BuzzBoard

MARCH 6, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Digital Marketing for Small Businesses Digital marketing has become an indispensable aspect for small businesses, not just an optional luxury. The adoption of these methods allows a small business to broaden its consumer reach, extending beyond local limitations and into a larger, global market.

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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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Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 239

Pipeliner

MAY 13, 2024

In a recent episode, I talked with Zack, a seasoned marketing consultant and the brain behind Think Alike Media. Zack pointed out that by focusing on specific challenges the prospects face and offering customized solutions, our stories become more compelling. This strategic approach helps establish trust before any sales pitch is made.

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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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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Email marketers across the globe have been encompassing different strategies for generating leads, branding, and driving sales conversions. After all, getting customers to make a buying decision isn’t an easy walk in the park, especially when it comes to B2B email marketing. Here’s where email marketing steps.

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Email Marketing B2B Marketing Case Study 98

BuzzBoard

JANUARY 24, 2024

Tailoring campaigns, in digital marketing, to suit the unique needs of small businesses is crucial to build lasting success. This blog is about the actionable strategies that will help sales professionals personalize sales dialogues and influence marketing approaches. Meet them where they are in their current digital journey.

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Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Campaigns 52

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Attempting to grow your business without market intelligence is a lot like driving without directions. Without a clear understanding of your industry or market, you will fail to make informed business decisions. Businesses are catching on to the importance of market intelligence. What is market intelligence?

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Lead411

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One way to alleviate this anxiety is to reach out via multiple channels to find the best way your prospect or customer prefers to communicate. According to a 2015 study by Deloitte , the average american checks their cell phone 46 times a day. ”, “I was sent to voicemail again, did I lose the deal?”

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Recruiting and marketing may be two separate fields—but in today’s digital world, the lines between the two have become increasingly blurred. In fact, 86% of HR professionals agree that recruitment is becoming more like marketing ( source ). The recruiting landscape is now a candidate-driven and highly competitive environment.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Author: Warren Fowler Sales teams and marketers focus on digital communication so much that they seem to forget the power of offline promotion channels. While online tools are often more convenient and practical than traditional marketing techniques, the fact remains that the latter usually perform better. Let’s take a look!

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 4, 2024

Reasons Small Business Owners Show Skepticism Towards Digital Marketing Many small business owners harbor skepticism about digital marketing and its potential benefits. This skepticism often stems from the perceived steep learning curve of digital marketing, as well as the challenge of establishing trust with customers online.

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OutboundView

JANUARY 19, 2024

When they’re not, it’s a major pain point felt by AEs, marketing, all the way up to the executive team. When they’re not, it’s a major pain point felt by AEs, marketing, all the way up to the executive team. HR leaders are now swamped with these messages, making it increasingly challenging to secure meetings through these channels.

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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? But relying on this alone misses the mark. The result?

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Understanding the Role of Email Marketing in Lead Generation for Small Business In today’s highly digital world, small businesses often find it challenging to stand out amidst the stiff competition. However, email marketing can provide a robust solution.

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Small Business Small Business Email Marketing Marketing Qualified Lead 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

We recently surveyed hundreds of marketing leaders in small to medium size businesses. In our research, we found that marketers are feeling the growing pressure to prove their marketing spend is generating results. And in a growing number of cases, CEOs have given their marketing leader a “new business” quota.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Are your buyers clamoring to talk to you? My phone rang off the hook the last half of 2020. Why the sudden interest in referral sales? A sudden decline in seller access. When the economy shrinks and companies cut budgets, buyers don’t want to talk to salespeople.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Explaining How Digital Marketing Can Have a Transformative Effect on Small Businesses Digital marketing continues to transform, providing significant advantages for small businesses. Digital marketing is revolutionary because it allows small businesses to compete with larger enterprises. Your business growth relies on it.

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Small Business Small Business Marketing Social Media 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2019

Brands that market directly to consumers recognize YouTube as a powerful tool. In fact, studies show consumers are 64% likelier to purchase a product after watching an online video (source). But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Establishing a continuous flow of quality leads is a common challenge faced by small- and large-scale logistics companies. Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. Lead evaluation: not every lead is worth pursuing.

