Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. Lessons from going to market with the Solutions team at mParticle. Is customer success COGS or OpEx?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Your marketing strategy is not just about making the number this year. Great CMO’s set a strategy to make the number in 2014 and beyond. As the CMO you’ve done everything you can without the use of marketing automation. You now have the support of the CEO to modernize the marketing organization. Why would they?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

As a Marketing Leader, you are expected to contribute to the revenue goal. Mature marketing organizations ex pect this number to be upwards of 30%. The popular answer is “content marketing”. The Content Marketing Institute describes content marketing as “the present – and future – of marketing.”

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2013

He’s facing the extraordinary pressure of leading a Marketing organization at a firm poised to go public. They constantly prepare to meet tomorrow’s buyer behavior and marketing demands. The demands for the CMO keeping pace with the market require constant recalibration. Background. 5 Key Priorities.

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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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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Impacting a marketing team’s output in that short period of time requires a quick start. B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. Marketing contribution as a % of Pipeline Opportunities. Marketing contribution as a % of Revenue.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 19, 2013

He had been given an aggressive goal for 2014. I completely lost the battle on the 2014 revenue number” he said. “My For example, you may recognize that you have a massive demand generation problem. Will it strengthen your position in the market? The topic was his number. He was practically in a panic. "I

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

As a Marketing Leader, you are expected to contribute to the revenue goal. Mature marketing organizations ex pect this number to be upwards of 30%. The popular answer is “content marketing”. The Content Marketing Institute describes content marketing as “the present – and future – of marketing.”

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SBI Growth

JUNE 4, 2013

Your 2014 revenue number is already on the line. Demand Generation and Lead Management. Don’t skip this topic assuming that it is “marketing’s job.” To capture these lost opportunities, you’ll need to reach across the aisle to marketing. For many of our clients, the average sales cycle exceeds 6 months.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now.

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Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. It works for you if you can control it. Outside that – it’s a free-for-all.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 18, 2018

And you have to do it anyway I think about this idea of “training” a lot when I talk to VPs of Sales and VPs of Marketing who tell me that they are just going to rely on their Rolodexes and their CEOs network because “ cold calling is dead,” and people don’t answer their phones anymore. DiscoverOrg came to this fork in the road in 2014.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 15, 2018

I think about this idea of “training” a lot when I talk to VPs of Sales and VPs of Marketing who tell me that they are just going to rely on their Rolodexes and their CEOs network because “cold calling is dead,” and people don’t answer their phones anymore. Here’s the thing: Outbound lead and demand generation strategies WORK.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

With this data, your marketing team can personalize emails and other content , your sales reps can anticipate customer needs and proactively pitch them, and your commerce team can personalize web content. Lead and Marketing Automation Your CRM should help you easily capture and nurture leads. Pros of HubSpot Robust freemium plan.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

They rely on manually-entered data to monitor the sales pipeline and coach their salespeople, and they run sales and marketing independently, creating a disjointed experience for buyers. Demand Generation. With an IPO in 2014, HubSpot is now valued at over $6.5 Align sales and marketing.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Marketing/Sales Integration. Marketing Automation/Tools. Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. Systems/Processes/Tools.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Those have become two of the most loaded words for modern marketers. Social Media Marketing is Trickier Than it Sounds. Twitter, for example, already demonstrates this increase, with ad revenue increasing 60% year-over-year from Q3 2014 to Q3 2015. Social media. million in 2015 to well over $35 million by 2017.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Those have become two of the most loaded words for modern marketers. Social Media Marketing is Trickier Than it Sounds. Twitter, for example, already demonstrates this increase, with ad revenue increasing 60% year-over-year from Q3 2014 to Q3 2015. Social media. million in 2015 to well over $35 million by 2017.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Melissa Murillo is an award-winning and highly skilled sales leader with over a decade of experience in marketing and business development specializing in the IT channel.

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