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How Small Gifts Can Create Big Marketing Wins

Zoominfo

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. What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? The results? Anything but trivial.

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Guide to Account Based Marketing for Enterprise Tech Marketers

Emissary

Tech marketers were some of the very first to adopt ABM as a strategy distinct from inbound and traditional lead generation. In the beginning, account-based marketing for enterprise tech marketers was simply an account list and a high-value direct mail campaign.

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How Limeade Is Keeping Collaboration at the Heart of Their Account-Based Plays

SalesLoft

Manager of Demand Generation at Limeade, believes that executing on an account-based strategy first requires establishing good organizational health. Watch Lindsay Gates and Eric Martin, VP of Demand Generation at SalesLoft, explain “5 Tactics to Help Sales Execute Account-Based Plays” during the ABM Leadership Alliance Virtual Summit.

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What You Can do TODAY to Build Sales Pipeline This Quarter

DiscoverOrg Sales

Let your sales development team go after them like cold leads – a phone call, an email sequence, maybe even a direct mail piece. All of those case studies and personalized emails you sent, and this lead didn’t even bother to show up for the demo. You don’t have to start entirely from scratch, though. Revive demo no-shows.

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Vertical Marketing Best Practices: Six Strategies That Set Top Tech Marketers Apart

Emissary

You will also want to keep in mind where you have the best chance of getting testimonials or branded case studies. Most vertical marketing strategies start with content for demand generation and SEO activities. The output is fully new web pages, new collateral, and vertical case studies. Don’t stop with content.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 5]

Pointclear

In fact, I would argue that all the broad-based demand generation work many companies are doing is the real distraction if their sales model and growth targets focus on a defined universe of accounts. In a recent SiriusDecisions study, 92% of B2B organizations said ABM is “extremely” or “very” important to their marketing efforts.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you. With ready access to an unprecedented wealth of on-line information, and skepticism toward vendors as a result of direct marketing overload, buyers have revolted and taken the buying cycle into their own hands.

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