SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. Marketing managers enthusiastically produce PowerPoint decks to showcase their contribution to the sales pipeline. But does the sales leader share this enthusiasm?

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Opportunity Demand Generation 325

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In the crowded arena of GTM demand generation, most organizations are laser-focused on optimizing whats already known: nurturing interest in established markets, identifying accounts actively searching for solutions, and meeting familiar challenges head-on. And now, many of us use generative AI in our daily work.

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Scale 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

One of the top reported problems plaguing sales forces is the lack of quality leads. Without a comprehensive lead generation strategy, sales rejection of leads sticks around like a bad rash. This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. Grading sales qualified leads.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 276

The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

Each territory had two hunters, one for each product, two account development/management (AD) people, again one for each product, and an administrative person, all supported by a central customer care group, as to not overwork the front line folks. No one ever had to move out of their comfort zone, mine was hunting.

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Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Territories Demand Generation Targets 296

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. Implement Demand Generation. DEVELOP A LEAD GENERATION STRATEGY. Account Segmentation: Start building your strategy by defining your ideal customer profile. IMPLEMENT DEMAND GENERATION.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation 300

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. Episode 3: Executing an Account-Based Strategy. New to ABM?

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Account Based Marketing Account Video Decision Maker 46

The Pipeline

JUNE 28, 2013

Sales Skills Tibor Shanto Voice Mail Technique' Tibor Shanto.

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Video Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Intent 282

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. 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!”.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 270

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 12, 2012

CEO’s are paying more attention to marketing’s contribution and are holding them accountable for revenue generation.”. It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. This new content production practice will naturally boost your SEO and Social demand generation efforts.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 333

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? Marketers and sales pros agree that early-stage demand generation matters most across all of these areas.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing 237

SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

Plagued by Sales Rep turnover? This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Here’s a sales rep turnover example. These also relate to Sales Rep turnover. Sales success is 50% talent and 50% performance conditions. Your Company.

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Outsourcing Services Hiring Lead Nurturing Demand Generation 326

Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Instead, they generate their own demand, while exercising radical personal accountability. Think of it this way: if you put $100 a week in a savings account, after a year you would have $5,200 (plus a teeny, tiny amount of interest), whether or not that was your main goal.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Exercises Negotiation 94

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

These are the companies driving enterprise buying decisions across industries, and with the ZI 5000, go-to-market teams get unparalleled visibility to pre-modeled, high-resolution intelligence on the accounts that matter most. With the ZI 5000, you can: Preview the depth and quality of real account data before you buy.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Company Scale Enterprise 130

SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support. They are looking for help generating qualified leads. At this point sales sees no value in marketing and why would they? Currently no leads provided to sales.

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Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Targets 296

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

It’s been two years since The Challenger Sale was published. Since this publishing, many B2B sales organizations have embraced this methodology. Since this publishing, many B2B sales organizations have embraced this methodology. The thesis of The Challenger Sale is sound. Most sales reps don’t have “Challenger” DNA.

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Sales Methodology Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Face-to-face 308

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The apps help businesses customize their Salesforce environment, addressing needs across sales, marketing, customer service, and finance functions. These top apps cover a range of use-cases, from enhancing sales processes and automating marketing tasks to improving customer relationship management and boosting overall productivity.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2014

As the first post of the years, I thought I would set the tone for the blog and hopefully sales in 2014. Let’s start by setting straight some unadulterated s**t that has made its way into main stream sales over the last few years. A cute marketing term that elevated the noise created by Sales 2.0, Big difference.

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Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Sales Cycle Comparison 295

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

One of the top reported problems plaguing sales forces is the lack of quality leads. Without a comprehensive lead generation strategy, sales rejection of leads sticks around like a bad rash. This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. Grading sales qualified leads.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

Zoominfo

MARCH 13, 2025

These stories of real companies that have used ZoomInfo to grow, retain, and expand their customer base show how an intelligent approach can drive measurable success: higher conversions, stronger sales alignment, and more predictable growth. Intent data to prioritize high-value accounts and improve lead scoring.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 130

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Account-Based GTM The underlying architecture that most account-based strategies are based on a “pyramid-shaped” ABM deployment model has become outdated, yet it is still often leveraged. Fails to reflect a tiered account-based strategy, leaving the term “1:1 ABM” exorbitantly misinterpreted and misused across ABM leaders.

