Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

At ZoomInfo, we use gift-giving with our customers no matter where they are in the demand generation funnel. Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Mereo

JULY 14, 2022

B2B decision makers have often been akin to the Viking warriors centered behind a shield wall. According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers. Inaccessible.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 30, 2023

Whether they’re building a brand, fueling revenue generation, or supporting the customer journey, marketers are constantly looking for ways to highlight their value and increase ROI. There are dedicated stages to generate awareness, create engagement, and ultimately convert prospects into customers.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in.

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Lead Rank Paid Content Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2021

While there’s no magic recipe to achieve perfect results, you need to be relevant and targeted in order to have an efficient digital marketing program. With today’s clutter in the digital space, often the relevancy of your offer is the only differentiator you have,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2021

While there’s no magic recipe to achieve perfect results, you need to be relevant and targeted in order to have an efficient digital marketing program. With today’s clutter in the digital space, often the relevancy of your offer is the only differentiator you have,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Top of Funnel ROI Campaigns Maximizer 130

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

Emissary

JUNE 6, 2022

Tech marketers were some of the very first to adopt ABM as a strategy distinct from inbound and traditional lead generation. In the beginning, account-based marketing for enterprise tech marketers was simply an account list and a high-value direct mail campaign. Download the Guide. Download the Guide.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Members of DiscoverOrg’s sales and marketing teams attend about 30 events per year. Blog: How to Prospect at Trade Shows: The Ultimate 10-Step Sales and Marketing Checklist. To take full advantage of the trade show experience, reps need a game plan for pre-show, during the show, and post-show … and they need Marketing back-up.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals. The short answer is no.

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Revenue Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Segment 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

From increasing competition to unpredictable markets, revenue operations leaders face new hurdles seemingly every day. Those rapidly evolving challenges are only exacerbated by a long-standing problem among sales and marketing teams: misalignment. Limited automation means many RevOps tasks are still done manually. What’s it take?

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Product Management University

JANUARY 13, 2020

A lot of people think solutions marketing is just a fancy term for product marketing, especially since the term solution has been so overused. In a product marketing model, products are the star. In a solutions marketing model, the star is the buyer’s vision for success. What Is Solutions Marketing? Positioning.

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Marketing Decision Maker Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 52

MarketJoy

JULY 22, 2022

Demand Generation: B2B demand generation is a form of marketing that creates interest in a product or service. Lead Generation: . Most B2B marketers struggle with lead generation. It’s a little surprising that something so critical to marketing’s success continues to cause so much confusion.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 141

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “ buyer’s journey.”

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Impacting a marketing team’s output in that short period of time requires a quick start. B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. Marketing contribution as a % of Pipeline Opportunities. Marketing contribution as a % of Revenue.

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 282

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Leading With the Hard Sell Right Away Sandra Stoughton , Director of Marketing Operations at TruBridge , says, "A common mistake is leading with a hard sell right away. Imagine stepping into a conversation without knowing the company’s background or the decision-maker's name.

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Cold Calling Demand Generation Agencies Sales Qualified Lead Follow-up 87

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan. Step 1: Identify the Market.

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Exercises Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 310

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

MAY 24, 2019

When organizations think of sales and marketing alignment, they often focus on demand generation. Sales and marketing must work together to deliver on the promise of alignment. Marketing must agree to move beyond demand generation content and build content designed to be used in the sales process.

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Marketing Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 90

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 276

Highspot

JULY 18, 2023

Right now decision-makers are focusing on marketing enablement. But what is familiar to some may be a mystery to others – what exactly is marketing enablement, and how do you do it well? What is Marketing Enablement? I’ve observed an interesting shift in my three-decade marketing journey.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Marketing teams work to drive inquiries into the top of the funnel. However, this is an area that many marketing teams lack sound processes. H ow their teams should analyze Lead Sources is a major concern for marketing leaders. H ow their teams should analyze Lead Sources is a major concern for marketing leaders.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 7, 2023

Building a technology stack to support your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy is no easy feat. Doing this upfront work will save you from one of the biggest mistakes marketers make when it comes to ABM: targeting broad groups of people in a large company. Inaccurate or generalized targeting means wasted time and money.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 130

Product Management University

AUGUST 20, 2018

A product marketing roadmap for sales is like a popular technique used in deep sea fishing. Has product marketing taken your salesforce deep sea fishing this year? Your product marketing roadmap is the equivalent to sonar on a fishing boat. 80% customer business goals & obstacles and 20% product is a good rule of thumb!

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Author: TJ Macke Sales and marketing are competitions. TJ Macke is the SVP of strategy at Sapper Consulting , which replaces the cold call to secure quality sales meetings with decision makers. The more qualified leads you can attract and convert, the better position you’ll have in the race.

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Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Scale Top of Funnel 194

Pointclear

JUNE 10, 2016

Understanding the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results—the final of a multi-part blog series. Many challenges facing Sales and Marketing have been around since the beginning of time. Each were covered in detail, and referenced thought leadership from industry leaders. Are these truly leads?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face Inbound 160

Zoominfo

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s how Boutelle learned that one of her clients — a growing software company — was in the market for a website chat product. Beyond that, as your company grows its account base or total addressable market , it becomes more difficult to stay on top of everything that’s happening with your accounts.

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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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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2021

“ Deploy the marketers! If only sales and marketing were that swashbuckling in real life, right? First of all, this pirate ship is built on account-based marketing (ABM). Every crew member on a ship has a duty to perform, and it’s the same when your sales and marketing teams are aligned. Email marketing.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel 66

Pointclear

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There’s no doubt that Account-Based Marketing is on the up-and-up. What are sales and marketing leaders saying about it? Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Account Based Marketing Lead Generation Account Sales Qualified Lead 100

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the sales prospecting process. Consider the following statistics ( source ): Companies who exceed lead and revenue goals are 4 times as likely to use personas for demand generation compared to those who missed lead and revenue goals.

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B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Prospecting 212

Emissary

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How to fix it: Work with marketing to create templates that are rich in value messaging, and which force customization to the specific client and the state of your relationship. Start with decision-makers who have influence over the next phase of your relationship. Don’t lose sight of those original business drivers.

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Exercises How To Demand Generation Agencies ROI 245

Sales Hacker Training

MARCH 14, 2023

Here’s a list of the best lead generation tools on the market today. These solutions range from CRM tools to exit-intentlead capture to sales management tools to marketing software and beyond. We’ve broken down the best lead generation tools into four distinct categories. Visit their pricing page to learn more.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 52

Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. people needed to formally sign off on each purchasing decision. In other words, there are more decision makers involved in the buying committee than ever before, and they’re all being targeted with highly personalized messages.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Decision Maker Demand Generation Agencies 100

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Formally defined, Demand Generation is the use of targeted marketing programs to address four key objectives for B2B marketers: Building awareness of a company’s products and services; Establishing relevance to a prospective buyer/end user; Supporting validation for the purchase; and Mitigating customer concerns.

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