Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Not too long ago, we compiled a list of top-notch YouTube channels for HR and recruitment professionals. Now, on to the ultimate guide to the YouTube channels producing the best sales content today! Each year Jeb speaks to thousands of salespeople and their leaders at meetings and events across the globe. Anthony Iannarino.

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Channels Face-to-face Video Hubspot 187

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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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.

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Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

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.

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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.

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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

Zoominfo

APRIL 30, 2021

“In March 2020, live events were canceled overnight. Like everyone else, we had to pivot, and fast.” — Danny Daly, manager, marketing events at ZoomInfo. Since the start of Covid-19, in-person events, conferences, and tradeshows have come to a halt. Lessons learned from virtual events. That makes them hot leads.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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?

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Marketing Territories Consumer Follow-up 177

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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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!

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Promotion 255

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.

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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.

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Engineering Revenue Incentive Incentives 207

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.

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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.

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

Zoominfo

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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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.

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Incentives Incentive Survey Sales Qualified Lead 340

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.

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Marketing Trends Government Face-to-face 166

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2021

The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. That’s why I’ve introduced Back in the Black , my monthly sales TV show on the Sales Experts Channel! Gaining seller access was hard enough before COVID.

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Referrals Cold Calling Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 371

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

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

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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. Prioritize your goals.

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Data 289

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. We based call cadence on engagement in our marketing automation tool. New to ABM?

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2021

My firm surveyed 103 sales and marketing professionals on their lead generation efforts in 2020 and found conclusive patterns amongst the best performing businesses that mirror Stephen’s story. Successful Firms Diversified Their Channels. CrewHu started by recreating their best channel, trade shows, virtually.

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Trade Show Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 195

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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Product-Channel Fit measures how well a product aligns with its distribution channels to effectively reach its target market. The goal is not to test every possible channel but to focus on the one or two that maximize your resources and scale your product for hypergrowth.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f 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.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Testing is for marketing not sales. The more time I spend in sales and marketing, the more I see overlap between these areas. Now, sales people are starting to “geek out” and use software tools like marketers have been for the last decade, or so. Using trigger events : try using trigger events in your prospecting.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead How To Referrals 240

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 31, 2020

With the emergence of COVID-19, we saw events (both personal and professional) get canceled, we lost the comfort of seeing loved ones without worry and had to shift into a more secluded world by working remotely and upholding social distance. Get a deeper understanding of the digital event space.

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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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Zoominfo

JULY 16, 2018

Seasoned B2B marketers know a well-executed webinar is a goldmine for sales leads. Just consider these webinar lead generation statistics: 73% of B2B marketers and sales leaders say a webinar is the best way to generate high-quality leads ( source ). 44% of marketers have hosted or participated in a webinar. Topic selection.

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Lead Rank Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 209

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

That is why recognizing trigger events is key to being successful. In this article, we’ll cover what a trigger event is, why they’re important and provide examples you can apply to your own sales strategy. Broadly speaking, any industry change can be considered a trigger event and indicate a channel for making a sale.

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