Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2023

Industry surveys show that account-based marketing is consuming an ever-larger share of B2B budgets, and it’s easy to see why: smarter targeting, increased efficiency, and better ROI are enough to make any CMO’s eyes light up. Studies have shown the vendor that responds to a lead first has the best shot of winning the deal.

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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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. People want personalization — in fact, in a recent survey, 97% of professionals said it was important to them that vendor websites have relevant content that spoke directly to their company. And How Can They Help Marketers?

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The Sales Developers

DECEMBER 6, 2019

There are more vendors in sales acceleration every day and ever expanding budgets fueled by venture capital and other forces. In order to solve this, we believe that a funnel above the current sales funnel must be built. The remaining 20% of the funnel is where follow ups and meetings happen. The Current Data Problem.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Mindtickle

MAY 30, 2024

Launching a new product or expanding into a new market can be exciting for a business. The truth is that a lot of behind-the-scenes planning must take place before a new product hits the market. The truth is that a lot of behind-the-scenes planning must take place before a new product hits the market. But who needs one?

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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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. And How Can They Help Marketers? How to Build Marketing Personas Marketers can use buyer personas to build content strategies that speak directly to their targeted audience, and therefore build trust and reliability with customers.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 24, 2023

To all SMB SaaS marketing leaders’ delight, SMBs preferred investments in IT and cloud-based solutions, including infrastructure, managed services, and cyber security is predicted to continue growing in the coming years. How should SMB SaaS change its GTM game to grow its market share and even grow the size of the market itself?

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 24, 2023

To all SMB SaaS marketing leaders’ delight, SMBs preferred investments in IT and cloud-based solutions, including infrastructure, managed services, and cyber security is predicted to continue growing in the coming years. How should SMB SaaS change its GTM game to grow its market share and even grow the size of the market itself?

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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. But what’s the return on investment?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

And to get there, you have to ramp up your visibility and engagement with your best sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. B2B Tips for Sales, Marketing, Recruitment, and More. These signals alert sales and marketing teams to recognize their pain points and take the next step in putting them through the pipeline.

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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.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

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eGrabber

MAY 21, 2020

Did you know with COVID layoffs, pre-built lists from vendors like DiscoverOrg are losing value? Massive COVID related management layoffs – including companies like Uber, Airbnb and others – have left pre-built lists from vendors like DiscoverORG being vastly out-dated week after week. This where eGrabber can help.

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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. 80,000) against the previous period (e.g.,

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eGrabber

MAY 21, 2020

Did you know with COVID layoffs, pre-built lists from vendors like DiscoverOrg are losing value? Massive COVID related management layoffs – including companies like Uber, Airbnb and others – have left pre-built lists from list-vendors like DiscoverORG being vastly out-dated week after week. This where eGrabber can help.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I’ve interacted with more than 250+ sales technology vendors over the past 2 years, and I’ve noticed 6 sales tech trends you should be aware of going into 2020. Every vendor has been touting some sort of artificial intelligence for years now, but the overly puffed up claims turned out to be just that — puffed up exaggerations.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Check out the B2B marketing infographic below for a guide to how account intelligence can drive enterprise B2B marketing success. Selling tech to enterprise and having the right marketing approach can be a struggle. A plan based off of incorrect intelligence or too-broad insights can impact the success of your marketing efforts.

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SBI

MARCH 6, 2018

Naturally that makes sense since we provide Sales Leaders with free resources on how to navigate the Sales Technology landscape, so when I had the opportunity to join the B2B Marketing Exchange conference this past week in Scottsdale, I was excited. Marketers need to humanize the B2B decision-making journey. Matt was correct.

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Over the last three years, intent data has emerged as the fastest growing data category according to TOPO’s 2020 Intent Data Market Guide. Oh, very interesting.

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Cience

MAY 1, 2020

CIENCE has worked with over 750 companies since 2017, and we believe everything is possible in sales when outbound marketing is part of the Go-to-Market strategy. Outbound marketing is everything for sales now. This can be mentioned as a part of personalization for your email marketing campaigns. Who Is At Risk?

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BuzzBoard

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The logic behind is pretty simple—the intensifying competition keeps disrupting the market as a chain reaction, compelling SaaS businesses to reinvent their marketing and sales time and again. By serving as an invaluable strategic partner to customers, SaaS software vendors stand to realize faster growth rates.

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DocSend

JANUARY 19, 2018

Are you losing customers in your sales funnel? Getting prospects into your sales funnel is good. You can’t afford to keep losing customers in your sales funnel after investing time, money, and other resources on inbound marketing and paid advertising to generate customers. Is it because your sales funnel is too long?

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Jeff Davis

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

There has been talk lately of the traditional sales funnel being outdated as it does not truly capture the way in which B2B customers interact with sellers today. With these two changes in the market it can be understood that the buyer's journey is no longer linear. Is the current sales funnel out of date?I people [CEB].

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2019

Author: Steve Norman I recently saw the CMO of a high-profile company present at an international marketing conference. The CMO said this “breakthrough” strategy was the foundation of the company’s sales and marketing plans. The rise of the buying committee has made the middle-of-the-funnel buying process even more complex.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 7, 2021

This framework asks sales and marketing to work together to provide buyers with the content they need at the right time in the sales process. The first stage aligns with the top of the sales funnel. The awareness stage is when your marketers should introduce your product, service, or company. What is the buyer’s journey?

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 7, 2023

The way we build sales funnels is obsolete Digital marketing has its roots in the early days of the internet, but it really started to take off in the mid-1990s as more and more businesses began to recognize the potential of the internet as a marketing and communication tool. Everyone gets inbound referrals.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Whether you’re launching a new business or a new product, competition is fierce, resources are limited, and market preferences can change in a moment. . With over 700 companies competing in this highly saturated market, getting lost is easy. A go-to-market strategy framework is a blueprint for growth.

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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? Content Marketing and Sales Enablement Defined. Content Marketing.

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing eBook 96

Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Create the R ight C ontent for Y our A udience About 37% of experienced B2B marketers produce compelling sales content for their target audience. Doing this every step of your B2B sales funnel is a superior hack to gain customers. Investing in LinkedIn marketing solutions can help your brand generate more qualifying leads.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). When marketers look over a lead’s qualifications, they examine their engagement with the brand along with their b udget, a uthority, n eeds, and t imeline (BANT). Instead, it’s a chase.

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DocSend

APRIL 13, 2019

Are you losing customers in your sales funnel? Getting prospects into your sales funnel is good. But you shouldn’t stop there because there is another step—you’ve got to keep the prospects in your sales funnel. However, you can’t expect to retain every prospective customer in your sales funnel. Identify the problem.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m fascinated about a lot of the discussion about marketing and sales alignment. Usually marketing is saying “sales isn’t following up on our leads, consequently we’re losing lots of opportunity.” Our marketing and sales funnels basically identify our workflows in marketing and sales activities.

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