Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s not rocket science: the foundation of any successful marketing strategy is strong data. The tricky part is understanding the nuances of first-party and third-party data, to leverage each in a way that allows you to serve relevant ads to your target audiences.

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LinkedFusion

APRIL 13, 2023

Investing in scalable marketing strategies is one of the best ways to grow their business’s prospects and reach the right people. However, there are many different marketing strategies, so it can be confusing which is best for your business. A target audience is a group marketers try to reach with their marketing.

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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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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

If your primary marketing strategy has been to “cast a wide net”, consider only going after your white whales – your ideal accounts – instead. Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 5, 2024

The Role of Niche Marketing Agencies in Distinguishing Service Contrary to popular belief, all digital marketing agencies aren’t cut from the same cloth. At a glance, marketing agencies might share similarities; however, a deeper look uncovers a classic “ apples to oranges ” contrast.

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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. You get it.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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SBI

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s Ironic: It Takes Data to Be Personal. It’s a well known fact: buyers today don’t have the time or patience for generic marketing messages and sales pitches. It’s ironic that to deliver such a personalized experience, sellers and marketers need data — a lot of data. What type of data are we talking about?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 22, 2017

Of course, that’s our job, the job of sales and marketing – to help educate our markets, to cast a bigger and better vision of our solutions. With that in mind – today I’m going to give you some inside baseball thoughts, on how a data provider thinks you should evaluate a data provider. Watch the Video.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Get a Demo Why Do You Need a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2019

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2018

Brands that market directly to consumers recognize YouTube as a powerful tool. But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing. Engage with other accounts. We say yes! Let’s get into it!

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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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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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 17, 2020

While closing a deal is important, taking a holistic approach to the sales process can unlock greater revenue potential, especially for account-based businesses such as service agencies or companies that sell to enterprise customers. This is where account development becomes a helpful function. Account Development Manager.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 5, 2024

The Role of Niche Marketing Agencies in Distinguishing Service Contrary to popular belief, all digital marketing agencies aren’t cut from the same cloth. At a glance, marketing agencies might share similarities; however, a deeper look uncovers a classic “ apples to oranges ” contrast.

Small Business 52

Small Business Small Business Marketing Lead Rank 52

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 24, 2024

As media consultants and marketing agencies, you are catering to the unique needs of small and local businesses night and day. Therefore, it’s imperative to craft personalized digital marketing strategies that seamlessly mesh with the needs and desires of your small business clients.

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Small Business Small Business Strategy Social Media 52

SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

C onsumers today want highly customized experiences that cater to their needs in today’s data-driven world. As a result, marketers preferred personalized email marketing to satisfy prospects’ needs in email marketing. Why is personalization in email marketing for B2B necessary?

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SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

C onsumers today want highly customized experiences that cater to their needs in today’s data-driven world. As a result, marketers preferred personalized email marketing to satisfy prospects’ needs in email marketing. Why is personalization in email marketing for B2B necessary?

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Email Marketing Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing 52

SalesFuel

MAY 8, 2024

Challenge: Creating a furniture store digital ad campaign that doesn’t waste impressions Josh Stratton, a senior advanced advertising sales manager from Spectrum Reach , has been selling media for over 10 years and has used AdMall for much of that time. Since the 1980s, imported furniture has captured an increasing share of the market.

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Pointclear

DECEMBER 17, 2013

B2B marketers typically select targets from prospecting lists based on such traditional variables as industry, company size and job role, or title. My colleague Bernice Grossman and I recently conducted a new study indicating that B2B marketers now have the opportunity to target prospects more efficiently than ever before.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2018

As such, mobile marketing is not just an option anymore. Also, enable social media login to avoid the hassle of having to create an account to shop from your mobile site. One way to boost your visibility and drive qualified leads to your mobile site is through paid advertising, such as Google AdWords or social media marketing.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s no secret, data has revolutionized marketing. Where marketers once relied on instinct, they now rely on insights gleaned from careful data analysis. Here on the ZoomInfo blog, we’ve laid out the benefits of data-driven marketing time and time again. Let’s get into it! For the most part, that’s true.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 23, 2018

Business leaders need to be able to meet a marketer or PR pro and say the same thing. The commission model for marketers. As a former CMO and CCO in large technology companies, I’ve worked closely with a lot of marketing teams and agencies. Those same marketers received sizable discretionary bonuses as a result.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This is where savvy digital marketing agencies come in, acting as partners for local businesses to thrive in the rapidly advancing digital sphere. This guide will empower agency sales professionals and media consultants to educate local businesses about the importance of digital marketing programs.

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Education Marketing Hiring Case Study 52

SBI

JUNE 5, 2019

Transforming Sales: How Engaged Accounts Can be Known and Then Treated More Effectively. This week I interview John Steinert , Chief Marketing Officer of TechTarget. You get this by augmenting your 1st party information with great sources of 3rd party market insight. Both of these approaches can be piloted on a small scale.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Something all B2B marketing and sales teams have in common is an abundance of CRM data and challenges around how to make the most of it. Also, the pain of CRM data hygiene, but that’s a topic for another time. There are so many ways to leverage your CRM data—especially in Account Based Marketing (ABM).

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Account Based Marketing CRM Lead Rank Data 48

Vainu

MAY 22, 2022

LinkedIn is an incredibly popular—and powerful—tool for B2B sales and marketing initiatives, and their Matched Audiences presents a unique way for you to target a specific audience with your LinkedIn ads by, for example, uploading a list of accounts. Cool, right? Luckily, Vainu can help with that.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2021

As pipelines shrank due to COVID-19, many organizations shifted from inbound to an account-based sales and marketing outreach approach. Feel free to jump ahead: What is account-based sales and marketing? Issues with one-to-many and one-to-few ABS and marketing programs. What is account-based sales and marketing?

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Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Account Lead Rank 67

Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Lead Rank Account 100

BuzzBoard

MAY 8, 2023

Analysys Mason ) We reviewed some of the most prospering and desirable SMB tech verticals that are currently leading the market. The journey from data to more accessible and quality data for higher business efficiency and revenue generation are exposing medium as well as small businesses to data breach threats.

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