Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are two dovetailing arguments for using TikTok, the fastest-growing social media platform, as a B2B marketing tool: Its generous algorithm and its lack of polish. But there’s a long way to go between now and then, and there’s no reason why good B2B content won’t find its way to people interested in seeing it on TikTok.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Start with your webinar funnel. What Is a Webinar Funnel? A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. The goal of your webinar is to generate leads and get them into your sales funnel. To create a killer marketing landing page , keep the design simple and the copy concise.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? 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. What is a Lead?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.)

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MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. What is Demand Generation?

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JULY 6, 2020

Our blog team set out to research and create content that helped our readers do the same. Retaining unconverted leads comes at no cost, but the ongoing obsession with adding more prospects to the funnel can undermine the value of lead nurturing. How To Build A Better B2B Sales Tech Stack. A Guide To Marketing Automation.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The B2B Marketer’s Guide to Customer Engagement! Customer engagement, though only a piece of the marketing puzzle, shouldn’t be ignored. Here’s what modern marketer’s think of customer engagement: 63% of marketers agree customer engagement includes renewals, repeat purchases, and retention.

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Showpad

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Meet Tom Carter , National Vice President, Business Marketing at Kaiser Permanente. In this interview, Tom shares how the partnership between marketing and sales made all the difference in rolling out a new digit al sales strategy. . “If How do you think about sales and marketing today? . As an example, we have an 80/20 rule.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion? Awareness Stage 2. Interest Stage 3.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Many B2B marketers recognize the value of both and incorporate them into the same campaigns. Demand generation is based on marketing campaigns to create a demand or interest in your product or service. Lead generation marketing is based on campaigns to collect information about potential customers and turn them into leads.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

A little bit of humor can go a long way– even in the marketing world. Today’s marketing professionals must juggle a number of high-priority tasks throughout the day, and often, they find themselves under a significant amount of stress. In these cases, a few lighthearted jokes can ease the tension of the day-to-day marketing job.

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MAY 14, 2018

In marketing, it’s common knowledge that lead quality is generally more important than lead quantity. And yet, marketing lead qualification remains a sticking point for many organizations. In fact, 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to sales, but only 27% are sales qualified ( source ). Let’s get into it!

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) But that is because this community lives and breathes B2B sales. Why we love it: Each B2B sales article, podcast, webinar, and discussion is designed to support and elevate the sales profession. Sales Hacker. Focus areas: Yes, we’re biased on this one.

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APRIL 17, 2019

But, sales and marketing organizations must resist this instinct in order to constantly adapt to changing markets, new technologies, emerging trends and so on. We’re speaking, of course, of the sales funnel. The sales funnel represents the theoretical customer’s journey to making a purchase. The Sales Funnel.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2011, Scott Brinker compiled the first of many marketing technology “Supergraphics,” illustrating the rapid growth of companies supplying digital marketing tools. The original displayed the logos of 140 prominent marketing tech brands. What is a Marketing Technology Stack? Get a Demo 2.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2013

B2B CMO''s largely do not have direct reports with expertise in demand generation. The pressure to provide marketing contribution to the funnel is greater than ever. The specialist roles involved in executing world class B2B marketing in 2014 is complex. Tip: Discover their view of Content Marketing.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Share your knowledge in blog articles to get people to your website. Propel them further down the sales funnel with white papers and webinars. But your marketing needs to be more than dry information, it should make people want to come back for more. They tweeted, shared photos, wrote blog articles, and communicated with people.

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Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We are honored to feature and promote their contribution on the Crunchbase blog. The B2B digital inflection point: How sales have changed during COVID-19, MicKinsey & Company. Critical buying signals to monitor 7 ways to shorten your B2B sales cycle. Nextiva shares a great example of middle of funnel content.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Building a sales funnel that aligns with your business goals is essential. Each funnel stage defines your steps to turn prospective buyers into customers, even if they’ve never heard of your business before. What is a sales funnel? And then there’s the sales funnel. The 4 stages of a sales funnel.

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Lead411

JULY 25, 2023

5 Top B2B Sales Books for 2023 Keeping up with the newest sales tactics is always a point of emphasis for any successful sales team. This bombardment of stimuli has changed the way we communicate and market content both online and off. So why is marketing it so hard? Many SaaS companies struggle with marketing.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. These are based on market research and real data about your existing customers. As B2B transactions grow more complex, with an increasing number of stakeholders, creating accurate buyer personas is critical. This gains insights into their needs and preferences.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Recently, we published The Ultimate List of Marketing Podcasts. 1. B2B Revenue Leadership. If you’re interested in B2B revenue leadership this is the show for you. This Podcast is focused on leadership in the B2B space to drive revenue by using the most modern and scientific approaches. Listen here. Listen here.

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Crunchbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

The modern B2B buyer doesn’t need to get on the phone or fill out a contact form to learn the ins and outs of a product — they have all the fact-finding capabilities right at their fingertips thanks to the infinite sprawl of the internet. The seller could then explain how they compared to the competition and determine a reasonable price.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. There are essentially two competing schools of thought among B2B marketers. Reputation Includes content assets such as blogs and press releases 2. The good news?

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JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’ve been given the task of setting up your company’s sales and marketing database, you’re probably not overly excited … especially if it’s something you’ve got to build from scratch. But setting up a sales and marketing database from scratch is not as difficult as you may think. How big is your overall market?

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Lead411

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unlocking Success in 2024: The Imperative of Aligning Sales and Marketing Teams In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B sales and marketing, the convergence of strategies between sales and marketing teams is critical for success. This cohesive approach enhances overall customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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KLA Group

OCTOBER 13, 2020

By Kendra Lee The foundation of all B2B lead generation strategies, regardless of the activities you choose to use, is your target market. If you get it wrong, no matter how big your budget, great your content, or how much you pummel it, the results will not fill your sales funnel and will leave you […].

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The modern B2B customer journey is more complex and multilayered than ever before. In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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SBI Growth

APRIL 2, 2013

Greg Alexander’s blog post yesterday provides some compelling statistics. 41% of B2B companies missed the Q1 Revenue target. This blog will cover 4 ways to help you make the number this quarter. Flip the Sales & Marketing Funnel. Yes, flip the funnel. Flip the funnel.”. Author: Tony Albachiara.

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Pointclear

JULY 25, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Running A Successful Business Blog: Why It Pays to Post. The Five Cs of a Successful Blog.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate while advanced lead-generation programs (which include lead nurturing) produce an average 15% lead rate—three times higher. Many marketing organizations (and some sales lead generation companies as well) do what I call “one-and-done “marketing.

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What is a sales funnel? Why is the sales funnel important? Stages of sales funnel 5. Common sales funnel mistakes 6. Tips to Avoid sales funnel mistake 7. What is a sales funnel? A sales funnel is a model that depicts a customer’s journey to your ideal price point, after which they become a customer.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

The digital nature of our current business landscape has caused a dramatic shift in the way companies market their products. As a result, SEO has become an essential skill for all modern marketers. Marrying the creative side of content marketing with the more technical parts of SEO is an art form many have yet to master.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

In today’s digital age, there is a lot of emphasis on generating leads through blogs, emails, social media, Google AdWords, etc. However, as any seasoned marketer can tell you that while rewarding, social media lead generation isn’t an exact science. Who knows, maybe they’re in the market for a new product or service.

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MAY 27, 2021

the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Over the last three years, intent data has emerged as the fastest growing data category according to TOPO’s 2020 Intent Data Market Guide. Oh, very interesting.

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