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Marketing and Sales Still Aren’t Aligned

Sales and Marketing Management

Misalignment between sales and marketing continues to drag on performance of these crucial functions. The post Marketing and Sales Still Aren’t Aligned appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Here's how to get them working together.

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What’s Behind Sales and Marketing Misalignment?

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Sridhar Ramanathan - co-founder and chief operating officer of Aventi Group - expounds on why misalignment occurs so often between B2B sales and marketing teams, and how to fix it. The post What’s Behind Sales and Marketing Misalignment? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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5 Biggest Stressors for B2B Sales and Marketing Professionals

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales can be a stressful profession for beginners and 20-year veterans alike. Here are the five biggest stressors affecting sales employees and how to alleviate them. The post 5 Biggest Stressors for B2B Sales and Marketing Professionals appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How to Measure Sales and Marketing Alignment

Sales and Marketing Management

Failure to align sales KPIs and marketing KPIs means the whole team may be working toward different goals. A closer look at what KPIs to focus on to achieve sales and marketing alignment. The post How to Measure Sales and Marketing Alignment appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Marketing Ops: The New Revenue Hero

As data continues to play a starring role in today’s B2B organizations, both marketing and sales operations professionals are poised to solidify their place as critical revenue drivers.

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How Account-Based Marketing and Sales Work Together

Sales and Marketing Management

Account-based marketing is a B2B strategy that focuses on select high-value accounts rather than trying to reach as much of your market as you can. These six proven ABM strategies can help increase sales at your company.

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How Marketing and Sales Can be Winning Teammates

Sales and Marketing Management

Marketing-sales relationship building requires a sincere willingness from both sides to make it happen. When you get it right, you get a powerful go-to-market advantage. The post How Marketing and Sales Can be Winning Teammates appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. But keep pushing.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

Businesses are tasked with beating pre-pandemic numbers, making marketing more essential than ever before. This is your chance to create unprecedented brand awareness, bring in the best leads sales has ever seen, and play an instrumental role in generating new and existing business revenue. Level up your marketing automation.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Any return to normalcy may seem far-off, but sales and marketing are on the front lines of restarting the economy. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department. Most have already sustained massive damage, and we still have yet to see the scope of this global pandemic.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. But none of this is possible without the most important element of a successful ABM program: good data.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. Get started today.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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How to Improve Demand Generation with Empathy

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa

The highest priority for B2B marketers is effective demand generation (increasing lead quality and quantity). B2B sales are way more emotional than B2C because people’s careers are on the line. Learn how a company increased sales opportunities by 303% by being uber helpful to buyers.