SBI Growth

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you run a $5B company, you need a strategic presence in your marketing organization. However, if you think you need a highly experienced marketing strategist to take your company from $50M to $100M, think again. CEOs of emerging growth companies need ‘doers’ leading marketing. Implementing antiquated advertising campaigns.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 15, 2014

You know today’s buyer is time starved and media saturated. Social Selling Sales Leader Prospecting LinkedIn Small Company Sales Leader Resources Advertising and Marketing Social Prospecting' You know how hard it is for your reps to prospect today. Targets don’t answer their office phones or open e-mails.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2018

A little bit of humor can go a long way– even in the marketing world. Today’s marketing professionals must juggle a number of high-priority tasks throughout the day, and often, they find themselves under a significant amount of stress. In these cases, a few lighthearted jokes can ease the tension of the day-to-day marketing job.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Author: Andrew Frazier You need to market your small business like a drug dealer. It does until you take a closer look at their marketing and sales strategy. Small business owners can learn a lot from analyzing what drug dealers do in terms of defining their target market, performing marketing activities, and building relationships.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Given its rising popularity, podcasting is now an avenue marketers can explore to publish more branded content and reach new audiences. But, it’s also a great resource for marketers who simply want to learn new tips and strategies or find a bit of motivation for their day-to-day efforts. 1. This Old Marketing Podcast.

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Paid Content Marketing Social Media Top of Funnel 252

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 12, 2017

The best marketing minds are like that – a marriage of seeming opposites that end up working together. Strategic marketers today must balance the right brain that controls creativity and intuition and the left brain that processes information logically and analytically. Here tonight,” he said, “we have apple and orange.

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Marketing SAP Analytics Webinar Metrics 219

Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2019

In decades past, the world of marketing was dominated by print advertisements in newspapers and magazines. These antiquated marketing tactics had one thing in common: They put the product front and center, with clever presentations intended to entice prospects to become paying customers. Let’s get into it! Use natural language.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

SBI Growth

JULY 16, 2013

Every Marketing Leader has asked the question: “Can Facebook be leveraged to drive leads?” LinkedIn is the gold standard for B2B social marketing. You need a marketing strategy and approach that works. Facebook entered the search engine market with the launch of “graph search”. What about for B2B? Why Leverage Facebook?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As a Marketing Leader, you pay attention to mobile trends. Best in class marketers evolved beyond mobile optimized websites. Mobile adoption as a marketing tool became readily apparent as we watched the latest Super Bowl commercials. There are valuable B2B marketing lessons to take away from the B2C Super Bowl of marketing.

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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.

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Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2018

Brands that market directly to consumers recognize YouTube as a powerful tool. But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing. Explore YouTube advertising. We say yes! Let’s get into it!

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B2B Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 217

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. By leveraging the power of data and advanced analytics, marketers are able to develop targeted lists of accounts that perfectly align with their ideal customer profiles. This not only maximizes ROI, but also minimizes wasted time and resources on low-potential prospects.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Account Software 130

SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most. I have long been an advocate of qualitative buyer research to uncover insights that can shape strategy.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 20, 2018

The marketing tech landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Subsequently, new technologies have emerged as well, aimed to help marketers achieve specific tasks and objectives. Today, we break down the most important categories of marketing tech.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. The best B2B option until now has been LinkedIn ads. Case Study.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Buyer personas. Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 21, 2013

Insufficient lead generation – every marketer’s worst enemy. We work with marketing leaders across nineteen different industries. There is a skill gap in knowing how to build & execute marketing campaigns. It must also have a timeline and be compatible with your other marketing efforts. Tele-marketing.

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Campaigns Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 319

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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Account Based Marketing Account Software Software 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

There’s a saying in marketing that goes, “if you’re targeting everyone, you’re targeting no one,” and for the most part, I agree with it. There are a million reasons why personalized content is widely promoted as a sales and marketing best practice, one of them being that it’s more effective than any kind of ‘spray and pray’ method.

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer Persona B2B 221

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2021

Modern digital advertising can feel a lot like trying to speak to a stadium full of people from center field without a microphone. So at the end of the day, the audience is your buyer,” says Jim Donovan, vice president of sales at ZoomInfo. According to eMarketer , 80 percent of advertisers admit that third-party data is unreliable.

