SBI Growth

APRIL 9, 2021

For many industries and companies, the pandemic has changed sales and marketing forever. In some ways, the changes manifest accelerating trends that were already in motion, and in other ways, the changes are new, permanent disruptions. Of course, every disruption.

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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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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

ZoomInfo and Insent combine to deliver intelligent chat experiences enriched by deep company and professional insights. We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. Most of these systems also come with the promise of automating mundane, repetitive tasks that make go-to-market teams more productive.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Scale Marketing 58

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI.

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Email Marketing Benefit Webinar Metrics Marketing 264

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Data quality is important to every company. Yet for the last two decades, efforts to automate sales and marketing motions at B2B companies have stalled, often because of bad data. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems, marketing automation platforms, and data warehouses are critical tools for go-to-market teams.

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Data Company Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. Demand generation enables you to make smart marketing decisions for your company.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets B2B 271

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. Company transformation. Market expansion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. According to Pew Research Center , 79 percent of adults assert they are very or somewhat concerned about how companies are using their collected data.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. Companies that made significant investments in WFH technology will not drop the tools once COVID-19 vaccinations are widespread. Want to work for an innovative company?

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Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 246

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Lead mining is becoming increasingly commonplace among companies seeking to expand into new markets and territories, as well as those hoping to increase profitability. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough.

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Sales Qualified Lead Software Software Lead Rank 130

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nearly 75% of companies with high commercial momentum have go-to-market (GTM) leadership teams that are highly aligned.” This may sound like common sense to many executive leaders, but some companies can still have a hard time making this happen when their leaders don’t know where to start.

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Revenue Objections Course Tools 316

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. By leveraging the power of data and advanced analytics, marketers are able to develop targeted lists of accounts that perfectly align with their ideal customer profiles. This not only maximizes ROI, but also minimizes wasted time and resources on low-potential prospects.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Account Software 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

Author: Luke Kreitner The element of surprise has been proven to be a powerful motivational tool. When introducing the element of surprise, unexpected incentive rewards should be received for displaying behaviors that drive your sales goals and align with your company culture. Defining the unexpected reward.

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Incentive Incentives Motivation ACT 394

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As more people permanently transition to home offices, companies will need to change how they motivate and recognize employees. In April, Echo Market Research and Tango Card asked 500 newly remote employees how engaged they were feeling. To ensure clarity and frequency, companies should incorporate the proper tools?—?ones

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Companies with low turnover rates are led by executives who understand that money alone is no longer an effective recruitment and retention tool. The post Cracking the Sales Compensation Code appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Compensation Retention Sales Tools 317

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sales processes have room for improvement in nearly all companies. Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company.

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples? What is CRM?

Marketing 171

Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Rank 171

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For today’s marketers, data is more than just numbers on a dashboard — it’s the key to unlocking new opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. But here’s the catch: many marketing teams are flooded with disconnected data points and siloed insights, struggling to understand what truly drives customer behavior.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer 130

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch. To help alleviate this overload, companies can leverage a sales enablement platform. When entering a new market, you’ll want to be able to highlight what differentiates your product from competitors.

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Campaigns Sales Enablement Education Collateral 326

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

How do most companies ramp up their B2B lead generation strategies? Of all the B2B lead generation tools at your disposal, referral selling is the most effective and least expensive. Of all the B2B lead generation tools at your disposal, referral selling is the most effective and least expensive. Not an encouraging scenario.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The tech stack tools that helping power sales enablement efforts are only part of the solution. A thorough understanding of what sales enablement is and how to assess it in your company is vital. The post Why Sales Enablement Matters More Than Ever appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales Enablement Sales Tools Marketing 289

SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2021

Is your company enjoying the economic boom the economy is experiencing? 2021 has been a good year for the market with major stock markets up 15-18% year-to-date. This momentum has resulted in companies making bold moves to capture the opportunity.

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How To Marketing Opportunity Company 367

SBI Growth

MARCH 31, 2020

Going into 2020, Market Leaders were already counting on the majority of their revenue coming from their existing customer base. Most companies build their 2020 Revenue plans on an assumption of GDP growth, and this assumption has shifted.

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Retention Customer Revenue Marketing 401

The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2021

There is always a lot of talk about Sales and Marketing , alignment, misalignment an more. But how many companies have a VP Prospecting. And if you have a disintermediated environment with SDRs, it should be marketing who owns the SDRs, not sales. What is missing is the bit is what or who can align the two.

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Prospecting Account Opportunity Leads 329

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Following the 2008 recession, it took larger companies an average of four years to recover their pre-recession level of GDP , while smaller companies took six years. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. Read on to discover how your marketing and sales teams can close more leads by recognizing and responding to prospects’ buying signals.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Shawn Finder Ask sales and marketing leaders what digital channels they leverage to generate leads and help their teams hit quota and you’ll likely get the same answer over and over: cold calls and emails. These are useful tools, but we’re long past the era where companies can rely solely on them to drive business.

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Quota Channels Decision Maker Cold Calling 296

Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

If only you could clone the best customers produced from your account-based marketing campaigns… Well, you basically can, using a well-known and effective trick in the B2C toolbox that B2B types should be eager to adopt: lookalike audience targeting. Along with targeted ads , B2C marketers utilize Facebook for lookalike modeling.

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B2C Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 264

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). Typically lead qualification is done 100% manually, which is a huge problem for companies trying to reach their next growth tier. Move over to a different tool that provides lead intelligence.

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Lead Qualification Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 246

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AI tools are reshaping the way salespeople tackle their day-to-day work, automating many of the core business development tasks that have eaten away at the average sellers’ day. Leverage the same B2B data that fuels go-to-market for 60% of the Fortune 100 Start Your Free Trial! But AI isn’t just taking over mundane administrative work.

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