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Stop Selling and Start Teaching to Improve Demand Generation

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Ray Kemper, Chief Marketing Officer, Televerde Customer relationships. In fact, good customer relationships are usually the result of a good sales engagement. But that brings us back to the perennial question: how do we fuel demand generation and make that first positive selling experience happen?

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9 Data-Driven Ways to Use Generative AI for Marketing

Zoominfo

The ability of generative AI to automate routine tasks, analyze data, and generate content is already freeing up valuable time that entrepreneurs, executives, and individuals can use to instead focus on more strategic decision-making. Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI.

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How Small Gifts Can Create Big Marketing Wins

Zoominfo

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. What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? The results?

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7 Ways to Align Marketing and Sales Teams

Zoominfo

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

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Pick The Right Plays: Using the Go-To-Market Framework

Zoominfo

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Conversational Marketing: How Chat Can Turn Visitors into Buyers

Zoominfo

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing? Real-time communication: Messages that are sent and received instantly.

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How one company’s disciplined, targeted approach to demand generation delivered big results

Mereo

Through what we labeled the “Revenue Delivery System,” JD Edwards sales and marketing leadership invested in a strategic approach to drive demand generation and equip the sales team to effectively sell to targeted markets. Market Segmentation and Past Sales Success Laid a Framework for Demand Generation.