The ROI Guy

MARCH 11, 2014

Today’s buyer is more empowered than ever before, leveraging content from the Internet, discussion groups and social media to take charge of the purchase decision-making process. The question was posed as a key portion of IDC’s annual 2013 IT Buyer Experience Study , surveying over 200 executive decision makers worldwide.

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Decision Maker ROI Scale Case Study 76

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Attempting to grow your business without marketing intelligence is a lot like driving without directions. Without a clear understanding of your industry or market, you’ll be ill-equipped to make informed business decisions. Businesses are catching on to the importance of market intelligence. What Is Market Intelligence?

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Data Marketing Scale Analysis 130

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.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Marketing and Do It! Selling, discuss exactly how to connect and engage with decision makers and avoid the "middle management trap". Target a specific market instead of trying to target everyone. This requires deep-dive research on market forces, disruption, and compliance regulations.

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Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker Prospecting Strategy 85

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2023

Many go-to-market professionals already use intent data to spot prospects that are interested in their products or services. In the weeks before the announcement, ZoomInfo recorded intent spikes for “layoffs,” “severance pay,” “labor relations,” and “unemployment claims management.”

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Intent Data Intent Intent Signal Data 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

Ideal Customer Profile 147

Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 147

Pointclear

APRIL 17, 2014

In the article I assert: "A healthy, driven inbound marketing department is great, but over-reliance on inbound marketing (what I call ''inbounditis'') negatively affects the revenue backbone of any company. From Matt Heinz , president of Heinz Marketing : "Inbound marketing can be both highly effective and highly inefficient.

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Inbound Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Outbound 257

eGrabber

JANUARY 25, 2021

In this blog, you will learn how to identify highly-valuable accounts and reach key decision makers in those companies. What is Account Based Marketing. Why Account Based Marketing. Why Account Based Marketing. It enables sales, marketing and lead generation teams to build targeted account lists.

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Account Based Marketing Software Software Account 59

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

Our feeds are filled with hacks, prompts, “cheat sheets” offering things like, “What are key decision maker roles for this… ? I refine them, suggesting a certain industry or market. I test across different roles, markets, different issues. What are qualifying questions… ?

Ideal Customer Profile 114

Ideal Customer Profile Revelation Decision Maker Face-to-face 114

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email, usually addressed to a decision-maker at a high-value account. Hyper-personalized cold emails are the main tenant of account-based sales approach (related to account-based marketing, or ABM ). When your prospect is a decision-maker.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

Zoominfo

JULY 8, 2021

Sales reps and marketers that use ZoomInfo and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are about to see their day-to-day lives get easier thanks to a new collaboration between the two companies. This integration allows customers to accelerate their sales and marketing efforts by using ZoomInfo’s best-in-class data while never leaving Dynamics 365.

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Data Microsoft Decision Maker CRM 246

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Closing an enterprise sale in a niche market follows the same sales funnel as any other deal, but a bit more fine tuned. Enterprise sales, also known as complex sales, refer to the selling strategy used by large organizations involving long sales cycles, multiple decision-makers, and higher levels of risk. Transactional sales.

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Enterprise Enterprise Ideal Customer Profile Sales Process 95

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I customized this to one of my needs as a digital marketing agency. As a VP of digital at a small digital marketing agency, I’m often tasked with drafting sales proposals to potential clients. It’s about how good the selling was to all the decision-makers involved in the buying process.

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Proposal Social Media Media Decision Maker 221

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals. The short answer is no.

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Revenue Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Segment 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What does it TAKE to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? Jill began this task by talking to Heidi Bullock , Chief Marketing Officer at Engagio , formerly GVP of Global Marketing for Marketo. Engagio is a B2B SaaS software company focused on helping marketers and salespeople drive the best business value for their company.

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Marketing Intent Data Face-to-face Webinar Metrics 193

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Every salesperson has a hefty responsibility: find new business, engage decision-makers, and close deals. Next step: pull up the org chart and decision-maker direct dials and start calling. Skip the canned questions, kill BANT , and use the data to tell prospect decision-makers what they need to hear.

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Buyer Data Intent Signal Decision Maker 130

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?

Marketing 140

Marketing Scale Analysis Face-to-face 140

Nutshell

AUGUST 21, 2020

With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good. With every SaaS market crowded these days— G2 lists over 2,800 solutions for “ CRM ” alone—there’s little room for error in your marketing. Product complexity.

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Campaigns Marketing Social Media How To 142

Product Management University

JULY 10, 2020

Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Identify a business goal that’s common to target customers across one or more market segments.

