SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re keeping up with the sales and marketing publications, one of the big buzzwords burned into your eyelids is Content Marketing. CMOs and marketing professionals constantly talk about how Content Marketing will increase leads and drive more revenue. Why is Content Marketing Increasingly Important ?

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” So what does it take to successfully prospect? Have a dedicated time on your calendar to prospect. The most successful salespeople are those who commit their time to prospect and stick to it. Qualify quickly.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. How to spot buying signals.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged with a vendor 57% of the way through their buying cycle. The reason was simple.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This post is for the marketing leader trying to bootstrap their department. Your sales team wants one thing from you: leads that are ready to buy. Are you able to track the online behavior of your prospects and leads? Are you able to scale personalized communications to your prospects and customers? Technology.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We have trade show prospecting down to a science. Members of DiscoverOrg’s sales and marketing teams attend about 30 events per year. Blog: How to Prospect at Trade Shows: The Ultimate 10-Step Sales and Marketing Checklist. Set specific prospecting goals. Connect with prospects in the moment.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your book of business, craft a well-calculated marketing plan, add more places of interest on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads back to your company. The marketing plan lays the groundwork for your team to go forth and execute. Have you made your 2018 marketing plan yet?

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SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

Yes… we better know our customer”, was the response from the head of marketing. The burden of “selling when a rep isn’t present” has shifted to the marketing department. Marketing not only has to stimulate demand, it has to nurture buyers until they are ready to engage with a rep. How buying decisions are made.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. Marketers can expand their reach by buying leads from some content publishers or advertising on some third-party sites, but budget and accessibility to third-party sites can limit reach. What is Intent data? What is Intent data ?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 5, 2018

Account-based marketing has seen a surge in popularity over recent years. In fact, over 90% of B2B marketers say they recognize the value of ABM as a must-have strategy ( source ). There’s only one problem, however– 60% of marketers also say that the overall health of their data is unreliable ( source ). The simple answer?

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 14, 2017

My definition of prospecting is trying to take prospects from latent to active need. Another way to phrase that is to say that: Prospecting is looking for people that aren’t looking. There are several advantages of making proactive attempts to start buying cycles: You can start at levels that have the authority to create budget.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Integration : Most lead capture tools seamlessly integrate with CRM systems and other marketing automation platforms, creating a cohesive ecosystem for lead management.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2012

Are you going to rely too much on marketing to provide high quality leads to hit the number? Let’s be honest, the majority of reps would be out on the street if they had to rely solely on marketing for Lead Generation What can you do about it? Our Make the Number Tour specifically addresses market changes that will affect you in 2013.

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Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Ardath Albee of Marketing Interactions has written a four-part series called, Capitalize on the Content Marketing Continuum where she talks about the BEF and the very fluid content marketing continuum. Work to gain clarity on creating a formal process once marketing has sent potential leads to sales. Is it clear?

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But there is a fundamental question that salespeople fail to take into account, and if they did, they would find it changes the way they see the prospect, and how the prospects respond as a result and become customers. But in how many times have they actually done this, this case how many times have they gone through a buying cycle?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Interviewed VP of Sales, Product Leaders, and Sales Manager to understand what they were seeing in the market. But what they are doing is gathering data from an inward-out perspective when they should be looking at the market from an outward-in perspective. Marketing is making the buying decision 90% of the time.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. By Tibor Shanto. Even Less Receptive.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Author: Ron Carson Just about every marketer today has been told to listen to the voice of the customer to inform marketing strategy. First, marketing teams only receive this information second-hand – through sales, product management, etc. And it is why I encourage marketers to have regular “voice of the market” conversations.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2018

A successful traveling salesperson wields the ability to take in their surroundings and use contextual clues to glean what they can about each prospect they interact with. Using these clues, the salesperson then tailors their sales presentation to each prospective customer’s particular wants and needs. The same goes for marketers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In an environment where the needs, goals and plans of your prospects and competitors are constantly changing, it’s hard to know whether to punt or go for the touchdown. Identify a common set of target accounts for sales and marketing. Prospects expect cold calls and emails to be personalized. Reduce time spent on research.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Shed been careful all along to align herself with Edwards buying cycle. When prospects engage with sellers to explore a purchase, they follow a relatively standard buying cycle, which leads forward toward a purchase. The post Buying cycles: Customers can go forward or back appeared first on BTS Total Access.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 4, 2012

This happened because a sales person was proactively prospecting not because we have a great website, great SEO or a great blog. This is when your SEO and inbound marketing needs to shine. This is the case where we sales people need great fellows in our marketing department. But I am a fan of smart prospecting.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

But have you considered how a generational shift in your prospects’ demographics might impact the buying environment as well? Today’s B2B buying committees are growing more diverse as Millennials take their seats alongside Generation X and Baby Boomers. What does this mean for marketing and sales tactics?

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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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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. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? In fact, over 20% of marketers in a HubSpot survey say that personalization improves their engagement.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

According to Marketing Insider Group , 78 percent of U.S. And as a marketing professional, doesn’t it give you just a slight twinge of guilt?). . So, if both buyers and marketers alike are aware of this paradigm shift, why are we all still bombarded with spam and other offerings we simply aren’t interested in?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2022

Some observations: This presentation was intended for initial meetings with prospective customers. I hope the presenters were coached to thank the prospect as they closed the presentation. And this is what we must initiate in our initial conversations with the prospect/customer, reinforcing through their entire buying cycle.

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Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

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. This format allows companies to engage with prospects and customers and receive feedback in real-time. Time spent in the webinar.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

94% of digital marketing professionals surveyed agreed that personalization is “critical to current and future success” according to an eConsultancy study. By applying science and metrics to your client and prospect buying cycle, you can impact connection and real support to help them. But where to start?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Rather than engaging in discovery and determining their needs, they simply want to compare all solutions on the market and make a decision. Here’s an example of the average buying cycle for this type of software purchase. Instead of using the prospect-directed sales scramble, Robert gave them a defined path.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

You know I have never read an article or a post that was written by an advocate of cold calling, suggesting that social selling is bad, ridiculing people who use the practice to engage with prospects, suggest that it is inadequate, or about to die. These are people who of their own volition initiated a buying cycle.

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