Pointclear

MAY 14, 2013

My guest today is Michael Brenner, Vice President of Marketing and Content Strategy at SAP and Managing Editor for the SAP Business Innovation site. At SAP, Michael’s challenge is to transform social business and content marketing to reduce cost-per-acquisition of new customers. Sales and Marketing Need to Speak a Common Language.

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Top of Funnel SAP Cost per Acquisition Customer 260

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. The B2B playbook is changing. So, owned media. What is it?

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Media Company Distribution How To 72

Allego

APRIL 30, 2020

Yet sales enablement professionals must get new hires up to speed and keep teams on track in a world where face-to-face meetings are impossible. At the same time, sales teams now face additional barriers to productivity. Traditional training and sales enablement approaches won’t solve this challenge.

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Training Hiring Face-to-face Cancellation 83

Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 14, 2020

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Event marketing had been on the upswing with between 20%-25% of the typical marketing budget being spent on tradeshows, roadshows, etc. Virtual events in general.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Cancellation Sales Qualified Lead 33

Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now. We want our brands and our customer experience to convey empathy.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Top of Funnel Demand Generation 90

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

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Trade Show Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Webinar Metrics 154

The Pipeline

JANUARY 11, 2012

Here we are at the start of a new year, fresh faces, prospects and places to engage, and with what most would lead you to believe, a blank slate, ready to conquer sales all over again. Add video comment. Demand Generation. While corporate fiscal years are 12-months, and in many cases align to the 12 calendar Jan.

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Pipeline Face-to-face Cold Calling Sales Cycle 209

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

23 Marketing Tips For Avoiding Small Business Failure. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Compete , Guest Post , Marketing , execution. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Face Your Weaknesses. Implementing the program is the key to marketing success.

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Small Business Small Business Pipeline Marketing 253

Pointclear

AUGUST 23, 2012

Tim has more than 20 years experience in marketing and sales. Tim is also co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale: Using Power Messaging to Create More Opportunities, Differentiate your Solution, and Close More Deals and Customer Message Management: Increasing Marketing's Impact on Selling.

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The Spiff Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Our meet the team series is a blog post series we created to give us the opportunity to introduce the faces behind the Spiff brand. He started in tech doing QA at a video game company in the L.A. In his free time, Kevin loves to hike, bike, play sports and video games, and rockhound. Let’s jump into this batch of Spiffers!

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Meeting Engineering Commission Sports 72

Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. I performed the analysis through sizing the market, finding the industry influencers and profiling potential clients.

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 94

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

First, their view of, and approach to sales training ; second the alignment of their sales assets with clearly identifiable market segments. After all, if the VP can get by with training that does not change sales behaviour, than why can a rep take a similar view, “you wanted five face to face visits, you got five”; KPI met, sale or not.

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Webinar Metrics Pipeline Hiring Face-to-face 210

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

If you are in sales and your mandate is to sell to companies within your geographical territory, you have probably faced a scenario similar to the one that follows. Their revenue is generated in traditional ways, they are able to create 1:1 relationships directly with their customers, they do not see the need for a social intermediary.

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Pipeline Social Media Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 226

Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Then viable territories and targets, the right levels of support, training and enablement tools, demand generation leadership, and remove internal roadblocks. I did the analysis by sizing the market, profiling potential clients and finding the industry influencers.

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Sales Management Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Territories 86

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Rank 40

The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Yes it takes work; sure it’s not always pretty, and often exposes weaknesses we don’t want to face. Yes it takes work; sure it’s not always pretty, and often exposes weaknesses we don’t want to face. Add video comment. in addition to presentations there were a number of vendors. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Vendor 265

Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 18, 2018

More mature disciplines offer services for a range of customer-facing professionals, including managers as well as those in service roles. Or it can be external content such as a customizable, customer-facing presentation. This includes internal content such as an industry-specific playbook or sales guide.

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Sales Enablement Face-to-face Demand Generation Agencies Handbook 66

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales?

