SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2013

I recently had a conversation with a marketing VP of an equipment manufacturing firm. Her key objectives were: Generating demand at the top of the funnel & acquiring new customers. Justifying her marketing spend and showing an ROI on her initiatives. C-Suite Marketing Ignorance was her biggest impediment to success.

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Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 296

SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

If you are a small company marketing leader, updating your CEO can be a challenge. Bring your marketing strategy and budget to the CEO and request feedback and approval. Be prepared to: Walk him through your demand generation activities. Outline your budget in detail and the expected ROI on marketing spend.

Marketing 276

Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 276

Gong.io

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Here’s How Marketing Teams Can Win More With Revenue Intelligence. Specifically for marketing teams, Gong helps to: Hear the voice of the customer. Understand what happens to leads in the funnel (Demand Generation teams). Monitor how new messaging is landing in the field (Product Marketing teams). Just For Sales?

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Revenue Marketing Top of Funnel Call-back 62

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. More for your eyeballs From flagship back to fledgling: Lessons on going multi-product from an early Stripe PM.

Loyalty 90

Loyalty Customer Face-to-face Scale 90

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What Is Lead Generation? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. What is a Lead? Pretty simple, right?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are a million and one things that go into creating a market leading company. But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Building a Market-Facing Product Management Discipline The definition of “market” has more than its share of ambiguities. It runs the gamut.

Marketing 59

Marketing Segment Face-to-face Lead Scoring 59

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. star rating on G2 backed by over 7,300 verified reviews. Brought to you by Apollo.

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Hiring Scale Lead Scoring Lead Rank 92

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

SalesLoft

AUGUST 3, 2015

When we met Kevin O’Malley, he described his leadership style as a “mullet hairstyle” — business in the front and party in the back. Kevin brings to the Salesloft family over 15 years of product management and marketing experience, together with an unmatched intuition and expertise in all things revenue from lead to customer renewal.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’ve worked at a B2B company that uses an ABM strategy for their Go To Market and has an SDR team you have inevitably run into the problem of lead attribution. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. A net new account scheduled for a meeting via a cold call, is purely an SDR sourced lead.

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Trade Show 97

Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Back in my day, I had to walk ten miles uphill each way in three feet of snow to get to and from school (even though I lived in the California Bay Area). Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting!

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Direct Response Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Demand Generation 69

Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. The keys to being a successful growth marketer.

Account Based Marketing 90

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Strategy 90

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

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. To take full advantage of the trade show experience, reps need a game plan for pre-show, during the show, and post-show … and they need Marketing back-up.

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Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Decision Maker 174

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The calculator looks at: the length of your sales sequence the number of emails, phone calls, and LinkedIn messages in the sequence how much automation is required your desired monthly contact requirement Input this information into the calculator and it will show you how many hours of daily uninterrupted work you’re asking of your sales reps.

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Outbound Quota LinkedIn Follow-up 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

So, whether you’re brand new to sales or just looking for a refresher, today’s post will take you back to the basics of B2B sales prospecting. Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the sales prospecting process. How many cold calls should reps make a day?

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B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Prospecting 212

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing. And in most cases, these capabilities are not going to go back into hibernation when the COVID-19 crisis is over. Marketing emails are up. What about just pure marketing emails?

Outbound 195

Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation 195

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s how Boutelle learned that one of her clients — a growing software company — was in the market for a website chat product. Salespeople spend too much time doing things other than selling, but a revenue-focused tool like ZoomInfo gives you time back. Don’t be discouraged by being the last to pitch your client or prospect.

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Closing Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 100

Highspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

Now is the perfect time to take a step back from the daily grind and ask yourself, “What’s next?” ” While it may seem difficult to plan when so much is changing so quickly, one thing is for certain: It’s time for marketing teams to get creative. . Marketers are well-versed in creating content.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing eBook 69

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Author: TJ Macke Sales and marketing are competitions. If you’re selling to refrigerator repair technicians, then your SDRs shouldn’t cold call. Your buyers are out working on heavy appliances eight hours a day; they don’t have time to answer calls from numbers they don’t recognize. Organize your SDRs’ creativity.

