Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI. Their rapid growth recalls some of the most durable tech-driven shifts of modern history, with research by Bloomberg suggesting the generative AI market will grow to $1.3 What Does this Mean for Marketers? How Do Marketers Use Generative AI?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

There’s no denying it — sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. The two departments may see eye-to-eye and share unified goals, but it’s less common for sales to proactively help marketing perform better, or vice versa. But in today’s digital world, the line between sales and marketing is increasingly blurred.

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The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. By Tibor Shanto. Even Less Receptive.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 22, 2019

The current state of market pulse insights. From focus groups to user surveys, marketing turns to the audience to hear firsthand what is resonating and what is not? After all, sellers have a pulse on the market, so this must be sales’ responsibility. Adapting a B2C marketing practice into the B2B arena.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Author: Ron Carson Just about every marketer today has been told to listen to the voice of the customer to inform marketing strategy. First, marketing teams only receive this information second-hand – through sales, product management, etc. And it is why I encourage marketers to have regular “voice of the market” conversations.

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Sales Result

AUGUST 17, 2017

The most effective prospect-facing collateral is the result of collaborative sales and marketing teams. While the marketing team is responsible for the development and design of sales collateral, it is marginally effective if it doesn’t incorporate the needs and goals of the sales team.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. But a lot of marketing, sales, and recruiting professionals don’t know how much data has changed over the past few years! Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts!

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Highspot

APRIL 2, 2019

The best sellers use tailored sales collateral — materials developed by their business to support the sales process — to engage prospects at the right time with the right information to close deals faster. Today’s most effective collateral bears little resemblance to the jargon-heavy brochures of years past.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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Allego

MAY 7, 2024

Do your sales and marketing teams have a hard time communicating? According to a poll from SMM Connect and Training Magazine Network, 68% of sales and marketing leaders said “sales and marketing don’t communicate effectively.” And that leads to multiple issues, including: Misalignment on sales and marketing strategies.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 16, 2022

They don’t waste time selling to prospects who are not ready to buy. Instead, they have a system to identify the highest value prospects in their pipeline and invest their time with those that are most likely to close. Sales leaders do not want their sales reps wasting their time calling low likelihood prospects.

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SBI

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If you weren’t there, you missed great sessions like: Building (and finding) a Marketing Technology Team. What Every Marketer Wants to Know About SalesTech but is Afraid to Ask. Because it is perfectly timed with our annual Top Marketing Tools Guide. Our Top Marketing Tools Guide has just 17. Of course not!

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 3, 2022

Sales and marketing automation tools obviously suit sales and marketing teams, respectively — but that doesn't mean that the utility of those kinds of resources is siloed by department. The value of sales and marketing automation rests on your resources' ability to provide mutually beneficial intel between departments.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 24, 2020

Smarketing — the practice of integrating your sales and marketing efforts to foster closer collaboration between the departments that carry them out. Here are some key marketing metrics to know for smarketing efforts. SQL quantity is a KPI that covers shared responsibility between marketing and sales. Quality of SQLs.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The best way to create the kind of value proposition your prospect is looking for is by addressing a need. And that’s not what your prospect is looking for. The first is making the problem real and vivid in the prospect’s mind. Let’s talk about what value is – and what value isn’t. 300,000 minus $30,000). That’s not value.

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SBI

JUNE 26, 2018

This week I interview Jill Carpenter , VP of Marketing for Cirrus Insight. Sales teams that integrate Cirrus into their workflow see faster conversion of prospects into customers. Accelerate Direct Engagement With Prospects: Schedule and confirm meetings with just an email. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers.

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BuzzBoard

JUNE 24, 2024

What Are the Basic Data Requirements for Creating Hyper-Personalized Sales Content in a Digital Marketing Agency? As sales representatives at a digital marketing agency, you should understand the fundamental data needs to create hyper-personalized sales content , which could optimize your sales process.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

By optimizing messaging, collateral and communication through effective sales enablement, sellers can better communicate the differentiating value of your new solution, showcase marketplace positioning and properly advise prospects. For example, a playbook could be based on industries, roles and stages of the prospect.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2019

Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. A lot of marketing, sales, and recruiting professionals don’t know how much data has changed over the past few years! This is an introduction to the use and impact of marketing and sales intelligence data on business decisions.

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Allego

JULY 21, 2022

They must be proactive in finding prospects, nurturing digital buyers, and winning sales. Getting qualitative data on usage and quantitative feedback on whether collateral is succeeding. Connecting sellers, managers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) with prospects and buyers. To do that, however, they need help.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Content marketing is an inbound lead engine. As a methodology, content marketing supports sales enablement efforts in numerous ways such as: Generating high-quality leads at a fraction of the cost of outbound marketing or sales. How to measure your content marketing. Sales collateral. Case studies.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The buzz around the water cooler is that marketing botched it from the get-go. As the marketing leader, you play a pivotal role in bringing the new offering to market. Unfortunately, most marketing leaders don’t know or under-estimate what’s involved. Are their new markets to enter? So do careers.

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Allego

AUGUST 11, 2021

What buyers don’t want is to comb through their inboxes looking for scattered bits and pieces of marketing collateral—or for multiple emails from sales reps or colleagues regarding prospective purchases. The best news about this trend from a sales and marketing perspective? 3 Benefits of Digital Sales Rooms.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 23, 2023

But that’s only the beginning of how we help businesses go to market. We recently launched a new brand campaign to increase awareness of our broader go-to-market capabilities, which help sales, marketing, and operations teams find, acquire, and grow customers through a unified platform.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 2, 2020

Let's add one more thing to the list — creating a spirit of cooperation between your sales and marketing organization. Today’s modern salesperson doesn’t sell in a vacuum, and reaching a new level of success in sales often requires some help from marketing. Identify your marketing leaders or a suitable counterpart.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. Tailors marketing and sales efforts to address specific customer needs and preferences.

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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. How to Bridge the Gap.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This trend results in additional pressure on sales and marketing organizations to speak the business language of their prospects and customers, not just demonstrate technical expertise. Most vertical marketing strategies are light in nature consisting of tabs on websites, vertical-oriented stock photos and key words added to headers.

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Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. As a CMO or product marketer, the ball is in your court for how well your company handles market pressures. B2B deals are high-cost, span multiple touchpoints, and take months to close.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 171

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. Most notably, 83 percent of B2B leaders believe switching to digital omnichannel buying environments proved effective for reaching prospects and securing new business. Sales teams.

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SocialSellinator

AUGUST 24, 2022

A social media marketing funnel is an essential process that you can use to optimize your marketing efforts. It allows you to trace the stages your leads go through as they transition from being unfamiliar with your brand to becoming a prospect and eventually converting into a devoted customer. Engagement.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 27, 2020

Today, product success is frequently determined by who gets to market first. Getting to market first means getting to market without stumbling or missing important items along the way. CRM systems are useful in identifying specific prospects via demographic information. Product marketing data. Sales reps.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2023

And email sequences are an excellent way of demonstrating the value you can deliver for prospects. With a multi-step email prospecting motion, you can craft messaging that appeals to specific customer pain points, showcase several different use cases of your products or services, and invite engagement in multiple ways. Our pro tip?

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