The Pipeline

APRIL 16, 2014

The best sales organizations are those who excel at executing their sales process; from demand generation, to prospecting to closing and growing accounts. The best sales processes are those that evolve and reflect the changing nature of their clients and markets.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies noted the importance of BDRs.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. There are, of course, tiers of customization required, depending on the size and importance of these accounts.

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Pointclear

JUNE 5, 2017

What's the difference between the status quo--and the era of accountability? I recently chatted with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales world about the transition from finger pointing to collaboration between sales and marketing. Accountable organizations win bigger deals--and drive a whole lot more revenue. Segment and stratify.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Of course, Marketing isn’t closing deals, either. Marketing is about pipeline generation for both new business, and renewal or expansion. This, my friends, is called pipeline marketing. Pipeline marketing is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the entire sales process, from initial lead generation to closing a sale.

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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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Allego

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For example, when sales, marketing, and customer success teams work together, they can drive more effective cross-selling, upselling, and customer retention strategies. Marketing helps sales win deals, and customer success ensures that customers remain happy and loyal, contributing to recurring revenue.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2024

As B2B prospects demand increasingly personalized experiences, incorporating account-based marketing (ABM) throughout the customer acquisition funnel becomes increasingly important. Here are some practical steps that marketers can take to improve outcomes at each stage of the ABM integration process.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Over the next couple of weeks I will be presenting three different webinars on 3 related topics that you should register for and attend. October 23 - Time – Prospecting – And Getting the Jump On Both. October 24 – Cold Calling: How to Handle the Objection. Click here for more detail and registration. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 75% of organizations believe they haven’t achieved the goal of aligning marketing and sales. Marketing needs to figure out how it can scale account-based programs, and do so in a coordinated way with Sales. I want to start by explaining what account-based marketing is. ABM maturity model.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 8, 2014

Buyers who are not in the market, the so called Status Quo, are more time deprived than ever and are much less susceptible to traditional sales approaches and conversations. Impervious to pains, needs or solutions, a large segment of your market is better able to cocoon themselves from traditional sellers and sales conversations.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 3, 2017

Sales symptoms are prospecting traps. You’d be surprised how often I hear, “My account based selling team can’t close.”. Closing is the easy part of account based sales development. It’s prospecting that’s hard. Diagnose Your Account Based Sales Development Problem. Closing is never the problem. Seller beware!).

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories. Ask them how it was.

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Hubspot Conversion Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 195

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. That’s why it’s a central element of our recent webinar, Turbocharging Business Development Strategies. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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The Pipeline

JULY 11, 2014

As it happens, rather than having to do a post about that, this coming Thursday, July 17th, I will be delivering a webinar along with the good folks at DiscoverOrg , addressing that specific process. The Objective Seller Webinar. Date: July 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM Eastern. Building a better question. . ” – Aous Shakra.

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Webinar Metrics Objections Loyalty Segment 163

Emissary

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For tech companies, marketing to the financial services industry is a specific niche and employing account based marketing tactics give you a strategy for more successful conversion. You’ll find a lot of information out there on marketing in general. What Is Account Based Marketing? How Does ABM Work?

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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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Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2024

Revenue operations (RevOps) professionals are an increasingly important voice on go-to-market teams, with analysts predicting 75% of the highest-growth companies will soon employ a RevOps strategy. On top of that, an accountability layer helps keep adoption on track — something that, according to Whittaker, can’t be emphasized enough.

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Government Webinar Metrics System Account 130

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. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Training webinars.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 110

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A Wild West-style free-for-all where reps prospect into an addressable market wherever they’d like. Think account hoarding , unequal opportunity to hit quota , missed revenue , and rep dissatisfaction. In the free-for-all model, it can be harder for new reps to ramp because more tenured reps have more accounts locked up.

Account 77

Account Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Territories 77

SBI Growth

APRIL 10, 2020

The FY20 strategy and planning you completed just a few short months ago had a COVID-19 wrench thrown in which is resulting in the output already being outdated. Segmentation is the most foundational element of any strategic plan. The output.

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Account Segment Ideal Customer Profile Marketing 184

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What does it TAKE to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? Jill began this task by talking to Heidi Bullock , Chief Marketing Officer at Engagio , formerly GVP of Global Marketing for Marketo. Engagio is a B2B SaaS software company focused on helping marketers and salespeople drive the best business value for their company.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

One of the biggest challenges organizations face (always) is aligning marketing and sales. To take it back a step, if Marketing can figure out how to scale account-based programs, and do it in a coordinated (between Sales and Marketing), measurable way — alignment would easily follow. What Are Account-Based Strategies?

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John Barrows

AUGUST 1, 2018

The line between Sales and Marketing is getting thinner and thinner these days. Marketing is become more targeted with their messaging, while Sales is getting more generic and templated with theirs. Sales Messaging vs Marketing Messaging. There is also a big difference between Sales messaging and Marketing messaging.

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Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Marketo Webinar Metrics 89

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s time to talk about target account selling, or TAS. Target account selling is a highly personalized, targeted approach to sales that sees your sales reps focus only on the very best accounts. What makes these accounts likely to close? What is the benefit of target account selling? What is TAS? Move upmarket.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Targets Account Buyer Persona 62

Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories. Ask them how it was.

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Hubspot Conversion Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past year, we’ve had tons of founders ask where they should be prioritizing their marketing dollars and resources considering the wild economic year that 2023 has unfolded as. Not only has the economy provided an added challenge, but there has been a general drop in the effectiveness of most traditional marketing channels.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Channels 100

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. Wait, are they working with bad data?

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Data B2B Churn Buyer Persona 251

Allego

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Sellers went from being road warriors to working from home offices, using video-conference calls to engage prospects and close deals. What we discovered was a new focus on the importance of sales and marketing alignment. Reason 1: Marketing is the glue that makes sellers effective.

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Marketing Account Based Marketing Maximizer Conference 129

SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

TechTarget Priority Engine Named Best Account Based Marketing and Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution by SIIA. Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. TechTarget, Inc. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. By adding automation to these high-quality results, day-to-day sales and marketing efforts get easier, too.

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Data Intent Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2023

When it comes to events, many small business owners and sales reps struggle with the same challenge: Getting prospects and customers to attend. Yet, in-person or virtual event participation is often a critical component of networking, building relationships, and offering value to prospects ahead of a sale.

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Transportation Marketing How To Webinar Metrics 124

Chorus.ai

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you're in the market for a quick hit list of webinars to watch from your couch (or listen to from your car), I've put together a few of my favorites that have inspired me throughout the year. My favorite line from this Webinar is, “One of the most dangerous negotiations is the one you don’t know you’re in.”. Happy learning!

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Webinar Metrics Scale Negotiation Lead Rank 79

Janek Performance Group

MAY 29, 2024

Our recent webinar Turbocharging Business Development Strategies highlighted five key areas. These include creating buyer persons, utilizing BDRs, improving prospect qualification, measuring success, and implementing technology/AI. In addition, 94% of marketers say it increases sales. Following, our participants had questions.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Buyer Persona Lead Rank 62

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Social Selling is a proven method of securing the first appointment with buyers inside of target accounts. At its core, Social Selling is a modern prospecting methodology that fills the funnel with opportunities. Social Selling’s ‘Lead-to-Close’ conversion rate is 5x marketing sourced leads. Marketing owns branding.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

From VPs and CMOs to entry-level reps and account managers, everyone is inundated by data. Without a modern go-to-market strategy that can turn signals into action, the flood of data can mean greater administrative overhead, higher margins of error, and even lost revenue. Conceptually, that is the Holy Grail,” he says.

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