Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What Is Lead Generation? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more!

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? The only way to join the 30-40% of people who do understand their buyers is to create buyer personas. Today we teach you how to construct an effective B2B buyer persona profile—keep reading. What is a buyer persona?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

According to HubSpot research, 93% of consumers will be repeat buyers at companies with excellent customer service. It’s at least five times more expensive to bring in a new customer versus retaining an existing buyer. In this piece, we’ll briefly give an overview of these areas, with future articles delving deeper into the details.

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SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

Lead Generation is the surest way to drive tangible return on marketing investment. Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. The decks show a healthy growth curve of leads being generated for Sales. Today’s Status Quo.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Buyers have unprecedented tech choices, making the martech landscape more competitive than ever. Simultaneously, the prospect of a slowing economy is affecting marketing budgets, creating the perfect conditions for a wave of tech stack consolidation. The original displayed the logos of 140 prominent marketing tech brands.

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SBI Growth

MAY 14, 2013

The Buying Process Map (BPM) has three components: Buying Stages - Stages a buyer goes through when making a purchase decision. Key Buyer Actions - A Key Buyer Action is an activity a buyer goes through inside a buying stage. For example, narrowing down a short list of vendors is a key buyer action. THE BENEFITS.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

“It assumes a first-touch or last-touch attribution model and doesn’t take into account the multiple buyers and touchpoints involved.” For example, if a prospect downloads a whitepaper and six months later sales runs an outbound motion to re-engage them — who gets the credit? So, what metrics should marketers report on ?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2014

Let’s look at one of the biggest slices of crap peddled in sales these days: “60% of the sales cycle is over before a buyer talks to a sales person” , as quoted by James Wood, on Earnest About B2B Blog , Slide number 5, attributes the quote to Kieran Flanagan, Hubspot. Big difference. Scraps anyone? Happy New Year! Tibor Shanto.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 3, 2013

Imagine the expectations of buyers who begin to consume quality content. As your target buyers begin to experience quality content, your content will no longer suffice. Step 3: Wordsmith gymnastics is applied to transition features to benefits. It seldom answers the most pressing questions of the prospective buyer.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. The goals: deliver a seamless experience for the prospect or customer, increase conversion rates, and ultimately boost revenue. Every day at 1 p.m.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Infuse the Sales Process with Buyer Insights. Selling in a different way based on a specific understanding of the way buyers buy. Higher close rates and reduced cycle times due to alignment with the buyer. Role of Marketing: Participate in expert panel sessions to map the buyer’s process to the sales process. In Summary.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

SBI Growth

JULY 7, 2013

In this ever-changing environment, how does a marketing leader keep pace with the Informed Buyer? A byproduct of today’s buyer experience is information overload. Whether on their mobile device, PC or tablet, the Informed Buyer is subjected to an unrelenting torrent of noise. In the B2B world, most buyers are at stasis.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

The difference is demos are a two-way dialogue with buyers whereas product positioning in a pure marketing sense is typically a one-way monologue where potential customers are reading, viewing or listening to something you’ve published. Then there were others where I just couldn’t get buyers fully engaged. Winning is fun!

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. Lead Generation programs are fed by leads acquired through Demand Generation. Nurture Paths are seldom built from a buyer-centered perspective. Email efforts have become noise that don't align with the prospect’s buying process.

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The Pipeline

MAY 27, 2011

10 Fail-proof Tasks to Help Turn Your Prospects into Buyers. Prospecting is a term that’s been around for a long time. Your business strategies are the same as the gold-miners, except instead of digging for ore, you’re digging for customers, with your mind focused on this: you want to find the right prospects—the serious buyers.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Build Loyalty According to HubSpot research, 93% of consumers will be repeat buyers at companies with excellent customer service. It’s at least five times more expensive to bring in a new customer versus retaining an existing buyer. Even during economic uncertainty, opportunities exist with new product development. “If

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

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. Because awareness has already been established, lead generation strategies typically are activated in the second stage of the sales funnel — interest.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

B2B email also benefits from widespread automation. The key to successful conversational selling is to make sure the interactions are relevant and contextual by providing your prospects and customers with the most helpful information in real time. Video soars. Visit SalesandMarketing.com/Closers. .

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

They rely on manually-entered data to monitor the sales pipeline and coach their salespeople, and they run sales and marketing independently, creating a disjointed experience for buyers. In inbound sales — the modern methodology for sales teams — companies base their sales process on buyer actions. Demand Generation.

