The ROI Guy

JUNE 19, 2013

IBM turned to Alinean to create an Interactive White Paper, delivering a provocative, customized analysis report to prove the superior value of IBM’s Cloud environment. Click here to get your own customized white paper.

Demand Generation 40

Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Enterprise Enterprise 40

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. Those that miss critical spend categories altogether.

Outsourcing Services 293

Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

Pointclear

JUNE 6, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. B2B Trade Show Marketing Circa 2013: Everything is the Same, Everything is Different.

B2B 190

B2B Buyer Trade Show PointClear 190

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our new white paper, The Ultimate Guide to Developing a High-Performance Sales Organization , outlines these principles. And we have distilled this knowledge into six pillars: Strategy and Go-to-Market : Establishes the goals, objectives, target markets, and delivery methods for your sales reps.

Hiring 62

Hiring Lead Rank Collateral Case Study 62

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2017

Email marketing is one of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing. Though not commonly used in logistics, email marketing has the potential to increase engagement and brand awareness amongst shippers, and can help your organization grow. Is it to get new customers? More business from existing customers?

Email Marketing 100

Email Marketing Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 100

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2017

Walton’s comments were written for the foreword of “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead,” by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan. Fellow Deadheads, Meerman is the author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR” and Halligan is CEO and cofounder of marketing software behemoth HubSpot. Build a diverse team.

Lead Rank 149

Lead Rank Marketing Strategy Trade Show 149

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, the reports are based on standard Word and PPT templates, making it easy to exactly match the style and format you require. Matching the current style provides for continuity with existing marketing and sales collateral.

Report 40

Report Collateral Tools Proposal 40

Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

However, in a sponsored research report, IDC estimated that Salesforce’s ecosystem will be six times the size of Salesforce itself by 2024 , which provides some context to the overall CRM field. market share in the CRM industry, according to prior analysis from Gartner. trillion in new business revenues to their local economies.”

Analysis 130

Analysis CRM Remedy SalesForce 130

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

When surveyed as to the most influential content in decision making, white papers remain the stand-out content of choice. Although white papers remain influential, technology media firms such as Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE) and others report that white paper downloads are DOWN year over year.

Influencer 40

Influencer Collateral Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 40

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 2, 2016

There are free White Papers, which could be anything from a scientific report on Sales Selection, Longevity,Trust, or The Challenger Sale (the topics of my White Papers), to a marketing piece made to look like a scientific report.

Hubspot 120

Hubspot Sales Methodology Inside Sales Advertising 120

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

An effective sales enablement approach will be held up by the following pillars: Knowledge: Knowledge of your prospect, your product, and your market — your sales reps need to have it all. Content: A helping of high-quality marketing content to fill up your lead pipeline. It all forms part of a wider sales workflow.

Sales Enablement 130

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 130

Allego

MARCH 28, 2023

They deliver a compelling buying experience, while enabling you and your marketing team to track which content the buyer reads, watches, and/or downloads—and which content performs best. Use Marketing-Provided Digital Sales Room Templates Tap the expertise of your marketing team to help you quickly create your DSR.

eBook 62

eBook Video Buyer Education 62

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But that doesn’t stop a lot of sales and marketing professionals from pursuing any and all hand-raisers, regardless how poorly suited they are. Fit, intent, and engagement provide the core data you need to be successful with your account-based marketing program. The days of squandering marketing budget are gone.

Account Based Marketing 145

Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Account 145

Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2022

It promoted a white paper going much more deeply into the research. I filled out their form, my name, email, title, company… I download the white paper. What in my response to that white paper indicates that I have an interest in their products? Marketing Success, It's All About The "Open?"

Follow-up 68

Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 68

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a preview of the 2013 Content Marketing Benchmark Report by Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute , only 36% of businesses believed their content marketing is effective. After a few years of hyper-growth content marketing adoption, it is easy to think this number should be higher. What is this number?

Buyer Persona 267

Buyer Persona Marketing Education Vendor 267

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

One of the top reported problems plaguing sales forces is the lack of quality leads. This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Sales & Marketing Alignment to Lead Generation.

Sales Qualified Lead 239

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Reports of the Death of the Salesperson Are Greatly Exaggerated. What you should do: Nothing new here — keep your crew well-trained in professionalism, product, and market. Create campaigns for the sales team that, rather than offering “once-in-a-lifetime” discounts or “check-in,” instead offer a report with valuable data.

Report 244

Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

Allego

MARCH 21, 2023

In fact, recent research highlights two critical problems with traditional sales content management systems: Conventional technologies reinforce the divide between those who create and manage sales content (marketing and sales enablement) and those who use it (sales reps). The solution? Modern sales content management platforms.

System 118

System Tools Collateral Video 118

Emissary

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Marketers entered 2022 with a somewhat positive outlook, albeit with significant and continued uncertainty. But what does that mean for your account based marketing strategy? Companies: Does your target account list accurately reflect current market potential? Where does marketing stop and sales begin?

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing Account Strategy Demand Generation Targets 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

An effective sales enablement approach will be held up by the following pillars: Knowledge: Knowledge of your prospect, your product, and your market — your sales reps need to have it all. Content: A helping of high-quality marketing content to fill up your lead pipeline. It all forms part of a wider sales workflow.

