Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Both are working toward different, conflicting metrics. Are these truly leads? Not really.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author: Mandy Truong With 2021 in full swing, marketers are making their plans for recovery and business growth. Here are lessons from two of our key programs last year that we plan to incorporate into our 2021 demand generation strategy: Revamped Webinars.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Marketers use various tools and technologies in the digital marketing world, and marketing automation is necessary to succeed. Historically, marketing was the “other” technology that existed outside of CRM, even though 2 out of 3 marketers believe that data-based decisions are more effective than gut instincts. .

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SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

Matt: LeadGnome automatically mines the sales intelligence from auto-reply and human-reply emails, eliminating the manual process and freeing up more time for actual selling. Matt: LeadGnome customers are up and running in minutes and sales intelligence pours in immediately after every email cadence/campaign is sent.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this article, we will cover virtual strategies that will help optimize your virtual sales approach and set you up for success. The basics include: Clarification: Show potential customers what your brand can do for them and their ROI. You can send these as follow-ups or release them on your website and social media platforms.

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MarketJoy

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Are you struggling with generating leads for your business? . You could be doing everything right — using content marketing and engaging with your audience — but if you’re not seeing the results you want, you might be making some mistakes with your lead generation strategy. You’re not communicating your value in marketing.

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SBI Growth

JULY 1, 2013

1) Sales / Marketing Budget Spend Shifts. Examine the overall sales/marketing budget spend left for 2013. At the end of the business case you should be able to say: “Yes, I can afford this project because of the ROI in 2014.”. If this year is like every other year, your sales target will go up. Follow @TonyAlbachiara.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Marketers use various tools and technologies in the digital marketing world, and marketing automation is necessary to succeed. Historically, marketing was the “other” technology that existed outside of CRM, even though 2 out of 3 marketers believe that data-based decisions are more effective than gut instincts.

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Green Lead's B2B

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As regular as Halloween and football, this time of year Green Leads usually hears the following questions from both new and existing clients. Why should we do appointment setting or lead generation during the holiday months? Here are some points to ponder and they are relevant to all marketing pipeline generation programs.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 26, 2013

Sales leaders recognize that marketing has a role. The purpose of this article is for Marketing leaders to; 1. Marketing dollars spent with agencies are multitudes greater than what a sales leader typically spends with 3 rd parties. The sales leader has difficulty seeing the marketing spend as prudent.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 2, 2020

By LinkedIn's own estimate , 97% of B2B marketers use the platform to support their content marketing efforts. Couple that figure with the fact that roughly 88% of video marketers report that video marketing offers a positive ROI, and you'll find that a solid LinkedIn video strategy is a sound investment.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Marketing agencies and media companies are increasingly seeing deep merits in becoming more data-driven to keep their go-to-market initiatives more targeted and relevant. 5+1 Winning Factors Adding Up to Soaring BuzzBoard Reviews: A Brief Analysis 1. Everything is there for you. Locations, spending, and product recommendations!”

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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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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Seen through this lens, any sales processes that ask employees to jump through hoops is not only unnecessary but is setting up younger employees to fail. A typical sales process consists of five to seven steps: prospecting, preparation, approach, presentation, handling objections, closing, and follow-up. Today’s sales processes.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. The decision-making science that backs this up is called “Fundamental Attribution Error.” The same can be said about basing your sales and marketing messages on personas. Our recent research on executive-level selling backs this up.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2018

In order for these salespeople to be successful, you need to increase your marketing qualified leads by 20%. let’s flash forward to six months from now and you're generating the same lead flow as today. Can’t the salespeople simply cold call to supplement the marketing qualified lead flow?”. Rep: “I see, John. Rep: “Why?”.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2012

In addition, you are probably using a marketing automation system that tracks leads and viewing history. Guide your team to build reports to measure the effectiveness of your Content Marketing and Demand Generation campaigns at driving leads. Is your content marketing strategy working? Why do you care?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. then it goes to follow that you have a good chance of engaging with the next shipping manager if you lead the conversation based on the list you created. Mining the Gap involves a series of follow through questions aimed at getting the buyer engaged and thinking more deeply about the issue.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. If your organization isn’t taking advantage of automated activity capture, you, along with every report that relies on the data within your CRM, are set up to fail. . But, the truth is, time is not on their side.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The ability to demonstrate marketing's return on investment is at the top of every CMO's plan for 2013. The ROI picture has been elusive as marketers struggle to capture the full impact of marketing’s contribution. Simple ROI calculations based on lead source have muddied the waters. It doesn't pass the smell test.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Members of DiscoverOrg’s sales and marketing teams attend about 30 events per year. We’ve got the ultimate collection to get the most of your trade show – with step-by-step instructions, plus creative tips for everything from making yourself memorable to follow-up techniques guaranteed to get a reply.

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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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Green Lead's B2B

DECEMBER 14, 2008

As regular as Halloween and football, this time of year Green Leads usually hears the following questions from both new and existing clients. Here are some points to ponder and they are relevant to all marketing programs, not just to appointment setting. Don't let the bean counters get in the way of a good marketing program.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, we have an Interactive Content Connector service that supports seamless integration with CRM and lead management / marketing automation solutions such as salesforce.com, Marketo, Eloqua, SilverPop and more. The integration can be used in multiple ways to help streamline user interaction, capture and enrich leads.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As well, any survey data that is captured, key results, along with the registration data, can be fed to your lead management / marketing automation system. This is rich data that will dramatically help with lead nurturing and follow-up.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’ve worked at a B2B company that uses an ABM strategy for their Go To Market and has an SDR team you have inevitably run into the problem of lead attribution. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. AE offers to follow up and drip content.

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Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

Right now decision-makers are focusing on marketing enablement. But what is familiar to some may be a mystery to others – what exactly is marketing enablement, and how do you do it well? Let’s dive into all these details, including how you can leverage marketing expertise to support sales and significantly impact business growth.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Interactive White Paper is hosted on the Alinean XcelLive™ platform , which has a number of lead capture options and connectors to several of the most popular marketing automation / CRM solutions. Each tool has its own registration form, which can be customized.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

One of the key elements of any successful relationship is communication — and that happens to be a huge factor in successful sales and marketing interactions, too. Sales and marketing usually want to be friends. When there isn’t a communication cadence in place between sales and marketing, a lot can get lost in translation.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation.

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Autoklose

JANUARY 15, 2024

And yet, even though those two concepts are marketing staples, some business professionals tend to mix the two up and use them interchangeably. Building your ideal customer profile and buyer persona should be your first step before you launch your first marketing campaign and reach out to your prospects and customers.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Today’s buyers are more conservative than ever, demanding that any investment they make drive tangible savings and business value – a fundamental change called Frugalnomics. Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. in incremental benefits. •

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