Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ability of generative AI to automate routine tasks, analyze data, and generate content is already freeing up valuable time that entrepreneurs, executives, and individuals can use to instead focus on more strategic decision-making. Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. B2B Lead Generation Sources.

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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 8, 2012

Marketing, do you have a sales quota tied to Lead Generation ? B2B companies are assigning their Marketing teams with lead quotas tied directly to a percentage of the corporate sales goal. In the past, leads could be generated and then handed off to sales. Determining Total Deals Required from Demand Generation.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. Those that miss critical spend categories altogether.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Top Display Advertising Targeting Mistakes Getting your audience right is paramount to increasing conversion rates and spending efficiently. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. “You can use dynamic audiences on their own or in concert with native audiences.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What Is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. Pretty simple, right?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2013

I recently had a conversation with a marketing VP of an equipment manufacturing firm. Her key objectives were: Generating demand at the top of the funnel & acquiring new customers. Justifying her marketing spend and showing an ROI on her initiatives. There are tons of metrics marketing leaders track.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. But this abundance demands a focused, strategic approach to lead generation that minimizes wasted spending and drives meaningful results.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 13, 2020

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? Every marketer wants to make an impact. Your buyers interact with your marketing in one moment, but they make the decision to buy in the future. Unfortunately, most marketers don’t believe their content is memorable or actionable. Why Most B2B Marketing is Forgettable.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Location data (Marketing loves).

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

10 Reasons Why a B2B Lead Generation Department Should Report to Marketing and Not to Sales. As a consultant, I regularly advise that appointment setting Lead Generation Departments report to Marketing and not to Sales. Marketers typically are more available than sales road warriors, when answers are needed.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

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.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. The keys to being a successful growth marketer.

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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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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 19, 2022

They come with building a relationship and the core currency of a relationship is the right information. That’s how he got xiQ – Personality-Driven Sales & Marketing, started in the first place. This turned into more and deeper conversations with people in his network who eventually became his first 5 customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Paul Nolan A new year means a new calendar, and new trends to incorporate into your go-to-market strategy. It may be a fool’s errand to predict what B2B marketing strategies will emerge in 2019, but trendwatching is an important skill for business leaders across all industries. Conversational selling. Video soars.

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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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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. The difference is demos are a two-way dialogue with buyers whereas product positioning in a pure marketing sense is typically a one-way monologue where potential customers are reading, viewing or listening to something you’ve published.

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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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SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. The burden of “selling when a rep isn’t present” has shifted to the marketing department. They rely less and less on a sales rep for information. Unfortunately, most marketers are ill-equipped to do in-depth Buyer Research. Buyer behaviors.

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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. See their pricing page for more information.

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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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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. What is the impact of bad data on sales and marketing?

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The post What Is Status Quo Bias in Sales and Marketing? How Does Status Quo Bias Apply to Sales and Marketing? In a sales and marketing context, Status Quo Bias is a powerful force that can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. In fact, people filter out and discount information that runs counter to their opinion.

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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. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer.

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SBI Growth

MAY 14, 2013

That’s a question I often hear from marketing leaders. The one thing the best marketers are doing is Contextual Content Marketing. CONTEXTUAL CONTENT MARKETING. Enter Contextual Content Marketing. Yes , I have enough information to move ahead. Most marketing departments are replete with content.

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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. Candid, off-the-record conversations — no recordings here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author: Mandy Truong With 2021 in full swing, marketers are making their plans for recovery and business growth. Here are lessons from two of our key programs last year that we plan to incorporate into our 2021 demand generation strategy: Revamped Webinars. Finally, don’t wait for people to visit your virtual booth.

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Corporate Visions

MAY 30, 2019

The post What Kind of B2B Marketing Personalization Gets Results? In today’s world of big data and hyper-targeted marketing campaigns, most B2B marketers believe the more personalized your message, the better your results. The Marketing Personalization Study. The Most Successful B2B Marketing Personalization.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Marketing agencies and media companies are increasingly seeing deep merits in becoming more data-driven to keep their go-to-market initiatives more targeted and relevant. We are known for being essential sales “partners” more than just a data vendor–to our clients, generating more confidence within the teams.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Customer 52

Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How to fix it: Work with marketing to create templates that are rich in value messaging, and which force customization to the specific client and the state of your relationship. They don’t replace the need for periodic and informal check-ins. Take a random sampling of the material used for several client QBRs.

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