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Wasted Sales Opportunities – How One Bank Blew Theirs

The Pipeline

One of the big Canadian banks, we’ll call them the Green bank, has a current radio ad that I believe holds a great lesson for sales people. Some sellers fall into to the same trap, getting so focused and blinded by their needs, their agenda, and their world view, that the buyer and their reality are just incidental to the process.

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Defining the Real Buyer

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Alicia McCarty As we are all very well aware, today’s buyers expect us to speak to them personally, not in their general direction; increasingly, customers want businesses to know what they want before they do and to serve them hyper-targeted, relevant content and offerings. According to Marketing Insider Group , 78 percent of U.S.

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Who Is OUR Buyer?

Partners in Excellence

People like Hank Barnes , Scott Gillum , Ardath Albee , and Maureen Blandford are doing some great work in helping us rethink the question of “Who is our buyer?” ” In addition to helping us define our buyers in much richer terms, they are helping us think about how to incite them to buy. The post Who Is OUR Buyer?

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List Segmentation: The Key to Email Marketing

Zoominfo

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. But, that’s only if you do it correctly.

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How ZoomInfo’s WebSights Improves Retargeting Strategies

Zoominfo

Let’s say you work at a financial technology (fintech) company that sells software for credit unions, investment firms, and commercial banks. Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. But marketers still do.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Is Your Product Obviously Awesome? with Expert April Dunford (S5Ep13)

Alice Heiman

April Dunford, an authority on product positioning, discusses the critical role of positioning in sales and marketing. And describes in her second book, Sales Pitch, how to translate the marketing work done for positioning into sales speak. This podcast is a must listen and her books are both must reads.

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How to Create Lookalike Audiences & Target Ideal Customers Like a B2C Pro

Zoominfo

If only you could clone the best customers produced from your account-based marketing campaigns… Well, you basically can, using a well-known and effective trick in the B2C toolbox that B2B types should be eager to adopt: lookalike audience targeting. Along with targeted ads , B2C marketers utilize Facebook for lookalike modeling.

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