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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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Have you ever wondered what inbound marketing is? In this article, we’ll look at what inbound marketing is, why it’s important, and what 6 key elements you need to include in your inbound marketing plan. Inbound Marketing Plan - What Is It? Now that we’ve answered the question, “what is inbound marketing?”

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only one month into 2024, we’re already seeing a significant shift in the marketing metrics world. As we step into this new era, we re-evaluate what truly matters in the marketing landscape. Kevin White (Head of Marketing) of Common Room explains why replacing MQL with pipeline is the way to go.

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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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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Typically, a company reinvests funds back into the business for growth and scalability. 1: The funding play.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 21, 2020

So it’s obviously popular with consumers, but why should marketers be considering SMS programs in addition to email and mobile push? I’m sure I don’t need to convince many marketers on the importance of SMS — nearly all of us use it every day. Text back a number between 1-5” followed by “Thanks! How To Add SMS To Your Messaging.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I wasn’t home, but he pitched my wife and said he’d come back. Then Google REALLY started marketing! Finally, I called Google Fiber and the next week they came out and ran cable to the side of my house where my existing Internet enters the home. This week ask yourself: Are you following AT&T’s marketing efforts?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Author: James Obermayer It was early September, late in the afternoon on a Friday, as I remember, when the company president called me into his office. We have to cut the budget substantially in this upcoming last quarter; I need $400,000 from marketing. Please get back to me on Monday and let me know where you can cut.”.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Google searches reflect that Airbnb has eclipsed the equity of century-old brands, in one decade, across markets big and small,” wrote entrepreneur and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway. While competitors may have equity in a specific market, no brand sits on the iron throne across all markets as Airbnb does.”.

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EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“We follow up on new leads that register for a free trial of our SaaS and I’m having a hard time getting them to call or email me back. A lot of sales people think that just because it’s a “warm lead” that its OK to handle the call a little differently (read: SKIP SALES STEPS).

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Building a Market-Facing Product Management Discipline The definition of “market” has more than its share of ambiguities. It runs the gamut.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 20, 2019

The simple fact is that salespeople, for the most part, function in a one-to-one environment and have little to no business attempting to perform in a marketing related capacity. So, that leaves us with direct mail, SMS, attraction marketing, and face-to-face cold calls. Attraction Marketing is critical IMHO. My opinion.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Best Marketing Automation Examples. How does Marketing automation help the business? Creating efficient sales and marketing workflows eliminates the need for repetitive tasks. For this reason, businesses require sales and marketing automation, which will enable them to create reports, send messages, gain insights, and 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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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the business unit head, you and your team have spent hundreds of hours building your marketing plans , analyzing trends, developing key tactics and building and revising slide decks. Global leadership goes back and forth with country management. The beautiful thing is when the process is done, you can get back to business.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department. Developing solution hypotheses : In the next era of selling salespeople are going to have to start acting like consultants, having a “ one up ” approach as Anthony Iannarino calls it. Given this reality they jump straight into cold calling people that don’t know them at all.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

DECEMBER 28, 2011

It’s that time of year: “Call me back after the holidays.” Tweet Share Call me after the holidays is not an objection. For all requests and questions, including reprint permission, please call 704/333-1112 or email us. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? It’s worse.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 15, 2024

The stock market has lost nearly all of its gains and the only thing we haven’t yet seen is massive layoffs. That means there are few experienced recession-proof salespeople, but there are plenty who didn’t figure out how to succeed at recessionary selling back then. What are the twelve biggest challenges?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Author: Ron Carson Just about every marketer today has been told to listen to the voice of the customer to inform marketing strategy. First, marketing teams only receive this information second-hand – through sales, product management, etc. And it is why I encourage marketers to have regular “voice of the market” conversations.

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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? It’s called buying by committee.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 12, 2021

Social media has quickly become an integral part of any B2B marketing strategy, and when it comes to your go-to-market (GTM) plan, you’re missing a crucial part of the puzzle without it. What Is A B2B Social Media Marketing Strategy? Key Benefits Of B2B Social Media Marketing Strategies For Your GTM Plan.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 14, 2020

Part one of our GTM series was all about our inbound go-to-market motions. I looked back to September 24th, 2019. The level of activity included over 18,000 emails sent, 9,100 calls, 109 free trials started, and 4,900 replies to an email we sent. And the numbers aligned with an average day at the time. Here’s what I do.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

What happens when your most important go-to-market machines sync up? For many companies, ZoomInfo serves as the information engine that powers how they go to market. “Data silos are unfortunately still a problem for a lot of go-to-market teams,” says Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s Founder and CEO.

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SBI Growth

JULY 12, 2013

As a CMO you''re constantly being criticized for not measuring the return on marketing spend. The back and forth is: “I need more marketing dollars”. The CEO may even be considering moving marketing under sales. This confusion adds to the “disconnect” between Marketing and the business overall. The CMO Top Ten.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 5, 2015

We’re well into fall, and that means it’s time to go back to school with some new strategies to optimize your cold calls. If you’re looking to make an A+ on your next discovery call, you’ll need to do some research. Cold calls are a lot like homework assignments. Do Your Homework. When searching, search smart.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Now, B2B companies must implement digital marketing into their sales funnels. Even though B2B marketers have learned fast and implemented nimble approaches, they still struggle to measure and track consumer behavior in our increasingly digital world. It’s also common for B2B marketers to struggle with siloing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 17, 2020

But in a company with both marketers and sellers, this motto has never been more applicable. Whether we readily admit it or not, there has always been an underlying current of us versus them between the sales and marketing teams. Sales and marketing need to become one. One leader. Shared agendas and goals increase collaboration.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2024

Its application in market analysis and the game-changing impact it could have on sales success. The company focuses on creating cutting-edge software for analyzing markets in four or more dimensions. Doug emphasized that hypernomics allows businesses to step back and see the big picture. HyperEconomics Inc.:

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Employment In July, more than double the expected number of jobs — 528,000 — were added to the economy, bringing employment back to pre-pandemic levels. If a recession is called, it won’t be for a while. It could be that the gains we’ve seen in the labor market are self-perpetuating. Unemployment rose from 3.5%

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Photo By Gerard Altman via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Five Super-Effective Digital Marketing Strategies Being in a competitive marketplace and remaining relevant requires a digital marketing strategy for your business. Our collaborative blog offers five super-effective digital marketing strategies below.

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SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Between invoicing customers, acquiring new leads, and managing your staff members marketing your business is a challenge that requires time and energy. With social media marketing networks, such as Facebook, and Snapchat, you can get that extra boost for your marketing department. How Facebook Marketing Helps Your Business.

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