SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

The biggest impact to acquiring new customers in 2013 will be Direct Content Marketing. This is the adoption of Content Marketing principles into outbound direct marketing. Direct Content Marketing is born. Content Marketing works. Demand Generation - Comprehensive View of Content Marketing. No worries.

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Direct Mail Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan. But this is only half the equation.

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Exercises Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 310

SBI Growth

JULY 16, 2013

Every Marketing Leader has asked the question: “Can Facebook be leveraged to drive leads?” LinkedIn is the gold standard for B2B social marketing. Your B2B prospects are on Facebook. You need a marketing strategy and approach that works. Facebook entered the search engine market with the launch of “graph search”.

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Facebook B2B Marketo Hubspot 331

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. Enter: Marketing attribution. What is marketing attribution? 6 Types of Marketing Attribution Models.

Lead Rank 236

Lead Rank B2B Top of Funnel Marketing 236

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Ryan Gould In the context of content marketing, a product-agnostic approach is one that focuses on your expertise and knowledge around a product, technology or service rather than your brand. The product-agnostic approach to content marketing has been around for a long time. Blog Posts and Articles. Whitepapers.

Top of Funnel 237

Top of Funnel B2B Webinar Metrics Marketing 237

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

You can’t depend on your marketing department to generate real leads. Do you really think marketing can qualify your leads? Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank Leads 263

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

Top of Funnel 255

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 8, 2018

So put the phone down and listen up, because we’ve got the inside scoop for how to approach your prospects with a cold call , using the right message at the right time – without sounding like a cold-call creeper. For an individual prospect, this Fit data refers to demographic data: Name. Sales intelligence vs. lead lists.

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Cold Calling Prospecting Intent Data Intent 241

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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Buyer Persona Marketing Collateral Scale 214

Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

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Examples B2B Marketing Inbound 208

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Gaining B2B prospects via LinkedIn referrals is the best way to succeed in 2014. open rate (Google, 2013). My last two blogs covered Step #1: LinkedIn Profiles and Step #2: LinkedIn Reach. These are business contacts with an “in” to someone you’ve deemed a qualified prospect. Hands down. Still not convinced?

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Referrals Social Selling LinkedIn Cold Calling 331

SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

Yet there’s little attention within marketing teams on developing quality offers. DMA studies show Offer is the #1 determination of success for customer marketing. Marketing plans are well underway. Chief Marketing Officers are monitoring their team’s campaign metrics as a leading indicator. Vince Koehler on Google+.

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Campaigns Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Outside Sales 310

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

3-4 weeks go by while you’re still learning your product and your market never mind filling your sales pipeline. The step that was missed was testing and refining the company’s message, target market and conversion of interested prospects into customers. I’m reading 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall.

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Scale Hiring Collateral Social Selling 373

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

A key challenge for every marketing team is producing quality content. The solution is to create an internal content marketing capability. This is content that aligns with the prospects buying process. Those who have tried to implement internal content marketing have run into roadblocks. I’m not a writer”. “I

Lead Rank 312

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Airlines How To 312

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Discover your best marketing account segments from within your current customer base. Sound familiar?

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Account Based Marketing Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account 218

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you’ve worked in sales for any length of time, you know your success is dependent on the quality of your prospect lists. Instead, modern sales professionals find success by creating and reaching out to hyper-targeted lists made up of only the most qualified prospects. Let’s get into it! Step One: Understand Your Offering.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Hiring How To 182

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Over the last few months, marketers have witnessed one of the biggest changes to LinkedIn’s professional social network since its inception. The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. New to LinkedIn.

Lead Generation 317

Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 317

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. You have to bring in more marketing qualified leads. BLOG] Read it: Matt, Kyle, and the Less-Traveled Road to Customer Satisfaction. Target your best-fit prospects. That’s not necessarily a bad practice.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 196

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. After all, the B2B buyer’s journey has become increasingly complex, as each prospect engages with a number of digital touchpoints on their path to becoming a customer. What is marketing attribution? Let’s get into it!

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Trends B2B Marketing Channels 160

SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a sales rep, you can’t rely solely on Marketing to develop your presence. He’ll reveal tips and tricks used by LinkedIn to prospect and grow business. Your prospects and customers are doing the same. Let’s assume you have a meeting with a big prospect. 2) Utilize Your Marketing Department’s Expertise.

