Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are two dovetailing arguments for using TikTok, the fastest-growing social media platform, as a B2B marketing tool: Its generous algorithm and its lack of polish. But there’s a long way to go between now and then, and there’s no reason why good B2B content won’t find its way to people interested in seeing it on TikTok.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Author: Jeff Kalter When it comes to building a winning B2B sales strategy, forget about business as usual. Whether you’re managing inside or field sales, gut instinct needs to take a back seat to data-driven insights. Maybe they all found you in a similar way – social media, a trade show or sales outreach, for example.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies. In other words, they have pain points they need fixing.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Many B2B data providers claim to have the “best” data. Today we’re looking at three major B2B data sources and discussing the pros and cons of working with each. Today we’re looking at three major B2B data sources and discussing the pros and cons of working with each. What is B2B Data? Types of B2B Data Providers.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. How to Optimize Chatbots for B2B Lead Generation. Time is of the essence in the B2B world.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

By carrying out a feasible demand generation plan, you’ll not just scout new opportunities but also create them, from marketing and sales alignment to data-driven growth for businesses. Here are nine effective B2B demand generation strategies you can follow to boost your marketing campaign’s efficiency in 2020: 1. Utilize Intent Data.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Fully remote or a hybrid work models can be intimidating, but with the right strategy and tools, any company can achieve efficiency and high productivity. The post How to Make Your Remote B2B Sales Teams More Efficient appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies. In other words, they have pain points they need fixing.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Which means things shaking up in the B2B world — holiday emails are being blasted, sales deals are being closed, and 2021 recruitment strategies are finishing up. Integrating holiday energy with your B2B efforts typically increases chances of revenue success. B2B Tips for Sales, Marketing, Recruitment, and More.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The statistics speak for themselves: 77% of B2B sales and marketing professionals believe that personalization builds better customer relationships. 55% of B2B sales and marketing professionals said that personalization can bring higher conversion rates and growth. It Boosts Sales And Conversions.

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MARCH 2, 2021

The B2B Mobile Payments Landscape. B2B mobile payment processing systems have gone from a cool new tool to a downright necessity. They charge card swipe or transaction fees, are accessible on almost all mobile devices, and have compatibility with point-of-sale (PoS) hardware. All Shopify plans have monthly terms.

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MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2020

“What is the standard, and what is everybody else doing?” ” You’ve asked yourself this question individually in many different situations. What you choose to eat, how you decide what to wear to an important event, or even how often you.

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JULY 28, 2020

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. It all goes back to supporting growth through personalization in strategy, and partnership with sales. Using pods creates agility within marketing and enables the team to more closely align with sales goals. This didn’t happen overnight.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

In sales the go to is often sports, and one can understand why. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. It start with how sellers think about time; which is why in sales, time is value not money. This again puts a focus on the tools you use and how.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

Author: Luke Kreitner The element of surprise has been proven to be a powerful motivational tool. Let’s take a closer look into the psychology behind the element of surprise and how it can be used as part of a larger sales incentive strategy. How to start applying this to your sales team. Defining the unexpected reward.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. By leveraging advanced algorithms and data scraping techniques, these tools can extract potential leads from various sources, including customer databases, sales histories, website analytics, and social media platforms. The result?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A 2024 HubSpot Blog Survey of 422 B2B professionals in the U.S. who make purchasing decisions for their teams (hereafter the 2024 B2B Buyer survey) found that half of them find the B2B buying experience outdated. Table of Contents What Is a B2B Buyer? B2B Buyers vs. B2C Buyers Who Are Your B2B Buyers?

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in sales combine verbal cues and intent data, positioning your team to tailor prospect-focused communications. Let’s break that down. How to spot buying signals.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2023

Referrals help you stand out in a sea of B2B sellers. How do B2B buyers tell one internet security company from another? One marketing platform or sales enablement app? There’s nothing unique and certainly no reason for B2B buyers to spend time hearing their pitches. But that’s not happening in most sales organizations.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

AI tools are reshaping the way salespeople tackle their day-to-day work, automating many of the core business development tasks that have eaten away at the average sellers’ day. It’s also raising big questions about the future of the sales profession — including lingering worries that many sales jobs could soon be replaced by machines.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? However, there are a handful of solution categories that any sales ops team needs to focus on for success.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving. ABM software tools tend to have similar capabilities and characteristics.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. The biggest challenge for sales teams is seller access , according to Gartner’s recent report, The Chief Sales Officer’s Leadership Vision for 2021. Salespeople continually struggle with reaching B2B decision makers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 27, 2020

At this point sales is about so much more than generating revenue for profit or to keep employees working. For most companies, sales is now about generating revenue to survive, as we stare down a whole new way of doing business. Forget uncertainty! Where we are right now is downright scary. Forget uncertainty!

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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. How Does Lookalike Targeting Enhance B2B Marketing Campaigns?

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JANUARY 6, 2021

2020 forced B2B organizations away from tech-focused goals and toward customer-focused initiative. Experts in B2B fields predict this new year will allow more room for digital strategies. Read on to discover the latest CRM trends for sales and marketers to use in 2021—and beyond. Future Trends in CRM.

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