Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Consistently high spending on marketing technology over the past few years is now a key risk to the budgets and credibility of chief marketing officers. According to Gartner’s 2022 CMO Spend Survey, B2B organizations devote approximately one-quarter of their marketing budget to technology.

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Trends Strategy Survey B2B 156

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

It seems Dreamforce has become the magnet for all the sales and marketing automation suppliers to trot out their shiny new toys and releases, enticing us to buy. I have dozens of people reaching out, wanting to introduce me to their latest greatest technologies oriented at helping sales and marketing professionals.

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Marketing Lead Gen System Tools 48

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing? Real-time communication: Messages that are sent and received instantly.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. It’s imperative for marketers to understand their customers’ journey and the role that each touchpoint plays in an eventual purchase — and marketing attribution is the one tactic that helps them do so.

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Trends B2B Marketing Channels 160

Zoominfo

APRIL 12, 2021

How do you scale your marketing strategy to enterprise-level and keep leads flowing into your funnel? An SMB digital marketing strategy, meanwhile, will typically focus on a customer base that best fits the product or service rather than exponential growth. What Is an Enterprise Marketing Strategy?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Author: SAM MELNICK VP OF MARKETING, ALLOCADIA At Allocadia, we’re keen on asking the following question: Where will you focus your time in 2018?—?running running marketing, or doing marketing? Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing. Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing.

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Enterprise Enterprise Marketing Microsoft 214

Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Account Based Marketing Trends B2B Marketing 130

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Combining historical sales patterns and customer profile data with external signals — economic indicators, news and survey data, and buyer intent — results in improved forecasts grounded in both past performance and current market conditions.

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Lead Rank Data Marketing Segment 130

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. The good news? Wondering how to incorporate AI and automation into your ABM strategy?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 248

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. 2: New sales or marketing leader play. 4: Customer technology play. Filtering criteria stays the same.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 11, 2022

ROI from an investment in new technology is a pipedream without adoption from the frontline. The post 5 Ways to Design a Tech Stack Sellers Actually Want to Use appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2018

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. Today, we break down the most important categories of marketing tech.

Marketing 170

Marketing Social Media Advertising Advertising 170

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

What happens when your most important go-to-market machines sync up? For many companies, ZoomInfo serves as the information engine that powers how they go to market. “Data silos are unfortunately still a problem for a lot of go-to-market teams,” says Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s Founder and CEO.

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SalesForce Meeting Marketing Lead Rank 173

Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2018

If business were basketball, your technology stack would be a strong contender for MVP. While your technology stack may not seem like it warrants serious consideration, it has the power to make or break your success as a marketing team. Today we introduce you to your 2018 Marketing Madness starting lineup.

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Marketing Buyer Persona Hiring B2B 188

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Location data (Marketing loves).

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 18, 2023

Many companies focus too much on getting the “right” tech stack and ignore the overarching goals that technology is supposed to enable. Here are three sales areas that technology can impact on improving the rate and effectiveness of a seller’s conversation with their prospects.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 265

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2023

The more potentially disruptive the technology, the greater the hype. While it’s undeniable that generative AI is already changing how businesses engage with the world, sales and marketing leaders are quickly realizing that AI alone isn’t the solution to all their problems. Today, the problem has been reversed. “I’m

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Data B2B Harvest Scale 130

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 19, 2021

In this SMM webinar-turned-podcast, Shawn Finder, founder of sales automation software company Autoklose, reviews the top technology tools for growing business long term, from the top-of-the-funnel stage to closing deals. The post The Must Have’s for Your Tech Stack appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Funnel Sales Automation 177

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

When it’s time to build a technology stack, sales teams are faced with hundreds of solutions that offer lofty promises of automation, efficiency, and higher revenue. What is the Sales Tech Stack? Many parts of the sales tech stack have applications beyond just reaching prospects and closing deals. Take sales reps.

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Data Intent Signal Sales Qualified Lead Software 147

Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona 201

Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Paid Content B2B Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

What happens when your most important go-to-market machines sync up? For many companies, ZoomInfo serves as the information engine that powers how they go to market. “Data silos are unfortunately still a problem for a lot of go-to-market teams,” says Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s Founder and CEO That’s where Salesforce Sync comes in.

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SalesForce Meeting Marketing Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

JULY 20, 2021

When it’s time to build a technology stack, sales teams are faced with hundreds of solutions that offer lofty promises of automation, efficiency, and higher revenue. What is the Sales Tech Stack? Many parts of the sales tech stack have applications beyond just reaching prospects and closing deals. Take sales reps.

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Data Intent Signal Sales Qualified Lead Software 130

Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

But the technology has yet to realize its full potential — until now. Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. However, chatbots are only as intelligent as the underlying database.”

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Ideal Customer Profile Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Revenue teams – Companies will move beyond simply aligning sales and marketing toward revenue teams?—?super super teams that include customer success in the same organization as sales, marketing and operations.

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Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 289

Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

But the technology has yet to realize its full potential — until now. Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. Make chat part of your sales and marketing technology stack.

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Ideal Customer Profile Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2019

“But actually that ‘noise’ is a powerful tool to target the right accounts – that is, if you know the tech stack of your target accounts ,” says DiscoverOrg’s Senior Manager of Sales Development. Own win rate increases by 300% when we know key parts of a prospect’s technology stack. What is the tech stack?

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To 202

Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I’m talking about your Sales Stack! I suppose it’s not surprising, but there’s a lot of talk about the importance of sales stacks. As you would expect, much of it is driven by the vendors of sales technology tools. As an example, recently a vendor sent an offer for quick audit of our technology stack.

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Vendor Account Based Marketing Face-to-face Survey 105

BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In our previous post, we discussed the reality of selling digital marketing services to local SMBs by analyzing the in-between communication challenges backed by true anecdotes. Because the aim is to understand your local customers’ unique needs, your digital marketing strategies and their business goals must be in perfect coordination.

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Strategy Marketing Education Small Business 105

Zoominfo

JULY 3, 2020

When it comes to identifying accounts to target for marketing campaigns, you have a lot to choose from. The same way that demographics provide information about human characteristics, firmographic data provides information about firms or companies that allow you to group them into market segments. So how do you narrow it down?

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Data Account Based Marketing Demographics Campaigns 195

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While these are encouraging signs that indicate a strong labor market, other trends indicate economic weakness — making it hard to agree on a cohesive narrative about where the economy is headed. It could be that the gains we’ve seen in the labor market are self-perpetuating. However, in August, average hourly wages rose 0.3%

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Face-to-face Marketing Cost Per Click Automotive 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. 5 Ways to Facilitate Better Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 223