Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You may notice that your campaigns move too quickly or slowly, indicating that your marketing team has become distracted. If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones.

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Outbound Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Campaigns 177

Appbuddy

JUNE 14, 2021

Ray Tomlinson is widely acknowledged as the godfather of email, sending the first message way back in 1971, followed seven years later by Gary Thuerk who “hijacked” this largely government/military tool to send the first email marketing campaign. Benchmarks: ROI, budgets, and key challenges. The rest, as they say, is history!

ROI 52

ROI Everest Channels Webinar Metrics 52

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Twitter followers.

Social Media 234

Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As a result, many companies are looking to channel partners as a more efficient revenue source. A survey reveals that the majority of B2B firms are now generating 60% of their revenue through indirect channels (The 2112 Group). The obvious, is that your partners aren’t dedicated just to you.

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Channels ROI Sales Goal Microsoft 53

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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Benefit Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

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. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To understand the connection between social following and revenue, ZoomInfo queried our database of over 14 million businesses to identify companies with above-average revenue, relative to their industry, and looked at their Twitter & Facebook followers. The thing is, these companies lack the tools to measure ROI.

Social Media 162

Social Media Media Revenue Scale 162

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

93% of B2B marketers use social media, and with good reason—it works ( source ). We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. We haven’t been shy about touting the benefits of social media in B2B sales and marketing. The best way to lose followers is to post too often.

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Social Media Media B2B Marketing 147

Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2020

This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Paid Content B2B Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

There are more answers to that question than ever before, thanks to the variety of tools and channels at a modern marketer’s disposal. We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What Is Referral Marketing?

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Referrals Marketing Incentives Incentive 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To understand the connection between social following and revenue, ZoomInfo queried our database of over 14 million businesses to identify companies with above-average revenue, relative to their industry, and looked at their Twitter & Facebook followers. The thing is, these companies lack the tools to measure ROI.

Social Media 130

Social Media Media Revenue Scale 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This means creating a vision and a plan, setting goals, building relationships, understanding your product, and implementing analytics so your marketing strategy is data-driven. Driving customer acquisition and sustained revenue growth requires strong follow-up (and follow-through). Align sales and marketing with SLAs.

ROI 171

ROI Survey Webinar Metrics Channels 171

Allbound

JULY 3, 2019

The same pattern of growth and decline that was experienced by Americans throughout the years, can be expected to take hold of any sector of your business, including the channel. Here are eight key factors your channel can learn from American History: 1. If things are not going as planned in your channel partner program, change them.

Channels 86

Channels Guidelines Top of Funnel Funnel 86

Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. As a marketing technique, sentiment analysis can be as complex or as simple as you make it. How do you track customer sentiment? Social listening.

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 176

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What does a “good lead” look like anyway? What is a Lead?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. As a marketing technique, sentiment analysis can be as complex or as simple as you make it. How do you track customer sentiment? Social listening.

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 130

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

JUNE 11, 2019

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Let’s jump right in!

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 100

Pipeliner

AUGUST 19, 2021

Can content marketing be of any use to a brand’s sales? If you fail to merge the two, you may end up not enjoying the results. Therefore, when wanting to increase sales through content marketing, sit down with your team and analyze your target market. There are many ways one can use content marketing to maximize sales.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnel How To 98

BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Measuring the Impact of Digital Marketing for Small Businesses For salespeople at digital marketing agencies catering to small businesses, understanding the need to measure the impact of digital marketing efforts is paramount. These are the components that propel data-driven marketing forward.

Apparel 52

Apparel Small Business Small Business Marketing 52

Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2018

How can you dramatically improve ROI on marketing automation investments? Read these top three tips for when and how to use marketing automation—and when not to. If your targets are senior, I recommend you test a multi-touch campaign against an automated marketing effort to determine which method results in more revenue.

