DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Buyer personas. Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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Buyer Persona Marketing Scale Collateral 214

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There’s a saying in marketing: “If you’re targeting everyone, you’re targeting no one.” There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice. There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice.

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer Persona B2B 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Author: Kelly Bosetti Salespeople once played a significant role in educating buyers about their options and helping them come to a decision regarding a product or service, but times are changing. Because of this, it’s no surprise that the buyer’s journey has undergone a fundamental shift. Reaching More Educated Buyers.

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Education Buyer Buyer Persona Social Media 330

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience. Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. Reps wonder what marketing does and contributes; marketing complains reps ignore their efforts. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales.

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Buyer Persona Marketing How To Lead Rank 310

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. The buyer has changed.

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Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Discover your best marketing account segments from within your current customer base. Sound familiar?

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Account Based Marketing Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account 218

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

You may think you know the answer to this question – your products sell well, you’ve gotten some great customer feedback, and your social media posts garner strong engagement. Consider these statistics ( source ): 71% of buyers who see a personal value in a B2B product will make a purchase. How do people feel about your company?

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s no secret, data has revolutionized marketing. Where marketers once relied on instinct, they now rely on insights gleaned from careful data analysis. Here on the ZoomInfo blog, we’ve laid out the benefits of data-driven marketing time and time again. Right-brained marketers create exceptional, unique content.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

You may think you know the answer to this question – your products sell well, you’ve gotten some great customer feedback, and your social media posts garner strong engagement. Consider these statistics ( source ): 71% of buyers who see a personal value in a B2B product will make a purchase. How do people feel about your company?

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 176

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2019

Due to the legal issues with compliance, many financial advisors choose to avoid the headache and stay away from digital marketing. There are ample marketing solutions that can help you increase your online presence while staying FINRA compliant. Read on for our guide to marketing for financial advisors! Utilize event marketing.

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Buyer Persona Social Media Marketing Case Study 145

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

But in a company with both marketers and sellers, this motto has never been more applicable. Whether we readily admit it or not, there has always been an underlying current of us versus them between the sales and marketing teams. Sales and marketing need to become one. Why should I care about buyer personas?” “I

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B2B Buyer Persona Marketing Top of Funnel 177

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. But, that’s only if you do it correctly.

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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Think about it: without accurate information, how can you market, sell, or provide customer service to your target audience? With turnover like that, it’s no wonder companies struggle to keep a clean marketing database. The Impact of Bad B2B Marketing Data. So, what does list churn have to do with B2B marketing data?

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B2B Data Churn Marketing 223

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From prospecting to discovery and demo calls, executives like CEOs and CFOs have become not just a name on an invite, but an active participant with plenty of questions and unique problems to solve. . We’ve found, as a best practice, deals that progress have most often included five engaging questions from a rep to a CXO during the meeting.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve spent the last year working to find product-market fit for my startup, Dock. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. But finding product-market fit is harder than it sounds. Here’s how we approached answering each of these questions.

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Ideal Customer Profile Conversion Marketing Hiring 88

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

From emerging platforms, to hot new trends, there’s always something new that marketers must identify and adapt to. And for better or worse, this change is sure to have quite the impact on your B2B marketing strategy. Since the emergence of social media, Facebook has never been the platform of choice for B2B marketers.

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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. Sales Prospecting in the Age of Buyer Empowerment. Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Top of Funnel 208

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You manage a small business and its marketing. Maybe your marketing efforts are more ‘throw it at the wall and see if it sticks’ than a fine-tuned ROI machine. What is small business marketing? The goal of small business marketing is to attract leads to your business. How to Grow Your Small Business with Marketing.

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Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 145

The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

This is especially true in sales, where so much hangs on what the buyers and we say. No matter how right and tight, your buyer persona is, how much of your drips they have downloaded, or any other factor. Not questioning the facts of your statement, but the delivery screams for rejection. And why not. Change the words.

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Cold Calling Buyer Persona Decision Maker ACT 344

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? Perhaps in the past you laid out a multi-year marketing plan, or simply went year-to-year. There are many components to a solid marketing plan.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing Buyer Persona 310

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your book of business, craft a well-calculated marketing plan, add more places of interest on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads back to your company. The marketing plan lays the groundwork for your team to go forth and execute. Have you made your 2018 marketing plan yet?

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Account Based Marketing Data Ideal Customer Profile eBook 181

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For the typical B2B organization, sales and marketing alignment is the ultimate goal. If you’re struggling with sales and marketing alignment, here are a few compelling reasons to get these teams on the same page: Companies with strong sales and marketing alignment achieve 20% annual growth rate. What can marketing do better?

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Marketing Buyer Persona Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 160

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In the Future of Content Marketing survey, 39% of nearly 60 respondents indicated they did not have a defined content marketing strategy. If you have read my past three articles on content marketing ( article 1 , article 2 , and article 3 ), then this percentage number is strikingly similar. Buyer Understanding.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better. What does that even mean?

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 246

SBI Growth

MARCH 10, 2014

Most CMO’s have created Buyer Personas. The most important question these CMO’s ask is “Did we get it right?” ” Buyer Personas have to be right. Your company is building products, content and campaigns based on the personas. The sales force utilizes them to make sales.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

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. All eyes are on you.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation 300

SBI Growth

MAY 19, 2013

Why should the CMO or VP of Marketing care about retargeting? You’re the one who explains why marketing is not supplying enough leads to sales. Is your marketing team bringing back 98% of the visitors for another shot? Looking to increase the number of leads marketing supplies to sales? Consider this study by ComScore.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

The digital nature of our current business landscape has caused a dramatic shift in the way companies market their products. As a result, SEO has become an essential skill for all modern marketers. Marrying the creative side of content marketing with the more technical parts of SEO is an art form many have yet to master.

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Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Buyer Strategy 196

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. The question we hear most often is “Can I make it with the current team?” In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. Not all marketing departments are created equal.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 319

Nutshell

AUGUST 21, 2020

With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good. With every SaaS market crowded these days— G2 lists over 2,800 solutions for “ CRM ” alone—there’s little room for error in your marketing. Product complexity.

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Campaigns Marketing Social Media How To 142

Product Management University

MARCH 30, 2023

The lint roller makers have figured out that they can generate more revenue by marketing the same product to a whole new market segment — pet owners — under a clever new name. For most B2B organizations, vertical marketing yields nothing but upside, especially if your products and services are a commodity or will be soon.

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Segment B2B Marketing Hiring 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2018

When a poem is bad, it’s uncomfortable to get through and leaves readers confused— just like bad content marketing. Today’s infographic is here to help you answer the following question: Are you sending targeted marketing or bad poetry? And there you have it— our guide to more targeted marketing campaigns.

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Marketing Buyer Persona Hiring B2B 140

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

One of his biggest hurdles was the lack of alignment between training and marketing. Sales was telling one story while the marketing content said something else. The message confused the buyer and the unique value proposition was unclear. The Sales Enablement leader can bridge the gap between sales training and marketing.

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Sales Enablement Marketing Collateral Face-to-face 200

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Look at the top 10 innovations and ask yourself each question below. The Tablet: Do you provide content that addresses your buyer’s market problems? Or is your buyer reading someone else’s content on their tablet? Do you have a plan to connect to more of your target buyers? This blog represents a test.

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