Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Building a Market-Facing Product Management Discipline The definition of “market” has more than its share of ambiguities.

Marketing 59

Marketing Segment Face-to-face Lead Rank 59

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. Let’s use shopping as an example.

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 246

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. Let’s use shopping as an example.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

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. What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Gong.io

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Definitely, but it’s not JUST for sales (as evidenced by the title of this page). Here’s How Marketing Teams Can Win More With Revenue Intelligence. Specifically for marketing teams, Gong helps to: Hear the voice of the customer. Understand what happens to leads in the funnel (Demand Generation teams).

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Revenue Marketing Top of Funnel Call-back 62

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

Sales Qualified Lead 276

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 276

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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Marketing Strategy Collateral Case Study 52

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

Pointclear

JUNE 7, 2011

There are some big reasons why lead generation campaigns fail that must be dealt with at the outset, before sweating the small stuff. Here are my 5 reasons your lead generation campaigns may not be working: No start-to-finish process: The best lead/demand generation programs are "always-on," systematic processes.

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Lead Generation Campaigns Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 229

Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Create a Formal Sales Process The first step in elevating your lead generation process is to build a definite sales process. Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. It’ll serve as the foundation of your outreach efforts.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead 52

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2017

Author: Andrea Hill, manager of innovation strategy, ReadyTalk It’s happened to all of us in sales and marketing. This approach helps product, sales and marketing leaders cultivate deeper insights into these “jobs to be done,” so they can address customers’ struggles, overcome their fears and win their business. Customers Don’t Care.

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Hiring B2B Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation 189

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. Let’s use shopping as an example.

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 100

SBI Growth

JUNE 4, 2013

For example, how long is your sales cycle? Demand Generation and Lead Management. Don’t skip this topic assuming that it is “marketing’s job.” To capture these lost opportunities, you’ll need to reach across the aisle to marketing. Collaboration on lead definitions and a follow up process takes time.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation 308

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the prospecting process. What is Sales Prospecting? Stay connected to your buyers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Top of Funnel 208

Openview

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It’s an age-old question: should SDRs report to sales or marketing ? Ask five people, and you’ll get five different answers based on individual experience and factors ranging from company stage to the SDR career path to the individual personalities and preferences of a company’s heads of sales and marketing. I drove them to that event.

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Marketing Top of Funnel Outbound Inbound 74

Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 24, 2011

Marketing-Sales Alignment. Much has been written about the Marketing-Sales chasm. That’s why I was struck by a post by Christine Crandell in the Forbes blog on how Marketing and Sales can gain alignment. In that post, four techniques were offered to assist in aligning the Marketing and Sales effort.

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Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Territories 67

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Some examples of the questions Marchewitz asks: Where will the role be located? Say, for example, that I’m working with a series B startup, making their first big VP of marketing hire with just a couple other people on the team. Do they want someone with a strong product marketing background? Who does the role report to?

Strategy 130

Strategy Salary Compensation LinkedIn 130

Hubspot Sales

JULY 28, 2021

Identify your target markets. You're much better off identifying a few key target markets that you would like to sell to and focusing on their needs and interests. You're much better off identifying a few key target markets that you would like to sell to and focusing on their needs and interests. Create a plan.

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Top of Funnel Churn Face-to-face Pipeline 117

Hubspot Sales

JULY 2, 2020

By LinkedIn's own estimate , 97% of B2B marketers use the platform to support their content marketing efforts. Couple that figure with the fact that roughly 88% of video marketers report that video marketing offers a positive ROI, and you'll find that a solid LinkedIn video strategy is a sound investment.

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LinkedIn Video Cost Per Click Campaigns 112

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? According to the most basic definition, a buyer persona is a profile of your ideal buyer. For example, do they all work in the same industry? Well-informed buyer personas can have a huge impact on your marketing efforts.

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Buyer Persona Buyer B2B Company 100

Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

From layoffs at Redfin and Tesla to the plummeting crypto markets , companies are starting to tighten their belts — and the economy has shifted from the so-called “Great Resignation,” with a job market heavily favoring employees, to the “ Forced Resignation.”. What do the changing market conditions mean for RevOps and sales?

