Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But those changes also bring the possibility of rapidly shifting duties — and some core job responsibilities could be almost entirely consumed by AI. Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI. What Does this Mean for Marketers? How Do Marketers Use Generative AI? billion in the next 10 years.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Author: Brandon Brown Today, most marketers and salespeople agree that we need to build relationships with our customers. But many of those same marketers and salespeople are implementing old-school marketing tactics that bombard consumers with unwanted ads and clickbait. Two words: influencer marketing.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Maybe I was just sensitive.

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Connext Digital

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Social media has become an indispensable tool for consumers online in this day and age. It’s no surprise that all kinds of businesses have turned to social media to find and connect with their target market. The figures don’t lie either: consumers are 71% more likely to make a purchase based on social media referrals. .

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your sales team doesn’t have time for efficiency blockers in a competitive, fast-paced market. Even if you’ve defined your ICP and created a targeted list of prospects, you may still find that your prospecting isn’t generating impactful results. Stale data and lack of differentiation could be two major culprits.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Automated or triggered emails help companies tailor their massages to the consumer at specific, predetermined times. They are an effective means of building trust with customers and prospects. The post Why Triggered Emails Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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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 AI’s Infancy.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

Record-high consumer spending followed by record-high inflation. And even more confounding, record-low consumer sentiment. The constant pendulum swings give consumers and businesses little confidence for planning ahead, and the only thing we can probably agree on is that everything really is weird.

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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. 2: New sales or marketing leader play. 3: Competitive displacement play. Filtering criteria stays the same.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In today’s marketing landscape, personalization has quickly become the gold standard—and for good reason! In this content-saturated marketplace, personalized marketing is the only way for companies to stand apart from the competition. Luckily, as technology advances, it’s easier for marketers to personalize their efforts. .

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. Plenty of companies have sales and marketing plays, but not all plays are created equal. What is a Play?

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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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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Over the years, many organizations have invested in a new selling methodology that has evolved the sales approach from strategic selling to "challenging" prospects. Business strategies aren’t one-size-fits-all — not every prospect has the same one. Is your prospect's goal to increase revenue? Increase profit?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with most business functions, technology is drastically changing the way we market our products and services. We’ve long since understood the power of one-to-one marketing, but without modern technology, it wasn’t always feasible, scalable, or affordable. So, how can we market to customers who are sick and tired of marketing?

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2023

Industry surveys show that account-based marketing is consuming an ever-larger share of B2B budgets, and it’s easy to see why: smarter targeting, increased efficiency, and better ROI are enough to make any CMO’s eyes light up. The good news? That starts with going after the right accounts that match your ideal customer profile (ICP).

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SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

A digital marketing agency is your partner in expanding your brand's online presence. Imagine a team revamping your website with optimized content, propelling your brand to the top of search engine results, driving traffic, and turning prospects into consumers.

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Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2018

The world of B2B marketing underwent a dramatic transformation in recent years—and unfortunately for us marketers, we no longer have such rigid control of the buyer’s journey. But, how can marketers comply with the varying preferences of their individual buyer? Enter: Multichannel marketing. And the best part?

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Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Solution selling is far from dead; it’s simply evolving based on changes in the sales environment and consumer mindset. This article will discuss the changing nature of solution selling and how you can adapt it to modern consumers and the current sales process. Fortunately for sales teams, the rumor is just that: a rumor.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As sales professionals, we are trained to listen to our prospects’ needs and then create a tailored solution based on the products we have to sell. But in today’s complicated world of marketing, there is a key piece we often forget — consumer behavior. We present a solution, and then explain why these products make sense.

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Consumer Coaching Training Prospecting 80

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Zoominfo

JULY 19, 2022

ZoomInfo customers who use AWS can now receive ZoomInfo’s industry-leading B2B data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), significantly improving data quality while eliminating the time-consuming process of cleaning datasets by hand. For many teams, managing data quality remains an obstacle that demands significant staff time.

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Data Marketing Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. When a prospect finally lands on your website, those efforts have reached a critical moment: you have their attention, and it’s time to build a relationship. What is Conversational Marketing?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is still causing uncertainty in 2022, but some clear trends are beginning to take shape across the sales, marketing, and recruiting fields. Here’s a list of the go-to-market trends you should incorporate into your 2022 planning.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories.

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Digital marketing solutions and digital marketing channels facilitate the capture of quality leads and enable lead nurturing through digital media. What is Digital Marketing? The Digital Marketing Sales Process. Why is Digital Marketing Crucial for Sales? What is Digital Marketing? Content marketing.

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Connext Digital

AUGUST 30, 2018

Even word-of-mouth marketing and referrals have transitioned online in the form of reviews and testimonials. This marketing strategy dramatically influences a prospective buyer in completing a purchase, as more and more people believe online reviews as much as their peers. Studying the Market. Who is your audience?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Though email is an extremely effective communication channel that’s ever-evolving, it’s one of the most time-consuming. It’s all about appealing to their specific interests and needs.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We’ll keep it simple, Sales Automation in the process of leveraging software and artificial intelligence (AI) along with other digital tools to automate time-consuming sales tasks that normally take significant time away from selling activities. Dialers are electronic devices that help automate dialing while calling up prospects.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world today. Marketers—us included—continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. What is personalized marketing? Personalization. Keep reading!

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What is marketing funnel 4. How to create a marketing funnel 5. Why do businesses need marketing funnel 6. Footnotes You’ve probably heard a lot of people refer to the sales funnel or the marketing funnel. As consumers discover more about your products or services, leads go down the funnel starting at the top.

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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. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Not only were we looking to prospect into companies located in the United States, but we also decided to start exploring new opportunities for serving industries outside of forest products,” Zambo says. We didn’t have a formal prospecting strategy,” Zambo says. “We In 2020, we did 959 shipments in the entire year.

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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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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It’s customers prospecting–looking for solutions to their problems. “We are looking to buy electronic components to use in a new consumer product we are developing. I don’t know about you, but it’s annoying and time consuming just deleting and spamming all these requests from people who want to buy stuff.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. After all, the B2B buyer’s journey has become increasingly complex, as each prospect engages with a number of digital touchpoints on their path to becoming a customer. What is marketing attribution? Let’s get into it!

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