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 93

Mindtickle

MAY 4, 2022

You probably have an ideal customer profile to identify when a prospect is a good fit for your product or services. But most companies don’t have an ideal rep profile to map out the skills and competencies that their sales reps need to nurture those prospects, close deals, and convert them into paying customers. Product knowledge. Active listening.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). Most importantly, no sales messages to links being posted to selling websites or marketing videos.

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Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 83

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The fact that they may be seeking a solution, suggests that they are facing some challenges, obstacles and gaps in their ability to attain those objectives, or what I call opportunity. We all know the potential pitfalls of “selling on price”, but usually that statement is incomplete. First thing we need is a definition of value.

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Pipeline Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 225

Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. It works for you if you can control it. Outside that – it’s a free-for-all.

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Outsourcing Services Buyer B2B Lead Rank 79

Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2016

Assets: What are the internal-facing content and activation content being used with the buyer? Sales talent acquisition: In this extremely competitive market for talent where only 4% of top B2B reps are looking for work how do we attract the best? Functional Structure: How do we structure the organization to support this scope?

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Sales Enablement Face-to-face Sales Talent Lead Rank 52

Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2016

Assets: What are the internal-facing content and activation content being used with the buyer? Sales talent acquisition: In this extremely competitive market for talent where only 4% of top B2B reps are looking for work how do we attract the best? Functional Structure: How do we structure the organization to support this scope?

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Sales Enablement Face-to-face Sales Talent Lead Rank 52

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2012

His focus in the Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy practice helps his clients achieve extraordinary results. Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. Video Marketing - A Surprising Trend. Social Media is Becoming a Lead Gen Vehicle.

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Trends Social Media Top of Funnel Lead Rank 157

The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

Specifically, now that LinkedIn has gone public, the first thing they need to buy with their new funding is a bigger bed to accommodate some new bedfellows, very demanding bedfellows; specifically the fellows from Wall St. Let’s face it that Sales 1.5 What happens when social-ism meets capital-ism? First, it gave us Sales 2.0,

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LinkedIn Pipeline Meeting Social Media 241

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

At KLA Group, we have a rule of thumb: no prospecting or lead-generation email should be more than 175 words, and they all need to be three paragraphs or less. Too many sellers make it hard on themselves by trying excessively hard to put on their marketing caps, rather than simply writing to the prospect as a person. August 2008.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2011

As I listened to the retelling, I wondered how the customer kept up his griping gyrations in the face of such calm and respectful treatment. But she couldn’t get Darren past generic grievances. . “I can hear the frustration in your voice,” said Sarah, to an upset customer. It was an exasperating experience.

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Pipeline Hoovers Customer Twitter 257

Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Marketing (6398). Demand Generation (181). Topics Major Topics. Sales (12918). Training (4995). Prospecting (4539). Tools (2872). Sales Management (2614). Software (1035). Customer Service (995). Inside Sales (849). Channels (799). Advertising (694). Selling Skills (528). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Customer (6670).

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Lead Rank Leads360 Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 99

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

Sales Hacker Training

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

VP of Marketing at Outreach. Sales development representative roles have grown 5.7X since 2012, according to LinkedIn’s State of Sales report. That’s a lot of new people entering sales! If you’re one of them, that’s both good news and bad: It means sales is growing, but you’re going to have a lot of competition getting started. Collin Cadmus.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Up-Sell Hubspot 79

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. They say nothing happens until someone sells something.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Marketers are scrambling to address the power shift and overcome lead generation and conversion issues by delivering more content and tools over more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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Highspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

” While it may seem difficult to plan when so much is changing so quickly, one thing is for certain: It’s time for marketing teams to get creative. . So before you begin drafting your next big marketing campaign, invest time in figuring out what’s working, what’s not, and where opportunities to stand out exist.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing eBook 69

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Generate interest. When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 140

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. How Does Portfolio Product Management Impact Product Marketing? Structure product management/marketing so that their market knowledge is stronger than all other disciplines combined.

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Lead Rank Marketing Segment Face-to-face 52

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Recent research from The Aberdeen Group and Docurated indicate good salespeople today spend less than a third of their time selling, while increasingly more time is spent managing various administrative tasks surrounding sales and demand generation. For more than 30 years (yikes!),

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Strategy Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 130