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 91

SalesLoft

JANUARY 7, 2016

When we think about sales development metrics, we need to think about them the same way we think about demand generation metrics, marketing metrics, and sales metrics: across the entire revenue chain, you need to map out your entire process. What kind of rigor can we put to that definition? Map out your process.

Scale 52

Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring Inbound 52

Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Here’s one example with my three executive leaders. Here’s some data about what’s happened since March 2020: Marketing emails increased by 62%. For example, at Vengreso we expect the Marketing team to produce 40% of all sales leads through general marketing efforts (inbound, SEO, paid, demand generation, PPC, etc.).

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

SalesHandy

AUGUST 3, 2020

Somewhat similar to affiliate marketing, a lead generation business generates leads and sells existing products and services for a fee. In the United States alone, there are over 30 million small businesses that generate trillions of dollars in revenues combined. Is the market itself saturated?

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 111

Pointclear

JULY 7, 2015

Marketing Automation makes it easier than ever to deliver more poor-quality leads to sales. One of the funniest but also most illustrative responses came from The Bridge Groups’ Trish Bertuzzi who nailed it when she said: Companies are still thinking marketing automation (MA) is the silver bullet. The No Marketing Strategy Approach.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 100

Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 18, 2018

In our last post , we talked about the challenges that arise when different individuals and roles in the organization have different definitions of what it means to enable a high-performing sales team. For example, if enablement produces a playbook, sales will need training services to learn to use it effectively.

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Sales Enablement Face-to-face Demand Generation Agencies Handbook 66

InsideSales.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Inside Sales Representative Definition: Salespeople who represent their company by selling goods to businesses and individuals remotely, either via phone or online. One example of how Outbound View showed qualities of being agile is when they decided to set appointments for their clients. Failure in Developing Agile Traits.

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Inside Sales Hiring How To Outbound 62

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 28, 2019

For example, Ferrer explains, Sales Ops might determine your salespeople are moving too quickly through the discovery stage of the sales process — and hurting close rates. Sales Ops also uses internal performance data, along with external market and competitor research , to craft sales strategy and achieve sales goals.

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Sales Operations Hiring Lead Rank Territories 99

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 21, 2012

This post is written for CEO’s who need to increase demand for their products. Demand generation is the science of stimulating latent demand. A definition of latent demand is a prospect is unaware of a problem. Your marketing department must be skilled at stimulating latent demand.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services 314

Jeff Davis

MARCH 13, 2018

I've talked to many leaders about the need to align B2B Sales and Marketing. This evidence has given more leaders confidence in taking an alignment initiative between Sales and Marketing serious. So now that I have a general idea of the areas that Janice and I need to address, where do we actually get started?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Gen Revenue 75

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

Mereo

MARCH 26, 2020

At Mereo, we have developed a unique approach to revenue performance that leverages the inherently interdependent operational disciplines of demand progression, solution marketing, solution management, sales operations and sales enablement. We have touched on demand generation and solution marketing the past couple weeks.

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Revenue Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Analysis 41

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started. Account-Based Marketing.

Lead Rank 99

Lead Rank Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 99

InsightSquared

JANUARY 23, 2019

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. Top Stages of a Typical B2B Marketing Funnel. Example of Disqualified Reasons. But first, let’s get some things straight.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Top of Funnel Funnel 81

Green Lead's B2B

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This past week was the first in a series of two great conferences, the MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 in San Francisco. We published the Top 20 tweets of each day of the conference here: MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 1 MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Top 20 Posts from Day 2.

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Social Media Lead Gen Lead Rank Lead Scoring 20

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. Nicole is the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io, a company that helps ISVs sell their software through the cloud marketplaces. Prior to Tackle, Nicole was the CMO at UserIQ, where she built the marketing department from scratch.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Trade Show 73

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Communication Strategy , Marketing , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Management , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. They may prefer phone for direct contact, but interact with the company or brand through Facebook as an example. Demand Generation. Book Notice.

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Pipeline Wireless Top of Funnel Hiring 212