The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

I remember when I first started working for a company back in the early 1990’s (before we had web mail), the company had two main product lines, and had the usual territories across the continent, primarily driven by geography. They stepped back, reformulated their action plan and then marched forward as if nothing had changed.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. Lead Generation programs are fed by leads acquired through Demand Generation. Physical mail has seen a big come back. If you haven’t added direct mail back to your marketing mix, do it. Below is an example of an integrated campaign.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

And in most cases, these capabilities are not going to go back into hibernation when the COVID-19 crisis is over. In many industries, COVID-19 has acted as an accelerator requiring organizations to get better at their weaknesses, and to get better at them fast. Yet a good percentage of companies were holding back.

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Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation 147

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

Establish Brand Awareness A foundational component of B2B lead generation goes back to one simple idea: getting your brand in front of the right people so potential leads who are interested in your offerings will make contact, and you can begin to nurture them. Tools Defining your ICP is essential, but it can also be time consuming.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

An Absolute Favorite for Local Business Prospecting Placed on top by our customers, lead generation happens to be the most favorite use case. “We We are finding more leads and making more sales calls. Val, General Manager “Buzzboard makes prospecting sooo much easier!! This is a really helpful prospecting tool!” —Val,

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 3, 2018

Refresh cold leads with web form go-backs. Let your sales development team go after them like cold leads – a phone call, an email sequence, maybe even a direct mail piece. Or is the timing better now if we just go back to the main point of contact we had the first time around?”. Not always. Revive demo no-shows.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Buyer Intent Sales Qualified Lead 192

Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

Think of them as industry analysts for your vertical/horizontal market segments (with no direct product responsibility). Taking the Lead on Market & Customer Knowledge The top-down strategies of your target customers are shaped by the dynamics of their industry as well as current technology trends. Back of the napkin version!

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Marketing Segment Face-to-face Lead Rank 59

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. Have their back (and tell them you do). And it’s about to get tougher.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 93

Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

She’s a sales enablement leader with over twenty years of experience in the software industry, who began her career in sales at AT&T. Then there were opportunities for me to do training, before it was called sales enablement. I taught other people what I knew from my sales role and then went back in the field again.

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Sales Enablement Unica Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 71

Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Lead generation can be a mix of inbound or outbound techniques aimed at attracting potential customers to your product or service. Most B2B companies use some combination of sales development , demand generation, SEO , conversion rateoptimization, affiliate marketing and eCommerce to maximize their lead gen efforts.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 52

Corporate Visions

MAY 30, 2019

Our research backs this up. This means marketers are spending countless hours researching every detail about their prospects—everything from industry trends to company challenges to what they ate for lunch. And the industry-only personalization came in last, with a 20.11 The Most Successful B2B Marketing Personalization.

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B2B Marketing Scale eBook 106

Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Because of this, buyers are suffering from what Gartner calls a “crisis of confidence.” The decision-making science that backs this up is called “Fundamental Attribution Error.” Our recent research on executive-level selling backs this up. Read our collection of research-backed selling techniques.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2011

This is about firing up your team to burst out of the conference room and back on the phones or into the field. Play to that and send your troops back out to victory. Matt Heinz brings more than 12 years of marketing, business development and sales experience from a variety of organizations, vertical industries and company sizes.

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The Pipeline

MAY 12, 2011

2) The test environment was so different to their production environment half of all application go lives were backed out of after application issues when they moved into production. I wrote back, “On your very last example, you suggested questions that you could have asked – good job. Cold calling. Demand Generation.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2013

This is why there is a healthy and growing industry of sages ready to sell indisposed sellers every mean of just waiting at the edge of the forest, encouraging them to wait for something to come out to them, rather than entering the fray and winning business most sellers seem reluctant to peruse. How much effort does it take?

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Sage Penetration Buyer Referrals 274

Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. powered by Sounder. What’s going to give me the most options?

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Strategy 90

OutboundView

JULY 14, 2019

OutboundView is a high-service boutique player in the B2B Appointment Setting space with clients across many different industries. They become familiar with your product/services and act as though they were part of your organization, whether they’re making calls, receiving calls, or sending emails. Case Studies: [link].

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MarketJoy

JUNE 12, 2018

The IT Asset Management Company did not want to adopt a typical demand generation strategy as they were very clear about their target and goals. Also, with a small internal sales team and very much targeted prospects in a tough industry, they wanted to grow their sales pipeline significantly in the coming years. 10 leads/month.

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The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

You’ve got to be able to satisfy his need to be in control – yet be able to quickly and politely take him back to check his assumptions and thinking. And in my experience ask those questions to find out if you are just a salesperson, and how well will you respond with answers – ie call in your support group.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Tibor called me a week later and asked if I believe the role of the salesperson is diminished. Don’t hold it back, give it away. There are simple steps you can take, such as having salespeople keep their LinkedIn profiles up-to-date (think the buyer doesn’t check it as they are talking to you or before you come if for a call?

