Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

Paid Content 207

Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

That is where channel sales or indirect sales comes into the picture. What is a channel sales? A channel sales strategy allows sales teams to leverage third parties to sell products and services. Many organizations adopt the channel sales strategy which offers a viable and game-changing opportunity to grow sales figures.

Channels 48

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 21, 2025

Traditional publishers typically focus on their bottom line, often prioritizing their most lucrative titles and leaving lesser-known authors to fend for themselves in terms of marketing and promotion. This illustrates the point that a book can serve as a powerful marketing tool, opening doors that may not have been accessible otherwise.

Lead Rank 92

Lead Rank Video Lead Scoring Marketing 92

Pointclear

MAY 1, 2013

Frank Donny is founder and CEO of Marseli , a marketing and sales analytics and performance software company. Frank''s remarkable 25-year career of driving marketing and sales operations divisions within Fortune 500 and start-up organizations is highlighted by his passion for business development and empowering others to succeed.

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Analytics Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Negotiation 216

SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2013

It is to align the talent to where the market will be in 2014. The tool shown below shows a quick assessment of Return on Investment. It compares the new revenue contribution for 3 different sales channels: Direct Field Sales. In this example, Telesales clearly offered the best return on the dollars invested.

Compensation 292

Compensation Retention Ideal Customer Profile Territories 292

SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Organic social marketing has a place in brand building. The State of Organic Social Over half of surveyed marketers remain committed to organic social media. Marketers can quickly place content, especially if they are managing organic social themselves. That fact drives 42% of marketers to limit spending.

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Nutshell

MAY 7, 2024

To make the most of these events, you’ll need to measure the return on investment, or ROI, of the trade shows you attend. Table of Contents Understanding ROI in the context of trade shows How to measure ROI from trade shows Utilizing your CRM to enhance trade show preparation Not seeing a positive ROI from trade shows?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

However, Jones argues that by focusing on a select few tasks that yield the best return on investment, individuals can enhance their productivity. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 1500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP!

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Video Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 96

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Especially if you’ve just been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer. Extending far beyond traditional marketing tactics, today’s CMO shoulders vast and complex responsibilities that now span technology, analytics, revenue and—above all—measurable impact. Don’t forget to show the ROI of your marketing team. This will 1.)

Lead Rank 230

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen ROI 230

SBI Growth

JUNE 22, 2020

When it comes to Partner Marketing, the main focus, if there’s any focus at all, is often on making sure that your partners have the playbooks, tools, understanding, and marketing funds to sell your company’s products. But how much are.

ROI 207

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

The contemporary competitive market poses a formidable challenge to maintain profitability across multiple sales channels. Instead of relying on manual calculations and outdated spreadsheets, businesses can leverage CPQ to implement strategic pricing models that align with market conditions and customer expectations in real time.

Margin 48

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. “It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

Increase Sales

APRIL 20, 2012

Simply speaking, social equity is a term to define the impact of social media actions (think return on investment) for an organization. It links the human factor, the people factor to all social marketing efforts. People buy on value unique to them and this begins within your social media channels.

Social Media 171

Social Media Real Estate Small Business Small Business 171

Lead411

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Maximizing ROI with B2B Data for a Go-To-Market Strategy Whether you’re launching a new product, entering a new market, or re-targeting your ideal customers, B2B data plays a critical role in informing every phase of GTM planning.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile ROI Account Based Marketing Maximizer 52

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2011

For those in sales lead management, it means tackling the biggest barrier that is stopping you from getting the best return on investment from the leads you generate. The challenge we all have is to overcome the barriers that are stopping our company from getting its rightful ROI from lead generating dollars.

ROI 157

ROI Face-to-face Lead Generation Lead Management 157

Pipeline

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Scott Edinger also claims a similar result in Harvard Business Review : “In my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. ” If the failure rate is that high, how can businesses achieve any return on investment (ROI) of their CRM?

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Maximizer CRM ROI How To 52

SMEI

JANUARY 12, 2022

E-commerce marketers are currently bracing themselves for another year of turbulence in the marketplace. There are five key trends that will determine what successful e-commerce marketing will look like in 2022. Marketing will have to be very efficient if it is going to want to maintain demand.

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Marketing Apparel Consumer Social Media 156

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Author: Rachel Downey Modern marketers are no stranger to showing a return on investment for their campaigns. As demand for ROI continues, many are retooling their content strategies to prove a return. Too often, marketers are seeing their podcast as a thought leadership tool meant to increase “brand awareness.”

