Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business world, sales and marketing teams need to align to drive revenue. This article examines the importance of aligning sales and marketing , the challenges that hinder this alignment, and strategies to foster a more collaborative, effective partnership. However, their methods and priorities often differ.

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SBI Growth

JULY 27, 2014

Sales often under-utilizes their capabilities and Marketing doesn’t provide adequate support. Content Marketing Buyer Persona CMO Resources CMO' Field Marketing has become a corrupted role. By reading this post you’ll recognize if this is happening in your organization.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Sales reps want solid materials to support them in sales campaigns. Having the right content enables the sales rep to have the best chance to make a sale. It starts with the Marketing departments buyer centered marketing strategy. Ultimately the content will pull the buyer through their buying process.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, we have things like automation, data, and buyer personas to fall back on. And in order to achieve that, you need buyer personas. What Are Buyer Personas? By now, you probably know what a buyer persona is. This is where personas come in. How To Create Buyer Personas.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Author: Thiago Sa Friere With the shift to a remote workplace, sales reps and account executives are engaging with the C-suite. Here’s how the sales team should handle calls now that the C-suite is actively involved. Understand the buyer’s focus on ROI. Get the Executive Talking. Mind the CFO. The CFO has no tolerance for that.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the world of sales, time is your most valuable asset. That’s where sales qualification comes in. Sales qualification is the act of evaluating potential prospects to determine whether they possess the characteristics that make them a good fit for your product or service. Consult your buyer personas.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 4, 2018

If you are a sales leader looking to get ahead of the competition, enhancing your personas with pricing metrics could be your secret weapon. According to a recent study, about 1% of B2B SaaS companies can describe their buyer personas.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As a Sales Leader you''ll ask, “How can I make this number?” This article will help you make quota one sales call at a time. W e are going to discuss a simple sales call preparation technique. Sales Leaders that implement it will get better results. And if they aren’t good a hitting curves, sales calls go sideways fast.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Regardless of how they acquire it, potential buyers step onto the sales floor (in-person or virtually) armed with information about their options; to remain effective, salespeople will need to adapt to the methods of the modern buyer. More than ever before, the new reality of sales must rely on marketing to a higher extent.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Sales Leaders have experienced a lot change in the past 10 years. Download the tool to learn how to implement each and enable your sales team. Top 10 Sales Innovations. Customer Aligned Sales Process: Do you sell the way the customer wants to buy? Buyer Personas: Do you know your buyers better than the competition?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

This is especially true in sales, where so much hangs on what the buyers and we say. No matter how right and tight, your buyer persona is, how much of your drips they have downloaded, or any other factor. Coming February 10, 2020 – Sales Scrum! . And why not. And what’s the difference, make the call.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Increasing sales with enterprise customers starts here — find out how to build custom solutions. Measurements of Success: Tracking success with agreed metrics (between sales and marketing) steers the course for current and future marketing strategies. Find Your Buyer Personas. Align Sales and Marketing.

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Force Management

MARCH 28, 2024

The best revenue teams have the cross-functional credibility and willingness to have multi-faceted sales conversations that drive a collective “YES” from all stakeholders. We call this charting the buyer landscape. They build widespread agreement on positive business outcomes, success metrics, and the requirements needed to get there.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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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. Sound good? Share industry scoops.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

These tips represent best practices from leading Sales & Marketing organizations. This will allow you to review SBI’s Annual Sales & Marketing Research. Convert Ideal Customer Profiles into Buyer Personas and Buying Process Maps. Turn your sales and marketing teams social profiles into marketing channels.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 18, 2018

If we’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know how important sales outreach is. For those who aren’t as familiar, sales outreach is just what it sounds like: The process of reaching out to and engaging with prospects in a meaningful way. And there you have it— the definitive guide to sales outreach.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Most likely, you’ll do a combination of content based on your most pressing marketing needs (like filling your sales pipeline with quality leads). Create Your Buyer Personas. That’s where your buyer personas come in. Most likely, it’s your sales reps. PRO TIP: Does your content pass the “So what?”

