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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Allego

JANUARY 9, 2025

Medical device sales reps face greater challenges than ever, making sales certifications an essential tool for success. Further, regulatory pressures, complex buying cycles, and the rise of digital technology have transformed the way sales teams must operate. And long sales cycles leave no room for guesswork.

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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. Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. Pick out the right email automation tool. Technical Steps.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. The review presents findings from SBI’s market research in 2013. Gain access to guides and tools to help you make the number in 2014. Market Growth: Often the basis of quota-setting for rapidly growing markets or products.

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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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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 29, 2012

Use the BANT Lead Qualification Tool to assure your time is well spent. Once you download this tool , spend 10 minutes to review it. Even if your marketing team qualifies leads, they don’t have your quota pressure. As you will see, the tool guides you through typical buyer concerns. (T) Others require any two criteria.

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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. link] Ardath.

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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. Many of our clients don’t take advantage of these tools yet though. Finally, start measuring this information (see tools above). But where to start?

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 23, 2019

Don’t rely on marketing for your leads. Know what tool to use and when to use it. Have a marketing plan to remain in touch with those people who aren’t active in the prospecting or buying cycle. Commit to prospecting, regardless of what else needs to be done. Focus on quality leads, not just a list.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Not surprisingly, after surveying hundreds of marketing leaders, generating quality leads was hands-down their number one goal in 2013. The last chance to get free tools and hands on in-depth information on these steps ends October 31st, sign-up now for our Make The Number Tour HERE. ). Producing Quality Leads. The Buyer’s Journey.

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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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Social Media Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Networking 290

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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Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I sat down with Aaron Dun, SnapApp ’s SVP of Marketing, to learn more about the research. Read on to learn what they uncovered and the implications a generational shift has on the B2B buying process. I think traditional B2B marketers on a whole have disregarded the “millennial problem” because they think it’s a B2C thing.

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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. Click here to get a copy of a tool we use to help slow the customer down in early stage purchasing efforts. One tool we use to help slow down this process is the Sequence of Events.

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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. 2: Optimized resource use.

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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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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. Depending on your industry, and who is measuring, it usually is 10% or less of a given target market. By Tibor Shanto. And that’s when they are on their own.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 10, 2014

We have CRM, marketing automation, and emailing systems that enable us to ‘communicate’ in ways we never imagined or had the time to do in the past. Your scoring tool takes note of this, prompting other actions. Everything comes crashing in when we recognize that sales and marketing is about establishing human connections.

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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. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As with any tool or process, the measure of success should be the end, the outcome, not the means, in this case, the apparatus, process and the reams of data many of the tools regularly and ongoingly spew out. Nothing wrong with that, but it reflects a small percentage of the market.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

At one time, we were focused on reducing the buying cycle. Just because we have so much data and a myriad of tools with which to analyze the data doesn’t mean all of it is important or that we need to establish so many metrics. It leads to recurring business and huge referrals. Too often, they have little impact.

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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. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant. The opportunities are endless.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

End the Sales & Marketing War-Harvard Business Review. Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles about synchronizing sales and marketing. Their sales and marketing efforts are at odds. Their sales and marketing efforts are at odds. Step 4: Perform a Marketing Tools Audit.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Tony also served in the role of Vice President in Sales and Marketing capacities for TRW, Knight-Ridder, and Compaq (HP). in Marketing Management. Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. He holds a B.S.

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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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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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SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2012

It will get you the access to the tool you need to begin developing the proper training, our prospect/customer interview guide. Marketing and product demonstration/material review. I’m going to walk you through how our product helps him in each of these areas, and the questions John will ask you through each stage in his buying cycle”.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2017

This has inadvertently added complexity to the buying cycle and process. The real value sellers can add for buyers by reduce complexity of their buying process and experience. During the buy cycle, alternative choices will lead to some in the buying group, feeling that the alternative may have greater appeal.

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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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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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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. But, if there’s one trend that signals what the future of marketing will look like – it’s the rise of virtual and augmented reality. Sales of VR and AR devices will reach $1.8 billion in 2018 ( source ).

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SBI Growth

JULY 22, 2019

Market-leading companies develop and execute on strategies that are aligned to their customers expressed and unexpressed needs. While this tool is frequently used to prioritize operational improvement efforts, to deliver on. This is often captured in a Customer Journey Map.

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SalesFuel

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This powerful tool to master sales is asking for a referral. 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. When you treat referrals as a sales process you can qualify more prospects and shorten the buying cycle.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2018

But, as experienced marketers know, it’s not always about what you’re saying, but rather how you say it. Customer success is an important aspect of content marketing. Here’s an example from our own blog— 8 Social Media Mistakes Marketers Should Avoid. 4 Reasons Marketers Love Jay Baer. Success Stories. Infographics.

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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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