ROI 177

ROI Top of Funnel Channels Lead Nurturing 177

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Chris Selland is CMO at Terametric , a company focused on maximizing marketing ROI by helping marketers capture and measure all their channel marketing data. However, that difficulty does not absolve marketers from making an effort.

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Demand Generation Agencies ROI Salary Demand Generation 178

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Which media format is being ignored by marketers? Your clients are likely missing out on the advantages of audio advertising, and its time to set them straight. The State of Audio WARC and Audacy recently published a white paper on the state of audio advertising. Some marketers have gone all in on retail marketing.

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Advertising Advertising Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 59

Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. If you get one variable wrong — the audience, the content offer, or even the channel — you can waste thousands of dollars. Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step.

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Advertising Advertising Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Account Based Marketing Trends B2B Marketing 130

MarketJoy

APRIL 25, 2025

Utilizing multi-channel outreach: Use different channels to reach your prospects, such as email, LinkedIn, and cold calling, to do more with less. Belkins About: Appointment setting and email marketing-focused lead generation agency. Data-Driven Approaches: Using AI, automation, and analytics to fine-tune lead qualification.

Lead Generation 52

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 52

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Word-of-Mouth as a Sales Conversion Channel Mike Hofman , writing for Inc.com, has gained insight into today’s best marketing channels to master sales. From his conversations, he discovered that the underutilized and often overlooked business referral is “a powerful, wildly underleveraged channel."

Ideal Customer Profile 59

Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Referrals Sales Qualified Lead 59

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 145

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Since launching ZI Labs in May 2022 , we’ve been meeting with go-to-market (GTM) leaders, customers, and analysts to learn more about how we can help solve the most urgent problems facing their businesses today. Today’s sales and marketing leaders recognize that their GTM strategies must serve broader growth objectives.

Marketing 130

Marketing Scale Face-to-face Channels 130

Connext Digital

MARCH 24, 2024

Email marketing remains one of the most powerful and effective marketing channels available to marketers today. Despite the rise of social media and other digital marketing tactics, email still reigns supreme for its ability to drive results and high ROI.

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Email Marketing Marketing Social Media Channels 94

Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2018

Yet, B2B marketers have been slow to adopt programmatic advertising, especially compared to their B2C counterparts. If you’re among the B2B professionals who haven’t adopted programmatic advertising practices, today’s post is for you. What are the benefits of programmatic advertising? Bigger returns. Keep reading.

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Advertising Advertising B2B Scale 185

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

Lead411

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Use this data to identify companies likely in-market for your solution. Leverage Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Tactics Focus on High-Value Accounts : Use data to identify and target high-value accounts that match your ICP. This ongoing optimization improves conversion rates. Here’s a guide to help you.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Process B2B 52

Zoominfo

JANUARY 14, 2022

Every demand gen marketer wants the same thing — more budget. That means figuring out how to allocate your money between all of your different channels to get the highest return on investment without overspending. Finance will typically be comfortable providing enough budget for a fivefold ROI.”

Marketing Qualified Lead 100

Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Maximizer Marketing 100

Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In this article, I delve into channel sales —a strategy that involves leveraging third-party intermediaries such as dealers and affiliates to distribute products—enabling companies to penetrate new markets without relying on a sizable in-house sales team. Discover how in our latest article by @M_3Jr!

Channels 65

Channels Outsourcing Services Strategy Lead Rank 65

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Social media is an integral part of every marketing strategy. However, there’s a myth that says B2B social media marketing isn’t effective. The sole reason is this myth that mentions the ineffectiveness of B2B social media marketing. So, how do you perfect your marketing strategy? Seth Price . Brittany Hardy

Social Media 98

Social Media Media B2B B2C 98

Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Some days business marketing seems exciting and ripe with opportunity. Take the thrilling wonderland of social media marketing, for example. You can be out there connecting, sharing information and tweeting to your heart’s content, and never see one red penny of ROI. Start with Goals and a Plan for Your Content Marketing ROI.

Social Media 107

Social Media Marketing Referrals Facebook 107

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By leveraging predictive sales analytics, companies can enhance decision-making accuracy and foresee market trends. 5- Multi-Channel or Omnichannel Communication Multi-channel communication capabilities are no longer a luxury but a necessity in today’s omnichannel world. Let’s break it down.

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Software Software Scale Sales Qualified Lead 114

Increase Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Online sales leads generation from social media efforts, direct email marketing campaigns, whatever the marketing channel all direct the efforts back to an Internet website. Sales Training Coaching Tip: Alignment is critical between inbound marketing and the website not to mention all those outbound marketing efforts.

Lead Generation 130

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 130