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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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. On owned media, digital advertising was once the name of the game.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

If you’re in marketing, you might think of search engine advertising platforms as your “frenemy.” You’re kind of like friends because they distribute your ads, and kind of like enemies because you’re both self-interested. For example, you can test different parts of the funnel.

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SugarCRM

MAY 18, 2023

Although, traditionally, lead management is associated with lead generation, this blog post will mainly focus on how lead management features inside a CRM can break down siloes and create marketing and sales alignment within an organization. Still, usually, these are included in dedicated Marketing Automation software.

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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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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. 1) Outreach.io

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? For example, do they all work in the same industry? A simple buyer persona may look something like this: A 25-35-year-old female, working in marketing at a company of 500+ employees, who has ‘specialist’ in her job title. Let that sink in.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. Nelson runs demand generation for an agency called Brantr and he’s based out of San Diego. powered by Sounder.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 14, 2022

Every demand gen marketer wants the same thing — more budget. We’re here to help you determine what your marketing budget should be, how to distribute and manage it, and ultimately how to advocate for more when the time comes. “As a general guideline, your budget should be 20-35% of your gross revenue target.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 7, 2023

Building a technology stack to support your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy is no easy feat. Doing this upfront work will save you from one of the biggest mistakes marketers make when it comes to ABM: targeting broad groups of people in a large company. Inaccurate or generalized targeting means wasted time and money.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

From increasing competition to unpredictable markets, revenue operations leaders face new hurdles seemingly every day. Those rapidly evolving challenges are only exacerbated by a long-standing problem among sales and marketing teams: misalignment. Limited automation means many RevOps tasks are still done manually. What’s it take?

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Highspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

” While it may seem difficult to plan when so much is changing so quickly, one thing is for certain: It’s time for marketing teams to get creative. . So before you begin drafting your next big marketing campaign, invest time in figuring out what’s working, what’s not, and where opportunities to stand out exist.

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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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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Marketing, sales, CS, should all be unified under one leader [11:40]. Align the cash generation of the business with the cash distribution of the business [17:27]. Marketing, sales, CS, should all be unified under one leader. Align the cash generation of the business with the cash distribution of the business.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2011

Content marketing represents a significant investment, consuming over 26% of total marketing budgets annually, according to surveys of 1,100 marketers by the Content Marketing Institute. Junta42 and MarketingProfs surveyed over 1,100 North American B2B marketers from diverse industries and a wide range of company sizes.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. For example, you can measure visitor traffic or conversion rate on two different web pages having similar content and purpose. AB Testing. Account Executive. Base Salary.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2018

In this mega guide, I’ll breakdown 31 different lead generation techniques you can use to supercharge your sales pipeline almost immediately. Two of which are currently sales and marketing. As a result, I am the lead generator, the SDR , and the closer. Creating a website might seem like a task for marketers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The evolution of Sales & Marketing into Revenue Ops & Customer Ops. Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Facing the Reality of A.I.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2018

In order to build a successful company, you’ll need to create and fine-tune a business plan, assess your finances, complete all the legal paperwork, pick your partners, choose the best tools and systems to help you get your marketing and sales off the ground … and a whole lot more. Analyze your market's conditions. Keep it short.

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SalesHandy

OCTOBER 28, 2022

When inbound lead generation first made an appearance a lot of marketers were quick to predict the redundancy of outbound lead generation. Almost a decade later, outbound lead generation remains to be as strong and paramount as it was in the lead generation sphere. Well, to a certain extent you are right.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

These 25 solutions form the bedrock to proven sustainable results with advanced social selling injected as a force multiplier: Move from push to pull marketing. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script. May the 'first in' win!

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if they are Interactive!

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