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Advertising Advertising Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2021

Modern digital advertising can feel a lot like trying to speak to a stadium full of people from center field without a microphone. No marketer wants to spend a single penny trying to reach somebody that’s never going to buy their product. Your message is mostly drowned out by tons of noise from competitors. The data landscape.

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Advertising Advertising Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. You have to bring in more marketing qualified leads. Unlike B2C marketing, in the B2B world, not all the people who read your blog post or express interest in your product or service are a great fit.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 196

Sales 2.0

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re taking a new job in sales or marketing, read this book first. I love the “bullseye framework” developed by Louis Gudema and explained in his book Bullseye Marketing —just out this week in its second (updated) edition. But so many marketers and salespeople don’t do this and do not do it in the right order.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Let’s face it—it’s not easy to build a perfect marketing team. A comprehensive marketing strategy includes a number of different tactics and initiatives—which means your team must include members with a wide variety of skills. However, only 23% of B2B marketers claim to have a customer-centric organizational structure ( source ).

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Marketing Social Media B2B Scale 187

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. The modern buyer knows exactly what they want and they expect their buying experience to be seamlessly tailored to their preferences.

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Marketing Retail Channels Social Media 189

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2018

So, a potential buyer might see a Facebook post about your latest earrings collection while in line to get his latte, do some research during his commute to work, and purchase a pair by the time he got to his office. As such, mobile marketing is not just an option anymore. Kostas Chiotis is a blogger and a content marketing specialist.

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Paid Content Small Business Small Business Marketing 185

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As the person responsible for Innovation at ZoomInfo, a core part of my job is understanding markets where we do not currently offer a solution — but might want to in the future. Recently, I was trying to understand how we could venture into the advertising space. I thought: “ We have all of this data. Why don’t I hear about Bizo?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are responsible for driving lead generation. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. Buyers have become even more evasive. LinkedIn is the best way to reach your B2B buyer. LinkedIn is the best way to reach your B2B buyer.

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Social Selling LinkedIn Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 312

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

The average B2B buyer is 67% of the way through the buyer journey before they ever engage with a salesperson ( SiriusDecisions ). So, how do you intercept buyers in the early part of their journey? 47% of buyers viewed 3-5 pieces of content before engaging with a sales rep. Demand Gen Report, 2016). What is Intent data?

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Intent Data Intent Data Lead Rank 313

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. Learn more about creating effective content – 10 Ways to Improve the Content Marketing You’re Creating. It’s not advertising. Nobody likes advertising, and people look for ways to avoid it.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s no secret, the Internet has changed the way customers buy products and the ways marketers engage with their audiences. But, despite the constant change, the following statement has held true for hundreds of years: No marketing tactic can match the influence of word-of-mouth. Therein lies the power of word-of-mouth marketing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But what if you’re a small business and don’t have extra marketing dollars (or time) to spend on massive engagement-boosting campaigns? Zero in on Your Target Market. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. Have a Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Google Analytics Scale 301

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) is time-consuming; getting it right takes hard work, consolidation of resources and alignment on the part of both sales and marketing. I Zoom’ed with Hussam AlMukhat, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at ZoomInfo, for all the details. Anastasia: Very cool.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Author: Rachel Krug It’s no surprise – buyers are more educated than ever, with new information available daily to influence decision making. Yet third-party product reviews often fail to be considered a top marketing priority. Over time, advertising has become flashier and exaggerated. More Trusted Than Advertising.

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Scale Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 177

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Car buyers 30 years ago might have shown up at the dealership wanting a truck, a sedan, or something as vague as a “good family car,” and the salesperson’s job was to help steer them in the right direction based on their needs. Buyers today are more informed than ever, and not just about cars, appliances, and consumer electronics.

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Hubspot B2B Buyer Data 116

Salesmate

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You are your customer’s favorite advertising agency because you have original ideas, and you know the right ways to implement them. In this article, you’ll find ways to make your business a success with the help of a CRM for advertising agencies. Challenges faced by advertising agencies. Lead capturing.

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