DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 2, 2019

We expect major gains in the sophistication – and volume – of B2B data in 2019. The research and advisory firm recently shared proprietary insights from their own analysts and offered up some predictions for 2019. Sales Development Reps still don’t know what to say,” TOPO’s analysts add. “We BIG business.

Data 196

Data Intent Data Customer Intent 196

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

With more independent and educated customers, where do sales and marketing fit into this new model? With more and more possibilities available to the online consumer, the desire for self-serve options does not seem to be subsiding anytime soon.

Ideal Customer Profile 374

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Marketing Education 374

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It's a lot like it was in 2019, pre-pandemic, only different. I am helping one company find a single needle-in-a-haystack sales leadership candidate and it has taken nearly six months. I am helping another company find 3 sales leaders and received 3,765 applications. Have you tried recruiting salespeople lately?

Hiring 317

Hiring Sales Leadership Groups Objections 317

Zoominfo

JULY 9, 2019

Today’s round-up features content about collecting better customer testimonials, building sales pipeline, executing data-driven business strategies, and more! 8 Ways to Collect Better Customer Testimonials in 2019. Customer reviews and testimonials have been a staple in nearly every marketing strategy for decades.

B2B 180

B2B Retail Segment Scale 180

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2019

These blog posts typically explore topics related to B2B marketing, B2B sales, recruiting, or business growth. Today’s installment features content about getting ahead in your career, personalized marketing, lead generation roadblocks, brand trust, and more! 15 Times Marketers Won with Personalization. Let’s get into it!

B2B 189

B2B Lead Generation Lead Rank Consumer 189

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2019

We have mad respect for the classics – but we’ve updated the sales reading list for 2019. Outbound Sales, No Fluff – by Rex Biberston and Ryan Reisert. The full title of this book is the first baller move of many: Outbound Sales, No Fluff, Written By Two Millenials Who Have Actually Sold Something This Decade.

Hiring 210

Hiring Outbound Cold Calling Top of Funnel 210

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 3 hours, the go-to-market teams at ZoomInfo made 24,000 calls, ended up on the phone with our customers and prospects for 250 hours, scheduled 400 follow up meetings, etc. Don’t worry: today’s blog post isn’t another rehashing of the same tired argument sales reps hear on a near-daily basis. Here’s how we did it.

Cold Calling 200

Cold Calling Call-back Competition Scale 200

Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

There’s no denying it — sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. The two departments may see eye-to-eye and share unified goals, but it’s less common for sales to proactively help marketing perform better, or vice versa. Every hero needs a sidekick — and in sales, that sidekick is content marketing.

Top of Funnel 241

Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing Case Study 241

SBI Growth

JANUARY 13, 2020

The 2019 fiscal year is in the rearview mirror, and 2020 has officially started. Strategic planning is finished, and plans to get off to a fast start in FY20 are in motion. For many CEOs, the strategy and approach used.

Competition 250

Competition Marketing Strategy Research 250

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation.

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Trade Show Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 227

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

Top of Funnel 218

Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

SBI Growth

MARCH 2, 2019

Today’s interview is a special one, we have two guests on SBI TV – a marketing leader and sales leader – you’ll learn they’ve teamed up to tackle data siloes and make data-driven decisions. We are joined by Jill.

Data 247

Data Marketing Sales Video 247

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

After all, in 2019, many enterprise sales calls absolutely had to be in person. There’s no doubt that the pandemic has permanently impacted daily life in every way. It’s also clear that corporate digital transformation is accelerating in every way.

Enterprise 356

Enterprise Enterprise How To Revenue 356

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Digital isn’t a sales strategy, hope is not a strategy, referrals are not a strategy, marketing is not a strategy. Sales strategy isn’t yours or mine. People don’t understand precepts and are not engaged by big ideas—unless leaders translate vision into sales strategy and explain what it means for every function in the company.

Webinar Metrics 339

Webinar Metrics Strategy Cold Calling Customer 339

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Is your sales team disengaged? While not all sales teams may be struggling with demand (in fact some technology companies are experiencing record years), disen­gage­ment seems to be prevalent across all organizations and industries regardless of financial success. In late 2019, we surveyed more than 3,000 U.S.

