Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes, I feel like a broken record talking about Customer and Business Acumen. Speaking to sales enablement executives, fewer than 10% have any sort of business acumen programs in place. Yet these same leaders complain about the ability to connect to prospects and customers. I ask: “How does your customer make money?”

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. But as B2B sales gets more competitive and complex, simply knowing who sourced a lead may no longer be good enough. Data from Forrester Research shows how rapidly marketing metrics are changing.

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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

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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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. For a long time, few people could complete that punch list.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 130

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

A trend is emerging among Sales SVPs: they Make the Number every other year. And on and on the cycle goes. 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. This is expensive.

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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. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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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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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

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.

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Customer Buying Cycle Face-to-face Discount 68

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. Throughout the buying cycle, we talk with various people building a network of people.

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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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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. We are in a measured buying environment.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2015

His post reminded me of something too many sales people overlook in their sales strategies. Buyers Get Smarter Through The Buying Cycle. Through this entire process, the customer is learning and getting smarter. But it creates a real challenge for us as sales people. Stop Giving Customers Choices!

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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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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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Buying Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Customer Education 48

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. And that means owning an even bigger chunk of the sales process.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

Using these clues, the salesperson then tailors their sales presentation to each prospective customer’s particular wants and needs. 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.

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Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

Right now decision-makers are focusing on marketing enablement. But what is familiar to some may be a mystery to others – what exactly is marketing enablement, and how do you do it well? Let’s dive into all these details, including how you can leverage marketing expertise to support sales and significantly impact business growth.

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Sales Enablement Marketing Campaigns ROI 52

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)? And 44% of millennials prefer no sales rep interaction at all in a B2B setting.

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Customer Social Media Top of Funnel Loyalty 130

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)? And 44% of millennials prefer no sales rep interaction at all in a B2B setting.

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Customer Social Media Top of Funnel Loyalty 130

SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. No database searching or guessing.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Capture 192

Showpad

MAY 22, 2019

Sales engagement platforms are no longer “nice to have;” they are a requirement for mature sales organizations that provide personal experiences for their buyers. When it comes to sales engagement platforms, it’s important to consider how well different offerings promote collaboration between sales and marketing teams.

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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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Data B2B Marketing Intent Data 77

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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Lead Rank Examples Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 52

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. How Do You Set up Email Automation? Technical Steps.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 262

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. It is likely many do before vendors are contacted.

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SugarCRM

JULY 12, 2022

Imagine a world where marketing and sales teams share a platform to collaborate and win business, a platform that uses the same data to calculate KPIs, with the same customer data points and segmentation, and where business processes work across every department. Our Common Goals: New Customers. What Makes the CMO Happy?

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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. Not Enough Leads.

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Customer Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Trends 240

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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Showpad

MAY 3, 2019

Your company spends countless hours building and optimizing great products that solve your customers’ challenges. In fact, the experiences buyers have with your company — both while doing their own research and interacting with one of your reps — have the power to make or break a sale. Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

This blog post is for the small company CSO or VP of Sales. 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.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Hiring 267

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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Customer Buying Cycle Intent Opportunity 76

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. vendor sales people were ranked 9. Ironically, customers are willing to engage sales people far earlier.

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