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. Nothing gets people riled up like a good old-school rivalry.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

The post How to Drive More Growth from Customer Expansion Conversations by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. But the sale isn’t over just because your prospect becomes a customer.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Here are lessons from two of our key programs last year that we plan to incorporate into our 2021 demand generation strategy: Revamped Webinars. Then, during the summer, we launched a new series of events that were shorter, 20 to 30 minutes long, and focusing on broader industry topics.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. At ZoomInfo, we require sales to follow up on all prospects who hit our MQL threshold within 90 seconds of the conversion.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

My demos for other vertical industries weren’t nearly as engaging. My demos for hospitals naturally took me into a completely different conversation than my demos for banks, manufacturers and other industries. I was showing features more as proof points to the conversation versus explaining how the products worked.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. It builds your authority in the logistics industry and boosts inbound lead generation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It may be a fool’s errand to predict what B2B marketing strategies will emerge in 2019, but trendwatching is an important skill for business leaders across all industries. B2B industries already automate a range of processes in order to streamline workloads and increase productivity to great success? Conversational selling.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

Even a small change in conversion effectiveness can change a failed campaign into a robust ROI. Download the Offer Strategy Assessment tool to drive higher campaign conversions. The Role of Offers in Prospect Marketing. When marketing to prospects, the Offer plays a major role as well.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. At ZoomInfo, we require sales to follow up on all prospects who hit our MQL threshold within 90 seconds of the conversion.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Towards that, they are making smarter business decisions of acquiring deep intelligence about their prospects by investing in data vendors and sales assistants—the purpose being aligning their offerings with prospect needs to maximize engagement. This is a really helpful prospecting tool!” —Val, Everything is there for you.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We also boast a team of over 300 people who research and verify company information every day, an industry-leading 16 AI patents, and five third-party expert partners that supplement and verify our data. With the breadth and depth of data we provide, marketers can drive qualified demand for their businesses like never before.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Top Display Advertising Targeting Mistakes Getting your audience right is paramount to increasing conversion rates and spending efficiently. Here are some common B2B display advertising mistakes: Remarketing: Just because someone landed on your website doesn’t mean they’re a good-fit prospect. But this isn’t true if you use good lists.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2022

In today’s environment, it’s getting harder to connect with prospects on a cold call. Field work went away because events went away, and field sales and outside sales all went away or went inside,” says Nina Wooten, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Sound familiar? It’s not just you. The worst day to call? on Thursdays.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Complete Guide to Prospecting for Sales Using Proven Outreach Techniques. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. What is Sales Prospecting? What are the best ways to prospect in sales? What does Sales Prospecting means? Key Takeaways.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 29, 2023

Brute-force methods are clearly not an option anymore, and experts keep stressing that B2SMB marketers must tailor their go-to-market (GTM) strategy and think beyond cold prospecting and traditional campaigning to keep afloat. Bringing together internal and external prospecting data can greatly augment the return on your martech.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 29, 2023

Brute-force methods are clearly not an option anymore, and experts keep stressing that B2SMB marketers must tailor their go-to-market (GTM) strategy and think beyond cold prospecting and traditional campaigning to keep afloat. Bringing together internal and external prospecting data can greatly augment the return on your martech.

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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. Don’t run ads on the weekend If you’re a B2B company, prospects are primarily searching for you while they’re at work. Another factor is audience data.

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eGrabber

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The marketing/demand generation/lead generation teams are the ones that feed the sales pipeline with a steady flow of potential sales leads. But studies reveal that marketing teams are unable to generate sufficient sales leads to keep the salespeople busy. How Salespeople can Generate their Own Leads.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Sales Pipeline Radio features the brightest minds in B2B sales and marketing, sharing secrets to driving greater volume, velocity, and conversion of sales pipelines in any industry. The Same Side Selling podcast features sales and business topics, as well as insight from industry leaders with proven success. Listen here.

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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. Layer intent data on top of this view to find prospects in your ICP that are actively searching for your product or a similar solution.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Start by looking at specific market segments, preferably vertical industry segments. Do this for your top 3-5 market segments and then develop lead generation campaigns with messaging that’s industry specific. The reason they loved it is because it made them more credible in front of prospects. It seems cheesy.”

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The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

Again this is not to say that being an AD does not require skills, is easy or any other “better/worse” comparison, but does speak to the fact that getting to the right person to have the right conversation with, is still the biggest challenge in sales. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Throughout my career, I’ve seen and have had a lot of real-world experience with Lead Generation Departments (Market Development, Account Development, and Business Development Departments) that have reported to Sales, to Marketing, and wildly…to both at the same time. Higher lead conversions ratios from marketing campaigns are experienced.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A 2019 Demand Gen Report asked: What are your biggest challenges to maintaining data quality in your contact database? In order to get aligned around lead qualification, conversion goals, and other metrics – sales and marketing must find common ground. Industries. send direct mailers to prospects or customers.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The narrative of a small enterprise soaring to industry stardom is highly compelling. Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and content marketing are integral components of the digital marketing arsenal for boosting traffic and conversion rates, fostering success among small businesses. For more on this topic, visit our resource.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Lead generation can be a mix of inbound or outbound techniques aimed at attracting potential customers to your product or service. Most B2B companies use some combination of sales development , demand generation, SEO , conversion rateoptimization, affiliate marketing and eCommerce to maximize their lead gen efforts.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

These fictional characters usually have names, and they embody all the traits of your ideal prospects. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. and use this knowledge to create effective messaging that moves your prospect to make a change.

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Velocify

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Demand generation marketers are focused on supporting sales teams, and a large part of their role is ensuring that carefully curated leads are moving through the funnel effectively. It provides the confidence for both demand gen teams and sales managers alike, that every lead is followed up with by our sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s about listening — mostly to customers, prospects, and partners — and managing what you measure. Your prospects may share that they’re pausing on projects or vendor meetings. Head of Demand Generation at Outreach. Q: How should demand gen orgs pivot in times like these? Invest in training.

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 13, 2018

For your 2019 sales kickoff meeting, it’s time to think deeper about how you can prepare reps to capture more value both during the deal stage and after it when your prospects become customers and you need to expand the value of your relationship. For salespeople in negotiations, that means introducing unconsidered needs—i.e.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 30, 2019

This means marketers are spending countless hours researching every detail about their prospects—everything from industry trends to company challenges to what they ate for lunch. And the industry-only personalization came in last, with a 20.11 Our research backs this up. But is all that personalization truly necessary?

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 15, 2021

Join our free webinar to learn what sales approach actually engages buyers and makes them willing to have valuable conversations. Give prospects the education, insight, and value they crave, and watch as your competition ends up in the rearview mirror! Over the last year, we’ve all transformed.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This trend results in additional pressure on sales and marketing organizations to speak the business language of their prospects and customers, not just demonstrate technical expertise. The first step in vertical marketing is deciding which industries to target. In those cases, products are the same across industries.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

To be effective, your company sales strategy needs to focus on customer conversations as a way to create a distinctive purchase experience and separate your company from the competition. Even if you sell a truly remarkable product, prospects aren’t likely to recognize the full value you offer. Demonstrate Value In Your Messaging.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. At ZoomInfo, we require sales to follow up on all prospects who hit our MQL threshold within 90 seconds of the conversion.

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