SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2013

At a high level, your marketing strategy must be driven by the stated corporate goals. Once the corporate vision has been established, your marketing plan must align itself completely. Additionally, there must be 100% synergy between the sales and marketing strategies. Too often, the sales and marketing leaders work in siloes.

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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 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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SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

If you are a small company marketing leader, updating your CEO can be a challenge. Implement Lead Management to nurture leads until sales-ready. Track the leads you send sales through to win or loss. Bring your marketing strategy and budget to the CEO and request feedback and approval. Let’s explore them.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

The annual HubSpot INBOUND conference started as a great get-together for fans of the inbound marketing software platform a few years back and has grown now to being one of the biggest and best marketing conferences out there. The post Seth Godin Speaks and Marketers Listen appeared first on Score More Sales. Close More Deals.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2019

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. Ready to learn more?

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MAY 30, 2013

The annual “State of Marketing” Global Survey of Marketers has again been completed, and results were announced at the Smarter Commerce Global Summit last week. You can download the complete results from the IBM State of Marketing 2013 Global Survey. Top marketers act on insights and create a system of engagement.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

They are top sales books, marketing / branding books, training, team building, and a couple of wild cards thrown in too. Since I need to downsize a bit, I decided to pull out 50-75 of these books and instead of dumping them off where they won’t be appreciated, we came up with this idea that is a win/win/win.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Lead evaluation: not every lead is worth pursuing. The best way here is to opt for reliable logistics CRM software with lead management features. Then, compare your leads to the outlined traits in your personas.

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Pointclear

MAY 16, 2017

Then implement the workflow that encourages both sales and marketing to be acccountable for their role in revenue generation. Finally figure out how you can deliver the marketing-nurtured opportunities that sales will follow up on and close. Then, and only then, it's time to check out your automation options. More about this.

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Growbots

MAY 16, 2018

the process of generating and nurturing leads, and closing sales) that need to be bespoke and personal – especially as you edge towards closing a sale – but you’re wasting valuable time if you’re not automating processes that target prospects further down the funnel. Six Ways to Automate Your Outbound Sales. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing are merging for small businesses and require strong collaboration for larger companies. March 2008. February 2008.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This post is for the marketing leader trying to bootstrap their department. Your CEO wants one thing from you: leads that result in more business. Your sales team wants one thing from you: leads that are ready to buy. To satisfy both you need to produce not just more leads, but quality leads.

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SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

I recently had a cup of coffee with a good friend and marketing peer. She has been trying to reduce her cost per lead, but have not been able to get below $360 per qualified lead. She has been trying to reduce her cost per lead, but have not been able to get below $360 per qualified lead. Top Insights.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 6, 2022

Marketing automation (MA) can help any business streamline the marketing process, and you must consider it if you want to stay competitive. Simply said, marketing automation means automating customer-facing processes, tracking their interactions, and providing records of customer information and status. .

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Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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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. How do you define a lead?

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Pointclear

JULY 19, 2017

We had just finished talking about the importance of marketing and sales coming together to mutually define a lead prior to starting a lead generation program. I went on to explain that if the program was delegated to a marketer who didn’t have experience in lead management it wouldn’t work. Just ask!

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Be sure to schedule a free consultation with your lead during their product trial period to discuss any queries or concerns and offer further guidance to ensure they have the best trial experience possible. Download it today and start heating up your cold leads! Want even more sales and marketing tips from our experts?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This article does a good job of explaining the importance of the ULD—assuring everyone is on the same page and working toward the same end—and covers additional ground (“How to do lead management that improves conversion”). LEAVE VOICEMAILS and EMAILS: Are you properly supporting your outbound calls?

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I recently asked fellow industry leaders to weigh in on the rising popularity of Account-Based Marketing among B2B companies. Is ABM the Holy Grail to 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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DECEMBER 31, 2012

If nothing else, download some of their stuff and learn how to attract buyers your way while you work on all of your outbound selling efforts. Doing both outbound + inbound = NEW SALES. There are lots of social media marketing sites – we follow a number of them. Contact us to hear our own great success story.

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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. How do you define a lead?

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SBI Growth

JULY 25, 2013

The best-in-class marketing leaders have already started planning for next year. They follow an annual planning process that starts in July with a Marketing Productivity Benchmark. A productivity benchmark assesses the marketing organization’s capabilities – its strengths and weaknesses. The best marketers assess both.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Does Outbound Lead Gen Still Work? . Outbound prospecting does work and it works well when you know who your target market is, what your buyers are looking for, and you have a compelling message to offer that extols value for those buyer.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Carlos is a recognized thought leader in B2B marketing and known for his keen insights on the development and implementation of lead management processes, as well as marketing automation. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and contributor to many B2B marketing publications. marketers are ahead of salespeople.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 20, 2015

There is a gap between marketing and sales. The solution is simple: convert marketing reps into sales development reps. Mind you, we’re not saying to nix marketing completely. And spending too much on marketing. Inbound Needs Outbound. We grew outbound through inbound content creation. None were predictable.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is hot right now, and the responses I received were excellent.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

As Account-Based Marketing continues to rise in popularity among B2B companies, I decided to pick the brains of fellow industry experts and get their input on the matter. Today, in part 2, we hear from Adam New-Waterson , Chief Marketing Officer at LeanData. Account-Based Marketing is a philosophy, not a product. Buy more lists!

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AUGUST 16, 2013

This week, Inbound Marketing Experts HubSpot came out with their list of 25 Helpful Sales Blogs You Don’t Want to Miss Out on. Follow some of my colleagues through their Twitter handles or via their blogs and you’ll be near some of the best B2B sales advice you can get. Oh, and there is no cost. You gotta like that.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

At the end of January, B2B Sales and Marketing Influencer Craig Rosenberg posted a first ever, annual ranking of Inside Sales Influencers for 2013 on the Radius Intelligence blog. Craig based the list on Kred scores – something I was not even familiar with until I saw this list – drawn from Twitter engagement.

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MARCH 18, 2014

We have always had to communicate with potential buyers, ask for referrals, work trade shows, and advertise / market for new business. It’s funny to hear people debating about how and when social selling will be further adopted. As long as I can remember, selling has ALWAYS been social. The big change now is the tools and technology.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Top Sales World recently published their list of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Blogs. At a recent conference, I liked Oracle Social Selling expert Jill Rowley’s comment: “There is no box” It makes me realize that creativity is one of the best traits in selling you can have. But where to get ideas?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I had the honor and pleasure of being a panelist, along with two of my favorite sales and marketing experts, Nancy Nardin of Smart Selling Tools and Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing. Recently a panel discussed 9 of the top sales myths in business-to-business selling.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

subscribe to Selling Power or Sales & Marketing Management. improve your time management. offer a new service which your market wants. subscribe to Selling Power or Sales & Marketing Management. improve your time management. offer a new service which your market wants.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

In a bigger organization, a marketing team might have specific customer reference team members who focus solely on building up a reference library and referral program. In many SMBs and mid-market companies, often the strategy to ask happy customers for referrals just does not happen. Does your marketing department oversee this?

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JANUARY 15, 2013

I like it because it is divided up into sections: Content Marketing & Thought Leadership. Marketing Automation Becomes a Necessity. The piece – 2013 Make or Break Predictions from the Top Sales Influencers Online was just released yesterday. Sales Team Shake-Ups: Fewer Field Reps, More Inside Sales.

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