Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. You’re better off getting your advertisement in front of 100 people in a single row of that stadium—as long as they’re good-fit prospects.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Revenue operations leaders are confronting complex challenges on two fronts: designing smarter territories for expansion, and maximizing productivity for frontline go-to-market (GTM) teams. But many RevOps teams still struggle with inefficient segmentation, suboptimal territory design, and a lack of actionable insights. The result?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In the past I, have highlighted how many sellers are limiting if not sabotaging their opportunities while telephone prospecting. This would work great if a large segment of the market had needs they were willing to act on, but the reality is that most potential prospects do not. So now we are down to message.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Author: Jim Fowler Buzzwords don’t get much buzzier than account-based marketing. Marketers in the B2B space are all about it, and there’s data to back that assertion up. Still, while it’s great in theory, ABM isn’t all that practical for most businesses. At its core, ABM is a communication strategy.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 13, 2017

ABM drives bigger, better deals. Most marketing and sales folks I talk to agree … in theory. Many are still trying to figure out how to put ABM principles in place. The deck outlines the 5 steps you need to apply the super-targeted approach to reaching out to prospects that is ABM: Identify Targets and Target Roles.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The upsides of account-based marketing are no mystery to anyone running a B2B go-to-market team. However, the gap between developing an account-based marketing strategy and actually aligning teams to win over their target accounts isn’t always easy to bridge.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2025

But with the right symphony of supporting information, go-to-market teams can leverage intent data to deliver precise, tailored, and timely campaigns that surface truly interested prospects. Need-Based Signals : These show active research behaviors, such as downloading content related to solutions. The challenge?

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is red hot today, and for good reason. According to ITSMA , 84 percent of marketers are seeing higher ROI with ABM than other marketing programs. In other words, marketing should define the ideal customer and know the addressable market. ABM = ICP + TAM.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

If only you could clone the best customers produced from your account-based marketing campaigns… Well, you basically can, using a well-known and effective trick in the B2C toolbox that B2B types should be eager to adopt: lookalike audience targeting. It’s a huge win for ABM too!). What is a Lookalike Audience?

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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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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-based marketing isn’t new anymore. ABM allows you to craft efficient solutions to some of the biggest issues plaguing sales today. At Belkin, ABM helps us process a huge volume of data. ABM Is Here to Stay. Your prospects also expect you to stand out. How do you get results like that?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. While there is no precise recipe to segment audiences, we’re here to help you nail down the fundamentals. The marketer’s version of the chicken or the egg. It’s a win-win. An age-old question.

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Vainu

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It’s well documented that target marketing campaigns, like account-based marketing (ABM), deliver better results and higher return on investment. ABM concentrates most resources on the highest-value prospective customers possible, using highly targeted, personalized campaigns to win over particular accounts.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s one thing if you’re sending a personal email to a prospect or customer — but if you’re sending mass emails, you’re not going to get very far if 90% of your messages get blocked before they ever reach their intended recipient. You may be doing marketing when you email clients, but that doesn’t mean you need to remind them you’re doing it.

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

If your primary marketing strategy has been to “cast a wide net”, consider only going after your white whales – your ideal accounts – instead. Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 24, 2017

Only after you understand your prospect’s situation and the challenges of their IT environment, you can pick up the phone and talk about a solution. Being well-versed in industry trends, terminology, and current issues shows your prospect that she can trust you to understand her priorities and environment. Now quintuple it.

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Zoominfo

JULY 3, 2020

The same way that demographics provide information about human characteristics, firmographic data provides information about firms or companies that allow you to group them into market segments. Firmographic data is useful because it gives marketers deeper insights that they can then use to leverage target accounts.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you show leads content that gets them excited about buying from you. What Is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Marketers then use this information to guide their lead nurturing campaigns and GTM strategies.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer 20 years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2022, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. You’re better off getting your advertisement in front of 100 people in a single row of that stadium—as long as they’re good-fit prospects.

Segment 130

Segment Lead Rank Trends Marketing Qualified Lead 130

MarketJoy

MAY 8, 2025

Implementing a solid SEO strategy will help you appear in front of prospective clients who are actively searching for what you offer. All this data can be analysed to get leads that have shown to have a higher chance of conversion, and you can prioritize these leads for more segmented and effective outreach.

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Lead411

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Companies can expect higher ROI as they avoid resources spent on prospects outside their core ICP. Data-Driven Account-Based Marketing (ABM) An Account-Based Marketing strategy is only as effective as the data that fuels it.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Account-Based Marketing orchestration – sure, that sounds great,” you may think. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”. With ABM?”. With inbound?

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SBI

JULY 21, 2020

The problem here is structural, B2B marketers continue to hold onto strategies of the past, around industry segments, and channel-specific domain expertise. Marketers and salespeople have come to believe that hyper-targeting and hyper-personalization equal customer obsession and focus. Don’t be distracted by this.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 31, 2018

Account Based Marketing/Selling is all the rage today. But having played in this space for more than a few years, a lot of what I see is deja-vu all over again, echoing concepts from the 80’s, 90’s, even before (look at some of the original books on account based selling and when they were published.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

Before you begin looking at which market segments or verticals your sales reps should be focused on, consider why those segments need your solution in the first place. Market shifts like this present new growth segments for your sales team to target. Step 1: Begin with a buyer-centric approach.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 26, 2023

Looking to supercharge your sales and marketing game? Well, ever heard of the LinkedIn account-based marketing strategy? This blog is your ticket to mastering the art of using account-based marketing on LinkedIn. What Is LinkedIn Account Based Marketing? Ready to level up?

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 26, 2023

Looking to supercharge your sales and marketing game? Well, ever heard of the LinkedIn account-based marketing strategy? This blog is your ticket to mastering the art of using account-based marketing on LinkedIn. What Is LinkedIn Account Based Marketing? Ready to level up?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

Sales and marketing teams start their account-based sales (ABS) and account-based marketing (ABM) programs with strategic intentions. They target those that are in-market and those that should be showing intention. They’re watching those accounts that are trending and consuming their content.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 20, 2020

As a result, B2B sales and marketing teams are yanked towards inside sales strategies like account-based marketing and remote selling. Sales and marketing must banish silos and band together during this turbulent time. Why Account-Based Marketing Is the Right Response.

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Lead411

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Analyze Historical Data : Look at past deals to determine which customer types and segments have had the highest success rates. Use this data to identify companies likely in-market for your solution. Prioritize Leads with Intent : Focus on prospects showing high buying intent, as they are further along in the buying cycle.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

On the other hand, while it is aided by top-of-funnel awareness that demand generation drives, lead generation is the process of converting sales-ready prospects into qualified pipeline. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Being well-versed in industry trends, terminology, and current issues shows your prospect that she can trust you to understand her priorities and environment. If you’re executing account-based sales development (ABSD) or your marketing team is doing account-based marketing (ABM), this is especially bad form.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out and writing ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM ) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Jumpstart Account-Based Everything & Identify Target Prospects That Look Just Like Your Best Customers. The Foundation of Account-Based Everything: Identifying Target Accounts. The first step in an effective account-based strategy is target account selection. Prospect accounts.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 27, 2023

Account-based marketing is a marketing tactic that is sales-oriented. Generally, marketing strategies generate leads, and then sales teams try to convert them. But the same is not the case with account-based marketing. What is the three-tiered approach for ABM targeting at scale?

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