SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

Success is largely determined by the quality of campaign offers. Optimize campaigns at the offer level to increase campaign results. Even a small change in conversion effectiveness can change a failed campaign into a robust ROI. This impacts all campaign elements such as email, digital ads, and adwords.

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Campaigns Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Outside Sales 310

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? World class CMO’s are perfecting the agile approach to marketing campaigns. In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing Buyer Persona 310

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What Is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Early successes we’ve noted include assistance in analyzing campaign performance, creation of email sequences that reflect the company brand, and the summarization of core content into derivative assets, such as video scripts and social media posts. Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI.

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Data Scale Lead Rank Marketing 130

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. Implement Demand Generation. DEVELOP A LEAD GENERATION STRATEGY. Campaign Management: The next major step is planning and sequencing your campaigns. IMPLEMENT DEMAND GENERATION.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation 300

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2011

For the past 11 years, I have been advising organizations on how to plan and execute their b2b lead generation campaigns. B2B lead generation is complex, and there is always work to be done. There are some big reasons why lead generation campaigns fail that must be dealt with at the outset, before sweating the small stuff.

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Lead Generation Campaigns Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 229

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I hate the Dog Days of Summer excuse – it always felt like a cheap way for an underperforming sales rep to make an excuse for a slow month. Sales Rep : Yeah, just not a lot of movement in my pipeline – it’s the dog days of summer. But, by that logic, why is December always so good for sales? You get it.

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Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Sports Trends 189

SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. Marketing managers enthusiastically produce PowerPoint decks to showcase their contribution to the sales pipeline. But does the sales leader share this enthusiasm?

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Opportunity Demand Generation 325

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2013

B2B CMO''s largely do not have direct reports with expertise in demand generation. Every CMO must have a ‘right-hand’ report with substantial demand generation experience to be successful. Implementation Inexperience – Lack foundational knowledge of implementation details for Demand Generation.

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Demand Generation Agencies Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 321

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Technology : Sales and marketing intelligence platforms and customer relationship management systems. Go-to-market plays : Upsell campaigns, Net Promoter Score campaigns, customer referral campaigns, loyalty program rollouts, and automated customer service surveys. Framework Sets Go-to-Market Direction.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. At ZoomInfo, we use gift-giving with our customers no matter where they are in the demand generation funnel. The results? Anything but trivial. On average, orders almost doubled.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

DEMAND GENERATION. You also need someone responsible for launching, measuring and optimizing all demand generation channels. What are the best demand generation levers to pull to stimulate inquiries? Measuring – Marketing automation delivers the ability to measure campaign effectiveness.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 319

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. A MQL is the foundation of processes within a marketing funnel — namely, an inflection point of engagement met that drives expectations for sales intervention.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 246

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But this abundance demands a focused, strategic approach to lead generation that minimizes wasted spending and drives meaningful results. Demand-Gen vs. Lead-Gen: The False Dichotomy The debate between demand-gen and lead-gen has become quite polarized. Sales enablement Includes playbooks, ROI tools, and battle cards 4.

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Lead Gen Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Leads 130

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Marketing Intelligence & Automation This will help your demand generation team interpret data and put it to good use. Think buying signals, engagement, and account-based marketing.

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Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel Scale Marketing 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. A MQL is the foundation of processes within a marketing funnel — namely, an inflection point of engagement met that drives expectations for sales intervention.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. Get a Demo Performance Metrics by Channel Choosing B2B marketing KPIs for your team starts with analyzing your active campaigns. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. Intent lift.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing. Marketing emails are up 20% and sales emails are up 50% compared to their pre-COVID-19 levels! Sales emails are way up. Final Thoughts on Sales & Marketing Outreach During COVID-19.

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Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation Targets 195

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. And more than ten years later, the definition of what sales enablement actually is has yet to be nailed down. Process-oriented sales enablement. Marketing-generated awareness.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank 194

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The sales team didn’t have a chance. The team should include stakeholders from sales, marketing, channel partners, product development, customer service and operations. Channel Strategy & Sales Goals. Training material/courseware for sales team. Website, social, digital media, postings to sales and channel portals.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Targets 288

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. That’s one of the reasons ZoomInfo created WebSights , which enables you to understand which companies are researching your product and retarget them efficiently in campaigns.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 147

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. With MarketingOS, ZoomInfo offers end-to-end sales and marketing alignment on one platform. The reason?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. This way, you’re not serving ads when people are less likely to be interested, and more importantly, your sales team is available to respond quickly and efficiently.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Account Based Marketing Engineering 130

SBI Growth

AUGUST 26, 2013

Sales leaders perceive advertising agencies with the trifecta of doom; Expensive, Eccentric, and Frivolous. Sales leaders can think of other ways to spend money more productively. Why is it that most B2B sales leaders hate advertising agencies? Sales leaders see their sales organization as the muscle that drives growth.

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Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Advertising Top of Funnel 306

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I hate the Dog Days of Summer excuse – it always felt like a cheap way for an underperforming sales rep to make an excuse for a slow month. Sales Rep : Yeah, just not a lot of movement in my pipeline – it’s the dog days of summer. But, by that logic, why is December always so good for sales? You get it.

Demand Generation Targets 100

Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Sports Trends 100

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing. Marketing emails are up 20% and sales emails are up 50% compared to their pre-COVID-19 levels! Sales emails are way up. I found that Hubspot has been tracking this pretty well in their blog.

Outbound 147

Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation Targets 147

SBI Growth

JANUARY 10, 2014

Top sales leaders know how to communicate and roll out a sales plan. Get your sales managers involved early in the process. The sales management team needs to have a clear understanding of the new quota. Sales can’t rely on marketing alone. Marketing – Sit down with your CMO to see what campaigns they are running.

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Quota Top of Funnel Territories Marketing Qualified Lead 316

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But too many campaigns are still using an approach that treats all visitors the same. By understanding a prospect’s tone, language, and approach, marketing and sales teams can better grasp where the prospect is in their buying journey and deliver a tailored experience. The best way to unearth key buying signals from your audience?

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Account Based Marketing Buyer Conversion Marketing 130

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. That’s one of the reasons ZoomInfo created WebSights , which enables you to understand which companies are researching your product and retarget them efficiently in campaigns.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Technology : Sales and marketing intelligence platforms and customer relationship management systems. Go-to-market plays : Upsell campaigns, Net Promoter Score campaigns, customer referral campaigns, loyalty program rollouts, automated workflows , and customer service surveys.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

Act!

JANUARY 23, 2024

Additionally, web forms simplify the process of capturing lead information and enable seamless integration with customer relationship management (CRM) systems, facilitating follow-ups and boosting sales opportunities. Generate insight into customer wants and needs with detailed graphs and reports. Seamlessly integrated with Act!

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Benefit ACT Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation 52

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

10 Reasons Why a B2B Lead Generation Department Should Report to Marketing and Not to Sales. As a consultant, I regularly advise that appointment setting Lead Generation Departments report to Marketing and not to Sales. Marketers typically are more available than sales road warriors, when answers are needed.

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Lead Gen Report Lead Rank Lead Scoring 75

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Reporting structure/org charts (Sales loves).

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

SBI Growth

JULY 12, 2013

The CEO may even be considering moving marketing under sales. At least the Sales team is carrying a number. This included leveraging a Sales Productivity Benchmark (SPB) conducted by Sales Benchmark index. The timeframe for transformation is not one the CEO or Sales leader have the patience to stomach.

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Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Call-back 323