Sales Enablement 100

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 100

Zoominfo

APRIL 10, 2018

From the time social media became a viable marketing channel, B2B companies have been looking for ways to automate social processes. Today we’re covering a topic that B2B marketers have disputed for years—scripted social media. Instead, we feel that—as with most marketing tactics—there’s a time and place for everything.

Social Media 188

Social Media Media Ideal Customer Profile Social Selling 188

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In a recent RAIN Group Center for Sales Research report , we asked buyers how they prefer to be contacted by sellers and what influences their decision to connect with some sellers and not others. Read their annual report. Read a white paper they wrote. C-level buyers want to know that you’ve done your research.

Sales Meeting 185

Sales Meeting Meeting Gatekeeper ROI 185

The ROI Guy

MAY 9, 2012

The iPad is perceived as a great new business tool, to empower sales to deliver more provocative interactive presentations, and to enable B2B marketing to provide engaging content to ever more mobile buyers. The traditional pitch and marketing vehicles just don't work as well as they used to.

Lead Rank 75

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Comparison 75

Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer. Improve your content marketing with valuable and informative blogs, white papers, and e-books.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead 52

Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2012

As a member of the Executive Advisory Group, he delivers CMO and Sales Advisory Services that provide senior technology marketing and sales executives with insights into how to improve productivity and efficiency in their organizations. My PowerViews guest today is Rich Vancil, IDC Group Vice President for Executive Strategies.

Marketing 247

Marketing Outbound Inbound Vendor 247

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 27, 2018

If you are using Interactive Value Selling and Marketing Tools, you may be sitting on a wealth of customer intelligence that you could be leveraging. Self service Value Marketing Tools from Alinean collect data directly from each prospect and customer, including key profile data and metrics about their current challenges and opportunities.

Ideal Customer Profile 55

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Eloqua Customer 55

Showpad

MAY 22, 2019

With new sales engagement platforms designed to streamline sales processes being constantly introduced into the market, it can be overwhelming for sales enablement teams to decipher one from the other to determine which to select for their organization. How do engagement platforms align sales and marketing efforts?

Sales Enablement 74

Sales Enablement Marketing Buying Cycle Direct Mail 74

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It could be a marketing interaction, and more often, that first touch starts with someone on the front lines of your sales organization. The idea is to deliver the right articles, white papers, case studies, videos or webinars at the right time in the buyers’ decision-making process. But that’s not the case at all. A lot of it.

Webinar Metrics 126

Webinar Metrics Loyalty Buyer Case Study 126

SBI

JULY 10, 2018

For many sales and marketing teams, discovering an in-month deal requires a whole lot of luck. A marketing team judges how qualified a lead is based on engagement alone; a sales team takes that lead and discovers it isn’t a fit at all. What happens next is predictable: marketers and sales professionals lose trust in one another.

Intent Data 138

Intent Data Lead Rank Lead Scoring Closing 138

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 24, 2018

You’ve invested in interactive content and marketing tools for your website, helping prospects and customers assess their needs, size and price the right solution, and understand the business value and differentiating cost advantages of recommended solutions.

Lead Rank 45

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Eloqua Unica 45

Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For marketing, digital transformation has always been about data. Data has been the essential raw material used to identify market segments, market size, audience, buyer preferences, message content, contact qualification and all the other metrics and values required to market a product. Marketing Process Automation.

Data 62

Data Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Campaigns 62

The ROI Guy

MAY 14, 2012

I am often asked what key workflow or functionality you can enable if you integrate Alinean tools with Marketing Automation (MAP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. As you may also be aware, Alinean Value Selling & Marketing Tools do support robust integration with sales and marketing automation solutions and processes.

Lead Rank 64

Lead Rank Lead Scoring CRM Eloqua 64

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 3, 2015

About 50% of them are prospecting or other marketing communications emails. ” For example, I’ve requested information in the past, perhaps a white paper or a report. I know, by downloading a white paper, I trigger a lot of prospecting calls and some follow up emails. I ignore all of those.

Marketing 48

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Gen 48

Pipeliner

APRIL 30, 2021

RAIN Group, White Paper Competencies of Strategic Account Managers. In their report 5 Keys to maximizing Sales with Existing Accounts , the RAIN Group also states that one of the 5 key areas for strategic account management is “Establishing an effective account management process and planning tool.”. Need from CRM.

Account 80

Account Lead Rank Lead Scoring Engineering 80

Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Aligning sales and marketing teams is a struggle for many companies. blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. The result?

Lead Rank 68

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead CRM Sales Qualified Lead 68

Allego

APRIL 18, 2024

In fact, consulting firm McKinsey & Company says, “AI is poised to disrupt marketing and sales in every sector.” By targeting users based on specific behaviors and preferences, AI enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of lead generation campaigns so that marketing efforts are directed toward individuals who are most likely to convert.

Examples 62

Examples Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Appbuddy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Create a data governance team of representatives from each business function (sales, finance, marketing, product, etc.) Seasoned data ambassadors and admins also implement an application that dedupes at import as well as a dupe-blocking application to block or report dupes in real time. . Standardize Data Regularly.

SalesForce 52

SalesForce Data Government Lead Rank 52