Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

The modern B2B customer journey is more complex and multilayered than ever before. This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. Let’s get into it!

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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BuzzBoard

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The two distinct realms of B2B and B2SMB stand out as pillars of commerce. B2B, or business-to-business, typically targets larger enterprises, including multinational corporations, that require substantial volumes of products or services. What Is B2B?

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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

AUGUST 12, 2018

So in an effort to demystify the term, we’re going to dive into marketing creativity in the B2B realm. With the ultimate goal of increasing conversion rates, marketers have to accelerate brand activity through digital channels. The company is well-versed in the world of content marketing.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

‘Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. B2B products tend to be complex and more practical than flashy– so B2B organizations often value logic and reason over emotions. . But, emotions play a larger role in B2B purchase decisions than you may realize. Enter, sentiment analysis.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

93% of B2B marketers use social media, and with good reason—it works ( source ). The same study showed that B2B decision makers are 10% more likely to consider brands that consumers know and feel connected to ( source ). We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing.

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Social Media Media B2B Marketing 147

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

‘Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. B2B products tend to be complex and more practical than flashy– so B2B organizations often value logic and reason over emotions. But, emotions play a larger role in B2B purchase decisions than you may realize. Enter, sentiment analysis.

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 1. Jeb Blount (Sales Gravy).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. And How Can They Help Marketers? Marketers can use buyer personas to build content strategies that speak directly to their targeted audience, and therefore build trust and reliability with customers. Understand Your Target Market.

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Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Social media is an integral part of every marketing strategy. However, there’s a myth that says B2B social media marketing isn’t effective. The sole reason is this myth that mentions the ineffectiveness of B2B social media marketing. So, how do you perfect your marketing strategy? Seth Price .

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Zoominfo

MAY 7, 2018

Growth hackers skip the big-budget production of conventional marketing in favor of low-cost alternatives that grow and engage their user base. However, in the last few years, the strategy has become an integral component of many B2B business models. B2B Growth Hacking vs. Traditional Marketing. Keep it simple.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Sales enablement technology and training can help in this area; however, a tremendous gap remains in resources for indirect sellers. A Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Mediafly reports that the B2B companies surveyed work with an average of 176 partner companies. times lower rates than direct sellers.

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Sales Technology B2B Sales Enablement Enterprise 218

Zoominfo

JULY 26, 2023

For years, go-to-market leaders lived by the laws of growth through sales capacity. What we’re seeing in the market is companies running with smaller teams and supplying them with more accurate and highly personalized datasets, to drive more revenue,” says Millie Beetham, director of ZI Labs & GTM innovation at ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say webinars are the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ).

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BuzzBoard

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine a world where content creation is not a bottleneck but a powerhouse, where data isn’t just analyzed but becomes a crystal ball predicting market trends, and where customer engagement is not a mere interaction but an immersive experience. Here are some of its applications. GenAI is a time saver!

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SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

As a result, marketers preferred personalized email marketing to satisfy prospects’ needs in email marketing. If you are new to B2B personalized email marketing, then this blog will help you understand the concept of email personalization so that you can reach out to your prospects with a sales cadence.

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Email Marketing Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing 52

SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

As a result, marketers preferred personalized email marketing to satisfy prospects’ needs in email marketing. If you are new to B2B personalized email marketing, then this blog will help you understand the concept of email personalization so that you can reach out to your prospects with a sales cadence.

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Email Marketing Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing 52

Emissary

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Check out the B2B marketing infographic below for a guide to how account intelligence can drive enterprise B2B marketing success. Selling tech to enterprise and having the right marketing approach can be a struggle. Additionally, choosing the right delivery channels is vital to maximizing your impact.

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Account Based Marketing Account B2B Marketing 52

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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Email Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 231

Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2018

The world of B2B marketing underwent a dramatic transformation in recent years—and unfortunately for us marketers, we no longer have such rigid control of the buyer’s journey. But, how can marketers comply with the varying preferences of their individual buyer? Enter: Multichannel marketing. And the best part?

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Marketing Retail Channels Social Media 189

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Author: Zameer Baber and Garrett Kephart As organizations consider how their operations need to change in a post-COVID world, many are rethinking how their B2B sales teams will operate as many may no longer want – or are able – to travel to meet their clients. While this may be the case in B2C sales, B2B transactions are very different.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Author: Tessa Burg The success of a B2B company once largely depended on the relationships and contacts of its salespeople. Now, B2B companies must implement digital marketing into their sales funnels. Just like the average consumer, B2B customers’ buying patterns have become more complicated over time.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 11, 2013

Amazon, the king of B2C is invading B2B. The world’s #1 B2C e-commerce site is crossing over to B2B. Now AmazonSupply.com is focused on threatening traditional B2B distribution channels. Think it’s impossible for Amazon to make a robust B2B play? Now they own the market. It’s already a high traffic resource.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Company size has no bearing on the willingness to use virtual channels. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Sophie Buonassisi is the Vice President of Marketing at GTMfund, overseeing GTMnow – the media arm of the GTMfund brand – and the internal community. She’s passionate about empowering go-to-market leaders and founders with access to insight through GTMnow’s channels, like this podcast, the newsletter, and more.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Use Fewer Resources. Sellers are responsible for educating their buyers digitally through multiple channels. Here is how to think about ownership and process: Ownership Who should take ownership for the creation process and content that the sales team uses – marketing or sales? Well… it’s a bit of a trick question.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 16, 2019

So why drown your B2B sales team in administrative tasks better served by artificial intelligence? The objective economic market will do the rest. Sales and marketing have tilted toward the qualitative, not the quantitative, for generations. Most salespeople have far too many mundane responsibilities on their “to-do” lists.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

Millions of companies crowd the B2B universe, vying for the same share of business. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2019

When it comes to B2B sales calls, the primary goal of the sales rep is to extract valuable information from the other person on the line. So keep reading as we provide you with our top 12 B2B sales questions to close deals faster. B2B purchase decisions have many moving parts. But this is often easier said than done.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Attempting to grow your business without marketing intelligence is a lot like driving without directions. Without a clear understanding of your industry or market, you’ll be ill-equipped to make informed business decisions. Businesses are catching on to the importance of market intelligence. What Is Market Intelligence?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing? Real-time communication: Messages that are sent and received instantly.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. These practices only alienate potential customers and eat up company time and resources in the process. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 8, 2018

Author: Jason Kulpa Successful B2B marketing is all about saying the right thing through the right channel at the right time. In fast-paced marketing, the right time usually means right away. Finally, by proactively owning engagement today, companies can stretch their marketing dollars further. Be amazing.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 10, 2023

Another way is through channel sales or third-party partners. While direct selling has its advantages, it’s not always enough for today’s changing markets. In fact, according to research cited by McKinsey , current B2B customers use more than ten channels to interact with suppliers. What Are Sales Channels?

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