Fill the Funnel

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

If you lead a sales team or are in a senior level role at your company, you are probably actively engaged in the planning process to ensure you have a successful 2015. Original article: Key Sales Management Actions to Prepare for 2015 ©2014 Fill the Funnel. Web Tools' There is a lot to consider. I hope to see you there!

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Midsize business owners (and their c-level execs) are optimistic and have put dollars into their 2015 budgets to invest in: Technology (85%). Expand market niche (70%). When it comes to hiring, 74% plan to hire in 2015, although 61% of the respondents feel there is a shortage of qualified talent. Operations (87%). participated.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. “Changing the perspective within your organization is key … it’s not about aligning sales and marketing to each other, but aligning and integrating them both with the customer’s journey.”

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 211

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 11, 2018

Author: Kostas Chiotis Guest blog posting is arguably the best method of inbound marketing that your team can employ. However, only 6 percent of marketers are using guest posting as the majority of their original content strategy. Kostas Chiotis is a blogger and a content marketing specialist. Be Careful.

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Strategy Marketing Real Estate Social Media 96

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Eloqua Marketo Buyer Persona Collateral 316

Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2018

The world of B2B marketing underwent a dramatic transformation in recent years—and unfortunately for us marketers, we no longer have such rigid control of the buyer’s journey. But, how can marketers comply with the varying preferences of their individual buyer? Enter: Multichannel marketing. And the best part?

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Marketing Retail Channels Social Media 189

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. Systems/Processes/Tools. Marketing/Sales Integration. Sales Automation/Tools. Marketing Automation/Tools. Recruiting/Onboarding.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There is no question that the ease of collaboration in 2014 and 2015 is helping businesses and making better use of everyone’s time. From a sales tools perspective, I have seen productivity gains as well as losses. It seems that there are so many tools to help professional sellers and marketers.

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Real Estate Compensation Vendor Twitter 249

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AUGUST 28, 2014

I did an unscientific survey of webinar tool sites as if I was evaluating and making a purchase from my smart phone. For this experiment I looked up webinar tools and webinar platforms. In my search I looked for “webinar platform” and “webinar tool” to get dozens of choices. It could have been any B2B product or service.

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Webinar Metrics B2B Decision Maker Compensation 214

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In the discussions leading up to the event we wanted to deliver something of substance, people can put into practice right away in almost every market segment, and something that would have impact now, before the end of the year. We each presented three things you can do to close the year strong. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto .

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Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

At Sales Hacker last week, we listened and spoke with successful entrepreneurs that are finding ways to improve all parts of their sales pipeline by: providing salespeople with tools to become their own personal marketers. testing inbound marketing strategies that can be implemented by non-techies.

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GoldMine Strategy Conference Inbound 150

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-09-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: The essence of incentive travel as a motivator in the workplace: Travel = fond memories, and fond memories = something we want to repeat. The essence of incentive travel as a motivator in the workplace: Travel = fond memories, and fond memories = something we want to repeat. read more

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 4, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. Theyre redesigning their go-to-market architecture from the ground up to scale with systems, not just people. This goes beyond tools though and refers to the shift behind them. Its not about adding more tools.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 15, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-05-15. Teaser: Price will be a factor when selecting a new CRM tool, but here are four other important characteristics to consider. Price will be a factor when selecting a new CRM tool, but here are four other important characteristics to consider. Author: Miles Jennings, CEO and founder, Recruiter.com.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. More roles, more tools, more input, more enablement, more you name it, yet the CSO Insight, it is not leading to more on a performance basis. Most choose tools to plug holes in execution rather than build and enhance.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 23, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-04-24. Teaser: For insights on how sales and marketing can become stronger team players, look at some of the top characteristics for winning sports teams and determine how new sales engagement tools and more integrated systems can help foster these traits. Author: Micheline Nijmeh. read more

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Even if you’re the three-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton of Sales, you still need a top-performing vehicle, or in this case, a serious set of tools, to help you close. Sales departments are becoming technology buying centers and beginning to rival their marketing and IT counterparts. 3 Datasets to Win the Race.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 2, 2013

As you’ll read below, she boldly predicts that by 2015 inside sales will overtake field sales, as that unfolds, she will be in greater demand. TS: You say that inside sales is going to overtake field sales by 2015. ecosystem – the customer, the talent, and the tools – and a working alignment with marketing.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. In 2015, 43.6 That explains why another study by Amplifinity found that leads generated from referrals convert 4X better than marketing leads. In 2016, it was 53.3

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This blog post delves into the key themes discussed during the interview, offering actionable advice and detailed explanations to help sales and marketing professionals leverage gifting and direct mail effectively. The market was saturated with similar strategies, leading to diminishing returns.

