Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

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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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SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. What should the org chart for your marketing department look like? Not all marketing departments are created equal.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

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Allbound

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A key factor of success for your channel is a cohesive marketing strategy. In order to effectively market through your channel partners, you’ll have to create a cooperative marketing strategy. Create shared marketing goals. A crucial part of partner marketing success is co-branded content.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2021

Marketing (and sales) inundate customers and prospects with endless emails, texts, phone calls. Social channels are increasingly cluttered and ineffective. Social channels are increasingly cluttered and ineffective. We look to marketing to create/drive leads. Somehow, our engagement strategies are less and less effective.

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Allbound

DECEMBER 5, 2018

At the core of channel sales enablement is the assurance that channel partners can function autonomously while vendors maintain and manage consistent branding, messaging, and more. According to the CSO Insights 2016 Channel Sales Optimization Study , 46.9 According to the CSO Insights 2016 Channel Sales Optimization Study , 46.9

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Allbound

MARCH 6, 2019

Your channel sales are looking good—but they could always be better. By effectively leveraging your PRM system, you and your partners can work together to accelerate your channel sales and ultimately drive revenue for your organization. Click To Tweet. Give your partners a way to stay organized. Provide a variety of shareable content.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 10, 2018

From the time social media became a viable marketing channel, B2B companies have been looking for ways to automate social processes. Today we’re covering a topic that B2B marketers have disputed for years—scripted social media. Instead, we feel that—as with most marketing tactics—there’s a time and place for everything.

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Allbound

AUGUST 15, 2018

If you’re running a channel sales operation, you know that attracting the right partners is crucial. Currently, 60 percent of channel partners report needing better systems and processes to ensure quality, which means you need to have a solid recruitment plan in place. Here are five ways to attract the best channel partners: 1.

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Allbound

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Ways to Make It Easier for Your Channel Partners to Sell More of Your Product Faster. The best way to succeed in channel sales is by arming your channel partners with the right tools, resources, and skills to be able to sell your products easily and quickly. White papers. The question is: How do you do this?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. There are essentially two competing schools of thought among B2B marketers. demand-gen argument makes for engaging social conversation, the reality of the situation isn’t so black-and-white.

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Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In many ways, managing multiple sales channels is like climbing that mountain—it looks easy until you really get into the process, and then the challenges and difficulties become all too apparent. If you currently manage a multi-channel operation, you know how naïve this statement sounds. You Need Channel Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

When should I send that case study?”), tone of voice (“Will this customer appreciate my humor?”), and choice of content (“Would this buyer find a white paper useful?”). Eleni Hagen is a content strategist for Highspot , a sales enablement platform that helps organizations close the loop across marketing, sales and customers.

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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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Allego

MARCH 28, 2023

They deliver a compelling buying experience, while enabling you and your marketing team to track which content the buyer reads, watches, and/or downloads—and which content performs best. Companies primarily use DSRs as external channels to support buyer and seller engagements.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2018

Your goal as a B2B marketer is to capture the attention of potential buyers with informational resources and content. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, snackable content is essentially the same as traditional marketing content—but condensed. So, how can you incorporate snackable content in your B2B marketing strategy?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

When should I send that case study?”), tone of voice (“Will this customer appreciate my humor?”), and choice of content (“Would this buyer find a white paper useful?”). Eleni Hagen is a content strategist for Highspot , a sales enablement platform that helps organizations close the loop across marketing, sales and customers.

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Showpad

MAY 22, 2019

With new sales engagement platforms designed to streamline sales processes being constantly introduced into the market, it can be overwhelming for sales enablement teams to decipher one from the other to determine which to select for their organization. How do engagement platforms align sales and marketing efforts? Boosts efficiency.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And they want to engage on their time, not your time,” said a go-to-market executive at a biotechnology company in McKinsey’s report. Why Digital Selling Is Important Digital selling is important because it meets the evolving expectations of modern buyers, who now demand a seamless, personalized, self-serve experience across digital channels.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2013

