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.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? Perhaps in the past you laid out a multi-year marketing plan, or simply went year-to-year. There are many components to a solid marketing plan.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Have You Read The Sales Book About? Sometime ago I wrote a piece describing one of my favourite interview questions for potential sales recruits : “What was the last sales book you read?” Some companies are buying multiple copies of multiple books, and creating in house libraries. The market is changing, are you?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

As a lifelong learner, I turn to books whenever I want to expand my thinking or improve my performance. And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Books that made the cut: Are on my own bookshelf. The Decision Book.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 20, 2024

As Upland’s Chief Revenue Officer, Matt Breslin oversees customer success, demand generation and communications, sales, revenue enablement, and revenue analysis, supporting our Shared Services Organization. 45:23) One thing that is working for Matt in go-to-market right now. Brought to you by Vanta.

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MarketJoy

JULY 22, 2022

Demand Generation: B2B demand generation is a form of marketing that creates interest in a product or service. Lead Generation: . Most B2B marketers struggle with lead generation. It’s a little surprising that something so critical to marketing’s success continues to cause so much confusion.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 27, 2019

Marie Kondo, the well-known author of the book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”, often teaches aspiring organizers to take an objective approach to decluttering by asking oneself “does this item spark joy for me?” When revenue leaders think about attribution, they often associate the word with “sales versus marketing.”

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Andrea Kayal , Chief Marketing Officer at Upserve and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Signpost. We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen.

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Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting! We didn’t have 7,000 different marketing technologies to master. Do I sound like a cranky old marketer yet? But it’s not necessarily their fault.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. Book Notice. Book Review. Demand Generation.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This trend results in additional pressure on sales and marketing organizations to speak the business language of their prospects and customers, not just demonstrate technical expertise. Most vertical marketing strategies are light in nature consisting of tabs on websites, vertical-oriented stock photos and key words added to headers.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. The keys to being a successful growth marketer.

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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. If Sales talks to more buyers, they will book more meetings, deliver more demos, and close deals faster. Many data providers claim to have the “most accurate” or “most actionable” business intelligence on the market.

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Highspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

” While it may seem difficult to plan when so much is changing so quickly, one thing is for certain: It’s time for marketing teams to get creative. . So before you begin drafting your next big marketing campaign, invest time in figuring out what’s working, what’s not, and where opportunities to stand out exist.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’ve worked at a B2B company that uses an ABM strategy for their Go To Market and has an SDR team you have inevitably run into the problem of lead attribution. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. Or was it the blog, or the TV ad?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

The book''s premise is simple: the most successful reps are not relationship builders, but “Challengers”. But changing this behavior requires more than just an Oprah Book club mass-reading. Is marketing aligned with this new methodology? This would be marketing. It’s been two years since The Challenger Sale was published.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s how Boutelle learned that one of her clients — a growing software company — was in the market for a website chat product. Beyond that, as your company grows its account base or total addressable market , it becomes more difficult to stay on top of everything that’s happening with your accounts.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. He’s the author of a really important new book called, The Death of the SDR: And the Birth of Buyer Centric Revenue.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

23 Marketing Tips For Avoiding Small Business Failure. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Compete , Guest Post , Marketing , execution. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Implementing the program is the key to marketing success. Avoid Ad Hoc Marketing.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Stored in Business Acumen , Coaching , Demand Generation , Hiring Sales Talent , Planning , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Book Notice. Book Review. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Appointments.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2017

Author: Andrea Hill, manager of innovation strategy, ReadyTalk It’s happened to all of us in sales and marketing. This approach helps product, sales and marketing leaders cultivate deeper insights into these “jobs to be done,” so they can address customers’ struggles, overcome their fears and win their business. Customers Don’t Care.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The event is a not to be missed if you’re in Marketing, but it’s increasingly become a must-attend event for those responsible for Sales Enablement as well. Marketing organizations are being more tightly held responsible for revenue generation. One, Marketing is good at measuring return on effort and investment.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. March 2008. February 2008.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Revenue responsibility. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Stored in BANTER , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Marketing , Proactive , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , execution. Sales and marketing are merging for small businesses and require strong collaboration for larger companies. March 2008. February 2008.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. This intense focus will equate to higher net revenue booking and retention.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. Jake is a career marketer who served as the CMO at Pendo. After a career as a VP of Marketing and CMO, Jake now serves as president of MetaCX. And we’ve been in market for about six months.

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The post What Is Status Quo Bias in Sales and Marketing? How Does Status Quo Bias Apply to Sales and Marketing? In a sales and marketing context, Status Quo Bias is a powerful force that can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Differentiation is one of the most daunting challenges salespeople and marketers face.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Book Notice. Book Review. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Community Marketing Blog.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 25, 2018

When you think about who creates the content your salespeople and other customer-facing professionals use to engage prospects and customers, you probably think about your marketing team. For many leaders, marketing is synonymous with content. Whether it’s branding, demand generation or website creation, marketing is all about content.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 24, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , EDGE Sales Process , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Productivity , e-book , execution. 99 cents, you can grab the ultra portable and shareable Kindle version of the book. Book Notice. Book Review. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Tibor Shanto.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

SalesLoft customer Limeade shares their best practices for how their marketing and sales teams work together to execute their account-based strategy by: . An account-based strategy is only a strategy until marketing and sales come together to hyper-focus on their top-tier accounts. Honing-in on their top tier accounts. Not strategy.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 2, 2018

Beyond that, it’s providing viable territories and targets, proper support levels, tools for training and enablement, demand generation leadership, and the removal of internal roadblocks. I performed the analysis through sizing the market, finding the industry influencers and profiling potential clients.

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How to fix it: Work with marketing to create templates that are rich in value messaging, and which force customization to the specific client and the state of your relationship. Take a random sampling of the material used for several client QBRs. If you blinded the client logo, could you tell which one belonged to each client? .

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