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Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

Costello

AUGUST 16, 2018

Productive sales conversations depend on having the right tools in place to guide the call and make sure it is beneficial not just for the sales professional leading the call, but also for the prospective customer on the other end. For sales professionals, that means yet another consideration to take into account on each call.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 14, 2016

As the Events Marketing Manager for Salesloft, I get the pleasure of supporting the Salesloft team in execution of industry events, but it’s rare when I get to actually sit in on a conference session. And it all comes back to building, fueling and maintaining the next generation of leaders — with the future of your business in mind.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. I would recommend three things to other sales managers: Three sales prospecting techniques are cold calling, lead generation, and referral marketing. The prospecting methods that are most effective for sales people include cold calling, networking events and trade shows.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2011

There are a dozen sales tasks we put off because they are scary – calling back decision-makers or prospecting for the right point-of-contact at our optimal contact. And that’s holding us back and making us losers. Now how but sharing a strategy for overcoming the fear of cold calling, prospecting, etc.? Cold calling.

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Pipeline Twitter Top of Funnel Hiring 322

SalesLoft

MARCH 6, 2018

The Atlanta forecast calls for a 100% chance of Rainmaker this week, officially starting with Monday’s Welcome Reception at 6:00 p.m. The panel was stacked with some of Salesloft’s top sales reps (SDRs and AEs) – who didn’t hold back on sharing their best stories and providing some incredible insights for attendees.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 16, 2011

However, in reality, once they are back at the “front-line”, the day to day pressures of hitting quota, etc. Secondly, most – not all – but a very high percentage of courses on offer today deliver what I term “generalized” skills development. Cold calling. Demand Generation.

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Pipeline Training Twitter Hiring 230

Factor 8

AUGUST 8, 2019

Also called the business development rep, lead generation, sales development rep, appointment setter, marketing development rep, entry-level selling, cold caller, data cleanser, and sadly, the empty seat. lead forms or inbound calls), qualifying, and routing them to the appropriate sales channel. Again, just ask. Totally normal.

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Inside Sales Hiring Lead Rank Top of Funnel 31

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

While dashboards are invaluable for looking back at what went right or wrong in a sales cycle, successful sales leaders use dashboards to be proactive and adapt sales strategies well before it’s too late. The alignment is both quantity and quality-driven, as measured by the conversion rates of the leads generated. A specific use case?

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 62

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2012

While still in the early days of companies adopting it and developing best practices, Aberdeen is seeing social media marketing moving from being around awareness and thought leadership to really being around demand generation and lead management and so forth. How do we hand things back if they’re not qualified?”

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Trends Social Media Top of Funnel Lead Rank 157

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

To take full advantage of the trade show experience, reps need a game plan for pre-show, during the show, and post-show … and they need Marketing back-up. I’ve spent 12 years in demand generation and event marketing and know how to avoid the pitfalls (and live my best life). Cold calling is dead … isn’t it?

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Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Decision Maker 174

SalesLoft

AUGUST 3, 2015

When we met Kevin O’Malley, he described his leadership style as a “mullet hairstyle” — business in the front and party in the back. As Salesloft has grown to over 1,500 clients and 30,000 users worldwide, the breadth and potential of this industry is out of this world. What’s Your Leadership Style?

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 52

Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2021

Back in January 2020, Google announced it would phase out third-party HTTP cookies within two years. This called for marketers to find another way to track and analyze users’ online behavior in order to serve relevant ads. As the industry continues to evolve, privacy policies will, too. What are Cookies, and How are They Used?

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Scale How To Advertising Advertising 182

Green Lead's B2B

AUGUST 18, 2010

Appointment Setting is a part of demand generation that is done through vendors that specialize in the task, or by inside sales teams that add it to their roster of tasks. The minute you stop thinking about driving performance is the minute production and quality drops, and a minute lost is a minute you'll never get back.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Back in my day, I had to walk ten miles uphill each way in three feet of snow to get to and from school (even though I lived in the California Bay Area). Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting!

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Direct Response Marketing Qualified Lead Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 69

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

Giving your sales team their time back by solving data hygiene problems will increase their trust in your CRM. When sellers can simply work from the reliable data in their CRM, they can reverse the trend of increasing overhead and get back to what they do best — selling.

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Demand Generation Targets Ideal Customer Profile Scale Lead Rank 130

InsightSquared

JANUARY 23, 2019

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. Our friends over at RingDNA agree and wrote this awesome blog post about the importance of call disposition for inside sales teams.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Top of Funnel Funnel 81