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Top of Funnel Direct Mail Video Lead Scoring 84

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Heading into 2015, there is no excuse for a poor company presence online because you simply cannot afford to ignore it. Inbound Marketing. What is your plan to grow and improve your presence in 2015? Is your company’s virtual presence as robust as it is in person?

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Trade Show Company Engineering Compensation 215

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Last month, IBM announced IBM ® Watson™ Analytics , a natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. As soon as Monday, you (yes, you and your mid-market or SMB company) can sign up for the Beta offering of IBM ® Watson™ Analytics.

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Analytics Analysis Compensation Data 221

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Are You Ready for 2015 Business Planning ? Its purpose was to discuss effective Business Planning and to review a specific process to ensure their plans and more importantly their execution in 2015 will be at higher levels. It is a comprehensive tool designed to reflect your maturity level and an organization. Still true?

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Vendor Face-to-face Objections Channels 78

Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. One theme was clear: AI is touching every part of go-to-market. Equip your team with the right tools (and training!). Invest in platforms and tools that streamline cold calling efforts.

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Cold Calling Scale Microsoft Ideal Customer Profile 71

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

2/9/2015: Just four months later, a hacker gained access to the company’s Twitter page and wreaked havoc. 4/22/2015). (10/26/2015) 10/26/2015) The company’s focus was still security: Chipotle Mexican Grill sources indicate that the company is planning implementations of new security applications. 1/17/2017). (1/17/2017)

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Ideal Customer Profile Banking Consumer Vendor 186

SBI

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Note from Nancy: In case you missed it, we sent our a Dreamforce wrap-up and cool tool report in our newsletter this Sunday. Analyst for Smart Selling Tools and advises executives in SaaS MarTech companies and interactive marketing agencies who seek a competitive advantage in meeting the needs of marketers. -.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank B2B Lead Scoring 122

Vengreso

MAY 28, 2020

Think about this scenario: Your organization is ready to invest (or renew) hundreds of thousands of dollars (or perhaps millions) in your sales technology stack and tools for your team, but the executives and the finance department want you to calculate the ROI to justify the expense of each tool. How quickly will the company see ROI?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. The proliferation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing created huge changes to the software market. 5000 list as we provided IT-only data to our customers well into 2015.

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Decision Maker Marketing Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 120

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

A mid-sized, mid-market company has some great advantages over a giant, slow-to-change organization when it comes to shifting to a more social approach to learn about your buyers and reach those buyers. After all, buyers are online and are reaching out for social proof about the services and products they seek for their businesses.

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Social Selling Company Ideal Customer Profile Twitter 223

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, stiffer competition, and even more headwinds to meeting your ambitious revenue growth goals. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. YoY decline from 2014 levels. Why Your Solutions?

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Decision Maker Forecasting ROI Lead Rank 80

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

At the end of 2015, we realized to grow the way we had forecasted to our Board of Directors, we needed better data on our prospects and customers. Unfortunately for us, there was nobody in the marketplace who was providing a solution for OUR target market. Aligning Sales & Marketing. Here are the top five: 1. Crazy right?

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Data Engineering Call-back Forecasting 181

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Adding new tools to the sales tech stack took the team to the next level. Chili Piper is an intelligent calendar tool. Marketing and sales alignment. Adding to the sales tech stack.

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Inbound Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Outbound Sales Team 227

Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? Search less. Close more.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Lead Scoring 111

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-07-01. Our annual look at the "Tech Effect" on sales and marketing reveals the importance of staying current with today's top tools. Our annual look at the "Tech Effect" on sales and marketing reveals the importance of staying current with today's top tools. read more

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 130

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Here are our recommendations on how you can connect and engage more decision makers to achieve sales success in 2015 and beyond: 1. Jill Konrath in her popular sales blog outlines a formula that heavily uses LinkedIn as a tool: [link]. Again, LinkedIn is a great tool for this.

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