In reviewing a white paper this week my eyes glommed on to a sentence: “Traditional CRM often falls short in enabling the proactive decision-making skills that business leaders need to address the demands of their clients.”. Create a visual representation or flow chart of data from marketing to sales to operations.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 9, 2012

The iPad is perceived as a great new business tool, to empower sales to deliver more provocative interactive presentations, and to enable B2B marketing to provide engaging content to ever more mobile buyers. The traditional pitch and marketing vehicles just don't work as well as they used to.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Weekly programs published from large companies and marketing departments are better when they can use the enormous amount of content which comes from each podcast. This multi-use content is used in testimonial quotes, blogs, nurture messages, ebooks, hard cover books, guest websites, white papers or case studies.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In other words, marketers have to utilize every opportunity to nurture every lead and to nudge them to becoming a customer. Everyone entering the sales funnel does not end up becoming a customer, and in order to convert as many as possible, concerted efforts are needed by the marketing team. What exactly is lead nurturing? Retargeting.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Create the R ight C ontent for Y our A udience About 37% of experienced B2B marketers produce compelling sales content for their target audience. Studies show ebooks and white papers can also impact the customer decision-making process. Investing in LinkedIn marketing solutions can help your brand generate more qualifying leads.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

It’s clear that podcasting isn’t going away anytime soon—so it’s time for B2B marketers to explore podcasting as a new marketing avenue through which they can build their brand, reach new audiences, and scale overall business growth. Today’s blog post breaks down B2B podcasting into a few easy steps. The Benefits of Podcasting for B2B.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

This week I interview Russ Chadinha , Senior Director Product Marketing of Model N Revenue Cloud. It is the primary objective for CEO’s and for Sales and Marketing executives. Nancy: What are some of the challenges your solution solves for Marketing/Sales? We call it Sales Tech Simplified.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

We identify them because they are hitting on our websites, downloading white papers and we reach out to them saying, “We have the best solutions in the world, can we talk… ?” These segments represent the majority of the market. They could achieve much more, but they are, for the moment, doing OK.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Your task as a sales manager is to market it. The answer is “by implementing a vertical marketing strategy.” Key takeaways Targeting specific, niche markets with specialized products and services can help small businesses operate more efficiently with lower costs and higher revenue. This is known as vertical marketing.

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Showpad

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Coaching reps on how to develop these skills is an ongoing responsibility, as markets and customer needs change all the time. It’s important for sales to align with marketing in this strategy. White papers. Branch out into new channels. Every business has a set of channels that perform best.

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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 30, 2016

I’ve been in marketing doing just that for most of my professional career. Doesn’t he know what marketing is? Maybe we marketing geniuses are not getting the job done. Marketing spends a lot of time and effort crafting direct-selling product collateral, web pages, campaign support materials, white papers and blog posts.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Break down your sales pipeline into basic parts: Lead generation channels: decide on the channels you will be using to generate leads. This could be a mix of email, content, social media marketing, cold calling, industry trade events, etc. Assess customer data and market trends to lay down the attributes of your ideal customer.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Framework for Your B2B Marketing Plan (2022 Update). Who currently have job openings for marketing help. What Is a B2B Marketing Plan and Strategy? B2B marketing plan and strategy is about how you plan to raise brand awareness. What is a b2b marketing strategy? B2B Email marketing.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. These are based on market research and real data about your existing customers. Each persona represents a distinct segment of your target market. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And how can marketing departments help and prep sales representatives to close deals faster? Smart customer intelligence tools, like Sugar Hint , can expand your sales team’s view and knowledge on campaign activity, correspondence, interactions, and more, between leads and marketing. Data Collection Matters.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 27, 2018

If you are using Interactive Value Selling and Marketing Tools, you may be sitting on a wealth of customer intelligence that you could be leveraging. Self service Value Marketing Tools from Alinean collect data directly from each prospect and customer, including key profile data and metrics about their current challenges and opportunities.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 21, 2024

For example, consider the following: Current Market Conditions: At the outset of the year, sales goals are based on projected market conditions, but these change. It is calculated by dividing new customers by sales and marketing expenses. For example, is an uptick related to market or economic conditions?

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