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5 Reasons Companies Should Prioritize Marketing Efforts During a Recession

Sales and Marketing Management

The post 5 Reasons Companies Should Prioritize Marketing Efforts During a Recession appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Recessions present unique opportunities to maintain and improve your business and brand to give you an advantage once the economy bounces back.

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Survey Results: How Market Leading Companies Plan to Make the 2020 Number

SBI Growth

We found that companies had initially been planning on nearly 31% of their 2020. We recently wrote about the emergence of the Chief Customer Officer and took that opportunity to survey CCO’s about how they will make their 2020 number.

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The One Thing the Best Customer Experience Companies Do Differently

Sales and Marketing Management

The way to tell which companies are the pretenders and which are legit is by asking just one simple question: “Who is in charge of your company’s customer experience?” The majority of companies don’t have anyone who owns their customer experience or who loses sleep at night over how the company is treating customers.

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How a Marketing Leader Relentlessly Drives Alignment With Sales

SBI Growth

Marketing leaders have faced numerous difficulties over the past year, but one challenge is not exclusive to just 2020—sales and marketing alignment. Ultimately, companies. Getting this correct is more imperative now than ever before and can make-or-break your growth strategy.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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How To Empower Your Company With Superhero Leadership

Sales and Marketing Management

The post How To Empower Your Company With Superhero Leadership appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Ben Lytle knows superhero leadership.

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5 Ways Sales Automation Will Help Your B2B Company Thrive

Sales and Marketing Management

Automating sales and marketing activities lets you focus your human resources elsewhere. The post 5 Ways Sales Automation Will Help Your B2B Company Thrive appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. When your sales agents don’t have to spend hours creating proposals or prospecting, they can do more in less time.

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How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing Plans

Speaker: Tom Pick, Chief Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity

B2B Marketing Zone and Tom Pick, a well-known B2B Marketing expert, recently conducted a survey of over 450 senior B2B marketing professionals about the impact of COVID-19 on their B2B marketing plans. Whether marketers are planning on live events this Fall and where budgets slated for live events are going.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.".

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Going to Market Smarter in the New Economy

The fight to find new customers and retain existing ones is the biggest business challenge for many companies. In 2022, as companies continue to move more functions online, employees will take a more virtual -- and flexible -- mindset and lifestyle in parallel to the digitization of businesses.

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Aggregage Intent Signal Service

Get leads for specific in-market buyers. View companies and titles signaling intent. Aggregage Intent Signal Service allows you to reach more active buyers sooner! Influence active buyers earlier in their journey. Shorten sales cycles and close more deals. Download the Aggregage Intent Signal Service overview to learn more.

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Intent Signal Data 101

That means B2B marketers miss out on 85% of a buyer’s journey! How can B2B marketers reach active buyers sooner in the sales cycle and influence their purchase decisions? This infographic clarifies three common areas of confusion: How does company-level and contact-level data differ? Intent signal data can help.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

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The Business Case and Playbook for Data-Driven Sales Coaching

The state of the market and the state of sales coaching make SCL a wise investment, but you have to do it right. This eBook will serve as a springboard for your business, a playbook, and implementation plan to guide you as you consider an investment of time and money to improve data-driven sales coaching at your company.