Lead Rank 140

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Direct Mail Marketing 140

Crunchbase

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Lead nurturing is widely recognized as a valuable marketing technique that can help teams drive an increase in sales. Implementing a successful lead-nurturing plan can significantly influence your marketing campaign’s outcomes, as well as customer loyalty, retention, revenue and more. Search less. Close more.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 98

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say webinars are the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). Keep reading!

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics B2B Marketing 100

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. And yet, have you ever seen an ROI report on tradeshow activity proving this huge investment is paying off?

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Capture 192

Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Marketers have a lingo all their own. While we marketing pros tend to keep things clear and simple with our clients, we’ll often use marketing slang terms as shorthand when trading tips with each other online or at networking events. Content Marketing. Hyperlocal Marketing. Advertorial. See: lead magnet ).

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Paid Content Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Janek Performance Group

MAY 22, 2024

This is the process of establishing new markets, building relationships, and expanding your customer base. This enables better-positioned competitors to snatch up new business. Managing vast amounts of data related to leads, prospects, and market trends can be overwhelming and inefficient.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Qualification 62

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Digital marketing involves identifying, researching and implementing strategies for the needs of a customer. Success in this field entirely depends on the modus operandi a business can apply, and how efficiently it approaches the application of digital marketing and digital marketing strategy.

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Paid Content Benefit Marketing Social Media 96

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Many organizations like yours have developed spreadsheet-based ROI / TCO tools to help financially justify solutions to frugal buyers. These spreadsheet-based ROI / TCO tools are meeting a great need, to help you deliver formal business case justification to financially-focused buyers that now demand bottom-line proof on almost all deals.

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ROI Comparison Distribution Report 45

BuzzBoard

MAY 8, 2023

People, Protection, and Performance take the center stage—IT-enabled better collaboration to support remote working models, greater need for safer storage as more transactions move online, and the requirement for scaling up customer experiences, now further fuelled by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Marketing 98

Marketing Lead Rank Trends Scale 98

Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Both are working toward different, conflicting metrics. Are these truly leads? Not really.

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 30, 2020

In business, companies usually try to attribute the percentage of revenue that came in from marketing and sales. While marketing attribution might not be top of mind for a sales rep, it's important that marketing and sales work together for attribution. First, they might read a blog the marketing team wrote up.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Cost per Acquisition 92

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 18, 2019

So, how do you get the most ROI from participating at a trade show ? Below you’ll find 6 trade show success tips for sales and marketing leaders to implement at your next event: 1. The best way to track this is to follow the full “life” cycle of all your conference contacts. Create tangible goals for your business objectives.

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Trade Show Marketing Top of Funnel Conference 94

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. First and foremost, building a quality email list is essential.

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Small Business Small Business Email Marketing Marketing Qualified Lead 52

BuzzBoard

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Digital Marketing for Small Businesses As digital marketing connoisseurs, we appreciate the significance and potential impact of outsourcing digital marketing for small businesses. Establishing an in-house digital marketing team can be significantly expensive and time-consuming.

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Outsourcing Services Small Business Small Business Comparison 52

Appbuddy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It lets you sell to your subscribers directly, ask them questions, invite them over to your social media channels, and much more. But it’s also a tricky channel, as there are so many different pieces to optimize. However, this metric is losing favor with marketers for a few reasons. 16 email metrics to track for success

Webinar Metrics 52

Webinar Metrics Email Marketing Marketing Campaigns 52

Cience

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Why has a multi-channel approach become more important? The most important thing about any go-to-market approach is the buyer and the buying process. It’s the seller’s responsibility to adapt its approach to the market ; it’s not the market’s responsibility to adapt to any company. Buying a car is an example. Answer: Yes.

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Channels Marketing Retail How To 42

SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Read on to learn a few new tricks that will get you more likes, followers, and customers. Dynamic product ads might be the smartest ROI strategy eCommerce sites can use. With these ads, you can target users by life stage, location, or interests to maximize ROI while spending the least amount of money. Use Dynamic Product Ads.

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Facebook Strategy Social Media Marketing 111