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.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

SBI Growth

JANUARY 22, 2013

Few marketing teams of $100M+ companies are built for modern demand generation. Marketing team structures too often are remnants from the days of print ad dominance. Marketing teams advanced effectively with this approach in the past. In-house marketing technology is a lynch pin of success.

Demand Generation 322

Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing Customer 322

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. Sign up here for SBI’s 7 th Annual Research Project.

Outsourcing Services 293

Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

You’re the newly minted marketing leader. Every marketing leader in similar circumstances asks themself these two questions: What do I need to accomplish in year 1? There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. Implement Demand Generation.

Ideal Customer Profile 300

Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation 300

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Here is how to think about ownership and process: Ownership Who should take ownership for the creation process and content that the sales team uses – marketing or sales? As for who takes ownership, this is how it’s reported to be most effective: Ownership of the assets: marketing. Well… it’s a bit of a trick question.

Hiring 106

Hiring Marketing How To Intent Data 106

The SalesPro Leader

MARCH 26, 2019

Do routinely look for ways to drive innovation with your demand generation approach? According to research by Circle Research and B2B Marketing, marketers are evenly split. According to the report, almost all of those. Or do you feel behind the curve?

Demand Generation 40

Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Report Research 40

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2013

B2B CMO''s largely do not have direct reports with expertise in demand generation. The pressure to provide marketing contribution to the funnel is greater than ever. The specialist roles involved in executing world class B2B marketing in 2014 is complex. Direct Report Staffing Mistakes to Avoid.

Demand Generation Agencies 321

Demand Generation Agencies Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 321

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Here are four ways our new platform empowers marketers to effectively and efficiently land their target accounts.

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Account Data 100

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The annual CMI/MarketingProfs B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks study validates the move toward Content Marketing. Marketing leaders understand that content marketing is King. We are seeing marketing budgets increasing the content development line item. What is the Internal Content Marketing Offering?

Demand Generation Agencies 316

Demand Generation Agencies Marketing How To Face-to-face 316

SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

If you are a small company marketing leader, updating your CEO can be a challenge. Complete extensive buyer research to understand the customer’s needs, wants, goals & objectives. Align your Lead Generation strategy with your buyer research. Be ready to report on all of it when asked. Let’s explore them.

Marketing 276

Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 276

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Author: Jen Smith, VP Marketing, MarketingProfs In the “Before Times” – way before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – virtual events were often seen as lesser-than to in-person, bigger-budget events. Freeman Event Research reports that some are pushing boundaries and reimagining virtual events in useful, unusual, and offbeat ways.

Demand Generation Agencies 358

Demand Generation Agencies Face-to-face Lead Rank Conference 358

Emissary

JUNE 6, 2022

Tech marketers were some of the very first to adopt ABM as a strategy distinct from inbound and traditional lead generation. In the beginning, account-based marketing for enterprise tech marketers was simply an account list and a high-value direct mail campaign. Download the Guide. Download the Guide.

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing Enterprise Enterprise Demand Generation Targets 52

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Reports of the Death of the Salesperson Are Greatly Exaggerated. The new buyer interacts with an organization when he or she is ready (not before), does the vast majority of research online without the vendor’s help, is distracted, and so forth. Those are as much for sales as they are for marketing. September 2008. August 2008.

Report 244

Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s coming up on the end of the third quarter and demand generation at the top of the funnel has been cooling off. As the leader of a marketing organization, you are getting pressure from the top to make changes.

Account Based Marketing 189

Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 189

MarketJoy

JULY 22, 2022

According to research by Vantage Point , 72% of sales managers hold sales pipeline review meetings with their sales reps several times per month. A recent report from CSO Insights found that “ Executives are under more pressure than ever to understand the pulse of their business ” – and at the heart of most businesses is the sales pipeline.

Ideal Customer Profile 111

Ideal Customer Profile Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation 111

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Back in 2018, 90% of B2B customers reported investigating between two and seven sites before they made a purchase. Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. But marketers still do. Not All Web Traffic is High Quality.