Sales Qualified Lead 194

Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Scale Top of Funnel 194

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Andrea Kayal , Chief Marketing Officer at Upserve and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Signpost. We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen.

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Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 65

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

From increasing competition to unpredictable markets, revenue operations leaders face new hurdles seemingly every day. Those rapidly evolving challenges are only exacerbated by a long-standing problem among sales and marketing teams: misalignment. Limited automation means many RevOps tasks are still done manually. What’s it take?

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Demand Generation Targets Ideal Customer Profile Scale Lead Rank 130

Partners in Excellence

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, someone made a comment saying, “It’s interesting to see cold calling coming back into style… ” The comment startled me, and I can see where the speaker was coming from, but I couldn’t have disagreed more. The reality is cold calling has never gone out of style. Cold calling is important.

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Cold Calling Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Call-back 104

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author: Mandy Truong With 2021 in full swing, marketers are making their plans for recovery and business growth. Here are lessons from two of our key programs last year that we plan to incorporate into our 2021 demand generation strategy: Revamped Webinars. In April, we changed the agenda to focus on remote tech operations.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation.

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Trade Show Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 227

InsightSquared

JANUARY 23, 2019

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. Top Stages of a Typical B2B Marketing Funnel. There are a lot of strategies that can be employed to maximize funnel yield.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Top of Funnel Funnel 81

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Amy Frampton , Head of Marketing at BambooHR and 15-year marketing veteran. Join us for a hilarious conversation about what’s changed in marketing lately, brushing shoulders with Marshawn Lynch, poaching SDRs and AEs from sales, and tips for employer branding.

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Report Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Hiring 82

Corporate Visions

MAY 30, 2019

The post What Kind of B2B Marketing Personalization Gets Results? In today’s world of big data and hyper-targeted marketing campaigns, most B2B marketers believe the more personalized your message, the better your results. Our research backs this up. Our research backs this up. The Marketing Personalization Study.

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B2B Marketing Scale eBook 106

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing. And in most cases, these capabilities are not going to go back into hibernation when the COVID-19 crisis is over. Marketing emails are up. As a sanity check, I did some research on this issue.

Outbound 147

Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation 147

The Pipeline

MARCH 11, 2013

There seems to be wide agreement that at any given time, only a small percentage of your target market is Actively Looking for what your are selling, estimates seem to be about 15%. Stop following the crowd, and track your target market, the big market. This may not be new, fresh, simple or specific economy dependent.

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Marketing Buyer Vendor Objections 282

Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The post What Is Status Quo Bias in Sales and Marketing? How Does Status Quo Bias Apply to Sales and Marketing? In a sales and marketing context, Status Quo Bias is a powerful force that can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Differentiation is one of the most daunting challenges salespeople and marketers face.

Marketing 66

Marketing Face-to-face Research Conversion 66

Igniting Sales Transformation

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In this episode, my guest is Shari Johnston, VP Marketing at Casetext and our topic is Aligning your Go To Market Strategy Around Account-Based Marketing. Account Based Marketing, Account Based Selling and Account Based Everything has been a pretty hot topic for the last two + years. It is here to stay according to Shari.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Demand Generation Targets 50

Sales Hacker

JULY 15, 2019

We’ll dive deep into the origins behind the business, the developments in event and in account based marketing, why direct mail and sending physical objects improves conversion rates through your sales cycle, and a lot of different conversations about how to grow and expand an early stage company as the co-founder and CEO. What You’ll Learn.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Direct Mail Conversion 51

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. If you missed episode #193, check it out here : Your New 3-Part Framework for Cold Calling with Jason Bay. powered by Sounder.

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Commission Quota Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank 90

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

23 Marketing Tips For Avoiding Small Business Failure. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Compete , Guest Post , Marketing , execution. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Implementing the program is the key to marketing success. Avoid Ad Hoc Marketing.

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Small Business Small Business Pipeline Marketing 253

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A career marketer’s advantage in growing holistic revenue [17:54]. The role of branding in marketing [19:27]. Jake is a career marketer who served as the CMO at Pendo. After a career as a VP of Marketing and CMO, Jake now serves as president of MetaCX. And we’ve been in market for about six months.

Marketing 66

Marketing Scale Demand Generation Agencies Marketo 66

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Rank 40