The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Stored in Business Acumen , Coaching , Demand Generation , Hiring Sales Talent , Planning , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Demand Generation. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Community Marketing Blog. February 2008.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

Because awareness has already been established, lead generation strategies typically are activated in the second stage of the sales funnel — interest. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution. If they’re not already aware of your specific offering, they are at least aware of the category.

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SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Just because metrics shift from demand generation to revenue doesn’t mean inbound strategies should be abandoned — they just need to be tweaked. An inbound marketing approach means customers are finding you through various channels, such as blogs and content syndication, social media, and search engines.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Build the plan around specific buyer stages. A strong marketing plan must nail the messages that will resonate with target buyers – not just product positioning but how a company wants potential, existing and future customers to feel about it. Content must: Address buyer pain points and needs. Here’s where you start.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Identify and Target Key Accounts To ensure quality lead generation, you need to identify companies who will genuinely be interested in your services. To do this, you must first create an ideal buyer persona/s. Improve your content marketing with valuable and informative blogs, white papers, and e-books.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 6, 2012

If you are a regular reader of this blog, thank you, you know one of the hallmarks has been a focus on execution. As you have heard me say, sales is all about execution, everything else is just talk, and frankly with all the demands on sales professionals these days, there is little time for talk. Demand Generation.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. Our rich account level insights, active named contacts and intent-driven services are powering new levels of performance for demand generation, ABM, sales prospecting, channel enablement and more.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

A couple of months ago in the Pipeline, I published a piece called Long Live The Status Quo , which challenged the way most people look at buyers commonly referred to as being in Status Quo Zone. That is how most people see an initial negative response from a buyer, as rejection, rather than correction.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 26, 2011

I’m Bill the Buyer. About a month ago Ian asked Sandra what her sales strategy was all about and why it seemed as though she was acting as more of an advisor than a salesperson. Demand Generation. B2B Lead Generation Blog. Commentary on Sales Leadership: Dave Stein’s New Blog. Top Sales Blog.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 25, 2011

The answer was that indeed sales was, but it was interesting to see how the real question and discussion turned to whether sellers were being to passive, reactive and readily abdicating part of their mandate, letting the buyer dictate the outcome good or bad, because relationships are more important than sales. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

The key is that buyers don’t care which side is communicating with them, they care about what’s in it for them as they work toward solving business problems. Marketing automation software generates the data marketers need to provide new levels of support to sales. Demand Generation. About Jeff Erramouspe. Appointments.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2011

Be Human – Use Humor or Guilt, Not Anger: I believe that a key to prospecting success is to convert the buyer from seeing you an anonymous salesperson making robo-calls to viewing you as a real-life human being. To make that happen through voicemail, we need to sound and act like real people. Thank you for this encouraging blog!

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A buyer is an individual or organizational entity that purchases a product or subscribes to a service. Demand Generation. Enrichment means the act or process of upgrading the value or improving the quality of something (such as a product, service or function) that induces the target beneficiary (customers, employees, etc.)

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MarketJoy

JUNE 12, 2018

The IT Asset Management Company did not want to adopt a typical demand generation strategy as they were very clear about their target and goals. MarketJoy understands that if one doesn’t have the time and staff to dedicate to lead generation, chances are they could lose out on many quality leads. Client’s Challenge.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

It will act as your professional hub – the platform for the content you create and the credibility you establish. A blog: to create and showcase content that solves your prospect’s pains. Create how-to blog content. Create how-to blog content. What are your biggest demand generation challenges?

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SalesHandy

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In this blog, we deep dive into all things encompassing outbound lead generation—from strategies to benefits, we will walk you through everything you need to know to run a successful outbound lead generation campaign. How To Run A Successful Outbound Lead Generation Campaign? Each type of method offers unique benefits.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Demand Generation (181). Buyer (2086). ACT (1048). Blog (5972). ” ” Sales Motivation Blog. . Inside Sales (849). Channels (799). Advertising (694). Selling Skills (528). Incentives (379). Outside Sales (81). Customer (6670). Opportunity (3675). Closing (3085). Conversion (2818). Revenue (1783).

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 1, 2019

How to Define Your Buyer Personas. According to TOPO senior demand generation analyst Eric Wittlake, having an ICP lets you decide whether to target an account without bringing together your entire leadership team. Defining Your Buyer Personas. Read on for a deep dive into account-based sales. stakeholders. Prospecting.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Buyer-Centered Selling. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. I’ve followed Jill Konrath since 2007, when I subscribed to her “Selling to Big Companies” blog.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. B2B sales prospecting is the act of looking for potential buyers, customers, or clients to convert into new business. Understand your Best Buyer. What is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Go-to-Market Strategy Benefits As you develop a new product or service, it’s vital to start drawing a go-to-market strategy that’s customized to fit your budget and your buyer persona. The value your product brings should solve the pain, not act as a vitamin. The buyer shortlists potential solutions.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

If you were able to get some results by purely using non-focused demand generation, your website, and other lead sources, scaling will be hard. This blog is an example. Two email blasts to your 20,000 person list won’t get you 2x the meetings as 1 email. Target your outbound marketing to ice-cold leads.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Buyer: Owns the budget. The value your product brings should solve the pain, not act as a vitamin. With your personas and value matrix built, dive deeper to understand the journey a potential customer will take, both from the buyer’s perspective and from the perspective of your company. The buyer shortlists potential solutions.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Using her 20+ years of trench experience in B2B tech sales and support, Anita teaches sales professionals around the globe how to leverage key principles of human psychology to help buyers make a decision in the seller’s favor. Buyers are not looking to be “sold to”. They are looking for someone to bring expertise and insight.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

And we all know it’s because buyers are self-educating more, and coming to sales conversations with an opinion, so it’s changing the way salespeople engage. Everybody likes to talk about how buyers are self-educating more. Are more buyers really paralyzed by inaction and why? That study became part of a demand gen campaign….prospects

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 4, 2018

February 17: Random Acts of Kindness Day (#RandomActsOfKindnessDay). Social Media Demand Generation: A Q&A. Our contact database is the tool you need to target and sell to more of your best buyers. The post The B2B Marketer’s Guide to Social Media Holidays appeared first on ZoomInfo Blog.

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