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Account Based Marketing Account Lead Rank Demand Generation Targets 111

Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2025

We recently caught up with Josh Baez , senior demand generation manager at Netline , and Adam Depelteau , senior product marketing manager at ZoomInfo, for a breakdown of the latest trends and tactics for effectively leveraging intent data. The challenge? Intent data should be seen as go-to-market intelligence.

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Intent Intent Data Intent Signal Account Based Marketing 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When we launched ZoomInfo Marketing in 2022, our goal was to bring ZoomInfo’s unparalleled B2B data and insights to demand generation and marketing teams. When ABM first emerged, the promise of an account-based view meant better sales and marketing alignment. This is even more true for existing ZoomInfo Sales customers.

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Account Based Marketing Intent Data Vendor Intent Signal 147

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Unlike basic analytics, this software bridges the gap between raw traffic data and actionable sales intelligence. Here are some of the benefits: Lead Generation : Detailed visitor data can improve lead quality and conversion rates. Faster Sales Cycles : Access to detailed visitor data shortens the sales process.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Capital One: Enhanced Sales Efficiency with Centralized Data and Automation Capital Ones Commercial Banking division faced significant challenges in optimizing relationship managers (RMs) efficiency due to time-consuming manual data entry and fragmented information sources.

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Territories Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 29, 2013

The SVP of Sales needs more new business. Marketing has plans to help with better Demand Generation and Lead Management. But the Sales Leader can’t wait. We are currently talking with dozens of large company Sales SVPs and CSOs. To this end, sales leaders have reached across the aisle and engaged Marketing.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead 276

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you’re at a small company or startup, you probably are impressed by the highly sophisticated and advanced techniques that your peers at large companies use for building sales lead pipeline. Account-Based Marketing – yeah, sounds great,” you’re thinking. Test a variety of demand generation tactics.

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Small Business Small Business Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies 216

Pointclear

MAY 8, 2013

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

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Quota Cost per Lead Marketing Salary 201

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Have You Read The Sales Book About? Sales eXchange – 121. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Why not adopt that within sales organizations.

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Pipeline Top of Funnel Hiring Real Estate 253

The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Removing The Barrier From Sales – Sales eXchange – 107. Stored in Attitude , Listening , Proactive , Proactivity , Review , Sales eXchange , Success , execution. Sales eXchange , Sales Success , Self improvement , Tibor Shanto , Win/loss analysis. Demand Generation.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Vendor 265

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Only two other businesses had generators. If you are the leader of Sales Operations , ask yourself a few questions: Have I prepared the Sales team for the next compelling event? Then update your Sales Process to assess these events as they happen. Designing or updating your Sales Process is complicated and time consuming.

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Buyer Decision Maker Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 293

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If you don’t, lead generation efforts will hit road blocks. Your credibility with the sales leader will quickly dwindle. One day later, their Instagram account is up to 41K followers. Use these optimizations to improve your mobile responsive site and demand generation strategy. But what are you putting into action?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Advertising Advertising 325

SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? This week I interview Matt Benati , Founder & CEO of LeadGnome.

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Penetration Account ROI Demand Generation Agencies 114

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If you have been following SBI’s Missed Your Number series, we’ve made recommendations on immediate actions sales leaders can take to get back on your growth track. In market-leading organizations, Sales teams are supported through a strategic cross-functional interlock with the marketing team.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Marketing Maximizer 156

Pointclear

MAY 21, 2013

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. How can marketing communications managers know how much interest to generate if they don’t know their salespeople’s quotas? But what about the sales forecast?

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Quota Hiring Marketing Forecasting 191

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. B2B Lead Generation Sources.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Mobile Apps for the Mobile Sales Force. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. One profession that stands to benefit most from these apps is sales. A Random Walk Up Sales Street.

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Pipeline Hiring Travel Twitter 275

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 12, 2017

The last thing you want is to spin cycles on bad data until your sales and marketing teams wear out. In the same manner, many sales intelligence data providers claim to have high levels of accuracy. In Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), data quality is critical for scaling effectively. Setting up the A/B data test.

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Data Gatekeeper ROI Scale 222