Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. The February edition features content about recruiting nightmares, inadequate buyer personas, key considerations for technology buying, and so much more. 5 Reasons Your Buyer Personas Aren’t Good Enough. It’s a marketer’s worst nightmare. Bad buyer personas.

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B2B Buyer Persona Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 150

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Welcome to our October B2B Blog Post Round-Up. If you’re new to the ZoomInfo blog, we use our monthly round-ups to highlight the work our writers have done for outside publications. This month’s round-up covers a variety of topics including email marketing, sales reporting, storytelling and so much more. What are buyer personas?

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B2B Buyer Persona Email Marketing Ideal Customer Profile 140

Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing. Add your own analysis.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona 201

LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing without creating ideal buyer personas is like shooting blind arrows – can cause you a massive monetary loss in the business. Creating an ideal buyer persona and basing your marketing strategy on these findings can be super-beneficial for your business. But these are all misconceptions!

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Buyer Persona Buyer Social Media Demographics 52

SBI Growth

JUNE 25, 2019

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Buyer Persona Buyer Top of Funnel Lead Rank 249

Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2018

The differences between B2B marketing and B2C marketing run deep. Today we’re putting our differences aside because we believe, there’s a lot B2B marketers can learn from their B2C counterparts. It means putting the customer at the center of every business decision, including product development and marketing.

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B2C B2B Marketing Social Media 209

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our B2B blog, you already know the drill. This month we focus on the marketing technology stack, the power of direct dials, productivity myths, SEO, and more! Investing In Marketing Technology: 7 Key Considerations. Investing In Marketing Technology: 7 Key Considerations. Let’s get into it.

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B2B B2C Marketing Demand Generation Agencies 124

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Buyer personas. Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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Buyer Persona Marketing Scale Collateral 214

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2019

Due to the legal issues with compliance, many financial advisors choose to avoid the headache and stay away from digital marketing. There are ample marketing solutions that can help you increase your online presence while staying FINRA compliant. Read on for our guide to marketing for financial advisors! Utilize event marketing.

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Buyer Persona Social Media Marketing Case Study 145

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. Reps wonder what marketing does and contributes; marketing complains reps ignore their efforts. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales.

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Buyer Persona Marketing How To Lead Rank 310

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s no secret, data has revolutionized marketing. Where marketers once relied on instinct, they now rely on insights gleaned from careful data analysis. Here on the ZoomInfo blog, we’ve laid out the benefits of data-driven marketing time and time again. Right-brained marketers create exceptional, unique content.

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Buyer Persona Marketing Analysis Advertising 100

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2023

Since December 2022, interest in the search term “AI tools” has skyrocketed by 292% in the U.S. Now Google, HubSpot , and Microsoft are racing to develop their own versions of AI chat tools to compete with ChatGPT. You can ask ChatGPT to include a statistic from a certain blog link, Mendes suggests.

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Tools Sales Tools Scale Lead Rank 104

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 5, 2018

According to a recent research performed by Content Marketing Institute , 83 percent of B2B marketers use social media networks for traffic/client generation – making it the No. Social media marketing has become tougher than ever. Here are some simple yet effective ways to improve your social media marketing performance.

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Social Media Media Buyer Persona Marketing 185

SMEI

MARCH 10, 2022

Learn To Create A Marketing Strategy That Gets Your Products And Services In Front Of Motivated Buyer With This 13 Step Guide. A marketing strategy is a plan of action that will help you achieve your business goals. A great marketing plan will give you a sustainable competitive advantage. What are your Weaknesses ?

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Paid Content Strategy Marketing Buyer Persona 75

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

Ultimately, door-to-door sales representatives and marketers have the same goal—to understand each prospect’s wants, needs, and pain points in order to sell them a product. In today’s blog post, we explore the different lessons marketers can learn from door-to-door salespeople to better nurture leads through the sales funnel.

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Top of Funnel Lead Nurturing Buyer Persona Marketing 150

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. Follow these steps to create an effective lead generation strategy for your SMB: Identify your target audience – Think about who’s in your market and if they’re interested in your product or service.

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. Now there is a new tool to satisfy this need. What are LinkedIn Sponsored Updates?

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LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead B2B Tools 323

Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. As a marketing technique, sentiment analysis can be as complex or as simple as you make it. But, we encourage you to learn more about social listening by reading the following post: Social Listening Best Practices for B2B Marketers.

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 176

Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2018

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. What’s more, only 9% have and use the tools they need ( source ).

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Marketing Social Media Advertising Advertising 170

Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2019

In today’s chaotic hiring market, recruitment marketing has emerged as a widely adopted practice among recruiters and HR professionals. By definition, recruitment marketing is a tactic used by an organization to source, manage, and nurture passive talent — before they apply for an open position. Create candidate personas.

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Social Media Marketing Comparison Buyer Persona 169

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2023

In this blog post, we'll cover the following: What is a digital product? Then, you can use market research (which we cover below) to give some early validation to your product choice. Conduct market research Validate your product ideas by conducting market research, which will help you determine what to sell.

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Buyer Persona eBook How To Social Media 111

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. The new buyer isn’t hanging out at trade shows.

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Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But that doesn’t stop a lot of sales and marketing professionals from pursuing any and all hand-raisers, regardless how poorly suited they are. Fit, intent, and engagement provide the core data you need to be successful with your account-based marketing program. The days of squandering marketing budget are gone.

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Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Account 145

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. My colleague John Staples wrote a great blog on hiring the best talent. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. What should the org chart for your marketing department look like?

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Top of Funnel Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 52

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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Top of Funnel Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Channels 101

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But what if you’re a small business and don’t have extra marketing dollars (or time) to spend on massive engagement-boosting campaigns? Zero in on Your Target Market. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. Have a Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Google Analytics Scale 301

Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. 5 Ways to Facilitate Better Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 223

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Yet, it’s a critical resource for both sales and marketing teams. To learn more about the impact of low-quality data on your most important business initiatives, check out the following blog posts: B2B Marketing Meltdown: The Impact of Bad Data. A B2B Marketing Thanksgiving [Infographic]. SiriusDecsions.

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Data Buyer Persona B2B Inbound 182

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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Marketing Top of Funnel Buyer Persona B2B 52

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This blog represents a test. Download the tool to learn how to implement each and enable your sales team. The Tablet: Do you provide content that addresses your buyer’s market problems? Or is your buyer reading someone else’s content on their tablet? Do you have a plan to connect to more of your target buyers?

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Hiring Marketing Scale Buyer Persona 314

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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Campaigns Marketing Social Media How To 142

Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2018

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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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 124

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Over the past year, there have been many great Marketing & Lead Generation blog posts. I offer you an executive summary of key takeaways from SBI’s marketing related posts. I have compiled the top 15 questions to evaluate your performance against best-in-class marketing operations. I created Buyer Personas ?

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Marketing Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 297