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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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Something all B2B marketing and sales teams have in common is an abundance of CRM data and challenges around how to make the most of it. Also, the pain of CRM data hygiene, but that’s a topic for another time. There are so many ways to leverage your CRM data—especially in Account Based Marketing (ABM).

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SugarCRM

MAY 18, 2023

Our previous blog post discussed the core CRM features for sales automation. In this blog post, we’ll touch on the key features of lead management within a CRM. So, let’s dive into the lead management features that can make or break a CRM. Still, usually, these are included in dedicated Marketing Automation software.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harnessing the Power of Authority in Marketing John Golden had the pleasure of speaking with Frank Hussman, an internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, Netherlands, with over two decades of experience in B2B marketing and sale s. Frank acknowledged the rise of AI-generated content and the decline in content quality.

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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. Lead evaluation: not every lead is worth pursuing.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Marketers use various tools and technologies in the digital marketing world, and marketing automation is necessary to succeed. Historically, marketing was the “other” technology that existed outside of CRM, even though 2 out of 3 marketers believe that data-based decisions are more effective than gut instincts.

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Pointclear

MAY 21, 2013

How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? Ask any group of marketing communications managers, exhibits managers or even marketing managers and less than 40%, overall, know the quotas for the sales channel they represent.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. Demand generation enables you to make smart marketing decisions for your company.

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Act!

JANUARY 23, 2024

Marketers utilize web forms to complete orders, gather customer information, and collect valuable leads, with 28% of them recognizing the positive impact of the proper form fields on lead quality (Venture Harbor). Generate insight into customer wants and needs with detailed graphs and reports. Seamlessly integrated with Act!

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

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Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. 1) Outreach.io

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This trend results in additional pressure on sales and marketing organizations to speak the business language of their prospects and customers, not just demonstrate technical expertise. 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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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Revenue responsibility. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? A simple buyer persona may look something like this: A 25-35-year-old female, working in marketing at a company of 500+ employees, who has ‘specialist’ in her job title. Take a look at your CRM or customer database. Let that sink in.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Step 2: Type the name of the desired coworker or channel. Having duplicate, incorrect, or incomplete data in the CRM and sales engagement platforms. Maintaining active contact with prospects on social channels builds a relationship and establishes trust. Steps involved in a Slack conversation: Step 1: Open Slack.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? Their peers.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In this episode, my guest is Shari Johnston, VP Marketing at Casetext and our topic is Aligning your Go To Market Strategy Around Account-Based Marketing. Account Based Marketing, Account Based Selling and Account Based Everything has been a pretty hot topic for the last two + years.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

They rely on manually-entered data to monitor the sales pipeline and coach their salespeople, and they run sales and marketing independently, creating a disjointed experience for buyers. Demand Generation. HubSpot CRM eliminates manual work and actually helps your sales team sell. Align sales and marketing.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2011

As usual, I invite you to have your two cents, and view all our videos at Renbor’s You Tube channel Sell Better. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Community Marketing Blog. Sales and Marketing Loudmouth. Today is the first of a few videos where I answer the above. Tibor Shanto. Book Notice.

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Allbound

MARCH 15, 2018

Some of the leading companies in the world have chosen Allbound as their PRM vendor to deliver real value for their channel partners, resellers and distributors. Jen Gray has joined Allbound as Vice President of Marketing and Denise Newberry as Director of Customer Success. Jen has extensive experience growing B2B SaaS companies.

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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. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. This share spans across a variety of channels. Business websites lead at 84.3

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

To get more insight on that, you can read a related article “ Working Backwards From Your Goal To Get Ahead “ Look forward to your comments, and invite you to visit our YouTube Channel to view other SellBetter sales videos. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Community Marketing Blog.

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Allbound

MARCH 15, 2018

Some of the leading companies in the world have chosen Allbound as their PRM vendor to deliver real value for their channel partners, resellers and distributors. Jen Gray has joined Allbound as Vice President of Marketing and Denise Newberry as Director of Customer Success. Jen has extensive experience growing B2B SaaS companies.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. However, the story is quite different when Marketing is asked about their own priorities. It’s not on Enablement.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Webinars that are used for demand generation are a well-known tactic for attracting a targeted audience to educate them on how they can learn, achieve and improve business or technology challenges. Webinars are a high form of content marketing and they have the power to impact a ton of people. Planning an Online Event Soon?

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SugarCRM

MARCH 14, 2019

In my last post, we examined the importance of defining a tailored nurture and scoring strategy in conjunction with launching any new demand generation Content Syndication program. Next up I’ll dig into one my favorite channels, Paid Social. It’s one of the primary channels we leverage in our marketing programs.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. CRM systems were never designed for the sales rep. If your organization isn’t taking advantage of automated activity capture, you, along with every report that relies on the data within your CRM, are set up to fail. .

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

VP Europe Sales, Presales and Marketing. Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Vice President of Sales, Metro Markets. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. S&P Global Market Intelligence. Nutshell CRM. We’ve broken the list down into categories of expertise for your convenience.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You know what’s a colossal marketing mistake? While every new marketing venture requires due diligence, the nuances of international communications are often overlooked when marketers try to gain traction in a new region. You can’t simply “copy and paste” your marketing efforts from the U.S. into another market.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 7, 2023

Building a technology stack to support your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy is no easy feat. Doing this upfront work will save you from one of the biggest mistakes marketers make when it comes to ABM: targeting broad groups of people in a large company. Inaccurate or generalized targeting means wasted time and money.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 25, 2011

Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Community Marketing Blog. Sales and Marketing Loudmouth. But more important than that, is the desire to sell…that is to say, the desire to turn the process and all it implies into results. Deep inside, it all depends on only one action : attitude. Book Notice.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

Gary is the CEO of Vayner Media, a full-service digital agency helping Fortune 500 companies to drive the best business outcomes using influencer marketing, class creative, media & much more. Marc Benioff is the co-founder & CEO of the best CRM software out there, SalesForce. Steli Efti. CEO of Close.io (Elastic, Inc).

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Those have become two of the most loaded words for modern marketers. Social Media Marketing is Trickier Than it Sounds. While the parameters differ from one network to the next, the options are always very specific, which is exactly what we as marketers love to see. Social media. The same holds true for paid social.

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SalesHandy

JULY 15, 2018

Gary is the CEO of Vayner Media, a full-service digital agency helping Fortune 500 companies to drive the best business outcomes using influencer marketing , class creativity, media & much more. Marc Benioff is the co-founder & CEO of the best CRM software out there, SalesForce. Steli Efti. CEO of Close.io (Elastic, Inc).

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Those have become two of the most loaded words for modern marketers. Social Media Marketing is Trickier Than it Sounds. While the parameters differ from one network to the next, the options are always very specific, which is exactly what we as marketers love to see. Social media. The same holds true for paid social.

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