Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Poor data quality leads to targeting the wrong accounts at the wrong times and in the wrong way. The reason?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. Sure, your cost per lead might be cheap, but your cost per marketing-qualified lead (MQL) will skyrocket,” says Colin Chang, a marketing programs manager at ZoomInfo. Keep your intro text where you can see all of it in the preview.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer. Within BANT, there are four primary types of data with which to segment your audience: 1. Let’s break it down.

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SBI

JULY 10, 2018

For many sales and marketing teams, discovering an in-month deal requires a whole lot of luck. Traditional demand generation methods just aren’t cutting it anymore. A marketing team judges how qualified a lead is based on engagement alone; a sales team takes that lead and discovers it isn’t a fit at all.

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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. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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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. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. Demand generation enables you to make smart marketing decisions for your company.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

TechTarget Priority Engine Named Best Account Based Marketing and Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution by SIIA. Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. TechTarget, Inc. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer.

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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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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? Aim to be helpful, rather than pushy.

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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. Say you’re in the market for a new car.

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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. Visit their pricing page to learn more.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The upsides of account-based marketing are no mystery to anyone running a B2B go-to-market team. However, the gap between developing an account-based marketing strategy and actually aligning teams to win over their target accounts isn’t always easy to bridge. This is where sales and marketing alignment can make a difference.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You know what’s a colossal marketing mistake? While every new marketing venture requires due diligence, the nuances of international communications are often overlooked when marketers try to gain traction in a new region. You can’t simply “copy and paste” your marketing efforts from the U.S. into another market.

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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. Inaccurate data means leads aren’t routed properly to sales. What’s it take?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2022

This data is fundamental to communicating well with prospects and supporting critical go-to-market functions, such as audience segmentation , territory planning , and lead routing. “Firmographic and demographic data are table stakes,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

While there’s no magic recipe to achieve perfect results, you need to be relevant and targeted in order to have an efficient digital marketing program. With today’s clutter in the digital space, often the relevancy of your offer is the only differentiator you have,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2021

While there’s no magic recipe to achieve perfect results, you need to be relevant and targeted in order to have an efficient digital marketing program. With today’s clutter in the digital space, often the relevancy of your offer is the only differentiator you have,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’ve worked at a B2B company that uses an ABM strategy for their Go To Market and has an SDR team you have inevitably run into the problem of lead attribution. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. Or was it the blog, or the TV ad?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 27, 2022

Far from just scraping publicly available information about mergers and acquisitions, or the latest funding round, the updates in Scoops come from continuous surveys conducted by ZoomInfo’s more than 300 data researchers. Good thing, too, because her client wasn’t just in the market, they were in final negotiations with a competitor.

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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! We didn’t have 7,000 different marketing technologies to master. Do I sound like a cranky old marketer yet? But it’s not necessarily their fault.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps companies implement best in class sales and marketing processes and technology. How to better optimize your go to market. Intent Data Is Your Friend [28:25]. This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jake Dunlap, Founder and CEO of Skaled. We’re on iTunes.

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Crunchbase

JULY 31, 2019

As the founder of a B2B sales intelligence product , I work with sales & marketing leaders every day that are creatively answering this question. How Sales Teams Should Build Their B2B Lead Generation Strategy. This is how sales teams should build their B2B lead generation strategy. Align Sales and Marketing.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps companies implement best in class sales and marketing processes and technology. How to better optimize your go to market. Intent Data Is Your Friend [28:25]. This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jake Dunlap , Founder and CEO of Skaled. We’re on iTunes.

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Guest blog by Eileen Chow, Director, Demand Generation and Marketing Operations at Evergage. Data may be the lifeblood of organizations, but it seems like there’s never enough good data to go around. To start the process, we inventoried the needs of our sales, marketing, and product teams.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Account-Based Marketing – yeah, sounds great,” you’re thinking. But I’m also doing the job of demand generation and customer marketing and product marketing, and sales development for my new business … without enough tools or time to do it all!”. Fit” data refers to firmographic and demographic information.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. Account-Based Marketing orchestration – sure, that sounds great,” you may think. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

How To Build A Sales Pipeline Identify Target Buyers Build a List of Prospects Develop Relevant Messaging Test Demand Generation Tactics If you are thinking, “ Account-Based Marketing – yeah, sounds great. The broad availability of data is truly democratizing growth – and as a small startup, the trick is knowing how to use it.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It starts with marketing. It all starts with marketing operations preparing lists of thousands of prospects for the SDRs to contact. They turn over every stone, new and old, to gather recent marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and win-back prior customers, customers on basic packages, and unconverted leads from the previous 90 days.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It starts with marketing. It all starts with marketing operations preparing lists of thousands of prospects for the SDRs to contact. They turn over every stone, new and old, to gather recent marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and win-back prior customers, customers on basic packages, and unconverted leads from the previous 90 days.

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