Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. Marketing managers enthusiastically produce PowerPoint decks to showcase their contribution to the sales pipeline. But does the sales leader share this enthusiasm?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. B2B Lead Generation Sources.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. We’re here to explain the benefits of consolidating your martech stack, and how you should go about it. “Organizations are facing the decision of which tools to purchase, and how much to spend on those tools.”

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Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel Scale Marketing 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What Is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Top of Funnel 208

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This feature automatically records and transcribes action items from sales calls, removing the need to manually take notes and identify important action items from a call. Marketers can use these insights to quickly synthesize and act on intelligence gathered from sales and customer success teams in a way that was not possible before.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 12, 2012

These agencies claim benefits of having a team of highly trained and college educated writers. It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. The clients we have helped stand up Internal Content Marketing Agencies have told us, “ Content Marketing is now our best Sales Rep.”

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 333

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. The result?

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Account Based Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

SBI Growth

JULY 12, 2013

The CEO may even be considering moving marketing under sales. At least the Sales team is carrying a number. This included leveraging a Sales Productivity Benchmark (SPB) conducted by Sales Benchmark index. The timeframe for transformation is not one the CEO or Sales leader have the patience to stomach.

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Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Call-back 323

SBI Growth

AUGUST 26, 2013

Sales leaders perceive advertising agencies with the trifecta of doom; Expensive, Eccentric, and Frivolous. Sales leaders can think of other ways to spend money more productively. Why is it that most B2B sales leaders hate advertising agencies? Sales leaders see their sales organization as the muscle that drives growth.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Strong demand generation effort is required throughout the year to maintain a steady flow of leads to the sales field. The Marketing Implementation Assessment Tool provides the following benefits: Maximize Feasibility of Success. For example, Google Adwords is a proven tactic in all SBI demand generation programs.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cost per Lead Marketing 326

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Technology : Sales and marketing intelligence platforms and customer relationship management systems. Job titles involved : Executives, directors, and managers of product development, product marketing, marketing strategy, sales intelligence, marketing intelligence, and competitive analysis.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2014

As the first post of the years, I thought I would set the tone for the blog and hopefully sales in 2014. Let’s start by setting straight some unadulterated s**t that has made its way into main stream sales over the last few years. A cute marketing term that elevated the noise created by Sales 2.0, Big difference.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Sales Cycle Comparison 295

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. When trained and armed with the battle-tested tools, an Internal Content Marketing team can produce high quality demand generation content consistently. This is not the only benefit of producing quality content.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing How To Face-to-face 316

SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

Plagued by Sales Rep turnover? This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Here’s a sales rep turnover example. Pay and benefits. These also relate to Sales Rep turnover. Is it high compared to your competitors? Per 100 Reps*.

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Hiring Outsourcing Services Lead Nurturing Demand Generation 326

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. Again and again, we encounter sales leaders who are certain they know their customers. Without researching how customers make a purchase decision, your sales force could be misaligned. Too Much Love for the Legacy Sales Organization. Bad decision.

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Hiring Lead Rank Collateral Demand Generation 326

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. The path to success for year a B2B CMO’s year one includes: Generate quick wins to build momentum. The quick wins will build credibility with sales and the CEO. How long is your honeymoon?

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

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However, it was when I had the opportunity to build a sales organization that my perspective and point of view shifted dramatically. Turns out, the leads weren't good, the process was backwards, and sales was shouldering all the burden. If targeted correctly, every one of those accounts can benefit from your solution.

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Lead Rank Revenue B2B Demand Generation 191

Mindtickle

MAY 4, 2022

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. Then they can look for similar abilities in new hires and train and coach their other reps to increase skill levels across the sales team.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Negotiation 52

Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Managing a dispersed sales team is a unique challenge. The secret is modern sales enablement. Today’s winners are mastering virtual selling with an up-to-date approach to content, tools, and knowledge to help their sales teams succeed. To find out more, I sat down with Allego’s Sales Enablement Director Mary Charles.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 3, 2013

Step 3: Wordsmith gymnastics is applied to transition features to benefits. Traditional sales support literature. Demand Generation campaigns. Stale Features & Benefits are replaced with hard hitting content. Step 1: Subject matter expertise is captured into product descriptions. Rinse and Repeat.

