Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

You’ve got butterflies, your team is excited, and you know your customers are going to be impressed. Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 26, 2018

Author: Stephanie Kidder, Chief Marketing Officer, Azalead You Could Do With Less Leads, But You Do Need to Reach More People. When it comes to effective B2B marketing, sometimes less is more, and sometimes more is more, but it may not always be so obvious. Why shouldn’t marketing do the same? Let’s start with why less is more.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The road to landing your product or service in customers’ hands is not a direct route. Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your book of business, craft a well-calculated marketing plan, add more places of interest on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads back to your company. Get started with our free eBook

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 20, 2022

We work to find a customer with a need to change. They assemble a buying team, over the years, for complex sales the size of this team has grown. We dig into our “bag of techniques,” to find ways to get the customer to buy. The customer doesn’t order. We qualify them. ” Sometimes it works.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The right Marketing Methodology can enable you to break this cycle. Your Marketing Methodology is simply your company’s guidelines or procedures for marketing your solutions. In this article we’ll consider ONE Marketing Methodology. It’s one that many best-in-class organizations use today: Inbound Marketing.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. Your marketing and sales teams need both. How to spot buying signals.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

” It’s related to much of what I’ve written about Inciting Customers To Change. Too often, sellers catch customers who are very late in their buying cycle. The sellers simply respond to the customers’ questions, trying to prove the superiority of their offerings, getting the customer to buy.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you show leads content that gets them excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Get a Demo What Are Key Segments in Marketing? Australasia or the European Union).

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2015

Buyers Get Smarter Through The Buying Cycle. If we are doing our job engaging with the customer, we are teaching them–helping them understand new approaches to achieving their goals and getting them all hot and lathered to change. Through this entire process, the customer is learning and getting smarter.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2015

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” There is too much at stake for them to wait.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

Meeting with their leadership team, I asked “ Do you know your customer? ” Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. She mainly talked about their customer surveys. Unfortunately only about 5-7% of customers actually respond to survey requests. Are my customers spending?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer lifecycle success hinges on making every customer a priority — from how soon your rep responds to a request to following up quickly after a demo. What is the Customer Lifecycle (and Why Every Sales Rep Should Care)? What about the customer success manager who must ensure a flawless customer buying process?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer lifecycle success hinges on making every customer a priority — from how soon your rep responds to a request to following up quickly after a demo. What is the Customer Lifecycle (and Why Every Sales Rep Should Care)? What about the customer success manager who must ensure a flawless customer buying process?

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2019

Market-leading companies develop and execute on strategies that are aligned to their customers expressed and unexpressed needs. This is often captured in a Customer Journey Map. While this tool is frequently used to prioritize operational improvement efforts, to deliver on.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Why do we still talk about marketing and sales alignment? In this Expert Insight Interview, Darrell Amy discusses how we can create alignment between sales and marketing by making them both focus on the revenue growth engine. The truth is, people do not buy products or services, but the outcomes those products or services provide them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Most customers, in most situations, simply don’t need or want an in-person interaction. .

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 6, 2020

The post Marketing is Moving Further Down the Sales Funnel by Leslie Talbot appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re a marketer, you’re responsible for more of the buying journey than ever before. The Evolving Role of Marketing. Business development functions are shifting to the marketing organization.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Corporate Visions, Inc. Teaser: If you believe the hype around studies that say customers feel they are through 60 percent (or more) of the buying cycle before engaging a salesperson, you could be giving your salespeople the wrong content for the wrong conversation.

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SBI

JUNE 27, 2019

Is There a Silver Bullet for B2B Marketing Data? In recent years, the balance of power has shifted from companies to customers. Achieving breakthrough results in a customer-driven buy cycle requires having the right data. Read this e-book to learn: New intelligence and guidance on the B2B marketing data landscape.

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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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Pointclear

JANUARY 23, 2017

Companies that spend less on their marketing programs and generate better and bigger deals using a super-targeted approach to marketing are using an approach that you might have heard about—account-based marketing. What really counts is meaningful, personalized engagement with the folks in a position to buy. More Leads.

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Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is Managing Partner at CSO Insights, a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. Jim has over 29 years of sales and marketing management experience. Analysis of Buying Cycles and Stakeholders.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say webinars are the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). Keep reading!

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re keeping up with the sales and marketing publications, one of the big buzzwords burned into your eyelids is Content Marketing. CMOs and marketing professionals constantly talk about how Content Marketing will increase leads and drive more revenue. Why is Content Marketing Increasingly Important ?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a preview of the 2013 Content Marketing Benchmark Report by Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute , only 36% of businesses believed their content marketing is effective. After a few years of hyper-growth content marketing adoption, it is easy to think this number should be higher. 5 Steps Marketers Can Take.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We struggle to get in front of customers, to find opportunities, to nurture them through the buying cycle, and, ultimately, to win. Yet, the majority of those complex buying opportunities end in “No Decision Made.” And then after our customers have made a decision, we learn there is high decision regret.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. Aligning Sales and Marketing. Basic Steps.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 16, 2018

As sales people, our goal is to become the “go-to” resource for our customers in helping them solve their business problems. We want to position ourselves as trusted advisors to our customers. But customers aren’t responding, increasingly, they rely on other resources for help in solving their business problems.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 28, 2021

In Radical Value , I observe that every company exists only to deliver more value to customers than it costs to produce. Customer satisfaction scores are close, measuring perceived value delivered , but are “too-late-to-fix-anything” trailing indicators – nothing to manage to. So, do your KPIs reflect value’s importance?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Customer Discount 98

Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Cross-Functional Alignment Your go-to-market strategy depends on alignment.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. Ian: Today’s B2B buyers trust the opinions and advice of their peers above that of any salesperson or marketer. RO Innovation’s platform changes the game by: Activating customer advocacy end-to end in sales cycles.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Rather than engaging in discovery and determining their needs, they simply want to compare all solutions on the market and make a decision. However, we’ve found that these rush job sales efforts result in a lower win rate, and a worse overall solution for the customer. Customers misdiagnose their own problems. Robert: Great.

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