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. What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Pretty simple, right?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 8, 2013

For the marketing leader struggling to produce leads , mapping the buyer’s journey is priority #1. A Buyer Process Map will focus your marketing efforts for maximum demand generation. In this post, I will walk you through the mechanics of a buyer’s journey. These are called Key Buyer Actions. BUYING PHASES.

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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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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! But I wouldn’t lose much sleep over it since I don’t think human nature (and yes buyers are human), has changed all that much since the advent of the web. It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! April 2008. March 2008.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

The buyer has changed. The new buyer is well informed, technology enabled, saturated with media, and suffering from information overload. The new buyer isn’t hanging out at trade shows. Find out where your buyers are going to get educated and spend money there. You need to know your buyer cold. Do a content audit.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

Your demand generation team may be high-fiving themselves for activity, not results. It’s easy to pad demand generation numbers with bulk buys. These are purchases of bulk event attendees or inquiries from a sponsorship. Assess Demand Generation Best Practices.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

Your demand generation team may be high-fiving themselves for activity, not results. It’s easy to pad demand generation numbers with bulk buys. These are purchases of bulk event attendees or inquiries from a sponsorship. Assess Demand Generation Best Practices.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

What channel of Demand Generation can yield the highest return and sustained success? Buyers have changed, but has your SEO strategy? That content should be optimized using keyword search terms that your buyers actually use to search and the content is quality, as well as written in a way that speaks to them.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. To do this, you must first create an ideal buyer persona/s.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

This entire newsletter highlights key changes – from ecosystem-led growth, to the featured live events, to owned media. However, the next generation of marketing emphasizes the importance of media that’s owned, not just earned. As a result, 60-65% of AudiencePlus deals are sourced through events and content.

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Emissary

JUNE 6, 2022

Technology companies were early adopters of account-based marketing (ABM): utilizing personalization strategies to engage B2B buyers earlier, uncover more opportunities, and close bigger deals. When Emissary surveyed our buyer network of 10,000+ executives, over three-quarters reported larger YOY budgets for technology investment.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

You can also sign up for this free event to get an in-depth review. SBI’s content marketing offering has helped companies produce the content that buyers seek. It engages them and pulls them through the buyers journey. You will be working with Sales to conduct buyer research. Let’s look at the graph below from the study.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Build the plan around specific buyer stages. A strong marketing plan must nail the messages that will resonate with target buyers – not just product positioning but how a company wants potential, existing and future customers to feel about it. Content must: Address buyer pain points and needs. Here’s where you start.

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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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Highspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

From content to events, rethinking how you connect with customers can help you stand out in an increasingly noisy digital world. But the concept of asset atomization can also be applied to other demand generation materials — allowing you to maximize the lifespan of every asset you create. Evolving with Your Buyers.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2013

Recent enhancements to LinkedIn’s social network should be leveraged to generate leads. Engaging with these enhancements will drive Demand Generation. Write this in a way that speaks to your prospective buyers. Include what value your expertise brings to prospective buyers. The concept is simple.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. What buyer-centric revenue really means. The vision for buyer-centric revenue [15:38]. powered by Sounder.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Author: Tom Urie, President and CRO, Optymyze Early in my career, I made the not-so-typical move from engineering to marketing and spent 15 years innovating and creating events, programs, content, processes, and systems that challenge the status quo. You know what you need to win the deal – you’ve already compiled the checklist.

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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. The new pages give businesses a more complete set of tools to effectively market to their buyers and build relationships. Notifications enhancement (engage users).

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 4, 2013

Identify gaps in the Buyer Process mapping to Sales Process. Validate Buyer Personas. Demand Generation campaigns are executed to insert influence into the buying process. Buyer’s Process mapping to the Sales Process is supported to increase close rates. Have close at hand your marketing developed Buyer Personas.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Sales often uses Location data for territory planning, but Marketers love Location data because it has so many use cases: be more targeted with event promotion (like the Dreamforce happy hour example above). These were super high-value contacts for us that had a high likelihood to already be in the area for Dreamforce.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You should optimize every offline channel to continue your buyers journey online to declare themselves. Have you optimized your buyers mobile experience to be that easy? They evolved and reacted instantly during the game events such as during the famous blackout. Optimizing your site once isn’t enough to generate leads.

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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. The new pages give businesses a more complete set of tools to effectively market to their buyers and build relationships. Notifications enhancement (engage users).

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Demand Generation , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Next Steps , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution , qualifying. This why, the next step is the objective of any interaction with a buyer.

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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 Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

My presentation, “Customer 2.0, ” focused on how the buyer has changed and has more power than ever before. The new buyer interacts with an organization when he or she is ready (not before), does the vast majority of research online without the vendor’s help, is distracted, and so forth. Buyers buy from people they like (and respect).

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Stored in Business Acumen , Coaching , Demand Generation , Hiring Sales Talent , Planning , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Demand Generation. Trigger Events. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007. Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 25, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Dont Wait , EDGE Sales Process , Events , Metrics , Proactive Triggers , Proactivity , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales eXchange , Sell Better , Trigger Events , Triggers , execution. Motivate buyers using the solution not an event. – Sales eXchange – 94. ” Initiate – Don’t Wait!

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

But in ways that sabotage the sale but scaring and/or alienating the buyer. One of the things I hear most often from people we train is that they want to create “urgency” in their buyers. But if that desire manifests itself in the wrong way, they tend to disaffect buyers. And by-the-way, the buyer is hip to the whole thing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Build the plan around specific buyer stages. A strong marketing plan must nail the messages that will resonate with target buyers – not just product positioning but how a company wants potential, existing and future customers to feel about it. Content must: Address buyer pain points and needs. Here’s where you start.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Focus Roundtable Free Online Event. The message from blogs, webinars, tradeshows is clear: The buyer has changed and so must your prospecting strategies. Demand Generation. Trigger Events. Thursday November 10, 2011 3:30 pm Eastern. The question is: What should one’s sales prospecting strategy be? Cold calling.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Often the only differentiation available is how YOU sell; and even then the differentiation is only that which the buyer perceives. So the only thing left is to differentiate yourself by helping the buyer achieve his/her objectives. Identify buyer’s objective. Demand Generation. Trigger Events.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

On Monday I posted about assumptions and the pitfalls of assuming that the buyer has the same understanding of a subject you do, or that they mean the same thing you do when they use a specific word. Demand Generation. Trigger Events. One word that is used a lot in sales, probably over used, is Value. Cold calling.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

ZoomInfo has the most robust and accurate database available, with over 100 million contact record events and 38 million online sources scanned daily. The World’s Best Dynamic Real-Time Account Data Strong data is the foundation of any successful ABM program — and our data is the best in the world.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations. B2B sales prospecting is the act of looking for potential buyers, customers, or clients to convert into new business. 24% of companies gained more leads using buyer personas.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

Price continues to be the boogie man for many sales people; soft economies just serve to compound and heighten the situation giving buyers an obvious lever in sales negotiations. Given that, I ask why sales people choose to focus on price, when there are clearly other factors buyers rank higher than price. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Questions create interesting experiences for people, and don’t forget, buyers are people. One is the beliefs that all questions have an answer, and indeed, that all questions deserve or demand an answer. Demand Generation. Trigger Events. Many just continue this process right in to their sales career.

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