Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? In fact, over 20% of marketers in a HubSpot survey say that personalization improves their engagement.

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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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When it comes to sales, there's a lot of innovation happening — and therefore, a litany of new tools. But only one type of tool is considered "effective" by 78% of global sales professionals. What's this magic tool? Create personalized email sequences to engage prospects and improve response rates.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

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. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

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. This post will address what Marketing can do to promote, enable and optimize social selling within the organization. Marketing owns branding.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 3, 2022

Sales and marketing automation tools obviously suit sales and marketing teams, respectively — but that doesn't mean that the utility of those kinds of resources is siloed by department. The value of sales and marketing automation rests on your resources' ability to provide mutually beneficial intel between departments.

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LeadBoxer

MAY 30, 2021

Selling to a group of people is different than pitching to an individual as in business-to-consumer (B2C) sales. The need to successfully make a pitch to individuals with varying perspectives differentiates B2B lead strategy from that required for B2C sales. Keep in mind, not every business prospect is a good fit.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

We’ll also dive into a few guided selling examples, cover some software tools that can help, and finish off with guided selling best practices to get this most from this approach. In a typical sales approach, customers find your site via traditional marketing or social selling solutions. How Does Guided Selling Work?

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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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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

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. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2020

Once your company spends money to find a prospect, the clock starts ticking. The facts (research) show that just because some sales leads are six months to a year old, half of any given group of leads with the same age is still in the market to buy. Prospects often ignore delayed responders as they no longer need information.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2023

B2B ecommerce strategies also differ greatly from B2C (business-to-consumer) ecommerce. In B2B, transactions involve two businesses, while in B2C, businesses sell directly to consumers. ecommerce tools fall into the following categories: Online store hosting: Build an online store from scratch.

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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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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2019

Today, we bring this series to a close with the final installment– for marketers, of course. So whether you’re here to take a walk down memory lane with us, or you’re simply searching for new marketing content, you’ve come to the right place. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. Let’s get into it!

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Apptivo

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Lifecycle marketing is the holistic approach of getting new buyers and converting them to be customers. Marketing is as much an art as it is a science! A master marketer understands the nuances of customer behavior and establishes an emotional connection with them, therefore it is an art. What is Lifecycle marketing?

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Nutshell

AUGUST 21, 2020

With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good. With every SaaS market crowded these days— G2 lists over 2,800 solutions for “ CRM ” alone—there’s little room for error in your marketing. Product complexity.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If you’re reading this post, you already know it’s important to keep a finger on the pulse of marketing for new, innovative tactics. B2B influencer marketing. Proven to increase brand awareness and drive lead generation, influencer marketing is a vital marketing tactic for many B2C brands. One such tactic?

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LinkedFusion

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Thankfully, this is where outreach marketing can save the day! In this blog we will walk you through outreach marketing strategies that will help you generate high-quality leads. What is outreach marketing? You could already be familiar with inbound marketing as a company manager or owner. Create persuading emails.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 7, 2018

B2B Marketers take note: Instagram has more than 800 million monthly active users ( source ). Instagram is unique in that it humanizes even the most niche B2B businesses—but in order to form a true connection with your target audience, you must learn from the strategies B2C businesses use. Feature your origin story.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 31, 2020

If a prospect is looking to move forward “as soon as possible,” for example, it means that budget is in place. In addition, what is also important about timeline is that if the prospect you’re speaking to isn’t in the market at this moment, it means you can relax behind your pitch. Everybody is onboard. Is there urgency or not?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. But, if there’s one trend that signals what the future of marketing will look like – it’s the rise of virtual and augmented reality. Sales of VR and AR devices will reach $1.8 billion in 2018 ( source ).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2019

This GDPR for marketing post is informational only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. GDPR: The 4-letter word that kept marketers up at night. If you’re still wondering how it impacts you as a B2B marketer, a year later, read on. It may appear that #2 applies to you if you are marketing to EU contacts.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And B2C salespeople report discovering new prospects most effectively through Facebook. Marketers say it offers the highest ROI and best selling tools. If you use videos in your social selling strategy, Instagram is a good place to be because it has the highest ROI for marketing videos.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2019

These trends gradually evolved over the past decade as more and more businesses jumped on the bandwagon; ultimately paving the way for the next truly revolutionary tool in marketing: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Remember ‘big data’ and ‘advanced analytics’? Read on to.

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SBI

AUGUST 6, 2019

Transforming Sales: Why B2B Sellers & Marketers Need to Add Value to Each Buyer Interaction. ED: Adobe recently discussed the concept “business-to-everyone” (B2E) in the cloud industry to encapsulate the convergence of the B2B and B2C buying experience. This week I interview Ed Calnan, President and Co-Founder of Seismic.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. Response Three: “I understand—I didn’t expect to catch you in the market right now. Join Our Next Training: Agenda 7-Week, Comprehensive B2B & B2C Inside Sales Training Program. We’re all set”.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2019

GDPR: The 4-letter word that kept marketers up at night. If you’re still wondering how it impacts you as a B2B marketer, a year later, read on. It may appear that #2 applies to you if you are marketing to EU contacts. In any case, assuming it does apply to you, read on to see how GDPR affects marketers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This is one of many reasons organizations are looking to implement digital sales tools, including: Companies that appropriately adopt digital B2B sales will drive 5 times more revenue growth than their peers. Many believe that if they invest heavily in digital tools, their prospects will migrate their shopping online as well.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

Would you be as successful if you couldn’t reach out to these prospects and introduce yourself and your company? For example: many real estate agents have put together an up to date, free market analysis of comps of other homes in the area and call local homeowners to give this away. If your answer is Yes, then guess what?

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Showpad

JUNE 3, 2019

While its first appearance was in mobile video games like Pokemon Go, B2B and B2C businesses alike are discovering the opportunities augmented reality creates for enhancing selling and marketing experiences. Benefits of augmented reality in sales & marketing. Benefits of augmented reality in sales & marketing.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

It starts with prospecting for potential leads, then moves through to negotiation and closing the deal. Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. Objection handling: Sales reps address any concerns or doubts the prospect might have, showcasing their expertise and the value of their solution.

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