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Allego

JUNE 4, 2020

In my recent webinar with Mark Magnacca, president and co-founder of Allego, we discussed how to reassure client-facing teams during turbulent times. In my recent webinar with Mark Magnacca, president and co-founder of Allego, we discussed how to reassure client-facing teams during turbulent times. Step 1: Learning.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Understanding the Specialization of Digital Marketing Services for Small Businesses Digital marketing a set of comprehensive strategies and tactics designed to engage customers in the online sphere has drastically increased in popularity over the past decade.

Marketing 52

Marketing Small Business Small Business Social Media 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Whether you and your team need some bite-sized instruction, a full course correction or just a bit of motivation, there’s a wide variety of YouTube sales training channels that can help you. You'll find a short description of each channel as well as a few examples of especially informative or entertaining videos from each.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 20, 2018

If only you’d had that conversation face-to-face! Perhaps that’s why so many people in sales — a full 65 percent , according to Chief Marketer’s 2018 B2B Lead Gen Trend Survey — prefer in-person meetings. You witness facial expressions, noticing smiles at light parts and (hopefully) shock at the impressive parts.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 9, 2020

We work with clients across a range of industries and company sizes that face this same problem, yet the solution is always the same. Here’s a case study that will show you how it’s done in a real life situation. Evolved Media is a content marketing and technology publishing agency that serves B2B technology businesses.

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SBI Growth

JULY 18, 2013

And Advantage leisure director Julia Lo-Bue Said accused the cruise lines'' new head of sales Chris Truscott of failing to understand his market. This is a story of how a bad comp plan can ruin a sales force. In 2011, P&O Cruise lines cut is commission rate from 12% to 5%. So he cut the commission rate in half. Sales people have a voice.

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Allego

MARCH 31, 2022

Tripadvisor found that out when its sales and marketing teams were significantly out of alignment. Those are things Tripadvisor couldn’t afford—especially as a major player in the hospitality market, which has suffered significant drops during the pandemic. Sellers Facing New Demands of Virtual Selling. Selling is complex.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 2, 2024

Explaining Why Digital Marketing May Not Be Working for Your Small Business If you’re a sales professional in a digital marketing agency, you’ve likely encountered a small business client exclaiming, “Digital marketing isn’t working for my business!” Are you prepared for your next client meeting?

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Small Business Small Business Marketing Google Analytics 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies. The B2B playbook is changing. So, owned media. What is it?

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Pipeliner

MAY 10, 2021

You can easily grow your business on social media with these 5 Ways to Use Videos for Marketing. If you market an intricate yet interesting product, the long-form video would work the best. Nevertheless, you must undertake a thorough study of your target market before proceeding. Long-format for complex products.

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Social Media Media Video Marketing 98

Alice Heiman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Harris shared her riveting journey of steering the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and moving from 100% in-person training to 100% online training basically overnight, revealing not only the challenges faced but also the exact strategies she implemented to drive rapid growth and adapt to a rapidly changing business landscape.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

And technology will eliminate the time-consuming, face-to-face aspect of communication. Video killed the radio star. Not in your personal life, and certainly not in your lead generation system. B2B selling is all about relationships. But we’ve never been surrounded by so much of it. The Birth of the Boob Tube.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 12, 2024

A recent conversation between Alice Heiman and Scott Gillum on the Sales Talk for CEOs podcast sheds light on this very issue, offering a blend of strategies, insights, and anecdotes that CEOs can’t afford to ignore. Gillum points out, “ They want training…they want to know how to do it right.

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Social Media Media Revenue Top of Funnel 75

Autoklose

MAY 6, 2024

Storytelling is a powerful vehicle for both marketing and sales. Studies say that people tend to remember stories much better than facts alone – 22 times , to be more precise. Talk about problems in order to build rapport with your customers – depict them as the hero who is faced with an obstacle. My answer would be – both.

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Allbound

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The best, most successful channel partnerships are built on a strong foundation that consist of establishing a business plan, educating, and training on the product or service, and ensuring a clear vision and mutual understanding of goals—from day one. What Is Channel Sales? an event planner partners with a caterer).

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Outsourcing Services Channels Pipeline How To 48

Allbound

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The best, most successful channel partnerships are built on a strong foundation that consist of establishing a business plan, educating, and training on the product or service, and ensuring a clear vision and mutual understanding of goals—from day one. What Is Channel Sales? an event planner partners with a caterer).

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Outsourcing Services Channels Education Retention 48