Social Selling 321

Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Harvest Social Media 321

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Mark said, " Instead, they start a blog, create a website, open a Twitter account and begin email marketing campaigns. By the time training is over, they will rank in Google for a few dozen keywords in their market, have a few dozen followers on Twitter and have written a few dozen blog articles.

Lead Rank 287

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Hubspot 287

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Over the last few months, marketers have witnessed one of the biggest changes to LinkedIn’s professional social network since its inception. The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. New to LinkedIn.

Lead Generation 314

Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 314

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But, thanks to technological advancements, predicting customer behavior has become a reality—and it’s changed the face of marketing forever. Predictive intelligence and machine learning may sound like futuristic concepts, but they’ve already made a massive impact in the marketing world. Let’s get into it! The best part?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Marketing 189

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2018

As such, mobile marketing is not just an option anymore. Moreover, the vast majority of prospects will visit a local business after they have acquired the information they need through mobile search. Make sure that your website looks well and performs flawlessly regardless of the devices that prospects are using.

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Paid Content Small Business Small Business Marketing 185

Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2018

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. Today, we break down the most important categories of marketing tech.

Marketing 170

Marketing Social Media Advertising Advertising 170

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

What makes a marketer successful? The marketing industry lives in a constant state of evolution. New trends and technologies emerge regularly and quickly change the way we interact with customers and prospects. Hard Skills for B2B Marketers. Here are some hard skills that directly correlate with B2B marketing success: 1.

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Marketing Social Media Hiring B2B 193

Zoominfo

MARCH 3, 2019

As a B2B sales rep, the more you know about a prospect and their company, the easier it is to sell to them. What kind of marketers would we be if we didn’t include ZoomInfo on this list? In fact, we’ve spoken at length about Reddit’s value as a market research tool. Check it out! Sprout Social. It’s free!

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Research B2B Tools Company 233

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2018

If you’ve read any of my previous posts on this blog you will know that I think relationships determine if you will get a meeting with your prospect. I recommend thinking of Linkedin as the Google Maps of business relationships. Gary, Do you know John Prospect, SVP Tax Audit at Prospect Company for real?

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Prospecting LinkedIn Cold Calling Banking 150

Zoominfo

JANUARY 24, 2019

And how can you determine what type of content is going to resonate with your prospects? The answer to each of these questions and the key to content marketing success is something called content mapping. The first step to effective content mapping is analyzing your buyer’s journey—or the path a prospect takes to become a customer.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Social Media Consumer 159

No More Cold Calling

JULY 1, 2014

Over the years, I have made it very clear that I don’t believe marketing has any business qualifying leads for salespeople. I’ve written several articles and blog posts on the topic, and included the following in my book, Pick Up the Damn Phone!: That’s the job of marketing.” Marketing teams today provide invaluable support.

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Sales Qualified Lead Referrals Cold Calling Marketing Qualified Lead 261

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Impacting a marketing team’s output in that short period of time requires a quick start. Marketing contribution as a % of Pipeline Opportunities. Marketing contribution as a % of Revenue. In many cases the CMO inherits a transitional marketing team not set-up to drive revenue. Social Prospecting Guidance.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2014

Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. Some of it is direct marketing, such as email, display, and PPC search.

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Paid Content Social Media Survey ROI 252

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 10, 2018

This surprises us, as the quality of the preparation can make or break your opportunities with a new prospect. Work Out Why This Particular Prospect Ended Up On Your List. Have they branched out into new markets? Work out what made this prospect be on your call list in the first place. Google The Person You Are Visiting.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Competition LinkedIn 220

Zoominfo

MAY 28, 2018

Marketing bleeds into social media. But, two marketing initiatives that aren’t often integrated are search engine optimization (SEO) and public relations (PR). But, two marketing initiatives that aren’t often integrated are search engine optimization (SEO) and public relations (PR). Social media bleeds into customer relations.

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B2B Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 194

Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2019

For those of you who aren’t regular readers of the ZoomInfo Blog, we spent last week looking back on our most popular content of 2018. Today, we bring this series to a close with the final installment– for marketers, of course. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. Let’s get into it! That won’t change.

Marketing 164

Marketing B2B Lead Generation Social Media 164

Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 6, 2022

I conducted a Google search for "why salespeople quit their jobs" and was surprised to find more than 6 million results for that query! I also found a similar pattern as I did when I searched for "top sales blogs" last month as part of my research for the article, The Top 12 Sales Blogs of 2022 That Make You Think and Sell More.

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Retention Customer Compensation Hubspot 207