Pointclear

APRIL 13, 2012

In this second episode of PowerViews, I have the pleasure of talking with Jeff Ernst who provides advisory services to CMO and marketing leadership professionals as Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Jeff joined Forrester after spending 20 years in sales and marketing.

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Marketing Social Media Scale Trade Show 169

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Though email is an extremely effective communication channel that’s ever-evolving, it’s one of the most time-consuming. Automated emails encourage leads to move from the product research phase into the buying cycle.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

Ultimately, door-to-door sales representatives and marketers have the same goal—to understand each prospect’s wants, needs, and pain points in order to sell them a product. In today’s blog post, we explore the different lessons marketers can learn from door-to-door salespeople to better nurture leads through the sales funnel.

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Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Lead Nurturing Marketing 150

Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively. Profiling prospective customers also enables sales and marketing teams to predict larger problems before they arise.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Marketing Demand Generation Agencies 130

Score More Sales

MARCH 8, 2012

You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long buying cycle. Instead of just pushing them out time and again, remove them to a drip marketing program]. Who are these people? Some are obvious. All are important.

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Pipeline Referrals Channels Buying Cycle 203

Partners in Excellence

MAY 28, 2025

I see so much talk about GTM, selling, marketing, customer service strategies. ” The SaaS PLG motion differs from the SaaS individual/team focus which differs from SaaS technologies that can only be implemented on an enterprise wide basis, and this differs from a channel/partner based motion. .”

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Channels Buying Cycle Advertising Advertising 62

Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2020

These contact details include more than just names and numbers but also contextual details highlighting buying behavior. Sales reps, execs, and marketers have a singular record for every contact and account. Let’s say you have a customer who buys products in bulk from your company on a quarterly basis. Data source types.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. Successful salespeople will conduct detailed research in advance and ask professional, yet probing questions to move the buy cycle forward. . Recipe for High-Performance Selling.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Lead Capture 218

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Word-of-Mouth as a Sales Conversion Channel Mike Hofman , writing for Inc.com, has gained insight into today’s best marketing channels to master sales. From his conversations, he discovered that the underutilized and often overlooked business referral is “a powerful, wildly underleveraged channel."

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Referrals Sales Qualified Lead 59

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2019

B2B marketers have embraced many new strategies to cut through the influx of content in our increasingly digital landscape. Yet, many tried-and-true marketing strategies continue to generate results. 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say webinars are the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). Keep reading!

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics B2B Marketing 100

Lead411

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Implement Intent Data for Timely Targeting Identify Buying Signals : Intent data provides insights into which companies are actively researching topics related to your product. Use this data to identify companies likely in-market for your solution. It also provides talking points for addressing competitors’ weaknesses.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Process B2B 52

Pointclear

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management. Below are some highlights (a couple of minutes each).

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 185

Cincom Smart Selling

JULY 14, 2016

Visibility into your sales channel will help you find the RFPs sitting in the sales inbox before the rep even knows they are there. Technology is enabling buyer-driven selling/buying cycles. Marketing utilizes content as product and information/data as currency in the guided-selling world. Customer portals.

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Channels Proposal Collateral Licensing 69

Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

Prior to Mutiny, Jaleh was the Head of Marketing and Business Development at Gusto, where she grew the company from 500 to 50,000 customers over 4 years. She was the Director of Product Marketing at VMware prior to Gusto. 16:30 The biggest AI mistakes in sales and marketing. what you can do with LLMs is absolutely remarkable.

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Marketing Scale Case Study Lead Rank 64

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2015

On March 3, 2015, Direct Marketing Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Ginger Conlon, joined me on PowerViews LIVE to talk about “Where Marketing is Going … and Growing … in 2015.” A sales, marketing and customer experience expert, Ginger shares her perspective on current and future marketing trends.

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Direct Mail Marketing Lead Rank Buying Cycle 100

Showpad

MAY 22, 2019

With new sales engagement platforms designed to streamline sales processes being constantly introduced into the market, it can be overwhelming for sales enablement teams to decipher one from the other to determine which to select for their organization. How do engagement platforms align sales and marketing efforts? Boosts efficiency.

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Sales Enablement Marketing Buying Cycle Direct Mail 74

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Camps line up on both sides of the argument, many declaring it a total waste of time–our customers aren’t buying through social channels. Typically, there are many people involved from the buying side, with long sales/buying cycles. We have learned, that we can’t rely on any single channel.

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Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Channels Trade Show 119

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 3, 2018

But do you use the right blend of channels? If you use just one media channel to communicate, you’ll probably be less successful than if you supplement telephone calls as necessary with emails and social media. Ignoring the buying cycle. Don’t mistake your sales cycle for your customer’s buying cycle.