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Marketing Scale How To Forecasting 96

Lead411

APRIL 17, 2024

Mastering GTM Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Success The difference between skyrocketing success and stagnation might be a well-executed Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy. Grasping the Core Concepts of GTM Strategy: A GTM strategy, at its heart, is just a detailed plan for getting a service or product to market.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Distribution Advertising 52

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The phrase ‘MQL is Dead’ bubbles to the surface in marketing feeds. Marketing qualified lead (MQL) is the term marketers give prospects who interact with their brand’s content. MQLs are also critical to an organization’s lead generation marketing strategy. What Is Lead Qualification in Marketing?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Intent Data 130

MTD Sales Training

MARCH 6, 2012

As always, my focus in these Techy Tuesday blogs is to keep you update to date with the latest and greatest ways you can use social media and other internet based resources to prospect, network and engage with key decision makers online – and this week is no different! Marketing Manager. Regards, Louise. Louise Denny.

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LinkedIn Networking Decision Maker Company 262

Vengreso

JUNE 27, 2022

Although cold calling, inbound marketing, inside sales and field sales still have a place in the sales planning of many companies, the modern B2B buyer is looking for a different type of interaction with B2B sellers. The buyer’s journey often starts with a Google search looking for compelling content and market research.

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B2B Top of Funnel Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 134

Bernadette McClelland

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

So, I am fine-tuning my BIG IDEA on StorySelling (not just storytelling) as we speak, and before I put it out into the market, I want to run my ideology past you, because I trust your thinking. When the concepts, not just the words, are merged, your message to market is amplified exponentially. Our External Stories.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Enterprise Enterprise 195

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Decision makers are often only interested in sellers that know exactly who they are and what they want. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Seller access is a newly popular term for an old problem—the struggle to bypass gatekeepers and get meetings with high-level decision makers. The ever-decreasing lack of seller access during the customer journey isn’t a COVID-related problem.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 323

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The pandemic has unearthed new markets for almost every industry that are just waiting to be tapped. Because by applying the right pressure to the right places in your pipeline, you can break into difficult new markets and bring valuable new opportunities to the surface. Step 1: Find New Markets With Your Closed-Won Deals.

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Pipeline Decision Maker Marketing How To 108

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

If you are talking to a CEO or the actual decision maker, saying no and walking away can have a tremendous impact.”. “It And if they are a CEO or the decision maker, they have the power to make it happen.” Price is relative. They don’t want a product that’s going to sit on the shelf. Throw in a no-brainer!)

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Closing B2B Decision Maker Discount 286

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

Example: I’m working with a coaching/consulting organization right now that has many related companies in their portfolio. Each company is engaged in the same business, uses the same model of attracting and getting clients, and all have the same goal: to maximize their portfolio of clients and grow their business. Get Access Today.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker Licensing 178

Pipeliner

AUGUST 14, 2020

How can content, and content marketing, help you grow your business? Content marketing is effective in all industries. When you master the strategies of content marketing, you draw new customers to you, instead of having to interrupt customers demanding a sale. Content Marketing is an Inbound Strategy.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 98

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

So, what do you want from Marketing?” It’s interesting…ask salespeople their opinions about a marketing campaign, copy, creative, or any number of marketing’s creative options and you’ll hear very little. How about the marketing department putting a little skin in the game to help us increase sales activity? What gives?

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Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Commission Quota 221

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Sales Tips: 4 Qualifications for Earning Senior Decision Maker Face Time. Here’s a question: Is the value proposition we want to deliver to our customer’s Senior Decision Makers (SDMs), e.g., buyers at the C-level, different than the one we would deliver to other lower-level managers? The answer, emphatically, is yes!

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Decision Maker Face-to-face Webinar Metrics Segment 40

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Maybe it was the price, or your seller couldn’t sway a decision maker. These include: Sales process Buying process Competition Marketing Product development Finance A win-loss analysis can reveal your customer’s perspective of your sales process. Also, there are more decision makers. Sample size is important.

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Analysis Decision Maker Scale Survey 62

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email , usually addressed to a decision maker at a high-value account. Hyper-personalized cold emails are a main tenant of account-based sales approach (related to Account-Based Marketing, or ABM.). When your prospect is a decision maker.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Account 220

Sales Hacker

JULY 3, 2020

In B2B sales, getting multiple decision makers on board is a dream. We’ll look at each one, and identify how you can use it to successfully sell to multiple decision makers across departments. The company I work for primarily sells to marketing teams. and ” why now ?” than ever before. The Problem.

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Decision Maker Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 119

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Gatekeepers — who are typically executive assistants, receptionists, or office managers — are the people who stand between you and the decision-maker with whom you're hoping to make a sale. someone in their sphere/market, or someone who works for a bigger brand name). only to get stopped by a gatekeeper. Name-drop a connection.

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Gatekeeper Decision Maker How To Cold Calling 128

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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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Paid Content 225