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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

SBI Growth

MAY 1, 2013

How do you know it’s time to restructure your marketing organization ? We also never thought that Marketing’s technology spend could outpace the IT spend. She inherited a legacy B2B marketing team, no marketing automation or lead generation program. Sales leadership continues to hammer marketing for support.

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Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Demand Generation Targets 296

SBI Growth

JULY 20, 2013

The dealership is an example of the indirect sales channel. Not all indirect channels are bad. Fast food and department stores are two examples of successful indirect channels. For many companies, the indirect channel is the best way to reach customers at the lowest cost. Is your channel threatened?

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Salary Automotive Face-to-face Channels 316

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.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan. But this is only half the equation.

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Exercises Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 310

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JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Conversion Marketing Lead Capture Face-to-face 246

SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

If you are a small company marketing leader, updating your CEO can be a challenge. Develop content that delivers the right message, to the right person, at the right time, via the right channel. Bring your marketing strategy and budget to the CEO and request feedback and approval. There are pros and cons to both approaches.

Marketing 276

Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 276

SBI Growth

JUNE 11, 2013

Now AmazonSupply.com is focused on threatening traditional B2B distribution channels. Now they own the market. B2B Marketing leaders have an opportunity to generate new lucrative channels. My hope is that this article will generate new thinking in marketing around channels.

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B2C Trends B2B Distribution 317

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

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 25, 2013

A top trend in B2B marketing is the adoption of the Marketing Operations role. Innovative CMO and CIO pairs will throw out the rule book when it comes to IT''s support of Marketing. The best marketers will understand that "Content Marketing" does not equal "Thought Leadership".

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B2B Enterprise Enterprise Analytics 325

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

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Your world-class marketing machine is not delivering the return on the investment. The marketing lead conversion rate is not even close to a 30% revenue contribution. The competencies required by Sales for Marketing to be successful are just not there. Does the CSO/VP of Sales even understand how Marketing works?

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Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals Incentive 312

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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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Prospecting Marketing Top of Funnel Segment 246

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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

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

SBI Growth

JANUARY 9, 2013

A tool is available for download – a full syllabus of Sales leadership courseware. The below downloadable tool will give over 40 sales leadership skills to choose from. If your company uses channel partners, Channel Management is a needed skill. Integrating with Marketing functions. Leverage them as you can.

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Sales Leadership Buyer Persona Exercises Course 310

SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most. What we talked about was how new competitive entrants have entered their market space. What was the difference?

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Buyer Persona Customer Demand Generation Agencies Scale 330

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). Recently, we brought a new HR dataset to market.

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Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

SBI Growth

JUNE 6, 2013

As CMO, you implemented marketing automation; provide great content, and your campaigns are world class. For proof, try to measure the return on marketing spend without sales alignment. Research conducted by the Aberdeen Group indicates when sales and marketing are aligned: Pipeline size increases by 18-27% and. The Last Mile.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Qualification 308

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MARCH 4, 2018

While this undoubtedly makes for an ideal buying situation, it makes the job of a marketer significantly more difficult. For seasoned marketers, the practice of personalization – or the process of tailoring marketing efforts to a specific individual or group of people – is not a new concept. Enter, personalization.

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Marketing Scale Segment Channels 194

SBI Growth

APRIL 20, 2013

Download this tool for Tips on Tracking Competitive Activity. An article written by Jenna Cheng cites the following: “Several research studies reveal the growing importance of social technologies to competitive and marketing strategy. Social media channels and news sources are great ways to monitor competition. have been posted?

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Social Media Competition Media Eloqua 316

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Download the SBI Sales SVP New Year’s Guide here. Buyers, markets, and competitors are constantly changing. For example: does their digital brand convey expertise solving your customers’ market problems? Specifically: You tend to offer additional incentives to customers or channel partners.

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Policies Incentive Incentives Channels 303

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The competition is clamoring for your customers and your piece of the market. You can also download The Competitor Gap Analyzer. Decision Makers - Once you know your target audience, know the market problems of your buyers. Do your competitors talk about products and features or market problems? Author: Andrew Urteaga.