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Revenue Buying Cycle Social Media Media 111

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The B2B buying experience primarily takes place on the web rather than in person. To make the buyer’s journey engaging and immersive, B2B marketers must rely on a wide variety of visual content. It’s no secret that visuals are a vital component of any modern marketing strategy. And today’s blog post explores just that!

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B2B How To Video Analysis 153

Showpad

MAY 3, 2019

While many elements factor into the experiences a customer has with your company, experiences are primarily driven by your marketing and sales organizations. After all, these are the teams interacting with buyers on a daily basis and developing content and experiences to effectively reach them at all stages of the buying cycle.

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Marketing Scale Collateral Buyer 83

Partners in Excellence

MAY 22, 2014

.” Years ago, much of this would have been unimaginable, but now huge amounts of buying happens in the absence of selling. Likewise, we know the data about how much of customer buying cycles are completed before sales is engaged. It’s a wholesale change in how people buy. Are The Pups’ Learning.

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Face-to-face B2C Buying Cycle Channels 114

Allego

JULY 24, 2023

Buyers are savvier than ever and have shifted to digital channels to research solutions. In fact, TrustRadius’ 2022 report, B2B Buying Disconnect: The Age of the Self-Serve Buyer , revealed that virtually 100% of buyers want to self-serve all or part of the buying journey. Think of an orchestra. They aren’t aligned.

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Revenue Guidelines Channels Buyer Persona 118

SBI

APRIL 29, 2014

Every two weeks, I interview an executive from a top sales and marketing solutions company. What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? What problem/s are you solving for sales and/or marketing organizations? This week I interview Leslie Stretch, President and CEO of CallidusCloud.

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Up-Sell Closing Revenue Lead Generation 135

Pointclear

JUNE 8, 2012

She also notes that it costs less to retain current customers than to find new ones, and this points to trustability, great customer service and great customer experiences as being top priorities for marketers. Marketing Automation —Again, how you use marketing automation will depend on how you will be interacting with your customers.

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Customer Social Media Inbound Top of Funnel 145

Hubspot Sales

MAY 8, 2018

Salespeople often struggle to understand lead behavior across different channels. You can also organize this report by product or source channel in order to compare and analyze various groups of leads and their progress. This report is a must for account-based sales (and marketing) strategies. Revenue Summary. Custom Reports.

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Report Cost per Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank 111

Allego

JANUARY 16, 2025

To succeed, sales managers must navigate evolving market trends and buyer preferences while understandinghow to manage a sales teamto adapt to these challenges. This involves defining your ideal candidate, using a variety of channels to find team members, utilizing assessments, and offering competitive compensation.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank Strategy 62

SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. Ian: Today’s B2B buyers trust the opinions and advice of their peers above that of any salesperson or marketer. RO Innovation’s platform changes the game by: Activating customer advocacy end-to end in sales cycles. Peer Success Stories.

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Sales Cycle Customer ROI Scale 139

Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Lead Rank Account 100

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Though email is an extremely effective communication channel that’s ever-evolving, it’s one of the most time-consuming. Automated emails encourage leads to move from the product research phase into the buying cycle.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 130

SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Buying team identification – Knowing exactly who, inside a target account, is involved in an active buying cycle so you don’t waste time chasing the wrong people. Grow “at bats” by seeing more of the real deals that are in play in your market, both within assigned accounts and in the market as a whole.

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Intent Data Intent Data Enterprise 139

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And we’ve added social channels to our outreach, and more people are blocking us. Today, to have the same number of conversations, it takes 10-14K touches across multiple channels. Are we helping customers move those opportunities through the buying cycles and winning a sufficient number of those?

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Retention Maximizer Buying Cycle Social Media 147

Costello

JANUARY 15, 2019

“Aligning sales and marketing is an absolute must because they should work hand in hand,” says Nate Masterson of Maple Holistics. “If Sales and marketing alignment is about leveraging those insights to drive business results. So, we teamed up with Databox to ask sales and marketing professionals about how they’ve done it successfully.

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Lead Rank Revenue Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 105

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” But how do we measure sensemaking during the buying journey? We are used to all sorts of buying cycle/selling cycle metrics–customer commitments, certain activity levels on both the customer and sales sides. Some thoughts: We can develop engagement metrics that we use through the buying process.

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Comparison Face-to-face Buying Cycle Consumer 139

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2015

New tools and analytics enable manufacturers to more effectively engage customers regardless of the channel they choose at the moment. The tools enable us to have consistent conversations that build on each other as the customer engages us in different channels.

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Channels B2C Margin Face-to-face 48

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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Buyer Buying Cycle Marketing Case Study 53

Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2020

These contact details include more than just names and numbers but also contextual details highlighting buying behavior. Sales reps, execs, and marketers have a singular record for every contact and account. Let’s say you have a customer who buys products in bulk from your company on a quarterly basis.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130