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Should Marketing Have a Sales Quota?

SBI Growth

Reviewed over 5,000 documents from with some the world’s best B2B sales organizations. B2B companies are assigning their Marketing teams with lead quotas tied directly to a percentage of the corporate sales goal. In the past, leads could be generated and then handed off to sales. Surveyed over 4,500 sales managers.

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Takeaways from Pavilion’s GTM2023 Conference

Sales Hacker

Some of the team have been at Pavilion ’s GTM2023 conference, a B2B SaaS conference for go-to-market executives. There’s a necessity behind re-strategizing go-to-market: 54% of GTM leaders report missing monthly revenue targets and 41% reported missing demand generation targets [source: Pavilion Pulse, Average in Q2 2023].

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How to Drive Sales in 2014 with Content Marketing

SBI Growth

The annual CMI/MarketingProfs B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks study validates the move toward Content Marketing. Additionally, it shows 49% of B2B Marketers do not even have a documented content strategy. Now is the time to document and plan a content marketing strategy. Development of a content marketing function.

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How B2B Buyers Search for Tech Solutions

Tenfold

What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms. So, it pays to ask: How do B2B buyers search for tech solutions and how can you ensure you’re there, at every stage of their buyer’s journey? B2B Buyer Behavior. Know the Modern B2B Buyer.

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Marketing Needs to Put Skin in the Game

Pointclear

The mix should consist mostly of sales enablement, then demand generation, with less focus on awareness. Demand generation is typically the primary activity in the marketing mix, followed by enablement and then awareness. Tier 2: Inside Commercial Accounts. Tier 3: SMB/Channel Accounts.

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The Data Will Bring Us Together: Relationship Therapy with Sales and Marketing

DiscoverOrg Sales

We’ve bucketed B2B data into 4 categories: Firmographic data (Marketing’s favorite). This information may be found using a combination of prospect websites, social profiles, public financial documents, and press releases. Job function and area of responsibility (Sales’ favorite). Location data (Marketing loves). NAICS code.

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The Why, What & How of a Lead-to-Revenue Assessment, Part 1 - The Why & What

Pointclear

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Proper alignment is the result of a documented, effective, efficient and measurable process for capturing, engaging, nurturing, managing and converting leads into customers. It is a deep dive into key areas of your process: Lead and demand generation.

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