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. Let’s dive in.

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Through what we labeled the “Revenue Delivery System,” JD Edwards sales and marketing leadership invested in a strategic approach to drive demand generation and equip the sales team to effectively sell to targeted markets. Market Segmentation and Past Sales Success Laid a Framework for Demand Generation.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

How do you know it’s time to restructure your marketing organization ? We also never thought that Marketing’s technology spend could outpace the IT spend. She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Here are four ways our new platform empowers marketers to effectively and efficiently land their target accounts.

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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. The Lead Generation Process.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Sales has others.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2021

The modern buyer is now accustomed to real-time, instant communication through the WhatsApps, Slacks, and Facebook Messengers of the world — and they expect the same always-available communication in their B2B buying journey. chatbots, conversational marketing, live chat, etc., Systems that talk to each other, work better together.

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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. What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The modern buyer is accustomed to the real-time, instant communication that the WhatsApps, Slacks, and Facebook Messengers of the world deliver — and they expect the same always-on communication in their B2B buying journey. Can you push the data from your chat system to your existing workflows in your MAP/CRM?

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Agencies Face-to-face 130

Showpad

MAY 3, 2019

Research tells us that experiences play a large (and growing) role in the purchase decisions of B2B buyers , even more than other factors like product and price. While many elements factor into the experiences a customer has with your company, experiences are primarily driven by your marketing and sales organizations.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. What is the impact of bad data on sales and marketing?

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. 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.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 27, 2023

As technology is advancing at a swift pace, leaning only on legacy marketing approaches, especially amid this rapidly changing and challenging environment, won’t even come close to meeting your customers’ digital-first expectations. Interestingly, 70% of marketers believe investments in remote technologies are here to stay.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 27, 2023

As technology is advancing at a swift pace, leaning only on legacy marketing approaches, especially amid this rapidly changing and challenging environment, won’t even come close to meeting your customers’ digital-first expectations. Interestingly, 70% of marketers believe investments in remote technologies are here to stay.

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Highspot

AUGUST 19, 2022

” Marketers are no stranger to this phrase – and know better than most that it’s far easier than said with done. . What Are the Top Marketing Challenges Right Now? First, take a moment to understand the current marketing landscape. 17% of marketers struggle to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. There are a number of factors that should tip off sales and go-to-market leaders to rethink their organizational approach.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! I further suspect that most would see themselves in the “open source” sales camp, evolving and improving with the market and customer demands; demands that are forced to evolve with the market and other developments. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms. B2B Buyer Behavior. The Digital Age Buyer’s Journey. percent of buyers start with a Google search.

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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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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a recent Emissary survey of executive-level tech buyers, 85% of recent, major tech purchases included a non-technical buyer with major influence over the final decision. Most vertical marketing strategies are light in nature consisting of tabs on websites, vertical-oriented stock photos and key words added to headers.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Your marketing strategy is not just about making the number this year. As the CMO you’ve done everything you can without the use of marketing automation. You now have the support of the CEO to modernize the marketing organization. Perhaps the prior leader didn’t keep pace with the market. Why would they? Here are five.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Andrea Kayal , Chief Marketing Officer at Upserve and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Signpost. We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen.

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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. One of the major AI challenges faced by sales and marketing teams was the issue of the quality.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

(Deciding to better understand how your Buyers buy is a GREAT decision!). Failure to Map the Buyer’s Journey. Today’s Buyers are educated. They sell one way – your Buyers prefer to buy differently. This one is also related to the Buyer’s Journey. Ignoring Content Marketing. They have the power.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in the market for a new car.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 100

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. On owned media, digital advertising was once the name of the game.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

If you’re in marketing, you might think of search engine advertising platforms as your “frenemy.” So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. Although related, it’s probably not relevant to your product.

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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. You need a proper scoring system in place before your sales team takes them up.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 20, 2015

I challenged marketing and sales leadership involved in 2016 planning to pause and consider conducting the assessment before making any decisions for next year. These include: Lead and demand generation: How are we attracting and engaging the target audience in building a consistent flow of prospective buyers?

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MarketJoy

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If you’re spending your time and your marketing dollars talking to people who don’t need or can’t afford what you’re selling, then you’re simply flushing your money down the toilet. Marketing and sales can agree on who a qualified buyer is based on these criteria. They are: 1. According to John W.

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Vendor Neutral

JUNE 15, 2021

Join our free webinar to learn what sales approach actually engages buyers and makes them willing to have valuable conversations. Jim spent over 30 years in enterprise software sales and sales management, leading high-performance teams at ADR, CA, Siebel Systems, and HP Software with a focus on value selling.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Best practice is to follow the collegiate system of 101, 201, 301 and 401. Here are 7 categories to get you started: Internal Systems and Admin. Marketing / Demand Generation Campaigns / Lead Management. Buyer Personas & Buying Process Maps. But it’s your role to provide input into essential content.

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