Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You’ve heard marketers talk about landing pages and how important they are as part of a holistic marketing plan. In fact, one of the most effective ways to generate leads is through a landing page. So, what is a landing page, and how do you incorporate it into your overall marketing strategy?

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Crunchbase

JULY 31, 2019

How do you build a B2B lead gen strategy? 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. Align Sales and Marketing. The answer? It depends.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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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 does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Stages of Lead Qualification. Pretty simple, right?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 23, 2023

There’s where the best B2B lead generation tool and services come onto the scene, armed with strategies that can transform your lead game into a lead-winning touchdown. There are many lead gen software that help you optimize your lead generation efforts to increase your lead conversion rate.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 8, 2013

Based on the closure rate of the current sales process, how many sales qualified leads (SQL) do you need to make your number? Download the Lead Gen Calculator to determine how many leads you need. We see more and more marketing executives carrying a bag (quota) these days than ever before. Is my team good enough?

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SBI Growth

JUNE 28, 2013

Every Marketing Leader wants to avoid getting labeled that they deliver poor leads. Meet Kathy, a VP of Marketing whose team supports a 25+ sales rep company. She had believed her sales & marketing organization was perfectly aligned until a problem occurred. Marketing proves to be an effective scapegoat.

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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. 1) Outreach.io

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

One guy even said he was thinking of cold calling (shudder) and doing more marketing. It will take more than two minutes to read this month’s posts from No More Cold Calling, but consider doing it anyway: Without Call-Backs, Your Lead Gen Is Dead in the Water. That’s a problem because the best lead gen strategies aren’t digital.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 26, 2018

Author: Stephanie Kidder, Chief Marketing Officer, Azalead You Could Do With Less Leads, But You Do Need to Reach More People. When it comes to effective B2B marketing, sometimes less is more, and sometimes more is more, but it may not always be so obvious. Why shouldn’t marketing do the same?

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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 does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2013

She’s a Marketing VP at a B2B logistics company. The former leader never fully supported or appreciated Kathy’s marketing team efforts. The sales force neglected to utilize marketing developed sales support materials. The sales force neglected to utilize marketing developed sales support materials. Meet Kathy.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

As a business-to-business marketing or sales leader you have numerous options for lead generation tactics and tools. Top choices include teleprospecting, direct marketing, search engine marketing, website, and trade shows.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 147

SBI Growth

JUNE 24, 2013

You’re the CMO and you’re doing everything world class marketing organizations do. You’re fighting the classic finger pointing between sales and marketing. It’s not us it’s them; I could make the number if marketing provided better leads. If the sales talent could evolve with the market; they would make the number.

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The Pipeline

MAY 1, 2014

world, or as many around sales like to call it social selling, is to leverage a number of tools to improve and accelerate the quality of interactions, especially at the early part of the sales cycle. Alternatively, use the best of breed tools, but be left on your own to integrate them on a work-flow level.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. Read on to discover how your marketing and sales teams can close more leads by recognizing and responding to prospects’ buying signals.

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Accent Technologies

JUNE 12, 2018

There are so many facets of marketing that have a direct impact on revenue. It's important as a marketer to know the tools that are available to in order to track your contribution to revenue lift. One of the most fulfilling aspects of a career in demand gen is that you can directly impact revenue generation.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 2, 2017

Sales and marketing teams operate on two sides of the same coin. As job discipline lines continue to blur , sales departments have discovered a few ways marketers can help them do their jobs even more efficiently. A marketer’s job isn’t done once awareness has been created. Sales enablement content need to be customizable.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

You want to know if a lead is qualified well before you even pick up the phone to call them. Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). What is Automated Lead Qualification? Instead, it’s a chase. Faster, even.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Let’s take a look at why SMBs need a lead generation strategy and how to build one for consistent business growth. Why is Lead Generation Important for SMBs? You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. 11 Steps to Build an SMB Lead Generation Strategy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 25, 2017

The tug of war between sales and marketing is real, and it cripples productivity. At the same time, marketing and sales are ultimately after the same thing, and each side often looks to the other to help meet mutual objectives: business growth and ROI, to name a couple. Author: Anna Fisher There’s no going around it. Cue the “Aha!”

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. I blame outdated lead-gen strategies, metrics, and leadership. Some salespeople fool themselves into believing what I call the “warm call fantasy.”

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

So lead generation tools are critical to supporting a company’s growth objectives. This comes in handy when trying to maintain a pipeline of marketing-qualified leads (MQL) all year long! Sales intelligence is critical for lead generation. Turn events into a lead-gen opportunity. This is part 3.

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

His perspectives on how artificial intelligence transforms sales and customer service revealed a technology that’s not just a fad but a valuable productivity tool. Customer demand for more efficient outreach and lead gen. A common worry about AI tools is accuracy. I wanted to share some of his compelling insights.

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Pointclear

JULY 19, 2012

Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has or hasn’t happened in marketing and sales this year that’s surprising, Brian talks about the way many companies haven’t fully embraced optimizing their effective selling time by looking at marketing, lead generation and aligning sales and marketing.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 4, 2019

Over the past couple of days I’ve had an “interesting” exchange with a marketing/lead gen “expert.” ” I had been the “victim” of one of his demand gen campaigns. I’m, by no means, an expert in marketing and demand gen. Any open, any response is good.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 13, 2013

To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. You will have access to guides, templates and tools. These tools will help you excel in your current and future sales positions. The company could not penetrate an already competitive market. Their product was great. The funnel dried up.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Debate: Is Social Media Lead Gen or Brand Building or Both? Many marketers look at social as a lead generative channel in which a business shares a piece of content that leads someone back to their site to purchase whatever they’re hocking. For small businesses, social media is likely lead generation-focused.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2023

Varying types of products/services, different markets, transactional and complex sales. Since generating more pipeline is so critical to selling success, the constant emphasis on prospecting, lead gen, and demand gen is critical. The responses tended to re-affirm the observations from my literature search.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Debate: Is Social Media Lead Gen or Brand Building or Both? Many marketers look at social as a lead generative channel in which a business shares a piece of content that leads someone back to their site to purchase whatever they’re hocking. For small businesses , social media is likely lead generation-focused.

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Green Lead's B2B

AUGUST 28, 2019

Most sales people today have found that using LinkedIn as a research tool to identify specific prospects has been a fantastic way to find the needle in a haystack of potential leads. Just three more clicks according to Green Leads' BDR Mira. If you have any LinkedIn tips, or Lead Gen Tips in general, please share them.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 25, 2012

.” That’s what more than one marketing executive told me at a recent sales and marketing event. Then these marketing people said that salespeople are terrible at lead gen. They also told me that they don’t want their salespeople generating their own leads (translation: too expensive).

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way to support them is through AI-powered sales tools. AI is speeding up the process from lead to close. But AI-powered new lead gen tools, such as Salesforce’s Einstein, are replacing customer-mining tasks, leaving salespeople free to pursue prospects and other high-value tasks.

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