SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. Reps wonder what marketing does and contributes; marketing complains reps ignore their efforts. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales.

Buyer Persona 310

Buyer Persona Marketing How To Lead Rank 310

Zoominfo

MARCH 13, 2025

Marketing leaders are constantly challenged to drive growth, personalize engagement, and uncover new revenue opportunities. But without the right Go-to-Market Intelligence foundation, marketing efforts can become fragmented leading to wasted budget, missed opportunities, and ROI thats nearly impossible to prove.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

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

The Pipeline

JULY 23, 2015

The answer I get is “the decision maker”. Now I have used a lot of different directories and databases, and they all give a title, not role in decision. But let’s say they did, the real question is what happens when you speak to that decision maker. Reps come in unprepared in so many ways.

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Decision Maker Objections Case Study Face-to-face 120

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Today’s most effective go-to-market teams are increasingly embracing signal-based selling , a strategy that leverages real-time data and unique insights about promising prospects to gain a crucial edge in intensely competitive markets. Funding Funding rounds are among the strongest signals for both sales and marketing teams.

Hiring 214

Hiring Data Prospecting Lead Rank 214

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?

Marketing 252

Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

MarketJoy

MAY 16, 2025

There are various tools to help all aspects of the lead generation process, from customer relationship management (CRM) systems to lead-nurturing software, making your work easy and growing your leads as uncomplicated as possible. Personalization and automation capabilities through CRM and marketing tool integrations.

Lead Generation 52

Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2018

As a marketer, your results are directly dependent on strategy and budget. But—to gain buy-in from executives and decision makers, you must be able to confidently demonstrate your ability to contribute to the company’s bottom line. You can’t make sense of your marketing reports—or even worse, you don’t have marketing reports.

ROI 219

ROI Marketing Scale Campaigns 219

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Profiles must explain how your sales reps solve the market problems of your prospects. LinkedIn is software. In the end, you will have implemented a software tool, not Social Selling. The purpose of Social Selling is to get meetings with decision makers inside target accounts. Instead, they are online resumes.

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Social Selling LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 324

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

With the right sales enablement process, revenue leaders can confidently improve sales team skills, boost customer retention, expand market differentiation, and drive revenue growth. That reflects the fact that effective enablement relies on contributions from multiple teams, including product, marketing, and customer success.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Scale Hiring 130

Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

My prospecting framework has 3 elements: Define your prospects and get their basic data : for example what industry are they in, how big they are and then data like decision-makers’ emails and direct dial phone numbers. I’ve recently written about this movement to bring “marketing automation” to sales people.)

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InsideView Cold Calling Decision Maker Twitter 309

Pointclear

MARCH 20, 2014

Then when you call them, all you hear is "not interested", "just researching", "not involved", "not a decision maker" etc. So, when marketing sent me the new inbound leads, I naturally got excited. What Was Wrong with Marketing''s Inbound Leads. Which is relevant when you''re selling social media management software.

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Inbound Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 262

SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

They have kept up with the market. On the other hand, organizations are using voice recognition software. Utilize voice recognition software. Still focused on reaching a decision maker and handling objections. What your rep did 5 years ago is obsolete. Agile Sales – mobile enabled CRM. Social selling is the norm.

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Customer B2C Decision Maker Inside Sales 328

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 29, 2025

Now imagine the same situation with a Quoting Software. Quoting software, often powered by Configure, Price, Quote solutions, automates the entire pricing and proposal generation process. In this article, we will take a deep dive into how quoting software enhances accuracy and accelerates sales cycles.

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Software Software Discount Lead Rank 48

Sales 2.0

MAY 12, 2014

Two software firms approached me with a product in the same space. As a buyer, I knew that my decision maker (in my case our CEO) was not going to buy anything in this space unless there was a clear ROI. Maybe her marketing department had not created such ROI examples for her. I felt a little bad for her.

ROI 273

ROI Decision Maker Case Study Film 273

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

Account Based Marketing 246

Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time. Marketing teams typically have their process of scoring and qualifying leads (MQLs), but it may look different for sales teams (SQLs). Align with your marketing team for unified lead scoring and qualification.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 2, 2025

Here, CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software is a real rescuer for the sales team as it automates and streamlines complex sales workflows, improving speed and accuracy. Before understanding how CPQ software as a service helps sell modern medical equipment, lets first look at the challenges vendors and manufacturers face.