Incentives 340

Incentives Incentive Survey Sales Qualified Lead 340

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. Comparing the period from April 2019 through April 2020, there were increases for angel and seed funding (up 27% year over year), series A funding (up 15%), and series B funding (up 8%).

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Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 246

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Ryan Gould In the context of content marketing, a product-agnostic approach is one that focuses on your expertise and knowledge around a product, technology or service rather than your brand. The product-agnostic approach to content marketing has been around for a long time. 4 Examples of Product-Agnostic Content.

Top of Funnel 237

Top of Funnel B2B Webinar Metrics Marketing 237

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

Top of Funnel 255

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate.

Ideal Customer Profile 202

Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

SBI Growth

AUGUST 29, 2020

How has your company adapted to the new demands of the market? In a virtual world, Customer Experience has definitively been at the forefront of the digital revolution. Many have been turning to AI and automation for an optimized experience.

Ideal Customer Profile 303

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Marketing Company 303

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Over the past several months, SBI’s latest research has unpacked how market-leading CEOs have responded to market disruption and how they approach planning for 2021. Those identified as “Accelerators” have not only managed to thrive in the face of adversity.

Leads 305

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face 305

SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2018

What’s your forecast for 2019? Do you have the heads, processes, and funding to ensure a successful 2019? Only a handful of Sales Ops leaders can. It’s Crunch Time – the Beginning of Q4. Are you going to hit your 2018 number?

Analytics 253

Analytics Forecasting CRM How To 253

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.

Lead Rank 211

Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 211

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

However, how are market leaders positioning themselves to be set. With the global shift to working from home, UC&C companies have witnessed a record amount of demand for their tools and services to carry on productivity away from the office.

Marketing 292

Marketing Strategy Positioning Tools 292

SBI Growth

MARCH 15, 2019

Your Product Does Not Sell Itself — Why Clarity Between Product Management & Marketing is Critical Don’t let confusion between product management and product marketing responsibilities risk your product’s success. Devote time early on to clarify these within your team and.

Marketing 189

Marketing Revenue Strategy Sales 189

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Joining us on the SBI Podcast is Stephen Thomas, SVP of Global Sales for Armor Cloud Security. Armor is a hybrid cloud security service that integrates advanced analytics, global threat intelligence, and continuous response capabilities into a single platform that bolsters.

Analytics 248

Analytics Marketing Sales Marketing Qualified Lead 248

SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2020

As part of our advisory program, SBI recently held a virtual meeting comprised of an intimate group of market-leading B2B CEOs (public and private with market caps from $1B to 10B) to discuss current market challenges and opportunities for achieving.

Leads 272

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing B2B 272

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Revenue teams – Companies will move beyond simply aligning sales and marketing toward revenue teams?—?super super teams that include customer success in the same organization as sales, marketing and operations.

Trends 289

Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 289

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Picture this: We are a few weeks into the new year, the results from Q4 are in, and there’s been a big drop in sales. There could be many reasons for this drop, such as a lack of marketing and sales alignment,

Hiring 205

Hiring Marketing Analysis Sales 205

SBI Growth

JANUARY 11, 2019

As a Marketing Leader, there are a lot of people in your ear on a daily basis. Your leadership wants you to drive more revenue, your sales leadership wants better leads, your customers expect more delivered to them with each.

Marketing 235

Marketing Sales Leadership Revenue Leads 235

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Sales coverage is one of the most strategic decisions a sales leader needs to make. The goal is to design a coverage plan that serves the needs of your customers and optimizes customer acquisition costs. You also need to ensure.

Customer 209

Customer Segment Buyer Sales 209

Zoominfo

AUGUST 14, 2020

Part one of our GTM series was all about our inbound go-to-market motions. From our perspective, It doesn’t matter if you’ve switched careers or if it’s your first job out of college, starting a new job at a sales organization can be overwhelming. I looked back to September 24th, 2019. Here’s what I do.

Hiring 200

Hiring Lead Scoring Lead Rank Outbound 200