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

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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Mereo

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Through what we labeled the “Revenue Delivery System,” JD Edwards sales and marketing leadership invested in a strategic approach to drive demand generation and equip the sales team to effectively sell to targeted markets. Market Segmentation and Past Sales Success Laid a Framework for Demand Generation.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Strong demand generation effort is required throughout the year to maintain a steady flow of leads to the sales field. Marketing leaders need a proven framework to unlock the potential of your marketing team. The Marketing Implementation Assessment Tool provides the following benefits: Maximize Feasibility of Success.

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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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SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

How do you know it’s time to restructure your marketing organization ? We also never thought that Marketing’s technology spend could outpace the IT spend. She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support.

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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 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. The Lead Generation Process.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re looking to climb the product marketing career ladder faster, here are five things you can do that’ll accelerate your climb. As a product marketer though, this is more about your strategy and execution tactics that lead to year-over-year revenue growth. Product marketing is not for prickly people with a “can’t-do” attitude!

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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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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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Pointclear

MAY 21, 2013

How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? Ask any group of marketing communications managers, exhibits managers or even marketing managers and less than 40%, overall, know the quotas for the sales channel they represent. Marketing is a part.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

By understanding the discipline of sales enablement and how to prioritize tactics based on marketing and sales objectives, companies of all sizes can reap the rewards. Successful sales enablement starts with ensuring marketing and sales are aligned , which isn’t always easy, but pays its dividends many times over.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Sales has others.

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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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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

BuzzBoard

MARCH 27, 2023

As technology is advancing at a swift pace, leaning only on legacy marketing approaches, especially amid this rapidly changing and challenging environment, won’t even come close to meeting your customers’ digital-first expectations. Interestingly, 70% of marketers believe investments in remote technologies are here to stay.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 27, 2023

As technology is advancing at a swift pace, leaning only on legacy marketing approaches, especially amid this rapidly changing and challenging environment, won’t even come close to meeting your customers’ digital-first expectations. Interestingly, 70% of marketers believe investments in remote technologies are here to stay.

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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 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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Highspot

AUGUST 19, 2022

” Marketers are no stranger to this phrase – and know better than most that it’s far easier than said with done. . What Are the Top Marketing Challenges Right Now? First, take a moment to understand the current marketing landscape. 17% of marketers struggle to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2021

chatbots, conversational marketing, live chat, etc., enable marketers to offer 24/7 customer-centric communication for the buyer journey. Here are a few different use cases: Customer Service and Support B2C Customer Acquisition B2B Demand Generation and Account-Based Marketing B2B Sales Acceleration and Buyer Enablement.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This transformation gave birth to what we know today as chatbots, conversational marketing , live chat, etc, and they enable marketers to be more customer-centric in their design of the buyer journey. Your marketing tools should integrate seamlessly with your existing workflows in order to keep real-time data flowing into your CRM.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Agencies Face-to-face 130

Gong.io

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Here’s How Marketing Teams Can Win More With Revenue Intelligence. Specifically for marketing teams, Gong helps to: Hear the voice of the customer. Understand what happens to leads in the funnel (Demand Generation teams). Monitor how new messaging is landing in the field (Product Marketing teams). Marketing win.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. What is the impact of bad data on sales and marketing?

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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. However marketers are largely dissatisfied with the reporting their MAPs offer.

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Showpad

MAY 3, 2019

While many elements factor into the experiences a customer has with your company, experiences are primarily driven by your marketing and sales organizations. Sales and Marketing Alignment. We call this sales and marketing alignment, or sales-marketing alignment. The Five Stages of Sales-Marketing Alignment.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

I learned a lot about product positioning long before I ever stepped into a product marketing role. The difference is demos are a two-way dialogue with buyers whereas product positioning in a pure marketing sense is typically a one-way monologue where potential customers are reading, viewing or listening to something you’ve published.

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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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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This trend results in additional pressure on sales and marketing organizations to speak the business language of their prospects and customers, not just demonstrate technical expertise. Most vertical marketing strategies are light in nature consisting of tabs on websites, vertical-oriented stock photos and key words added to headers.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? 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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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 14, 2012

They have a sales process, they have hired the right people, they have a good organizational structure, they have a compensation plan, they have training, they have demand generation programs, they have marketing and nurturing programs, they have CRM and other Sales 2.0 We break up what we do into components and parts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Author: Tom Urie, President and CRO, Optymyze Early in my career, I made the not-so-typical move from engineering to marketing and spent 15 years innovating and creating events, programs, content, processes, and systems that challenge the status quo. You know what you need to win the deal – you’ve already compiled the checklist.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Marketers use various tools and technologies in the digital marketing world, and marketing automation is necessary to succeed. Historically, marketing was the “other” technology that existed outside of CRM, even though 2 out of 3 marketers believe that data-based decisions are more effective than gut instincts. .

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 10, 2014

Identify any gaps and work to close using the following: Social prospecting - if you don’t think you will have enough leads from marketing, generate your own. Sales can’t rely on marketing alone. Today’s sales leader should be generating about 70% of revenue through sales prospecting. If your marketing team needs help.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

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Act!

JANUARY 23, 2024

Marketers utilize web forms to complete orders, gather customer information, and collect valuable leads, with 28% of them recognizing the positive impact of the proper form fields on lead quality (Venture Harbor). tLink2forms+ streamlines operations across departments, spanning from marketing and sales to business intelligence.

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