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Demand Gen vs. Lead Gen: Which is ‘Best’ for Startups?

Zoominfo

Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. There are essentially two competing schools of thought among B2B marketers. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. The good news?

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How Does 2023 Go Down in Selling History? Mereo Principals Share These Reflections

Mereo

JAY MITCHELL REMEMBERS INDECISIVE BUYERS AND HOPES FOR A 2024 RAMP-UP As trusted advisors to dozens of companies, we at Mereo get to see market and economic trends from not only individual companies but on a macro-level. This pattern is similar to what we saw in the 2008 / 2009 recession.

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sales Enablement Ineffectiveness? So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?

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2010 vs. 2020: 9 Sales Strategies That Changed Dramatically in the Last Decade

Hubspot Sales

In 2019, millions of social media users took to their Facebook and Instagram profiles to post their 10-year challenge photos consisting of side-by-side shots of themselves in 2009 and 2019. Now, it’s time to do the 10-year challenge with your sales strategy. Traditionally, sales was a numbers game. 2020 Sales Strategies.

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Marketing Hierarchy of Needs: Achieving Marketing Efficiency and Effectiveness

The ROI Guy

For marketers, the news is good overall. According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels.

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Welcome to The Decade of Sales

Factor 8

In the past ten years, most of the major advancements we’ve seen in sales have come from our customers, from marketing, and from technology. It’s made our inbound calls more critical and put more pressure on our sales reps and our product demos. Marketing tooled up you guys. Marketing tooled up you guys.

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End of Year Software Discounts: Savvy Cost Saving or Short-Sighted Business Move?

Sales Hacker

On the other hand, Chad Dyar , Director of Sales Enablement of OnDeck , recommends saving on new technology so you can splurge on upgrading your current tech stack. “ Our team is lucky enough to manage both the sales and marketing stack,” said Dyar. It happened in 2009. Sales Hacker commentary: Twice the amount!