Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Back then, new digital marketing companies were telling everyone that salespeople would be replaced by inbound marketing. And the very same companies who were claiming that their SaaS marketing platforms would replace salespeople actually required salespeople - lots of them - to sell their applications.

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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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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. They’re essential for preparing your team for every situation that may arise during a demo, sales call, or in-person event.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2020

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. Marketing team structure by audience segments.

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SalesFuel

JULY 18, 2024

SalesFuel® , a pioneer in sales intelligence and marketing research, is thrilled to announce the launch of its new podcast, "Sell Smarter®." This AI-enhanced podcast is tailored for sales professionals, marketers and business leaders seeking to enhance their skills and thrive in today's demanding market. Why Listen?

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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Have you ever wondered what inbound marketing is? In this article, we’ll look at what inbound marketing is, why it’s important, and what 6 key elements you need to include in your inbound marketing plan. Inbound Marketing Plan - What Is It? Now that we’ve answered the question, “what is inbound marketing?”

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SalesLoft

MARCH 11, 2024

Since joining the Salesloft family, Tomas Buckby ,Marketing Operations Manager at Advanced , has witnessed a marked difference in the performance of his team. Renewed rep focus (thanks to Rhythm) This is a powerful instance where Tomas said his marketing operations team saw a huge impact. It massively drove our marketing-led revenue.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 21, 2020

So it’s obviously popular with consumers, but why should marketers be considering SMS programs in addition to email and mobile push? I’m sure I don’t need to convince many marketers on the importance of SMS — nearly all of us use it every day. Text back a number between 1-5” followed by “Thanks! How To Add SMS To Your Messaging.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Typically, a company reinvests funds back into the business for growth and scalability. 1: The funding play.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Author: James Obermayer It was early September, late in the afternoon on a Friday, as I remember, when the company president called me into his office. We have to cut the budget substantially in this upcoming last quarter; I need $400,000 from marketing. Please get back to me on Monday and let me know where you can cut.”.

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EyesOnSales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“We follow up on new leads that register for a free trial of our SaaS and I’m having a hard time getting them to call or email me back. A lot of sales people think that just because it’s a “warm lead” that its OK to handle the call a little differently (read: SKIP SALES STEPS).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2022

Market intelligence software helps companies better understand consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry trends. These powerful platforms gather, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for go-to-market teams.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer 20 years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2022, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. Years ago, marketers primarily segmented their audiences by age range—mainly because the data to get super granular didn’t exist back then. “As

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 20, 2019

The simple fact is that salespeople, for the most part, function in a one-to-one environment and have little to no business attempting to perform in a marketing related capacity. So, that leaves us with direct mail, SMS, attraction marketing, and face-to-face cold calls. Attraction Marketing is critical IMHO. My opinion.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I wasn’t home, but he pitched my wife and said he’d come back. Then Google REALLY started marketing! Finally, I called Google Fiber and the next week they came out and ran cable to the side of my house where my existing Internet enters the home. This week ask yourself: Are you following AT&T’s marketing efforts?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only one month into 2024, we’re already seeing a significant shift in the marketing metrics world. As we step into this new era, we re-evaluate what truly matters in the marketing landscape. Kevin White (Head of Marketing) of Common Room explains why replacing MQL with pipeline is the way to go.

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MarketJoy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Outbound marketing has been the backbone of businesses for centuries, serving as a key driver for generating leads, closing sales, and boosting revenue. The Early Days: Print and Posters The roots of outbound marketing extend back to the invention of the Gutenberg press in the 15th century.

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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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Jeffrey Gitomer

DECEMBER 28, 2011

It’s that time of year: “Call me back after the holidays.” Tweet Share Call me after the holidays is not an objection. For all requests and questions, including reprint permission, please call 704/333-1112 or email us. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? It’s worse.

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Steven Rosen

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As the business unit head, you and your team have spent hundreds of hours building your marketing plans , analyzing trends, developing key tactics and building and revising slide decks. Global leadership goes back and forth with country management. The beautiful thing is when the process is done, you can get back to business.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. The concept mostly lends itself to larger enterprise marketing teams.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Best Marketing Automation Examples. How does Marketing automation help the business? Creating efficient sales and marketing workflows eliminates the need for repetitive tasks. For this reason, businesses require sales and marketing automation, which will enable them to create reports, send messages, gain insights, and more.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2018

Author: Stephanie Kidder, Chief Marketing Officer, Azalead You Could Do With Less Leads, But You Do Need to Reach More People. When it comes to effective B2B marketing, sometimes less is more, and sometimes more is more, but it may not always be so obvious. Why shouldn’t marketing do the same? It’s called buying by committee.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You know what’s a colossal marketing mistake? While every new marketing venture requires due diligence, the nuances of international communications are often overlooked when marketers try to gain traction in a new region. You can’t simply “copy and paste” your marketing efforts from the U.S. into another market.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

One of the most difficult responsibilities for a B2B marketer is sales enablement. The sales field is often critical of any marketing effort. Marketers can feel like they are in a can’t-win position. Marketing teams begin to resent their peers in sales. Marketing teams begin to resent their peers in sales.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 14, 2020

Part one of our GTM series was all about our inbound go-to-market motions. I looked back to September 24th, 2019. The level of activity included over 18,000 emails sent, 9,100 calls, 109 free trials started, and 4,900 replies to an email we sent. And the numbers aligned with an average day at the time. Here’s what I do.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 12, 2021

Social media has quickly become an integral part of any B2B marketing strategy, and when it comes to your go-to-market (GTM) plan, you’re missing a crucial part of the puzzle without it. What Is A B2B Social Media Marketing Strategy? Key Benefits Of B2B Social Media Marketing Strategies For Your GTM Plan.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Here are some common challenges sellers face when trying to time their outreach just right, and how leveraging advanced signals and AI can get your sales team back on track. Finding Out Who’s Really In-Market Are your prospects coming to the end of a one-year “prove it” deal and looking to scale up with a competing solution?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

What happens when your most important go-to-market machines sync up? For many companies, ZoomInfo serves as the information engine that powers how they go to market. “Data silos are unfortunately still a problem for a lot of go-to-market teams,” says Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s Founder and CEO.

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