are you able to scale personalized communications to your prospects and customers? Technology.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Qualified leads can be generated any number of ways: phone calls email, webinars, direct mail and even marketing automation if done well. Lured by the promise of easy money — "sales-ready" leads pouring in — many well intentioned b2b marketers have jumped on the "inbound marketing" bandwagon with both feet. Create value.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

According to Forrester’s research , “From 2011 to 2019, the average revenue for the companies in the S&P 500 has grown over 24%, but average sales quota attainment has dropped from 63% to 43% by some estimates.” Our own research shows that SDR quota attainment has fallen 6.6% since 2018.

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Quota Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 81

The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 23, 2024

As what each company sells to whom is different, you should adjust or add steps as needed to accommodate your business, product, or prospect. This means knowing the company’s product or service, where it fits in the market, the value it brings, the benefits of the products when compared to competitors’ products.

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Sales Process Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 52

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. During this first meeting is generally when the salesperson and the prospect discover common interests and determine if the business can be moved forward. They know how to demonstrate value.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Lead Capture 218

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Interviewed VP of Sales, Product Leaders, and Sales Manager to understand what they were seeing in the market. But what they are doing is gathering data from an inward-out perspective when they should be looking at the market from an outward-in perspective. The objective of the interview is to map a customer buying process.

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Data Analysis Sales Operations Buying Cycle 267

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2015

On March 3, 2015, Direct Marketing Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Ginger Conlon, joined me on PowerViews LIVE to talk about “Where Marketing is Going … and Growing … in 2015.” A sales, marketing and customer experience expert, Ginger shares her perspective on current and future marketing trends.

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Direct Mail Marketing Lead Rank Buying Cycle 100

Pointclear

JUNE 15, 2012

Jim's career has been equally divided between marketing and sales. He has written over 95 articles around sales and marketing management and is the author of four books. He is a speaker on sales lead management, sales enablement, and marketing ROI. Outbound vs. Inbound: We Can’t Get Away from Basic Integrated Marketing.

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