Zoominfo

MAY 22, 2024

Since I founded ZoomInfo 17 years ago, I’ve had a clear vision of how data and technology could help sales professionals everywhere realize their true potential. Where every sales team could compete on an even playing field, and a successful sales career could change your life. Modern sales is becoming a science.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Scale Marketing 130

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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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Top of Funnel 264

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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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 105

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As a marketer, you must have a clear understanding of your audience’s needs and interests to remain current, improve customer experience, and ultimately grow your business. But, we have a simple fix—surveys! Whether you realize it or not, marketers can use surveys to reach important business goals. Ready to learn more?

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Survey B2B Webinar Metrics Buyer Persona 133

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Predict Future Sales Trends By incorporating accurate firmographic data — industry, company size, location, and revenue — with relevant signals that reflect up-to-date buyer behavior, data teams are able to build AI models that can better predict future sales trends.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hey, Marketing. Is your team going in the same direction as sales development and sales? B2B marketing and sales can use swim lanes to map and track their responsibilities — from qualifying marketing leads to closing deals. In other words, swim lanes are a way to align your sales and marketing teams.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As a marketer, you must have a clear understanding of your audience’s needs and interests to remain current, improve customer experience, and ultimately grow your business. But, we have a simple fix—surveys! Whether you realize it or not, marketers can use surveys to reach important business goals. Ready to learn more?

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Survey B2B Webinar Metrics Buyer Persona 100

criteria for success

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Coming up with marketing ideas can be hard. And even when you have a list of marketing ideas, it can be difficult to decide which ones to prioritize. While your marketing team has the most expertise in making these decisions, don’t forget to check with sales. What do prospects want? Let's Talk Sales!

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Too many sales teams, though, are continuing to use the same general tactics they used pre-2020. While we’re not yet able to claim victory over the pandemic, it’s time sales leaders think about what B2B sales might look like in a post-COVID world. We conducted a follow-up survey in July 2020 and again in February 2021.

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Tenbound

MAY 14, 2021

The Sales Development Benchmark Survey Report 2021 – Now Available 5 trends in Sales Development to look out for in 2021 2020 was a difficult year for many businesses, and it is now time for Sales Development professionals to shift their attention from executing basic activities to providing extreme value to prospects, while forging greater alignment (..)

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? It’s all about appealing to their specific interests and needs. How Do You Set Up Email Automation?

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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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Account Based Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Emissary

MARCH 28, 2023

In this report, we pull key insights into how sales teams can better position themselves and engage with CISOs. We connect enterprise sales and marketing professionals directly to our community of over 12,000 talented executives with recent experience in your most important accounts. What messaging resonates with them.

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Survey Report Buyer Persona Vendor 52

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? That starts with going after the right accounts that match your ideal customer profile (ICP).

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Census Small Business Pulse Survey estimates that less than 20% of businesses have enough cash reserves to cover three months of operations. Old Sales Funnels Are Drying Up. The impact of these changes is highlighted in the marketing segment.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? Engage with your prospects.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 109

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. After all, the B2B buyer’s journey has become increasingly complex, as each prospect engages with a number of digital touchpoints on their path to becoming a customer. What is marketing attribution? Let’s get into it!

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BuzzBoard

MAY 31, 2024

The Importance of Having an Effective Sales Pitch for Digital Marketing Services and How It Can Impact Your Bottom Line Effective marketing strategies are crucial for the success of small businesses. Remember, your sales pitch is your agency’s introduction. Consider selling stories rather than services.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2018

But when you’re in sales, learning the truth about a prospect’s needs is critical. Nowhere else in the sales cycle is independently verified information from trusted sources more important. That process has historically meant placing phone calls, making inquiries via networking groups, or conducting surveys, among other options.

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Prospecting Decision Maker How To Social Media 185

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI. Their rapid growth recalls some of the most durable tech-driven shifts of modern history, with research by Bloomberg suggesting the generative AI market will grow to $1.3 What Does this Mean for Marketers? How Do Marketers Use Generative AI?

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) is now table stakes for B2B marketers and salespeople looking to hit — and exceed — their goals. In fact, a recent survey of marketing leaders found broad agreement that ABM programs produce better pipeline growth, revenue growth, and return on investment than competing approaches.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Marketing 130

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Author: Jacob Dillon The marketing environment never sits in one place. As the digital era is here, every marketer and salesman must adapt to the most effective practices that bring the most results. Finding new prospects to buy your products is surely a key factor of the entire sales process. Pay attention and apply!

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Marketing Social Media Scale Case Study 196

Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

With digital selling taking over traditional sales methodologies, there has never been a more exciting time to be in sales. Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Tools Prospecting Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 132

Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2020

A survey by an online magazine Kitchn showed that 97% of grocery shoppers use a list. When it comes to sales and marketing, building a prospecting list of target accounts and contacts may feel like a good place to start, but identifying and analyzing the total addressable market should come first.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You may notice that your campaigns move too quickly or slowly, indicating that your marketing team has become distracted. If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones.

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Outbound Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Campaigns 177

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #22 – Guest Jeff Goldstein. Jeff is an engineer by training, he has spent his entire career grinding out a sales number as VP and GM of the Canadian subsidiaries of Data General/EMC, NetApp and Veeam Software. He shares his 25+ years of sales leadership and helps you lead and sell through all types of markets.

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Sales Qualified Lead Engineering Survey Lead Rank 220

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 21, 2013

You’re asking yourself “Why aren’t my prospects responding to my campaigns?” The fact is customers and prospects aren’t responding to your campaigns. The fact is customers and prospects aren’t responding to your campaigns. The return on the marketing investment (ROMI) is not there. Blanket marketing is annoying customers.

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Top of Funnel Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 312

Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2014

Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. Some of it is direct marketing, such as email, display, and PPC search.

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Paid Content Social Media Survey ROI 252

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This is especially true when it comes to sales and marketing. In an ideal world, sales and marketing processes would be built with the other team in mind. Here are some numbers that just might convince you of the value of Sales and Marketing alignment: Sales and Marketing Alignment Stats to Know.

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 17, 2023

We ran a month-long survey asking some straight, hard-hitting questions with the intent to help each other make better sense of it all and stay strong. Companies are bringing in hiring freeze (15%), downsizing teams (56%), and reducing go-to-market expenses overall (49%). Corrective measures are in play across companies.

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Survey B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. We surveyed nearly 250 marketers , and while 59% of respondents said they either were not adjusting their budgets or weren’t making significant changes, almost 40% said they were cutting back on marketing spend in anticipation of a recession.

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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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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Marketing How To 130

Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

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. More importantly, they may be losing top-of-the-funnel prospects due to impersonal chat experiences. Here’s how: 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Author: Brandon Brown Today, most marketers and salespeople agree that we need to build relationships with our customers. But many of those same marketers and salespeople are implementing old-school marketing tactics that bombard consumers with unwanted ads and clickbait. Two words: influencer marketing.

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