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Below are some of the key benefits of using ideal client profiles in your sales and marketing strategies: Personalization: Everyone’s favorite buzzword. Improved Sales and Marketing Alignment: Instead of requiring prospects to cater to your sales and marketing processes, you can start to mold your strategies around prospective customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

An inbound strategy is an attitude and mindset that centers on developing the best employee, partner, and buyer experience possible. Build out your company target and buyer personas. Create a strategy that includes the buyer journey. Build Out Your Company Target and Buyer Personas.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If one of your goals in 2021 is to grow your online sales, you’re not alone. Use the hard data to come up with a buyer persona that informs your marketing strategy going forward. Make each piece of content valuable to your audience (read: not just sales copy). , and businesses were no exception. Never fear. Informational.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Create an ideal customer profile (ICP) and buyer personas – Your ICP is exactly the type of lead to become one of your clients, and your buyer personas describe the personalities of those potential customers. Develop email marketing campaigns – A one-size-fits-all approach to emailing leads is inefficient.

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Zoominfo

JULY 16, 2018

Seasoned B2B marketers know a well-executed webinar is a goldmine for sales leads. Just consider these webinar lead generation statistics: 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say a webinar is the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). 79% of buyers say they will share information in exchange for webinars ( source ).

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 26, 2013

These meetings are net new sales opportunities you wouldn’t have otherwise had. This drives an increased number of qualified buyers of your product into the funnel. Worse, your sales teams’ newly updated LinkedIn profiles attract recruiters. Many of your sales rep''s profiles probably look like this. Your team sells more.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You are to the point where you have built the ideal go-to-market strategy, completed a thorough buyer segmentation, and you even pulled together a Rockstar sales playbook. You have clearly defined buyer personas and even a well-defined buyer’s journey.

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RAIN Group

JANUARY 17, 2024

Every buyer has personal preferences for how they like to buy. There are multiple buying styles and preferences to consider, but the number isn't infinite. It’s six.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 29, 2025

Sales Perspective and Targeting Leveraging Data for Targeted Advertising From a sales perspective, geofencing offers significant advantages. The ability to target specific buyer personas allows businesses to reach the right customers effectively. Targeted Advertising : Leverages data to reach specific buyer personas.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

A MQL is the foundation of processes within a marketing funnel — namely, an inflection point of engagement met that drives expectations for sales intervention. Again, specific responses automatically qualify a lead; whereas, other actions may not necessarily require sales intervention. Build Multiple Buyer Personas.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

Author: Rich Lanchantin, CEO, Qstream With unemployment rates at a 10-year low, it simply isn’t practical to buy your way to sales performance by cherry-picking top reps from the market. Instead, the most resilient and successful sales organizations are building programs that draw maximum value from more of their existing reps.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy. Prospecting.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A comprehensive content calendar takes all buyer personas, marketing channels, and stages of the sales funnel into consideration. A content calendar that only speaks to one buyer persona or channel at a time is incomplete. Analyze your sales cycle. What is the length of the average sales cycle?

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2020

personas based on poorly sourced data, or worse, no data at all), they can be highly misleading and result in failed product launches, subpar marketing campaigns, and lost sales. They don’t serve a whole lot of purpose when it comes to making personas the best they can be. So what, exactly, does a data driven persona look like?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

B2B sales and marketing professionals are constantly looking for ways to increase their qualified website leads. Use your buyer personas to assess whether or not your landing pages speak directly to your ideal customer. Do your lead generation landing pages use language that resonates with your buyers?

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I always find it amusing listening to sales people or marketing people talk about buyer persona, seems half have no idea what the word means, and if not for fashion could care less. I worked with a company that had very clear and detailed outline of the various personas (or is it personae?), By Tibor Shanto.

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Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2018

If you’re looking for more informational content to improve your sales and marketing efforts, check out these infographics: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Outreach [Infographic]. The Sales Rep’s Guide to Beating a Prospect’s Defense [Infographic]. Buyer Personas: The Missing Piece to Your Lead Generation Puzzle [Infographic].

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