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Campaigns How To Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 300

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too. Organizational Goals.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Hiring Hubspot 114

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2023

At ZoomInfo, our demand generation team engages hundreds of thousands of global customers and prospects every month using our MarketingOS platform. Eliminate Dirty Data Snafus that Lead to Misalignment In B2B tech, sales and marketing misalignment is a tale as old as time.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Rank 130

SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? This week I interview Matt Benati , Founder & CEO of LeadGnome.

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Penetration Account ROI Demand Generation Agencies 114

InsightSquared

MAY 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Outreach , the #1 Sales Engagement Platform, is sponsoring Ramp 2019, the revenue ops event of the year! When done right, those companies experience the benefits. We recommend you check out their session !

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Account Based Marketing Hotels Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 89

Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

For the first four years of my software career, I was a pre-sales solution consultant, a.k.a. The Product Positioning School of Hard Knocks Early in my pre-sales demo career, I had some demos where my audience was totally engaged and it felt like I hit it out of the park. Luckily, I figured it out early on in my pre-sales career!

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Positioning Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Banking 59

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

B2B email also benefits from widespread automation. Speaking of efficiency, one-to-one sales conversations are valuable, but they’re not scalable. It’s not exactly a new element of B2B digital marketing, but the numbers are staggering, says Amanda Foushee, a demand generation associate at Marsden Marketing. Video soars.

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Top of Funnel Scale Hiring Demand Generation 120

Product Management University

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If clearer differentiation and greater sales success are on your A-list, dispel these three product marketing myths and you’ll be on your way. There’s absolutely zero benefit in duplicating product management’s depth of product knowledge in product marketing. Sales enablement included! Here’s the funny part.

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Women Sales Pros

JULY 27, 2018

Transparency: Details of the process, benefits to the client and expectations are communicated consistently, and often, along the referral lifecycle timeline. Asking Promoter clients (NPS score: 9 or 10) for referrals is given, yet shockingly few companies proactively add this method to their sales process.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Referrals 93

SBI Growth

JULY 7, 2013

In 2011, 57% of the Buyer’s Journey was completed before first contact with a sales rep. A BPM provides the marketing team a blueprint for effective demand generation and lead management. Another key benefit of the BPM is its relation to content creation. Today, that number has increased to 65%. And the trend continues.

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Marketing Lead Nurturing Demand Generation Agencies Social Media 310

Vendor Neutral

JUNE 15, 2021

Can Drive Massive Growth For Your B2B Sales Organization. A Customer-Centric Framework Can Drive Massive Growth for Your B2B Sales Org. 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. REGISTER NOW. Our Panelists.

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Siebel B2B Demand Generation Agencies Webinar Metrics 59

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

B2B Marketing teams are seeing fruit from their investment in content marketing to fuel Lead Generation efforts; 2-3x increase in the quantity of inbound leads. Reduced overall sales cycles. Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. Identify the pain and communicate the benefits of the solution.

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Direct Mail Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

When product management possesses comprehensive knowledge of the market, it benefits design, engineering, marketing sales and customer experience teams because that knowledge is baked into every aspect of creating products/features, taking them to market and getting customers to use them. Short of corporate strategy roles, it’s not!

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Marketing Segment Face-to-face Lead Rank 59

SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Organizations are ditching quantity for quality when it comes to leads and they’re enjoying the real and measurable benefits of ABM. You can achieve a higher close rate with an ABM strategy if 1) you’re focused on best-fit accounts, and 2) your sales and marketing teams are aligned. These are the most important leads to sales.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Inbound Lead Rank 132

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The average cost of a B2B sales lead varies by industry. Verifying business leads before passing it to the sales team is conducted by only 56% of B2B companies ( source ). 46% of marketers with well-planned lead management strategies have sales teams who follow up on more than 75% of leads ( source ).

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Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 243

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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