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A Marketing and Sales Blind Spot?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? Marketers and sales pros agree that early-stage demand generation matters most across all of these areas.

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4 Ways Virtual Events Are Reimagining Themselves

Sales and Marketing Management

That’s been by necessity: In a world where 73% of attendees are still pining for in-person events (only 4% of respondents to a recent survey feel that virtual events are more valuable than in-person), some event organizers and speakers are taking on the challenge. Online chat is standard with many platforms but can be a free-for-all.

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9 Data-Driven Ways to Use Generative AI for Marketing

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Why Data Quality Matters for Generative AI While AI tools in the broadest sense have been in development for decades, the explosion of recent interest is fueled by the release of consumer-focused products, like Google’s Bard and Open AI’s ChatGPT. With generative AI, social media managers can generate suggested social copy for each platform.

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How Well Do You Know Your Customer?

SBI Growth

So I asked the next logical question: “ Tell me about your buyer research; How do you do it? ” She mainly talked about their customer surveys. Unfortunately only about 5-7% of customers actually respond to survey requests. Unfortunately, most marketers are ill-equipped to do in-depth Buyer Research.

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Marketing KPIs are changing. Here’s why.

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Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing. A 2021 Business Wire survey of senior-level B2B sales and marketing leaders revealed that 66% reported suboptimal alignment. In 2015, they found that 70% of B2B marketing organizations reported the amount of pipeline they sourced as a KPI.

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Pick The Right Plays: Using the Go-To-Market Framework

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In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. According to HubSpot research, 93% of consumers will be repeat buyers at companies with excellent customer service. Go-to-market plays : Cross-sell campaigns, account-based marketing campaigns, and demand generation campaigns.

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How ZoomInfo’s WebSights Improves Retargeting Strategies

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That’s one of the reasons ZoomInfo created WebSights , which enables you to understand which companies are researching your product and retarget them efficiently in campaigns. Like with any demand generation strategy , you need to parse the data to understand the following two elements: Buyer profiles : Whom do we want to do business with?