Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2011, Scott Brinker compiled the first of many marketing technology “Supergraphics,” illustrating the rapid growth of companies supplying digital marketing tools. The original displayed the logos of 140 prominent marketing tech brands. What is a Marketing Technology Stack? Get a Demo 2.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. Here are some common B2B display advertising mistakes: Remarketing: Just because someone landed on your website doesn’t mean they’re a good-fit prospect. If you simply remarket to website visitors, you can end up with a lot of waste.

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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. Here are four ways our new platform empowers marketers to effectively and efficiently land their target accounts.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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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 gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What is a Lead?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Demand generation and lead generation are two strategies that make up a large part of inbound sales but are often referred to interchangeably despite being two different practices. What is demand generation? The process helps you increase brand awareness, educates audiences, and generates trust.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? 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.

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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. Budget: What is the prospect’s annual revenue? For example, let’s say you sell marketing automation software.

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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 gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What is a Lead?

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 29, 2023

With businesses of all sizes are struggling to survive the current shaky economic times, cutting sales and marketing budgets is often the knee-jerk reaction for many. At BuzzBoard we dig deeper to keep up with the revolving and evolving market situations. Here’s more!

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 29, 2023

With businesses of all sizes are struggling to survive the current shaky economic times, cutting sales and marketing budgets is often the knee-jerk reaction for many. At BuzzBoard we dig deeper to keep up with the revolving and evolving market situations. Here’s more!

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 13, 2020

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? Every marketer wants to make an impact. Your buyers interact with your marketing in one moment, but they make the decision to buy in the future. Unfortunately, most marketers don’t believe their content is memorable or actionable. Why Most B2B Marketing is Forgettable.

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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

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? 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.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations. What Is B2B Sales Prospecting? Who are they?

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation? Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We are capping off a week in Nashville of go-to-market executive learnings, live music, and hot chicken. Some of the team have been at Pavilion ’s GTM2023 conference, a B2B SaaS conference for go-to-market executives. When asked who is rethinking their go-to-market strategy, around 60% of the room had a hand raised in the air.

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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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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. This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2022

If you’re in marketing, you might think of search engine advertising platforms as your “frenemy.” So if your ad is not getting clicked on, then it’s not going to be presented first or as often,” says Lauren Temmler, senior demand generation manager at ZoomInfo. One factor is intent. There are a few factors to consider.

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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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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Something all B2B marketing and sales teams have in common is an abundance of CRM data and challenges around how to make the most of it. There are so many ways to leverage your CRM data—especially in Account Based Marketing (ABM). Expansion is another area that ABM can be utilized to generate upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

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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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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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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The post What Is Status Quo Bias in Sales and Marketing? How Does Status Quo Bias Apply to Sales and Marketing? In a sales and marketing context, Status Quo Bias is a powerful force that can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Differentiation is one of the most daunting challenges salespeople and marketers face.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

SalesLoft customer Limeade shares their best practices for how their marketing and sales teams work together to execute their account-based strategy by: . An account-based strategy is only a strategy until marketing and sales come together to hyper-focus on their top-tier accounts. Honing-in on their top tier accounts.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For instance, if I as a sales person tell a really compelling story with terrific conviction, that is a conscious intention on my part to marshal my emotions. You could, at any point in your selling life, have conscious intention to focus on this or that discipline. As a good exercise, draw a simple four box quadrant.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? 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.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. These fictional characters usually have names, and they embody all the traits of your ideal prospects. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs.

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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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Pointclear

AUGUST 18, 2015

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process. Unfortunately, few B2B organizations focus on creating, implementing and executing a defined marketing and sales process.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For instance, if I as a sales person tell a really compelling story with terrific conviction, that is a conscious intention on my part to marshal my emotions. Sales professionals (including myself) will usually focus on the sales cycle, and the prospect that you’re trying to sell something to, in a negative way.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2023

A few years ago, companies looking to expand into new markets and territories might see a big budget as the surest sign of a serious campaign. At ZoomInfo, our demand generation team engages hundreds of thousands of global customers and prospects every month using our MarketingOS platform.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 20, 2015

I challenged marketing and sales leadership involved in 2016 planning to pause and consider conducting the assessment before making any decisions for next year. These include: Lead and demand generation: How are we attracting and engaging the target audience in building a consistent flow of prospective buyers?

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