Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. potential conflict with their channel partners. Businesses don’t want to jeopardize the business that comes through channel partners?—?as Pricing Is Key to Keeping Channel Peace. as much as 90%?—?for Here’s how.

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Outsourcing Services Channels B2B Incentive 156

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

Lead Rank 257

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Zoominfo

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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Trends CRM Top of Funnel Marketing 246

Zoominfo

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.

Email Marketing 264

Email Marketing Benefit Webinar Metrics Marketing 264

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2019

All sales and marketing tools make big promises—more leads, more engagement, higher click-through rate, better sales—but none more so than marketing automation. For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 197

Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2019

In decades past, the world of marketing was dominated by print advertisements in newspapers and magazines. These antiquated marketing tactics had one thing in common: They put the product front and center, with clever presentations intended to entice prospects to become paying customers. Evoke emotions through storytelling.

Marketing 202

Marketing Advertising Advertising Face-to-face 202

Zoominfo

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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Lead Qualification Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

Paid Content 264

Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

The goal of this tactic is to leverage the sentiments of customers to improve your marketing strategy. As a marketing technique, sentiment analysis can be as complex or as simple as you make it. If you have a large following across multiple channels, this may seem like a daunting task. Why is sentiment analysis important?

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 176

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. They don’t want to see your demo. For more on referral selling, tune into my new sales TV show— Back in the Black on The Sales Experts Channel.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

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. 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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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As noted by my colleague Vince Koehler, Marketing has adopted new capabilities. These capabilities force Marketing to transition to new metrics for determining effectiveness. By registering for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review , you''ll get the “ Top 15 Metrics to Track in 2014.” That’s a 5x bump. Content Production.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals 326

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Automation is a great way to speed up your marketing operations. Embed scheduling into your contact and demo forms. Integrating your calendar with your contact and demo forms lets your leads move the process forward themselves. Read on to find some fool-proof ways to increase your speed-to-response time when it matters most.

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Sales Qualified Lead Inbound Lead Scoring Lead Rank 236

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show. A recent survey done by the Content Marketing Institute shows 75% of respondents believe in-person events are an effective marketing tactic. Set up monitors around your booth, and play a demo of your product or service.

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Trade Show Marketing Social Media Lead Rank 187

Zoominfo

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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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 246

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

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 11, 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. Whether it’s a live demo or a training session, people need to see best practices in action.

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Sales Leadership Lead Rank Scale Marketing Qualified Lead 119

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

The contemporary competitive market poses a formidable challenge to maintain profitability across multiple sales channels. Instead of relying on manual calculations and outdated spreadsheets, businesses can leverage CPQ to implement strategic pricing models that align with market conditions and customer expectations in real time.

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Margin Channels Maximizer Lead Rank 48

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with most business functions, technology is drastically changing the way we market our products and services. We’ve long since understood the power of one-to-one marketing, but without modern technology, it wasn’t always feasible, scalable, or affordable. So, how can we market to customers who are sick and tired of marketing?

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Conversion Marketing Consumer Social Media 174

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. “It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

In fact, when you’re tenacious enough to book a call, data from Marketing Wizdom suggests that a mere 2% of sales leads will close on the first meeting. Unlimited Availability Whether a prospect is responding to cold outreach or asking a question that arises after a demo, I try to be as responsive as possible.

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Follow-up Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 122

Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

But they can also face a winding path to purchase , sprawling buying committees, and a dizzying number of channels vying for their attention. For B2B marketers, that means the challenge of effectively reaching, engaging, and converting their target audience is more complex than ever. What is B2B Marketing?

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Paid Content Report B2B Top of Funnel 130

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2025

My social channels are dominated by experts suggesting the GTM strategies. We define outreach programs, looking at content, channel, volume, velocity. We look at our pipeline activities, how many first meetings, how many demos, how many proposals, when are we going to close, what discounts are we providing.

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Customer Analysis Retention Social Media 100

Zoominfo

JUNE 19, 2018

In recent years, B2B live video has exploded in popularity as a viable marketing tactic. Keep reading – today’s blog post offers tips and tricks for B2B marketers to make the most of live streaming! If you still adhere to old-school marketing initiatives , your product announcement likely comes in the form of a standard press release.

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B2B Video Influencer Promotion 207

Zoominfo

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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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Paid Content 225

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?

Marketing 171

Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Scoring 171

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Gil Miner’s 20+ years of marketing experience span prominent names like American Express, Digitas, and Weber Shandwick. The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management. Applying B2C marketing strategies to enhance B2B customer engagement and retention.

Marketing 122

Marketing Scale Outbound B2C 122

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What does a “good lead” look like anyway? What is a Lead?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We guess that if you spend any significant effort on email marketing, then you’ve seen these recent trends in the last 12-18 months: plummeting open rates, dwindling click rates, and skyrocketing bounce rates. One glance at your inbox – personal or work – probably confirms what you secretly don’t want to admit: Email marketing is dead.

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Email Marketing Policies Campaigns Gatekeeper 254

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past year, we’ve had tons of founders ask where they should be prioritizing their marketing dollars and resources considering the wild economic year that 2023 has unfolded as. Not only has the economy provided an added challenge, but there has been a general drop in the effectiveness of most traditional marketing channels.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Channels 128

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You manage a small business and its marketing. Maybe your marketing efforts are more ‘throw it at the wall and see if it sticks’ than a fine-tuned ROI machine. What is small business marketing? The goal of small business marketing is to attract leads to your business. How to Grow Your Small Business with Marketing.

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Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 145

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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Demand Generation Agencies Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing? Real-time communication: Messages that are sent and received instantly.

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Account Based Marketing Buyer Conversion Marketing 130

Zoominfo

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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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 147

Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. We surveyed nearly 250 marketers , and while 59% of respondents said they either were not adjusting their budgets or weren’t making significant changes, almost 40% said they were cutting back on marketing spend in anticipation of a recession.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Advertising Advertising 130

Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2020

I hear it all the time – especially when I’m talking to VCs and Private Equity firms – Company X has an INCREDIBLE product, but they just haven’t built a go-to-market motion around it. And now we have an incredible go-to-market engine. Why You Need a Go-to-Market Motion. ZoomInfo’s Go-to-Market Framework.

Lead Rank 213

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 213