Ideal Customer Profile 147

Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 147

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

CMO’s report a honeymoon period of six to twelve months before they ‘own’ the result. Impacting a marketing team’s output in that short period of time requires a quick start. B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. How long is your honeymoon?

Top of Funnel 282

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Not All Web Traffic is High Quality Back in 2018, 90% of B2B customers reported investigating between two and seven sites before they made a purchase. Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. But marketers still do.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 130

MarketJoy

AUGUST 18, 2022

Create lead magnets: Examples are guides, video demos, discounts, reports, etc. Your marketing and sales teams need to work together to make sure leads who enter the sales pipeline are prospected, qualified, presented attractive proposals, and ultimately converted to satisfied customers. . . We can 10x your pipeline.

Outsourcing Services 98

Outsourcing Services Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead Hiring 98

Corporate Visions

MAY 30, 2019

The post What Kind of B2B Marketing Personalization Gets Results? In today’s world of big data and hyper-targeted marketing campaigns, most B2B marketers believe the more personalized your message, the better your results. Our research backs this up. Our research backs this up. The Marketing Personalization Study.

B2B 106

B2B Marketing Scale eBook 106

SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

I recently had a cup of coffee with a good friend and marketing peer. She has helped build the company with superb demand generation efforts. I had recently read Hubspot’s newest release of the State of Inbound Marketing Report, and a key stat hit me. Kathy is the CMO of an emerging software company. Top Insights.

Cost per Lead 323

Cost per Lead Inbound Buyer Persona Cost per Acquisition 323

Increase Sales

MARCH 29, 2013

This person will be 100% about business growth; will be the in house liaison between marketing and selling; and will represent the next generation of talent management. Yet with all the research about the impact of technology (mobility, social media, Web 2.0, Brand marketing. Web marketing.

Eloqua 151

Eloqua Hiring Marketing Small Business 151

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Andrea Kayal , Chief Marketing Officer at Upserve and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Signpost. We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen.

Demand Generation Agencies 67

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Hiring 67

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. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead 52

SBI

JULY 10, 2018

For many sales and marketing teams, discovering an in-month deal requires a whole lot of luck. Traditional demand generation methods just aren’t cutting it anymore. A marketing team judges how qualified a lead is based on engagement alone; a sales team takes that lead and discovers it isn’t a fit at all.

Intent Data 138

Intent Data Lead Rank Lead Scoring Closing 138

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. Each were covered in detail, and referenced thought leadership from industry leaders. Are these truly leads?

Sales Qualified Lead 160

Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

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. Competition reports are vital to agencies and media houses selling to SMBs for helping with market positioning, better prospecting, fixing appointments, etc.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Customer 52

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.”

Prospecting 208

Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel 208

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? Their peers.

Hiring 95

Hiring Retention B2C Demand Generation 95

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Who does the role report to? Which departments report to the role? Say, for example, that I’m working with a series B startup, making their first big VP of marketing hire with just a couple other people on the team. Do they want someone with a strong product marketing background? Or is demand generation a bigger priority?

Strategy 130

Strategy Salary Compensation LinkedIn 130

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 12, 2015

Most organizations spend a significant portion of their marketing budget on creating content to fuel demand generation programs, and to arm sales reps to have better conversations and engagements. SiriusDecisions reports that 55% of current content spending is squandered. But this is only addressing ½ of the waste.

Demand Generation Agencies 88

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Survey 88

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?

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Lead Rank Account 100

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.

Manticore 217

Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

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). Advocates tell your company’s story better than anything crafted by marketing.

Account Based Marketing 122

Account Based Marketing Customer Demand Generation Agencies Case Study 122

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.

Social Selling 83

Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 83

Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Today, Gartner reports that “the typical buying group for a complex B2B solution involves six to 10 decision makers, each armed with four or five pieces of information they’ve gathered independently and must deconflict with the group.”.

Buyer Persona 100

Buyer Persona Buyer Decision Maker Demand Generation Agencies 100

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? Each persona contains quantitative research, anecdotal observation, and existing customer data. It takes a significant amount of time, effort, and research. Well-informed buyer personas can have a huge impact on your marketing efforts.

Buyer Persona 100

Buyer Persona Buyer B2B Company 100