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Competition Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Decision Maker 267

SBI Growth

MAY 15, 2013

You can download the SM Hiring Decision Guide here. Go-to-Market Approach. Description: How the sales team is tasked on reaching the target market. Maybe the team is leveraging channel partners, or inside sales. An SM for a direct model may not need to know Channel Management principles. So who wins, Iris or Eddie?

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Hiring Sales Management Forecasting Inside Sales 300

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Unfamiliar with the term? Keep reading.

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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

SBI Growth

JUNE 22, 2013

Download it here. Result: go-to-market plan is not in sync with target markets. For a deeper dive on all 4 root causes, download the e-book here. However, much of his revenue came from channel partners. There was a deep rift between his Channel VP and his VP of Direct. Detachment. Sequencing. Alienation.

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Cancellation Channels CRM Compensation 310

SBI Growth

JULY 10, 2014

He was warning his Sales and Marketing leaders of the dangers of implementing change. This post is for Sales and Marketing leaders and their HR business partners who are implementing change. ” It includes a downloadable tool to assess your readiness for successful implementation. Who isn’t? Next Steps.

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Sage Lead Rank Forecasting Inside Sales 267

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Sales Reps hear through the grapevine about a sales or marketing improvement project. For help, download the Change Communication Creator tool. Sales or Marketing leadership thinks there’s a problem and decides to fix it. Get Creative Help - Leverage Marketing resources for creative assistance in crafting messaging.

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Majestic How To Channels Territories 302

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%. The popular answer is “content marketing”. The Content Marketing Institute describes content marketing as “the present – and future – of marketing.”

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Distribution How To 288

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 18, 2018

Author: Matt Sunshine Sales and marketing belong on the same side of the negotiating table. On one hand, you have the marketer with his definition of a lead. Of course, that leads to frustration, not to mention a belief that future marketing leads will be equally terrible. Not surprisingly, miscommunication.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 195

SBI Growth

MARCH 21, 2013

Insufficient lead generation – every marketer’s worst enemy. We work with marketing leaders across nineteen different industries. There is a skill gap in knowing how to build & execute marketing campaigns. It must also have a timeline and be compatible with your other marketing efforts. Tele-marketing.

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Campaigns Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 319

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For today’s marketers, data is more than just numbers on a dashboard — it’s the key to unlocking new opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. But here’s the catch: many marketing teams are flooded with disconnected data points and siloed insights, struggling to understand what truly drives customer behavior.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer 130

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

This post is written for the marketing leader in a 25-100M revenue company trying to do more with less to drive more leads. When marketers are maxed out, they focus on getting more out of their marketing channels and automation. Is there a true Content Marketing Strategy behind the content being produced?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Conversion Leads 287

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As a Marketing Leader, you pay attention to mobile trends. Best in class marketers evolved beyond mobile optimized websites. Mobile adoption as a marketing tool became readily apparent as we watched the latest Super Bowl commercials. There are valuable B2B marketing lessons to take away from the B2C Super Bowl of marketing.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Advertising Advertising 325

SBI Growth

JANUARY 18, 2013

It is to align the talent to where the market will be in 2014. It compares the new revenue contribution for 3 different sales channels: Direct Field Sales. It also complemented the Go To Market strategy by adding a new way to reach customers. Download the Sales Channel ROI Calculator here. 2014 and Beyond.

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Compensation Retention Ideal Customer Profile Territories 292

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Author: Jen Smith, VP Marketing, MarketingProfs In the “Before Times” – way before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – virtual events were often seen as lesser-than to in-person, bigger-budget events. Downloadable swag like customized Zoom background or freebies like an ebook is easy and even obvious. Once More… With FEELING.

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Demand Generation Agencies Face-to-face Lead Rank Conference 358

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

In the B2B world, email marketing continues to be a reliable, revenue-driving channel. But, as buyer preferences change and technology evolves, creating the perfect B2B marketing email isn’t so simple. If you’re focused on email marketing campaign optimization you’ve come to the right place. Let’s get into it!

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Email Marketing Campaigns Marketing Discount 183