Corporate Visions

AUGUST 13, 2020

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? Every marketer wants to make an impact. Today, with 80 percent of the sales cycle happening in digital or remote settings, you’ve never had a greater opportunity to directly influence buying decisions. What makes most marketing content so woefully forgettable?

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Allego

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Allego is happy to announce that Heather Moses has joined the company as chief marketing officer (CMO) to drive the next chapter of the company’s growth. Heather brings almost 15 years of experience in the marketing industry. A New Generation of B2B Buyers B2B buyers ’ needs have changed dramatically in recent years.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a recent Emissary survey of executive-level tech buyers, 85% of recent, major tech purchases included a non-technical buyer with major influence over the final decision. Most vertical marketing strategies are light in nature consisting of tabs on websites, vertical-oriented stock photos and key words added to headers. Listen first.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

Yet there’s little attention within marketing teams on developing quality offers. DMA studies show Offer is the #1 determination of success for customer marketing. Marketing plans are well underway. Chief Marketing Officers are monitoring their team’s campaign metrics as a leading indicator. Strategic Offer Assessment.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

TechTarget Priority Engine Named Best Account Based Marketing and Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution by SIIA. Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. TechTarget, Inc. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 23, 2019

It also happens to be the factor over which you have the most influence. The number of opportunities in your pipeline is predominantly influenced by your ability to generate demand for your product or service. You can certainly influence deal size, but there is a lot stacked up against you.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 8, 2013

These questions are the Holy Grail of sales and marketing. For the marketing leader struggling to produce leads , mapping the buyer’s journey is priority #1. A Buyer Process Map will focus your marketing efforts for maximum demand generation. Armed with this knowledge you can influence their path to purchase.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “ buyer’s journey.”

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

They don’t often get the widespread recognition they deserve, since most other online sales awards often become influencer popularity contests. Chris Hays – Marketing and Sales Operations, DiscoverOrg. Ellie Twigger – Sales Development Specialist, Forrester Research. Manager, Demand Generation, Host Analytics.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? Influence their buying decisions? Each persona contains quantitative research, anecdotal observation, and existing customer data. It takes a significant amount of time, effort, and research. Let that sink in. What is a buyer persona?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most. I have long been an advocate of qualitative buyer research to uncover insights that can shape strategy.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sign up for our annual research tour. Selling in the orange involves influencing the buyer before a rep is present. The output is a clear understanding of market potential. Demand Generation efforts are focused on the best prospects and customers. We are offering free expert advice on how to avoid the RFP plague.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Something all B2B marketing and sales teams have in common is an abundance of CRM data and challenges around how to make the most of it. There are so many ways to leverage your CRM data—especially in Account Based Marketing (ABM). Expansion is another area that ABM can be utilized to generate upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

At the change of each year, we scour thought pieces on the web for chief marketing officer (CMO) trends that we must be attuned to in the coming year. Personalize messaging and content in omni-channel marketing. Account-based marketing (ABM). all forms of peer experience and influence. SiriusDecisions). Salesforce).

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SBI

APRIL 17, 2013

DemandCon’s purpose is to offer education and insight into the art of aligning and accelerating the sales and marketing funnel. Those are the 3 kings that will influence your prospect to engage. She was generous enough to share how she maps content to each stage in the buying cycle and what the leadflow looks like.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. March 2008. February 2008.

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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 same can be said about basing your sales and marketing messages on personas. You build personas for each of the buying influencers in the deal. Our recent research on executive-level selling backs this up.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 24, 2014

Gartner research showed that Sales came in last place after Technical and Industry Expert, Service and Support and Senior Executives as ‘the most influential personal interactions across the entire buying cycle’. According to Gartner, left unresolved, the Value Gap can place much of your marketing and demand generation activities at risk.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

Consider the following insights: Research performed by SiriusDecisions shows that the number-one inhibitor to sales achieving quota is “inability to communicate value message.” A Forrester Research study revealed that only 15 percent of sales calls add enough value, according to executives surveyed.

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MarketJoy

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The strength of your sales pipeline influences how much revenue you generate this week, month, or quarter. If you’re spending your time and your marketing dollars talking to people who don’t need or can’t afford what you’re selling, then you’re simply flushing your money down the toilet.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. People and ideas that have influenced Jake’s journey 25:22]. Jake is a career marketer who served as the CMO at Pendo. He also worked at Gartner where he worked as head of research.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Recently, we published The Ultimate List of Marketing Podcasts. 1. Join host, Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing on this fast-paced, power-packed program. 3. Sales Influence—Why People Buy. So if you’re already familiar with the sales podcasts on this list, we recommend you check out that post as well.

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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. You get on the project and do an online research.

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Showpad

JANUARY 3, 2019

Speakers include CEOs, sales VPs, analysts, technology influencers, and leaders that will provide sales and enablement professionals with the insights they need to drive growth and improve performance. INBOUND empowers marketing and sales professionals to connect and engage with customers in new, innovative ways. TOPO Summit.

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LeadBoxer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) demand generation is important for any business. Awareness of your business’ products and services involves demand generation marketing strategies. You can skip some parts of the post and jump ahead: What is Demand Generation Marketing?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Not only are podcasts a great source of entertainment, but more professionals use podcasts for professional development, research, and inspiration. Sales Pipeline Radio Join host, Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing on this fast-paced, power-packed program. What are the Best Sales Podcasts?

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SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

Penetrate Target Accounts for More Sales-Ready Leads – Because reply emails are coming from accounts you’re already targeting, the alternate and replacement contacts LeadGnome finds are not only within the account, but more than likely influencers and decision makers within the opportunity.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 23, 2020

On-demand training. RevGrowth Virtual Summit brings the sales and marketing communities together for a new kind of event. Unleash, Outreach’s sales engagement conference that draws thousands of sales, operations and marketing leaders each year, is a virtual event this year. On-demand access to the sessions post-event.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. With better profiles, demand generation teams can craft stronger advertising campaigns. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Of course this is all well and good if you had a good role model, which it seems this group did; or it could turn out to be a disaster if you have the wrong type of manager, and now those habits get passed on to the next generation. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Book Notice.

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Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2012

My guest today for this third PowerViews interview is Trip Kucera, Senior Research Analyst at Aberdeen Group. His focus in the Marketing Effectiveness and Strategy practice helps his clients achieve extraordinary results. Video Marketing - A Surprising Trend. Along with this trend, media integration is becoming more prominent.

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Mereo

MARCH 26, 2020

At Mereo, we have developed a unique approach to revenue performance that leverages the inherently interdependent operational disciplines of demand progression, solution marketing, solution management, sales operations and sales enablement. We have touched on demand generation and solution marketing the past couple weeks.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

Sales Ops also uses internal performance data, along with external market and competitor research , to craft sales strategy and achieve sales goals. Sales Operations influences the structure and organization of the Sales team to maximize its efficiency, impact, and performance. Sales Forecasting. Sales Team Organization.

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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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