Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Visitor identification software offers a powerful solution, helping your go-to-market team transform anonymous website visitors into qualified prospects, leads, and revenue. Here are some of the benefits: Lead Generation : Detailed visitor data can improve lead quality and conversion rates.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

As a Marketing Leader, you are expected to contribute to the revenue goal. Mature marketing organizations ex pect this number to be upwards of 30%. Do you have enough leads to hit this number? The popular answer is “content marketing”. There are several roles within your marketing department. Are they quality?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These are just a few pillars that define demand generation. Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. What is Demand Generation? Demand generation is programmatic.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As new companies join the space, existing companies will find it increasingly difficult to generate new leads. As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. That won’t change.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In the crowded arena of GTM demand generation, most organizations are laser-focused on optimizing whats already known: nurturing interest in established markets, identifying accounts actively searching for solutions, and meeting familiar challenges head-on. And now, many of us use generative AI in our daily work.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. Implement Demand Generation. Build Lead Gen Infrastructure. DEVELOP A LEAD GENERATION STRATEGY. There should be both demand generation and nurture campaigns.

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Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Agencies Promotion Demand Generation Targets 300

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. In fact, 49% of B2B marketers rank social media marketing as the most difficult lead generation tactic to execute ( source ). Don’t believe us?

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SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

DEMAND GENERATION. You also need someone responsible for launching, measuring and optimizing all demand generation channels. Launching – With buyer research & content in hand, what channels should you deploy? What are the best demand generation levers to pull to stimulate inquiries?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It’s a solid marketing plan with an agile process approach. There are many components to a solid marketing plan. In this post we’ll focus on the B2B Demand Generation (DG) plan. Download the 2014 B2B Demand Generation Planning template here to get started. B2B Demand Generation – Building a Base Plan.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As next year’s new plans take shape, the VP of Sales will be leaning on CMO's for more leads. What channel of Demand Generation can yield the highest return and sustained success? Getting the most out of SEO is low-hanging fruit to drive qualified leads into the top of the funnel. Natural Link Growth.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. A year later (just this past July), we converted 1,000 leads to demos. It sounded crazy at first. So, how do we do it?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

The platform supports the integration of these insights directly into CRM and marketing automation systems, ensuring that marketing efforts are aligned with sales strategies for improved lead conversion rates. Platform features including email marketing, lead scoring , and campaign management.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2012

In fact, sales leaders are tired of hearing about traffic stats when all they care about is if any of it is generating leads for the sales force. In addition, you are probably using a marketing automation system that tracks leads and viewing history. These foundations provide rich data input. Why do you care?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? What is a Lead?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. Get a Demo Performance Metrics by Channel Choosing B2B marketing KPIs for your team starts with analyzing your active campaigns. Demos : Number of MQLs that sign up for a scheduled demo.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In short, ABM treats individual high-value accounts or collections of good-fit prospect accounts as mini-campaigns, surrounding their buying committees and key influencers with targeted, value-driven marketing assets. ABM software tools tend to have similar capabilities and characteristics.

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SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support. They are looking for help generating qualified leads. At this point sales sees no value in marketing and why would they?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“If your sales and marketing teams are not aligned, it’s going to be much more difficult to hit your number,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. You’ll spin your wheels and get frustrated, leading to turnover, lost productivity, and reduced budget because you can’t get a return on investment.”

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Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

As a Marketing Leader, you are expected to contribute to the revenue goal. Mature marketing organizations ex pect this number to be upwards of 30%. Do you have enough leads to hit this number? The popular answer is “content marketing”. There are several roles within your marketing department. Are they quality?

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Distribution How To 180

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

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. Trade shows are an expensive way to generate leads, even if you don’t have a booth. Track referrals.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Simple ROI calculations based on lead source have muddied the waters. A more robust framework for the ROMI (Return on Marketing Investment) calculation is required at the campaign level to provide a reliable picture of Lead Generation efforts. The ProForma is used for Demand Generation campaign pre-planning.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Glad you asked!)

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SBI Growth

JULY 7, 2013

A BPM provides the marketing team a blueprint for effective demand generation and lead management. Using a BPM means the buyer and marketing are aligned. The key to a successful marketing strategy is influencing the early stages of the Buyer’s Journey. BLUEPRINT FOR EFFECTIVE LEAD GENERATION.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

At ZoomInfo, we use gift-giving with our customers no matter where they are in the demand generation funnel. Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

If you’re at a small company or startup, you were probably impressed and inspired by the highly sophisticated and advanced techniques that your peers at large companies with big teams are using to build lead pipeline. Account-Based Marketing orchestration – sure, that sounds great,” you may think. This will take a little time.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Next, Doug had to decide if his team could effectively target the market. Did the reps have the expertise, and were they deploying the best channels? And with a new market, comes the need for qualified leads. Based on his analysis, three initiatives were selected as top priorities: Market analysis and segmentation.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2013

He’s facing the extraordinary pressure of leading a Marketing organization at a firm poised to go public. They constantly prepare to meet tomorrow’s buyer behavior and marketing demands. The demands for the CMO keeping pace with the market require constant recalibration. Meet Doug Kuiper. Background.

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Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 300

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As a Marketing Leader, you pay attention to mobile trends. If you don’t, lead generation efforts will hit road blocks. Live leads will break away as you reel them in. You should optimize every offline channel to continue your buyers journey online to declare themselves. But what are you putting into action?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Chatbots are a lead generation machine capable of driving forward conversations, which are the start to a great customer relationship. Email and social media campaigns are proven ways to generate demand through content. But you don’t want to exhaust these valuable channels. Be the Change You Want to See.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. This exercise is a standard component of the SBI Lead Generation playbook for our clients and I want to share it with you. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most. The CMO world of multiple channels, social media, content marketing, demand generation, and lead development extends the importance of messaging to a much broader scale. Today, one out of every four domestic passengers flies Southwest.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 14, 2022

That means figuring out how to allocate your money between all of your different channels to get the highest return on investment without overspending. We’re here to help you determine what your marketing budget should be, how to distribute and manage it, and ultimately how to advocate for more when the time comes.

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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. At better-aligned organizations, you’re likely having conversations about improving the conversion rate of your leads.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. If you get one variable wrong — the audience, the content offer, or even the channel — you can waste thousands of dollars. “When you create a lookalike audience off of your remarketed audience, you go down a rabbit hole of bad leads. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

How will the channel be enabled? Marketing needs to be running demand generation campaigns in advance so sales has leads. These need to be connected in a Sales & Marketing Supply Chain. There is a best practice to get the sales force ready to sell the new product. The complete list can be found here.

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2013

At SAP, Michael’s challenge is to transform social business and content marketing to reduce cost-per-acquisition of new customers. Michael is also the author of B2BMarketingInsider.com , where he discusses content marketing, demand generation, mobile strategy, and sales alignment to name a few.

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