Mereo

JUNE 29, 2023

Content marketing is an important strategy but can be challenging to master. Your buyers desire meaningful content that is shares keen insights and is backed by facts (statistics, client testimonials). On top of this, content marketing is notorious for consuming valuable resources.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. Each funnel stage defines your steps to turn prospective buyers into customers, even if they’ve never heard of your business before. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of re v enue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? It’s not the biggest issue, right?

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Highspot

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Dedicated to creating high-value content for every stage of the customer journey, a content marketer’s role is well-defined. What is the difference between sales enablement and content marketing? How does content marketing help sales enablement?

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Openview

DECEMBER 21, 2017

At the top of the funnel, marketers obsess over attracting, capturing, and handing off qualified leads. At the bottom of the funnel, sellers fixate over deals won and revenue attained. But what about the middle of the funnel? Despite this, we give the middle of the funnel very little attention.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. What is Demand Generation?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

Whether you’re sales or marketing, putting out content is a never-ending task, a mountain with no peak. This article talks you, the reader, through ideation, creation, and then iteration of content. This article talks you, the reader, through ideation, creation, and then iteration of content. Content ideation.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2011, Scott Brinker compiled the first of many marketing technology “Supergraphics,” illustrating the rapid growth of companies supplying digital marketing tools. The original displayed the logos of 140 prominent marketing tech brands. What is a Marketing Technology Stack? Get a Demo 2.

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Allego

MAY 7, 2024

Do your sales and marketing teams have a hard time communicating? According to a poll from SMM Connect and Training Magazine Network, 68% of sales and marketing leaders said “sales and marketing don’t communicate effectively.” Unused or underutilized content. (An If you said yes, you aren’t alone.

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Showpad

MAY 1, 2020

Identifying what drives return on investment is just as crucial as increasing it for product marketing leaders. In this way, product marketing plays a key role in sales enablement – the act of empowering customer-facing teams with the content, tools, knowledge, skills and coaching required to optimize buyer interactions.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 22, 2020

Author: Cherryl Pressley The efficacy of email marketing is clear, with 73% of in-house marketers globally saying it provides their organizations strong ROI. But, while many teams are sending emails, they’re not all maximizing it as a marketing tool. People think of them as a sales tool for converting customers.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 21, 2015

We were in control of the supply and the sales cycle. The Buyer’s Journey back then was from 37th and 6th (or as many blocks as it took to make our pitch and gain a commitment). But today’s Buyer’s Journey is more of a game of hide-and-seek than a linear process.

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Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

Sellers are facing one of the most difficult buying landscapes in recent memory—and they need your help. It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. Bottom line: you must be as agile as your customers to succeed.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past year, we’ve had tons of founders ask where they should be prioritizing their marketing dollars and resources considering the wild economic year that 2023 has unfolded as. 75% percent of CMOs are facing increased pressure to do more with less and to deliver profitable growth in 2023. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter!

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Use marketing techniques like re-targeting and suggested content to keep them engaged.

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Allego

JUNE 11, 2024

Do you know what separates high-performing sales teams from the rest of the crowd? Sales enablement. When you give your reps the tools, content, and training they need to confidently close deals, you proactively remove barriers and set them up for incredible success. What Is Sales Enablement? for those without.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product marketing professionals (sometimes called solutions marketing) have a broad set of responsibilities, ranging from product launches and persona research to product messaging, go-to-market strategies, and more. See also: 5 Projects to improve your sales and marketing alignment with sales enablement.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If there’s one thing of value that hasn’t been changed due to the current market downturn, it’s data. That’s why making full use of data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market. What Is Sales Analytics?

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Companies across the world, irrespective of their industry type, often have a defined sales process. The concept of sales process came into existence after considering the redundancies faced by sales teams due to unstructured sales management. This applies to sales concepts and definitions as well.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Most would agree that sales is not strictly a numbers game, but as with other issues such as closed ended questions , the pendulum at times seems to swing too far in one direction. Walking away is not forever, it for your sales success. The other which goes straight to numbers, has to do with the quality and quantity in you funnel.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. Today, we have solutions like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. What Are Buyer Personas? And How Can They Help Marketers? We like to make sure that we’re setting ourselves up for success. And who wouldn’t?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2021

This piece of AI technology is revolutionizing the buyer journey today. Chances are you’ve probably encountered your fair share of chatbots as a buyer. It largely depends on your website’s performance, content activation strategy, the use cases for your revenue team, and the capacity to manage another system in your toolkit.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Author: Rachel Krug Leads are the lifeblood of your business, yet, more often than not, leads fall outside the category of “sales ready” opportunities. There is likely a subgroup of leads that are sales qualified. When faced with a dead-end lead, reps need to take a step back. Maintain Empathy and Respect Their Buyer’s Journey.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here are 10 things that would happen if product management, product marketing, sales and customer success all had a common view of your target customers. The confidence of your organization would skyrocket because you’d know you’re building, marketing, selling and delivering measurable customer value with strategic impact.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 25, 2018

When you think about who creates the content your salespeople and other customer-facing professionals use to engage prospects and customers, you probably think about your marketing team. For many leaders, marketing is synonymous with content. Sales enablement – 16 percent. Sales operations/legal – 6 percent.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Assessing their impact on marketing strategies makes for tough annual planning on the right formula to connect with buyers. Download this Marketing Plan Assessment Tool to rank your planning ideas across Impact & Ease of Execution.). From my point of view, three big trends will affect marketing planning in 2013.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Which means things shaking up in the B2B world — holiday emails are being blasted, sales deals are being closed, and 2021 recruitment strategies are finishing up. And to get there, you have to ramp up your visibility and engagement with your best sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. Our post, “What is Buyer Intent Data?

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Allego

MAY 26, 2022

Channel sales are in the spotlight. I joined Nancy Sperry , Allego’s Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, on Zoom to discuss current challenges and opportunities for channel sales. Nancy is an experienced technology sales leader with a history of accelerating partner growth.

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Highspot

JANUARY 2, 2023

You already know a solid sales strategy can lay the groundwork for a successful, cohesive sales organization. But we’re here to show you how implementing a plan for sales enablement sets the stage for your sales strategy to align seamlessly with your sales goals. What Is Sales Enablement?

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Understanding the Current Landscape of Digital Marketing Agencies for Small Businesses In the era of digital reality, understanding the landscape of digital marketing agencies for small businesses has become increasingly vital. Equip yourself with the knowledge to boost small business growth in their digital journey.

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Allego

MAY 17, 2022

When it comes to sales, reps are often at the forefront. They’re responsible for moving prospects through the sales pipeline in order to convert them into customers. While what they do is essential, there’s another team that plays an instrumental role in closing deals: marketing. The Misalignment Between Sales and Marketing.

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Allego

DECEMBER 9, 2021

At Allego, our product strategy is informed by market insights, customer feedback, technology innovations, and tons of research. We observed the evolving role of sales learning from formal, instructor-led training to becoming part of the essential enablement experiences that reps count on day-to-day to help themselves.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Due to the proliferation of marketing materials on the internet, the modern buyer is no longer dependent on salespeople for necessary purchasing decision information. Inbound salespeople see the need to personalize the sales experience to the buyer's context. Inbound Sales Methodology. Legacy Salespeople.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In their journey, prospective buyers want to know they can trust the company as much as they can trust the individuals they’re dealing with. Sharing information, being active on social media, and creating interesting content can all help people get to know who you are and what you do. Your content can’t just be dry and boring.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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