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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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. There are a number of factors that should tip off sales and go-to-market leaders to rethink their organizational approach.

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Lead Rank Marketing Commission Retention 41

Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. We hope you use it to create your own personas and scale your marketing efforts. We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason!

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Andrea Kayal , Chief Marketing Officer at Upserve and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Signpost. We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. This intense focus will equate to higher net revenue booking and retention.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Paul Nolan A new year means a new calendar, and new trends to incorporate into your go-to-market strategy. It may be a fool’s errand to predict what B2B marketing strategies will emerge in 2019, but trendwatching is an important skill for business leaders across all industries.

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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). Customer Retention and Expansion. Email Marketing Segmentation.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Babette Ten Haken

AUGUST 1, 2018

Truth be told, customer success storytelling is more than a content marketing and demand generation exercise. Towards a new way of leveraging collaboration to catalyze professional innovation, workforce engagement and customer retention? Where are your organization’s hidden stories?

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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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Media Company Distribution How To 71

Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

Marketing and selling today isn’t a predictable progression that you’ve decided is how your prospects and customers should buy. Too often, marketers and salespeople base their messaging on the needs prospects tell them they have. Align Sales and Marketing. Sales is a design point for better marketing.

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Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 103

InsightSquared

JANUARY 29, 2018

What I’ve seen happen is a siloing in data structure and processes for marketing, customer, services, and sales teams. I believe if an organization commits to revenue operations, they are making it the team’s objective to be collectively more strategic about their decisions and go-to-marketing activities,” added Chow.

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Sales Operations Revenue Scale Demand Generation Agencies 109

Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

But first, here is how NOT to do it (and unfortunately how so many buyer personas are built): When marketing organizations are not sales driven, you end up with the above scenario. Marketing builds a buyer persona that is filled with a bunch of information that does not help sales do anything! Now it’s time to use it!

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Corporate Visions

JULY 18, 2019

If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. Yet, the majority of companies allot only 10-20 percent of their sales and marketing budgets toward customer expansion. Tailor Your Sales and Marketing Messaging for Customer Expansion.

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Conversion Customer Demand Generation Agencies How To 80

Corporate Visions

AUGUST 16, 2018

New customer acquisition and demand generation just seem to get all the love when it comes to commercial spend and resources. In fact, nearly half of companies surveyed by Corporate Visions invest less than 10% of their marketing budgets in messaging and content in key customer success situations like renewals and upsells.

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eBook Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Retention 40

Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 29, 2010

It's focused on skills, performance and retention. The team has to also understand our Quality vs. Demand Gen Basics - Yes, we specialize in appointment setting, but we are in the industry of Demand Gen and appointment setting isn't just about dialing the phone any more. Our goal: Get to three keepers out of four.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Inside Sales Hoovers 31

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Marketing/Sales Integration. Marketing Automation/Tools. Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. Systems/Processes/Tools.

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Fashion Face-to-face Analytics Social Media 90

Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

That means having in place everything from demand generation tools to pipeline management. While customer success can play an important role in customer retention and renewals. AppDynamics developed a culture of excellence in pipeline generation. in addition to marketing, partners and inbound sales.

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Mindtickle

JULY 24, 2017

That means having in place everything from demand generation tools to pipeline management. While customer success can play an important role in customer retention and renewals. AppDynamics developed a culture of excellence in pipeline generation. in addition to marketing, partners and inbound sales.

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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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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2018

Author: Joe Andrews What defines a mature go-to-market model in B2B companies? Is it having a growth strategy focused on new market segments? Does it include a focus on account-based marketing (ABM), a topic with a lot of buzz today? Does it include a focus on account-based marketing (ABM), a topic with a lot of buzz today?

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing InsideView Lead Rank 204

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

Marketing 120

Marketing eBook Social Media Trade Show 120

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2022

We’ve all heard the stories (maybe you’ve even told some yourself) of sales and marketing teams working in unison, launching hyper-targeted account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns that resonate with ideal customers — and drive the type of revenue that makes your team legendary. But they have to be the right metrics.”

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Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 130

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Hanging Out with @GlobeSmallBiz : How to develop a Winning Sales strategy. Last week I had the opportunity to participate in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business’ Small Business interview series on Google+ Hangout. As the title suggests, we discussed a number of topics relating to sales, and sales challenges important for small business owners.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

One of the key elements of any successful relationship is communication — and that happens to be a huge factor in successful sales and marketing interactions, too. Sales and marketing usually want to be friends. When there isn’t a communication cadence in place between sales and marketing, a lot can get lost in translation.

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Marketing Analytics Lead Rank Lead Scoring 87

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This guide to portfolio product management and marketing answers the following seven questions. How Does Portfolio Product Management Impact Product Marketing? Structure product management/marketing so that their market knowledge is stronger than all other disciplines combined. Vertical Market Segmentation.

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Lead Rank Marketing Segment Face-to-face 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2021

“ Deploy the marketers! If only sales and marketing were that swashbuckling in real life, right? First of all, this pirate ship is built on account-based marketing (ABM). Every crew member on a ship has a duty to perform, and it’s the same when your sales and marketing teams are aligned. Email marketing.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel 61

InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

These executives may think it’s as straightforward as making a product, marketing it , and then selling it to different market segments. Inbound Selling – This method attracts a potential customer by tailoring marketing materials with relevant content instead of random creative adverts. Seven Steps for Sales Process Mapping.

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Sales Process Sales Methodology Lead Rank Government 65

The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Today’s buyers are more conservative than ever, demanding that any investment they make drive tangible savings and business value – a fundamental change called Frugalnomics. Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. in incremental benefits. •

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Melissa Murillo is an award-winning and highly skilled sales leader with over a decade of experience in marketing and business development specializing in the IT channel.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jody Canavan, Founder and President of Launch International and an expert in content marketing. Click here to review the Interview On-Demand Click here to access the slides from the session. They have big budgets they can spend on marketing and demand gen, and sales enablement.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile ROI Study 40

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

Target your outbound marketing to ice-cold leads. If you were able to get some results by purely using non-focused demand generation, your website, and other lead sources, scaling will be hard. This means turning your “Inbound Marketing” into “Outbound Marketing” Outbound Marketing?!

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