SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. Those that miss critical spend categories altogether.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a preview of the 2013 Content Marketing Benchmark Report by Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute , only 36% of businesses believed their content marketing is effective. After a few years of hyper-growth content marketing adoption, it is easy to think this number should be higher. What is this number?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

When surveyed as to the most influential content in decision making, white papers remain the stand-out content of choice. Although white papers remain influential, technology media firms such as Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE) and others report that white paper downloads are DOWN year over year.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Create the R ight C ontent for Y our A udience About 37% of experienced B2B marketers produce compelling sales content for their target audience. Studies show ebooks and white papers can also impact the customer decision-making process. Investing in LinkedIn marketing solutions can help your brand generate more qualifying leads.

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Allego

MARCH 28, 2023

DSRs help you: Eliminate hassle for buyers with a centralized buying resource hub. They deliver a compelling buying experience, while enabling you and your marketing team to track which content the buyer reads, watches, and/or downloads—and which content performs best. Delight modern buyers with a branded experience.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. These are based on market research and real data about your existing customers. Each persona represents a distinct segment of your target market. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Free Resources. Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. Home About The Pipeline. 0 Subscribers.

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Janek Performance Group

MAY 2, 2023

We’re all familiar with economic fluctuations, emerging markets, new products and technology, and organizational turnover. As buyers know more about their problems, potential solutions, and available resources, the more discerning they can be. For more, see our white paper Finding, Onboarding, and Retaining Top Sales Talent.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2017

Author: Joe Andrews In a previous article we laid out why knowing your ideal customer profile (ICP) and total addressable market (TAM) is critical to growing your revenue. They bring focus and efficiency to your team, and they enable you to execute targeted go-to-market strategies like account-based marketing.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 27, 2018

Back in the day, as a product line manager, I was responsible for launching several new computer storage management products, and always leveraged the 4Ps of Marketing as my guide. As buyers have evolved to be more in-control, cautious and economic-focused, as Cold as ICE, the 4Ps of Marketing have evolved too.

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Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition.

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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. Strategic Offer Assessment.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

We identify them because they are hitting on our websites, downloading white papers and we reach out to them saying, “We have the best solutions in the world, can we talk… ?” These segments represent the majority of the market. They could achieve much more, but they are, for the moment, doing OK.

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Pointclear

JULY 26, 2018

E-books and white papers. A new white paper is also in the works. The statements and quotes are significant enough, and in many cases backed by percentages of improvement, that it’s worth considering them for the white paper also. Retweets are common from the guest’s marketing staff. Nurture material.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. Traditional Product Management Here’s the other problem.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2021

Marketing (and sales) inundate customers and prospects with endless emails, texts, phone calls. Part of our problem in figuring out how to respond to these changes is that we continue to start from our current/historical models of marketing, selling, customer service/experience. We look to marketing to create/drive leads.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Thank you, Marketing ). Middle: Here, the prospect downloads a white paper or signs up for a webinar. Once your prospects show interest in your product, it’s imperative to give them resources to guide their decision. Top: At the broadest part of the funnel, prospects interact with your content. Interest Stage.

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Pointclear

JUNE 28, 2012

As a member of the Executive Advisory Group, he delivers CMO and Sales Advisory Services that provide senior technology marketing and sales executives with insights into how to improve productivity and efficiency in their organizations. My PowerViews guest today is Rich Vancil, IDC Group Vice President for Executive Strategies.

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LeadFuze

JULY 20, 2021

We’ll have a bit of fun along the way using the cult classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Getting the Email Response for Your New Product Launch Marketing Plan Is Exciting. Avoid These Reactions on Your New Product Launch Marketing Plan Email Response. If so, send them resources to keep them on the hook.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For marketing, digital transformation has always been about data. Data has been the essential raw material used to identify market segments, market size, audience, buyer preferences, message content, contact qualification and all the other metrics and values required to market a product. Marketing Process Automation.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m fascinated about a lot of the discussion about marketing and sales alignment. Usually marketing is saying “sales isn’t following up on our leads, consequently we’re losing lots of opportunity.” Our marketing and sales funnels basically identify our workflows in marketing and sales activities.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 5, 2021

Too often, however, our “selection” of opportunities we pursue, seems to be based on the criteria like, “They hit on our website… They downloaded a white paper… They fogged a mirror.” For example, recently, I was working with a team of product managers, product marketing, and sales.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 23, 2013

Those actions might include: Downloading a white paper on your site. Assign a numeric value to the transactions that landed them in your pipeline, as well as a lead’s job title—for those B2B marketers—and demographics data if you can get it. Master the Marketing Message. Look at past customers you’d like to replicate.

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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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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer. Improve your content marketing with valuable and informative blogs, white papers, and e-books.

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Zendesk Sell

MARCH 21, 2019

Aligning sales and marketing teams is a struggle for many companies. blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. The result?

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. At this point, the B2B buyer knows their pain points and is actively seeking a solution.

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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 30, 2012

Marketing needs to change. It’s time for marketing to bring some substance to the table. It’s time marketing add a research department and bring some banging information and insight to the table. Marketing needs to go beyond the telling message and begin to teach. This role will be heavily research dependent.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Thank you, Marketing ). Middle: Here, the prospect downloads a white paper or signs up for a webinar. Interest Stage Once your prospects show interest in your product, it’s imperative to give them resources to guide their decision. Top: At the broadest part of the funnel, prospects interact with your content.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 30, 2016

I’ve been in marketing doing just that for most of my professional career. Doesn’t he know what marketing is? Maybe we marketing geniuses are not getting the job done. Marketing spends a lot of time and effort crafting direct-selling product collateral, web pages, campaign support materials, white papers and blog posts.

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Allego

APRIL 18, 2024

In fact, consulting firm McKinsey & Company says, “AI is poised to disrupt marketing and sales in every sector.” By targeting users based on specific behaviors and preferences, AI enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of lead generation campaigns so that marketing efforts are directed toward individuals who are most likely to convert.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 9, 2011

Based on the lifecycle of your particular B2B company and product lines, you may find yourself in one of three distinctive categories that SiriusDecisions created to help define how to best market and sell your solutions. They often don’t have the resources to investigate their issues completely, or explore new potential solutions.

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Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

You always want to ensure that your business is getting the most from your sales resources. If you are like many marketers today, you have created personas with demographics, attitudes, and behaviors to help frame and target your messages. The white paper is a staple of the B2B sales toolkit. Use visual storytelling.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2012

Free Resources. The advantage is that you have experts in the field researching specific areas of interest, and delivering valuable resources you can use, thereby saving you time and effort, and allow to utilize and benefit from those resources. When Sales Met Marketing. White Paper. Home About The Pipeline.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 14, 2013

That’s quickly changing, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Koka Sexton, LinkedIn’s senior manager of social marketing. If a potential customer visits your company website and downloads a white paper, one of the first things your sales team will want to know is who is connected to that potential customer on LinkedIn.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 13, 2012

As a result, you absolutely need to invest in Value Marketing Tools to drive revenue: challenging the “do nothing” buyer to take action, justifying the investment in your proposed solutions, and quantifying your differentiating value. But how can you be sure that the investment in Value Marketing Tools will pay-off?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Framework for Your B2B Marketing Plan (2022 Update). Who currently have job openings for marketing help. What Is a B2B Marketing Plan and Strategy? B2B marketing plan and strategy is about how you plan to raise brand awareness. What is a b2b marketing strategy? B2B Email marketing.

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