Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Because of these obstacles, it takes dogged persistence coupled with sales skills to start a meaningful conversation. Instead of trying to close a sale you should be aiming to open a conversation. You just need to offer a tasty tidbit that will encourage the potential customer to have a brief conversation. Keep it Short .

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Build conversations based on target lists. Use HubSpot engagement data to fuel conversations.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 21, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Business Marketing Techniques You May Not Have Tried Would you like more creative marketing strategies for your business? Discover innovative marketing strategies to reach your target audience and elevate your brand.

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Trade Show Marketing Social Media Referrals 88

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

.” We grab every coupon and sales ad we can find, use Groupon for deep discounts on special events and luxury services, and take advantage of “refer a friend” offers any chance we get. I know many companies offer discounts or monetary rewards when customers refer a friend. The short answer is no. But think about it.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. Plenty of companies have sales and marketing plays, but not all plays are created equal. What is a Play?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Believe it or not, only 52% of companies that use landing pages run tests on their forms to find ways to improve conversions ( source ). It’s a question that has plagued marketers and website managers for years. Yes, reducing the amount of fields in your forms may boost conversions. Keep reading! Number of fields.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. Demand generation enables you to make smart marketing decisions for your company.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2018

Your marketing landing pages may receive a ton of traffic– but are you converting those visitors to leads? For marketers, there’s nothing more frustrating than low landing page conversion rates, especially when it’s difficult to determine what the cause is. For five or more links, conversions dropped even lower to 10.5%.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Your marketing landing pages may receive a ton of traffic – but are you converting those visitors to leads? For marketers, there’s nothing more frustrating than low landing page conversion rates, especially when it’s difficult to determine what the cause is. What is a Good Landing Page Conversion Rate? Glad you asked.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s no secret, the Internet has changed the way customers buy products and the ways marketers engage with their audiences. But, despite the constant change, the following statement has held true for hundreds of years: No marketing tactic can match the influence of word-of-mouth. Therein lies the power of word-of-mouth marketing.

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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?”. The authors, Omar Abbosh, Paul Nunes and Larry Downes, refer to this untapped revenue as “trapped value.”. We have a long way to go,” Venkata says.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Sophie Buonassisi is the Vice President of Marketing at GTMfund, overseeing GTMnow – the media arm of the GTMfund brand – and the internal community. She’s passionate about empowering go-to-market leaders and founders with access to insight through GTMnow’s channels, like this podcast, the newsletter, and more.

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Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. When people refer to CRM, they’re usually referencing the software. What is CRM?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. It’s imperative for marketers to understand their customers’ journey and the role that each touchpoint plays in an eventual purchase — and marketing attribution is the one tactic that helps them do so.

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Nutshell

MAY 8, 2023

One of the most valuable types of tools CRMs can integrate with is email marketing platforms. But what’s the benefit of your CRM integrating with email marketing platforms, and what should you consider when setting up that integration? Table of Contents Why use a CRM with your email marketing? Read on to learn more.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Attempting to grow your business without marketing intelligence is a lot like driving without directions. Without a clear understanding of your industry or market, you’ll be ill-equipped to make informed business decisions. Businesses are catching on to the importance of market intelligence. What Is Market Intelligence?

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SalesFuel

MARCH 4, 2024

And your client should utilize digital marketing content to help drive sales for their own brand. How Clients Can Use Digital Marketing Content to Drive Sales The Best Content for Driving Sales According to 5WPR, the top forms of digital marketing content for driving sales are word-of-mouth and customer reviews and testimonials.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2021

Having conversations with prospects is baked into sales — in a lot of ways, it's the basis of the whole concept. You need to be able to successfully initiate and conduct productive sales conversations if you really want to thrive in a sales role. A successful sales conversation is rooted in trust and comfort.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Photo by u_n898l6o2op via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Marketing Strategies to Embrace for Small Business Growth Strategizing a robust marketing plan is advantageous and frequently essential for success in small business’s wide and cutthroat world. It’s not just about distributing facts.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Think about it: without accurate information, how can you market, sell, or provide customer service to your target audience? With turnover like that, it’s no wonder companies struggle to keep a clean marketing database. The Impact of Bad B2B Marketing Data. So, what does list churn have to do with B2B marketing data?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 10, 2020

Conversational intelligence is increasingly a hot topic, yet too often, it seems it’s more of an oxymoron. Just to be clear, for the purposes of this post, I’m talking about the application of AI/ML tools to analyze sales conversations, providing guidance to improve the quality of those conversations.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In our previous post, we discussed the reality of selling digital marketing services to local SMBs by analyzing the in-between communication challenges backed by true anecdotes. Because the aim is to understand your local customers’ unique needs, your digital marketing strategies and their business goals must be in perfect coordination.

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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.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What Is Referral Marketing?

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SBI

JUNE 7, 2018

Conversational AI is one type of specialized AI that has gained quite a bit of traction in recent years. But what exactly is conversational AI? While these are more commonly known use cases, conversational AI is also being leveraged by companies to optimize business processes. What is Conversational AI?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 27, 2020

What do the following have in common: Referrals, Meetings, Minimal Marketing, and Maximum Impact? You’ve heard me say that many times, but it’s now come to life—with a provocative addition from my colleague Sonia Dumas, who says “ Marketing is Minimal, Impact is Maximum.” People don’t refer companies; they refer people.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Facebook likes. Twitter followers.

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Nutshell

APRIL 21, 2023

Measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns is crucial for businesses to understand their campaigns’ return on investment (ROI). By measuring campaign effectiveness, companies can stay on top and rest easy knowing they’re boosting their marketing strategy’s success.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

How’s that for attracting new clients in a highly competitive market? The trust your prospect has for the person who referred you gets transfers to you. Your conversation shifts. Referred customers have a 37 percent higher retention rate and are four times more likely to refer more customers (Source: Invesp ).

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Salesmate

JUNE 24, 2021

If you want to start a conversation, you need to know about what email etiquette you should follow that brings you leads or at least potential customers. As the name suggests, the email introduction refers to the first email sent to the user, briefing them with an idea of your motive to send. Well, do not worry. We got your back!

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Ryan Gould In the context of content marketing, a product-agnostic approach is one that focuses on your expertise and knowledge around a product, technology or service rather than your brand. The product-agnostic approach to content marketing has been around for a long time. 4 Examples of Product-Agnostic Content.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2018

The differences between B2B marketing and B2C marketing run deep. Today we’re putting our differences aside because we believe, there’s a lot B2B marketers can learn from their B2C counterparts. It means putting the customer at the center of every business decision, including product development and marketing.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Building a Market-Facing Product Management Discipline The definition of “market” has more than its share of ambiguities. It runs the gamut.

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MAY 3, 2020

This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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