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JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement. Read on to discover the latest CRM trends for sales and marketers to use in 2021—and beyond. CRM systems wear many hats, including channel management, customer insights, communications, engagement, and more.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

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JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Facebook likes. Twitter followers.

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Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. Landing pages serve as a litmus test to digital marketing campaign success — you get to see who is interested in your content and how many. What is the Landing Page’s Importance in Digital Marketing? An example of a landing page design.

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MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

as this channel has become saturated. Closing : Closing cycles that fail 80% of the time are the norm (where 1 in 5 deals in the pipeline closes.) Closing : Closing cycles that fail 80% of the time are the norm (where 1 in 5 deals in the pipeline closes.) Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. Overall, they make fewer calls, talk to the right people, ensure qualified leads, decrease time to close, and drive revenue. Todd offered three tips for selling in uncertain times. Featured image attribution: Julia M.

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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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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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AUGUST 27, 2024

This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. By leveraging the power of data and advanced analytics, marketers are able to develop targeted lists of accounts that perfectly align with their ideal customer profiles. This not only maximizes ROI, but also minimizes wasted time and resources on low-potential prospects.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s no secret, the Internet has changed the way customers buy products and the ways marketers engage with their audiences. But, despite the constant change, the following statement has held true for hundreds of years: No marketing tactic can match the influence of word-of-mouth. Therein lies the power of word-of-mouth marketing.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. Reps cold call, send cold emails, do cold outreach on social media, and rely on marketing to nurture prospects and send them qualified leads.

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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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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. Today we’re covering how sales teams can benefit from both sales and market intelligence along the buyer’s journey. What is Market Intelligence? What is Sales Intelligence?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

Author: Tessa Burg In a perfect world, your sales team and your marketing team work side by side to find and close customers. In the real world, however, less than half of companies believe their sales and marketing teams are in any sort of alignment at all. CRM Data that Improves Marketing.

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CRM Lead Scoring Lead Rank Data 289

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Also, data from channels such as chat, social media, phone, web and more must come together into a single view of the customer. Social selling.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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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. 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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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

While your current incentive program may already have a quarterly goal or sales threshold in place for your team, unexpected rewards would be granted for quick thinking, closing a deal or going above the call of duty to help a colleague. What makes unexpected rewards so effective? In famous experiments on mice, psychologist B.F.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). When marketers look over a lead’s qualifications, they examine their engagement with the brand along with their b udget, a uthority, n eeds, and t imeline (BANT). Instead, it’s a chase.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Of course, you can't afford to spend hours on social media each day, so which channels are worth your time? The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the best social media channels for prospecting. Read on to learn more about social prospecting, and discover which social media channels are most effective.

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Social Media Channels Media Prospecting 124

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You may notice that your campaigns move too quickly or slowly, indicating that your marketing team has become distracted. If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Campaigns 177

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A growing market suddenly became an uncertain one. After COVID-19, the picture turned far hazier, with some companies slashing spending, some putting in new controls that delay deals closing, and still others staying the course. Author: David Satterwhite In 2020, I reached my 30th year in business-to-business technology sales.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. The shrinking number of businesses and the threat of a prolonged economic slump are causing major difficulties with filling pipelines and closing deals. As many as 80% of respondents are closing around 30% fewer deals. Old Sales Funnels Are Drying Up.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt – shifting and aligning priorities (SUPPORT), implementing new, more impactful channel strategies (ENABLE) and leveraging the right solutions (ENGAGE).

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Author: Nick Chasinov The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has left millions unemployed, as businesses in nearly every industry have been forced to close up shop – and many won’t be reopening. Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Doubling Down on Digital.

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Marketing Trends Government Face-to-face 166

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 8, 2018

Author: Jason Kulpa Successful B2B marketing is all about saying the right thing through the right channel at the right time. In fast-paced marketing, the right time usually means right away. Finally, by proactively owning engagement today, companies can stretch their marketing dollars further. Take Control of Engagement.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples? What is CRM?

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Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Rank 171

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Especially if you’ve just been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer. Extending far beyond traditional marketing tactics, today’s CMO shoulders vast and complex responsibilities that now span technology, analytics, revenue and—above all—measurable impact. Don’t forget to show the ROI of your marketing team. KNOW YOUR PRODUCT.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen ROI 230

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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. Aligning Sales and Marketing. It’s all about appealing to their specific interests and needs.

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MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. Through consistent processes, leaders derive quick insights on how its sales organization attacks their market. Its made up of the following: Total Addressable Market (TAM): The entire spectrum of prospective buyers who could potentially use a product — even the outliers. Enter, data.

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JULY 1, 2020

Sales and marketing often speak different languages: Convert vs Close, Prospect vs Leads, Sales cycle vs Marketing funnel. And using it collaboratively can help alignment and improve go-to-market results from a campaign planning standpoint. The whole point of data collaboration is to promote sales and marketing alignment.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2020

Learn how to take action in my free Sales Experts Channel presentation—“ How to Recession-Proof Your Sales in 9 Killer Steps ”—on Tuesday, April 14, at 1:00 Pacific, 2:00 Mountain, 3:00 Central, 4:00 Eastern, and other time zones around the world. The stock market rose to unheard-of levels, and unemployment was lower than ever.

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