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Mereo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

JAY MITCHELL REMEMBERS INDECISIVE BUYERS AND HOPES FOR A 2024 RAMP-UP As trusted advisors to dozens of companies, we at Mereo get to see market and economic trends from not only individual companies but on a macro-level. Our expert principals share these reflections from the 365 days behind us — and predictions for the year ahead.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Like a number of our clients, they are moving towards a stronger sales-led oriented culture, recognizing the benefit of higher growth rates across all parts of the organization. We immediately saw the benefit of their doing so and gladly helped. How often do your sales leaders participate in prospect or client meetings?

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SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

Manager of Demand Generation at Limeade, believes that executing on an account-based strategy first requires establishing good organizational health. In fact, there should never be a handover between marketing and sales once a prospect becomes a lead. Watch the on-demand ABM Leadership Alliance Virtual Summit.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

Even if you sell a truly remarkable product, prospects aren’t likely to recognize the full value you offer. In fact, most prospects either don’t recognize or can’t articulate the root of the challenges they struggle with on a daily basis. Most technology companies position themselves for a competitive bake-off of features and benefits.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

More content equals more insights into connections with these benefits: More precise targeting options for your demand generation campaigns. Increased visualization of connection relationships to aid in prospecting. Each of these new features is focused to drive increased value through additional connection level content.

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Mindtickle

MAY 4, 2022

You probably have an ideal customer profile to identify when a prospect is a good fit for your product or services. But most companies don’t have an ideal rep profile to map out the skills and competencies that their sales reps need to nurture those prospects, close deals, and convert them into paying customers. Prospecting.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

More content equals more insights into connections with these benefits: More precise targeting options for your demand generation campaigns. Increased visualization of connection relationships to aid in prospecting. Each of these new features is focused to drive increased value through additional connection level content.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Through these channels, you gain more valuable first-party data about customers and prospects to inform content and product decisions. Through roadshows with portfolio companies, CMO events, and newsletters, AudiencePlus is able to resource target buyers without selling to them explicitly.

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 15, 2021

If you go into a meeting and immediately talk about your product or service—its features, benefits, and advantages—you’re setting yourself up for failure. Join our free webinar to learn what sales approach actually engages buyers and makes them willing to have valuable conversations. Customers today are exhausted with pitches.

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Allego

APRIL 30, 2020

You have to find the most effective and efficient ways to support your company’s business goals and you need to do it remotely, without the benefit of in-person collaboration. Buyers have changed. Prospects may have completed much of the buyer’s journey—some say as much as 60%—before speaking to a sales rep.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Buyers have unlimited access to information and compare vendors and solutions without ever interacting with sellers. We map out the areas they need to cover and the benefits, with the key points for each topic so that the session goes smoothly. “Now people are going out and practicing that in the real world with their prospects.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

There’s this tendency for sales professionals (including myself) to focus on the sales cycle, and the prospect that you’re trying to sell something to, in a negative way. ” Instead, look at it as, “What if my prospect doesn’t get my product?” ” Let me explain. It’s typically inaccurate.

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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. Selling be to understand which of the potential prospects “at rest”, could be Engaged with and thereby set in motion.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Works closely with product and marketing to develop buyer personas, product messaging and positioning, and driving the overall vision of the product. Demand Generation Specialist Responsibilities: Focuses on lead generation and creating demand for the product. Ensures consistent messaging across all touchpoints.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

These new channels have made it easier than ever for marketers to reach out to prospects, and marketers are certainly taking advantage of the available efficiency. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3 For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3

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The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

If you can get agreement from a buyer that using your service, they will save $20,000 a year; or using your service they can increase sales resulting in a $25,000 increase in net earnings, you can then extrapolate that out over the life of the service you sell. Demand Generation. Prospecting. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Sales professionals (including myself) will usually focus on the sales cycle, and the prospect that you’re trying to sell something to, in a negative way. ” Instead, look at it as, “What if my prospect doesn’t get my product?” ” Let me explain. Once again, let me use a DiscoverOrg example.

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Video Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Top of Funnel 120

Klozers

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Salaries, Benefits, Cars, Travel, Accommodation and expenses can rack up very quickly, especially if we are not getting the results we are looking for. It makes sense therefore, to maximize our resources as we simply cannot afford to have our sales people calling on unqualified sales prospects.

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