Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Conversion Marketing Lead Capture Face-to-face 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 14, 2022

Capturing the attention of the increasingly elusive B2B buyer has become harder than ever as more sales interactions happen in digital channels, buying committees continue to grow and buyers conduct more self-guided research. The answer lies in building a full-scale, comprehensive sales enablement strategy.

Sales Enablement 257

Sales Enablement Scale Closing Marketing 257

Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. With a quality data-driven strategy you can identify exactly how to approach target buyers. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? What Does a Go-to-Market Strategy Look Like?

Ideal Customer Profile 246

Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Strategy Marketing 246

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.

Lead Rank 257

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world. . Marketers—us included—continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. But what does developing an actual personalized marketing strategy actually entail?

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B2B Marketing Segment Scale 246

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For today’s marketers, data is more than just numbers on a dashboard — it’s the key to unlocking new opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. But here’s the catch: many marketing teams are flooded with disconnected data points and siloed insights, struggling to understand what truly drives customer behavior.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer 130

No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

He wrote: “We are now in a period where we can actually read the minds of your buyers. When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. Then, learn about referral selling in my new Sales Expert Channel presentation, “ How to Recession Proof Your Sales in 9 Killer Steps.”.

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Prospecting Referrals Scale Sales Qualified Lead 428

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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Email Marketing Benefit Webinar Metrics Marketing 264

Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. Landing pages serve as a litmus test to digital marketing campaign success — you get to see who is interested in your content and how many. What is the Landing Page’s Importance in Digital Marketing? An example of a landing page design.

Prospecting 246

Prospecting Marketing Top of Funnel Segment 246

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Look across your digital tactics and channels…do your buyers go there? Let’s first define Digital Planning (or Digital Marketing) – Leveraging digital channels to reach customers and. Is their engagement worth the challenges involved in creating these? How do you know?

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B2B Channels Buyer Marketing 232

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

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 25, 2019

Author: Ellie Chapman Content marketing used to be a tactic which was strictly reserved for B2C marketers, but that hasn’t been the case for a while. Second, all that informative content is very likely to draw in more B2B buyers, since 74 percent of them conduct a search online before making a purchase offline. . Build Trust.

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B2B Marketing eBook Social Media 235

Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2019

The goal of every marketing department is to get more work done faster. Ready to learn how to boost your B2B marketing productivity? Five surprising habits that impact your B2B marketing productivity: Lack of routine: This may seem like a no-brainer, but we’re going to include it anyway. Keep reading.

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B2B Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Meeting 254

Force Management

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A channel program is an effective way to increase your capacity and expand market share, helping you reach your growth goals faster. When executed well, your channel program will decrease the cost of a sale, improve reach into new markets, and grow overall seller capacity without increasing internal headcount.

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Channels Revenue How To Case Study 134

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions. buyer enablement”?—?while

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Buyer Scale Face-to-face Report 194

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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Small Business Small Business Marketing Social Media 260

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2023

Your most neglected sales channel is your existing client base. Truth Bomb: Salespeople All Look Alike to B2B Buyers How do B2B buyers tell one internet security company from another? One marketing platform or sales enablement app? Read “ Truth Bomb: Salespeople All Look Alike to B2B Buyers.”)

Referrals 177

Referrals Channels Cold Calling Scale 177

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Unfamiliar with the term? Keep reading.

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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). Recently, we brought a new HR dataset to market.

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Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As a leading CMO, you’ve integrated digital channels into your marketing channel spend to align with how your personas or buyers want to get information. You’ve started measuring the effectiveness of these now institutionalized channels through ROI (Return on Investment).

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Channels ROI Buyer Marketing 253

SBI Growth

JUNE 6, 2019

Selling through the channel can be the most rewarding or painful aspect of your GTM strategy. Why Are Your Partners Producing Far Less Than Expected? When a partner takes on the promise of representing your products and brands, it is.

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Strategy Ideal Customer Profile Channels Marketing 275

Membrain

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Channel partners provide a way for companies to not only bring their products to market, but to develop long-term profitable relationships that are beneficial to the maker, the seller, and the buyer. But we still have a long way to go to truly unwrap the potential of co-selling relationships with channel partners.

Channels 133

Channels How To Buyer Marketing 133

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. B2B salespeople all look the same to our buyers. Problem is, buyers don’t actually buy software. The same is true for our buyers.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Leads 397

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Buyer intent data tools make it easier to identify the when and how of a potential prospect’s consideration for purchasing a specific product or service. Buyer Intent Data Sources. First party intent data is collected from internal marketing teams via your company website, automation platform, or other in-house applications.

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Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Data 182

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be seller centric–the customer can learn all about our solutions, our capabilities, and how to compare them to the alternatives, through other channels. Increasingly, buyers are choosing rep-free buying experiences.

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Buyer Face-to-face Groups Objections 161

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.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Account Software 130

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

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. Today we’re covering how sales teams can benefit from both sales and market intelligence along the buyer’s journey. What is Market Intelligence? What is Sales Intelligence?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Top of Funnel 207

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

Allego

JULY 17, 2023

It includes everyone who plays a role in helping to generate revenue for the business: sales, marketing, enablement, HR, and customer success. Revenue enablement is a holistic organizational approach that gives every team the right training, coaching, and content to engage and support leads, prospects, and buyers at every opportunity.

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Buyer Lead Rank Case Study Buyer Persona 118

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Lead generation is the practice of capturing interest from potential buyers to purchase your product or service. You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. Some of the easiest methods of lead generation include increasing traffic to your social media channels and website.

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 239

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

Account Based Marketing 246

Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You may notice that your campaigns move too quickly or slowly, indicating that your marketing team has become distracted. If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Cold Calling 177