Software 48

Software Software Scale Face-to-face 48

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What does it TAKE to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? Jill began this task by talking to Heidi Bullock , Chief Marketing Officer at Engagio , formerly GVP of Global Marketing for Marketo. Engagio is a B2B SaaS software company focused on helping marketers and salespeople drive the best business value for their company.

Marketing 193

Marketing Intent Data Face-to-face Webinar Metrics 193

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. The groupings allow marketing teams to nurture leads with personalized content and convert them to customers. For instance, types of customer segmentation in B2B marketing might include industry, business size and location, and technology stack.

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Segment Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 204

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Leads who have engaged with your marketing efforts, and are deemed ready for sales review and converting it to an opportunity. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 118

SBI Growth

MAY 9, 2013

Others purchase enablement software in the hope that an algorithm will pinpoint the problem. Losses will tell you much more about your position within the market and against the status quo. Does your product meet the entire market’s needs or just a segment? However, capturing competitive intelligence is difficult.

Decision Maker 306

Decision Maker Report Trends Competition 306

Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2020

And even before you can pick up the phone to contact decision-makers, you must conduct a significant amount of research. Leverage Sales Intelligence Software. Sales intelligence software can do everything from: Ensuring database quality. Basically, there’s very little a good sales intelligence software can’t do.

Ideal Customer Profile 264

Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Analysis CRM 264

Allego

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’m willing to bet you’re like me when it comes to buying something, whether it’s a new pair of boots or enterprise software. One such technology, Digital Sales Room software , has emerged as a game-changer, empowering sales teams to operate seamlessly in a virtual environment. What Is Digital Sales Room Software?

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Software Software Lead Rank Vendor 125

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2017

From that experience, I noticed the five abilities that these top performers used: Vis-ability – The best salespeople know how to create such a curiosity about their product or service that decision-makers and influencers are compelled to know more. The power goes out during a software deployment. You know the answer.

Microsoft 213

Microsoft Decision Maker SME Hiring 213

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Decision makers are often only interested in sellers that know exactly who they are and what they want. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

MarketJoy

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Explore MarketJoy’s future-focused view of healthcare’s transformation and learn why outbound marketing is the most effective way to engage with this rapidly evolving sector. healthcare continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate, outbound marketing provides a direct and strategic approach to capitalize on the moment.

Outbound 52

Outbound Decision Maker Scale Lead Rank 52

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?

Marketing 130

Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 130

Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sometimes we all need a bit of technology, some software (MORE software … sales management software ), in our lives to take sales management to the next level. MORE software? Why Sales Managers Need More Software. And often, it’s captured via call recording software. I hear you. Errors happen.

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Software Software Sales Management Sales Forecasts 118

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2020

Author: Mat Singer, Senior Director of Sales Operations and Excellence, Upland Software Sales teams are often one of the most expensive resources within a company, yet the average frontline sales manager spends only 9% of his or her time developing direct report sellers. . Share the Collective Customer Knowledge.

Hiring 234

Hiring Training Lead Rank Health Care 234

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The upsides of account-based marketing are no mystery to anyone running a B2B go-to-market team. However, the gap between developing an account-based marketing strategy and actually aligning teams to win over their target accounts isn’t always easy to bridge. This is where sales and marketing alignment can make a difference.

Account Based Marketing 147

Account Based Marketing Scale Strategy Marketing 147

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If marketing doesn’t deliver enough leads in October, and you have a 60-day sales cycle, December is going to be bad. Email marketing generates the highest ROI of any marketing activity: 67% of businesses list email as their top earner, dollar for dollar. Segmentation is key for both sales and marketing.

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Quota Decision Maker Segment Hiring 178

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

These represent the key software platforms for your sales team to evaluate. Top Sales Tools for 2025 Breaking down the top sales tools means sorting the market into key categories that satisfy the top needs of your B2B sales team.

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Sales Tools Tools B2B Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Job functions: sales, operations, and marketing. As part of your strategy, your sales reps use ICPs to guide prospect cold calls and have a personalized voicemail script ready if they can’t reach their decision-maker prospect. Whether you start a call with your demo or not, your software walkthrough needs to shine.

Data 246

Data Prospecting Strategy Cold Calling 246

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Customers will drive the stickiness of virtual sales calls, so sales teams need to recognize how the shift affects their go-to-market strategy. CRM and other virtual selling tools such as custom video software and your organization’s video conferencing platform. Buyers are not afraid to make big purchases online.

B2B 156

B2B Decision Maker Small Business Small Business 156

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2022

Market intelligence software helps companies better understand consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry trends. These powerful platforms gather, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for go-to-market teams.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Marketing Hoovers 130