Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As an event planner or marketer, you are likely aware that your pre- and post-event content strategy is integral to your overall success. To drive registrations, satisfy attendees, and boost your brand’s exposure, you must produce thorough and engaging content to support and surround your event marketing efforts.

B2B 199

B2B Strategy Social Media Promotion 199

Zoominfo

APRIL 29, 2020

Events and trade shows are expensive, even if you’re not a sponsor. Even so, they 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. Identify Who’s Going to the Event. Also, not ideal.

Trade Show 191

Trade Show Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads 191

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.

Trends 246

Trends CRM Top of Funnel Marketing 246

Zoominfo

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.

Social Media 234

Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

SMBs need to focus on local marketing tools to promote their offerings and sales to meet their sales goals. Local Marketing Tools are Critical for SMBs in 2025 The Competition Never Tires A study by Valpak says that SMBs shouldn’t decrease their ad efforts because of inflation and higher cost of living. They need help.

Direct Mail 93

Direct Mail Tools Marketing Ideal Customer Profile 93

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

There’s no way around it—industry conferences and networking events are expensive. But, live events provide a unique opportunity for your team to network, develop important skills, and ultimately improve your business. If you send your team to conferences and events, they’ll learn new skills and develop existing ones.

Conference 162

Conference B2B Face-to-face Scale 162

Zoominfo

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.

Paid Content 207

Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 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. Product-Channel Fit (PCF): Finding the right growth strategy for your product. Product : HG Insights.

Outsourcing Services 113

Outsourcing Services Scale Cold Calling Hiring 113

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.

Top of Funnel 197

Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing 197

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Improved Forecasting : AI-powered algorithms analyze historical data and market trends to deliver more accurate sales forecasts, enabling better strategic planning. ZoomInfo Copilot ZoomInfo Copilot helps today’s sellers reach their ideal buyers first by applying advanced AI to the strongest data foundation in go-to-market.

Software 211

Software Software Tools Hubspot 211

Zoominfo

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.

Marketing 194

Marketing Scale Segment Channels 194

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.

Account Based Marketing 307

Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

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

MAY 6, 2021

A recent ZoomInfo survey of about 600 sales and marketing professionals found that most sales reps said they relied on in-person events for prospecting before 2020. Last year, however, many stopped using events for prospecting, instead adopting old-fashioned methods like (gasp!) Prospecting in the event-less landscape.

Survey 246

Survey Top of Funnel Scale Fashion 246

Sales Gravy

MARCH 25, 2025

Hes already tried a variety of channels, including inside sales, social media, and email, but is struggling to ramp up both volume and quality. Why a Multi-Channel Strategy Matters Theres rarely a single magic trick that opens the floodgates of perfect leads. Offer timely webinars on pain points you see trending in your market.

Ideal Customer Profile 86

Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead B2B Top of Funnel 86

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? An interactive channel: While email reply rates remain low, users are happy to interact with a brand via SMS. And, while down from its peak in 2011, over 1.5 Let’s dig in. How Does SMS Work?

Marketing 177

Marketing Territories Consumer Follow-up 177

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. Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service. Keep reading!

Paid Content 255

Paid Content Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Promotion 255

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Trade Shows: Participate in industry events to showcase your products and services. Wes stresses the importance of standing out in a crowded market by being creative and authentic in your approach. He believes that exceptional customer service is an opportunity to differentiate oneself in a crowded market.

Video 116

Video Strategy Top of Funnel Direct Mail 116

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. Some of the easiest methods of lead generation include increasing traffic to your social media channels and website. Develop email marketing campaigns – A one-size-fits-all approach to emailing leads is inefficient.

Lead Generation 246

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. SUPPORT: Channel Partner Support and Re-Alignment Is Critical to Success. Partner relationships have always been important to the success of any channel program. That’s the bad news.

Engineering 207

Engineering Revenue Incentive Incentives 207

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. Whats actually working to drive growth: Stay ahead in 2025 There’s a ton of talk about what isn’t working today in go-to-market. Memo hosts 10-15 prospective buyers at each dinner event. The answer?

Scale 106

Scale Sales Qualified Lead Revenue Intent 106

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. Unfortunately, trade shows are expensive and time-consuming.

Trade Show 187

Trade Show Marketing Social Media Lead Rank 187

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. After the event, he’d landed dozens of leads.

Marketing Qualified Lead 195

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

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

Lead Capture 130

Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

9% use hiring events. Social media and word-of-mouth are the most popular marketing channels for entrepreneurs. If our research is any indication, most entrepreneurs prefer to lean on scrappier, more grassroots brands of marketing to get the word out about their businesses. 31% referenced email marketing.

Survey 105

Survey Report Hiring Social Media 105

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.

Top of Funnel 129

Top of Funnel Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Channels 129

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Sales incentive programs can establish, build and deepen relationships with your sales team and your channel partners, which leads to achieving your business sales goals and strengthening your bottom line. Not all sales incentive programs are the same. They can be creative and fun, or even include gamification techniques.

Incentive 340

Incentive Incentives Survey Sales Qualified Lead 340

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 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. Three Approaches to Finding Product-Channel Fit There are three primary ways to identify product-channel fit: 1.

Channels 103

Channels Scale Strategy Distribution 103

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the modern work environment faster and more dramatically than perhaps any other event in modern history. In order to be nimble, marketers must react to news and events in real time.

Marketing 166

Marketing Trends Government Face-to-face 166

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This blog post delves into the key themes discussed during the interview, offering actionable advice and detailed explanations to help sales and marketing professionals leverage gifting and direct mail effectively. The market was saturated with similar strategies, leading to diminishing returns. .”

Top of Funnel 84

Top of Funnel Direct Mail Video Lead Rank 84

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?

Lead Generation 240

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

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. Product : Vanta Your deal is almost closed, and all that’s left is the security review.

Sales Leadership 119

Sales Leadership Lead Rank Scale Marketing Qualified Lead 119

SalesFuel

AUGUST 14, 2024

Challenge: How to create a unique event promoter ad campaign Nancy Nally, an account executive from Viamedia , has been using AdMall on and off for nearly 20 years. Nally knew that the sales tools provided would help her when it came to creating an event promoter ad campaign. “[The

Promotion 104

Promotion Campaigns Ideal Customer Profile Closing 104

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 20, 2024

One way to improve this situation is to use the best B2B market intelligence. The B2B Marketing Outlook Surveyed business leaders also have downgraded their performance scores on customer acquisition and brand value in the past six months. Market Intelligence This is great news. But there's always room for improvement.

B2B 59

B2B Top of Funnel Marketing Decision Maker 59

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. Prioritize your goals.

CRM 289

CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Data 289