Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Customer delight is the ultimate goal for any business. A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. In the study, reps gave customers six tubes of toothpaste — a trivial offering. The results? What are the gifts?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The rapid rise of generative AI has become the most captivating trend in the tech industry today. Prompted by predictions of massive economic impact and the disruption of multiple industries, professionals in many fields are assessing how this new breed of AI tools will complement and complicate their working lives.

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 1, 2018

Customer success storytelling leverages customer experiences. These stories portray the actual experiences an organization’s own customers have, when working with that organization. How can organizations capture their customer success stories ? That is the power of Industry 4.0, Nothing artificial.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. Inbound Marketing Inbound marketing is slightly more complex than outbound prospecting.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

What Your CMO Doesn’t Know About Customer Advocate Programs. I’m always fascinated that customer advocate programs (CAP) are rarely in the various pundits’ priority lists, at least explicitly. The anticipated priorities in 2020, for instance, include some form of: Deepen customer knowledge through advanced analytics.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan. Download the 2014 B2B Demand Generation Planning template here to get started.

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Autoklose

JANUARY 15, 2024

Crafting an ideal customer profile (ICP) and buyer personas is a fundamental step for any business aiming to connect more effectively with its audience. Building your ideal customer profile and buyer persona should be your first step before you launch your first marketing campaign and reach out to your prospects and customers.

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Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here is what you’ll hear in my conversation with Sydney about why putting the customer first is a significant business advantage. One of SalesLoft’s core values is customer first. We discussed how Sydney and her team keep the value of customer first at the center of their marketing and sales efforts.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Plus, let’s not forget, every customer starts out as a lead. Don’t forget to look at those who didn’t become customers, and identify what characteristics they share.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

Structuring your team depends on your industry, your offering and your customer. They are also investing in content creation to engage customers earlier in the buying process. Who is the ideal customer? DEMAND GENERATION. What are the best demand generation levers to pull to stimulate inquiries?

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 3, 2015

As we continue in our mission to lead the world of sales development and to become an Atlanta unicorn, I am proud to announce the addition of Kevin O’Malley to the Salesloft team as Vice President of Demand Generation.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

Your demand generation team may be high-fiving themselves for activity, not results. It’s easy to pad demand generation numbers with bulk buys. This can be as simple as confirming an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) fit, yes or no. C/D Grades may represent non-focus industries or smaller opportunities.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 276

Vendor Neutral

JUNE 15, 2021

How A Customer -Centric Framework. A Customer-Centric Framework Can Drive Massive Growth for Your B2B Sales Org. Customers today are exhausted with pitches. Learn what a customer-centric framework looks like and why it’s so vital to your organization’s growth. Can Drive Massive Growth For Your B2B Sales Organization.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The survivors learned to be scrappy, reprioritize on the fly and pay close attention to customer needs and motivations. 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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Plus, let’s not forget, every customer starts out as a lead. Don’t forget to look at those who didn’t become customers, and identify what characteristics they share.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. The goals: deliver a seamless experience for the prospect or customer, increase conversion rates, and ultimately boost revenue. Every day at 1 p.m.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. My demos for other vertical industries weren’t nearly as engaging. The light bulb finally went on!

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

We asked Jake Shaffren, DiscoverOrg’s Director of Sales, and Nina Wooten, our Director of Demand Generation, about their favorite tips for generating sales leads at trade shows and events. Nina Wooten, Director of Demand Generation. To generate leads at trade shows, you have to start strategizing in advance.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Challengers have a deep understanding of their client’s business and industry. They want their customer interactions to deliver more value. They are calling on a huge swath of customers with different industries and maturities. Yet Challengers are supposed to “know the industry better than the customer themselves”.

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

The post How to Drive More Growth from Customer Expansion Conversations by Anton Rius appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. Not customer expansion.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

Your demand generation team may be high-fiving themselves for activity, not results. It’s easy to pad demand generation numbers with bulk buys. This can be as simple as confirming an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) fit, yes or no. C/D Grades may represent non-focus industries or smaller opportunities.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

We’re grateful for the daily trust of our customers, for the encouragement and camaraderie of our colleagues and coworkers, and for the community that welcomes and makes a space for us. Cary Leeth, Customer Success Manager. I am grateful for my customers, because I have not been consistently home in 5-6 years.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 18, 2024

In this episode of "The Sales Evangelist Podcast," Host Donald Kelly chats with Derek Rahn about current sales data trends and the need for sellers to niche down within their industry. He is the VP of demand generation of Lead Genius, which crafts tools to help companies find their ideal customers.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. According to HubSpot research, 93% of consumers will be repeat buyers at companies with excellent customer service. It’s at least five times more expensive to bring in a new customer versus retaining an existing buyer.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 13, 2020

Then assess the impact of the crisis on your particular business, by region, by industry, by segment. Mitigation could look like this: Stop short term demand generation for net new business in transportation and leisure. Spiffs on target industry deals. List what you can do to mitigate the impact – what do you stop doing?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There’s a necessity behind re-strategizing go-to-market: 54% of GTM leaders report missing monthly revenue targets and 41% reported missing demand generation targets [source: Pavilion Pulse, Average in Q2 2023]. This motion is focused on partner ecosystems as the primary way to attract, convert, and grow customer relationships.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This turned into more and deeper conversations with people in his network who eventually became his first 5 customers. 20:03] Salespeople are only spending about 20% of their time with actual customers. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. ?. highly valuable and engaged and influential people. [7:15] Everybody uses xiQ.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Evaluation of client needs: constantly assess customer data to stay on top of changing customer needs. Evaluation of client needs: constantly assess customer data to stay on top of changing customer needs.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer. “Your company puts out products in the market to solve problems for people — which naturally begets the messaging,” says Mitchell Hanson, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Everything is relative.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But just a few years ago they—and for that matter, the whole customer success function—were the new kid on the block. These days, customer success motions benefit from better, and more plentiful, data, from more sophisticated customer success platforms and from past lessons learned. And they were difficult to pull off.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 9, 2021

For many industries and companies, the pandemic has changed sales and marketing forever. In some ways, the changes manifest accelerating trends that were already in motion, and in other ways, the changes are new, permanent disruptions. Of course, every disruption.

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Alice Heiman

MAY 17, 2023

a next-generation, AI-powered, SaaS platform for B2B sales and marketing. xiQ reinvigorates b2b sales and marketing by doubling down on industry-leading personality and behavioral science to provide broader, deeper, and more actionable insights. About xiQ: xiQ Inc.

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Allbound

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Customer acquisition cost is reduced, existing relationships are leveraged to win business, and overall reach is extended into new markets. 3) Collaborate with Partners to Better Serve Customers. Collaborate with vendors to better understand customer needs. Also, address the needs of organizations from different industries.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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. B2B industries already automate a range of processes in order to streamline workloads and increase productivity to great success? Automate for efficiency.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Are you in Sales, Marketing, Operations, or Customer Success? Customer Success. Demand Generation. Want to learn more from our customers and industry leaders? It can even get in the way of budget approval for the event. That’s why we created role-based learning paths for you at REV2020. . Enablement.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting! Unfortunately for many demand generation professionals today, their inability to write a compelling, cohesive story is no exaggeration.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

I’ve spent 12 years in demand generation and event marketing and know how to avoid the pitfalls (and live my best life). BLOG] How to Use Sales Intelligence for Event Lead Generation. Build your ideal customer profile. Trade shows aren’t just a great way to generate warm leads. The buying cycle.

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