Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A growing market suddenly became an uncertain one. A profession that thrives on face-to-face communication with customers became shackled by travel restrictions. A profession that thrives on face-to-face communication with customers became shackled by travel restrictions. There’s a positive side to this.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Vendor Guidelines 317

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. Below are the key insights from our conversation, along with practical strategies to multiply your lead count and build a system that secures face-to-face meetings with the right buyers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead B2B Top of Funnel 86

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Small Businesses Face the Biggest Challenges. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face. During the period of Feb.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Channels “partners” have been a part of sales ever since sales have existed. Channels are a high impact route to market, they enable us to connect with customers we can’t easily connect with. We train them, we provide marketing programs, content. This concept is called channel conflict/contention.

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Channels Lead Rank Face-to-face Lead Scoring 137

Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2018

Brands that market directly to consumers recognize YouTube as a powerful tool. But can B2B marketers use YouTube to the same effect? Today’s blog post offers an in-depth guide to YouTube success for B2B marketers. Benefits of YouTube for B2B Marketing. 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

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B2B Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 217

Pipeliner

JANUARY 3, 2025

They discuss the common pain points faced by sales leaders, particularly in relation to ineffective CRM systems. This blog post will break down the key insights and actionable advice shared during the episode, providing a comprehensive guide for sales leaders and business owners. The Challenge of Clarity Why is Clarity So Difficult?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Also, data from channels such as chat, social media, phone, web and more must come together into a single view of the customer. So we’ve developed a list of the hottest trends.

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2025

In a recent episode, host John Golden sat down with e-commerce expert Sabir Semerkant to discuss the impending challenges e-commerce brands will likely face in 2025. This mindset can be detrimental as it prevents them from recognizing that many issues they face are universal. Marketing Strategies: Implement effective marketing tactics.

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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. Let’s get into it! Use natural language.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively. These tools are now essential for companies looking to maintain a competitive edge in a demanding market. Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently.

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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. They were viewed as less compelling, less useful and, certainly, less fun. Organizers and speakers are reinventing virtual events.

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

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2023

Sales teams continue to face more and more pressure to ramp up. Your most neglected sales channel is your existing client base. Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? One marketing platform or sales enablement app?

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Referrals Channels Cold Calling Scale 177

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

He notes that while buyers once faced “paralysis by analysis” due to a lack of information, they are now overwhelmed with too much information. Wes stresses the importance of standing out in a crowded market by being creative and authentic in your approach.

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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. Scalability: Solutions that grow with your business, adapting to evolving requirements.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Regardless of a company’s tech stack size, CRM systems are a staple for sales and marketing teams. For instance, your social media strategy that your marketing manager ran five years ago looks different today — with multiple social media specialists running more channels. Enterprise vs. SMB CRM Systems.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 22, 2023

Previously, SBI Research reported that one of four tensions facing CEOs this year is Prioritizing customer acquisition, but deprioritizing Marketing spend. Our position remains that while attribution can be obscure, CEOs should resist the temptation to reduce marketing expenses.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? Obstacles to Marketing Productivity. Even the most disciplined employees face productivity roadblocks. Even the most disciplined employees face productivity roadblocks. So, You Want to Improve Marketing Productivity?

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Marketing Campaigns ROI Scale 221

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Recruiting and marketing may be two separate fields—but in today’s digital world, the lines between the two have become increasingly blurred. In fact, 86% of HR professionals agree that recruitment is becoming more like marketing ( source ). The recruiting landscape is now a candidate-driven and highly competitive environment.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 239

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. Wait, wasn’t lead-gen technology supposed to solve that problem? percent of salespeople made quota in 2019, according to CSO Insights. Have We Met?

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This paper aims to explore the following questions: What challenges do organizations face in ensuring they are future-proof, and how can they achieve this? This continuous communication is vital because it helps the organization predict the trends and developments in the market and thus design its strategies to meet future customer needs.

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Ideal Customer Profile Video Face-to-face Trends 105

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Why Businesses Need Sales Coaching Software Today, customer expectations are higher than ever, and market conditions can change in the blink of an eye. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 20, 2020

An executive team sits in front of their computers watching the concerned and, in some cases, confused faces of one another. They have completed the gut-wrenching discussion about who stays and who goes, either permanently or temporarily, to provide some.

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Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Channels Retention 305

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2024

A well-crafted AI-powered pricing strategy helps companies to be competitive in their target market. It can help them to be resilient to changing market conditions, and achieve their profitability goals. If your company is faced with this daunting task, adopting an AI pricing strategy could be your best way forward.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Are your buyers clamoring to talk to you? My phone rang off the hook the last half of 2020. Why the sudden interest in referral sales? A sudden decline in seller access. When the economy shrinks and companies cut budgets, buyers don’t want to talk to salespeople.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. Let’s look at the day-to-day life of a sales rep, starting with traditional face-to-face meetings. In these three channels is where sales performance can be enhanced.

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How To Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Lead Capture 218

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With over 25 years of experience in the digital landscape, Jonathan shared his profound insights on how entrepreneurs can harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive business success, particularly in sales and marketing. Many users fall into the trap of submitting vague prompts, leading to subpar responses.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt – shifting and aligning priorities (SUPPORT), implementing new, more impactful channel strategies (ENABLE) and leveraging the right solutions (ENGAGE). That’s the bad news.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 5, 2025

Overcoming Insecurities Luke discusses the common pitfalls salespeople face, such as projecting their own insecurities onto customers. In a recent episode of the podcast hosted by John Golden, listeners were treated to an enlightening conversation with Luke Lunkenheimer , a successful entrepreneur and sales expert.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 20, 2020

Author: Kris Belau Is there anything more quaint in sales and marketing than the door-to-door salesperson? As was common at the time, the main sales channel was an on-the-ground sales force. Tupperware was a first-of-its-kind product, developed in the mid 1930s with demonstrable benefits in storing food longer than existing methods.

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Face-to-face Social Media Channels Lead Rank 194

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. What are the Benefits of Email Automation? How Do You Set up Email Automation? Basic Steps.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 15, 2018

And technology will eliminate the time-consuming, face-to-face aspect of communication. Video killed the radio star. Not in your personal life, and certainly not in your lead generation system. B2B selling is all about relationships. But we’ve never been surrounded by so much of it. The Birth of the Boob Tube.

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Lead Generation System Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 243

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

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