Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

GTMnow is the media brand of GTMfund – sharing go-to-market advice from the top 1% of revenue operators including the 350 executives behind the fund, news, and our viewpoints from working with hundreds of portfolio companies. Lessons from going to market with the Solutions team at mParticle. Is customer success COGS or OpEx?

Loyalty 90

Loyalty Customer Face-to-face Scale 90

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.

Paid Content 98

Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 98

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

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We are capping off a week in Nashville of go-to-market executive learnings, live music, and hot chicken. Some of the team have been at Pavilion ’s GTM2023 conference, a B2B SaaS conference for go-to-market executives. When asked who is rethinking their go-to-market strategy, around 60% of the room had a hand raised in the air.

Conference 104

Conference Demand Generation Targets Account Based Marketing Scale 104

Highspot

AUGUST 27, 2020

” While it may seem difficult to plan when so much is changing so quickly, one thing is for certain: It’s time for marketing teams to get creative. . So before you begin drafting your next big marketing campaign, invest time in figuring out what’s working, what’s not, and where opportunities to stand out exist.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing eBook 69

Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Nicole Wojno Smith , the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io. Nicole is the VP of Marketing at Tackle.io, a company that helps ISVs sell their software through the cloud marketplaces. Prior to Tackle, Nicole was the CMO at UserIQ, where she built the marketing department from scratch.

Hiring 79

Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Trade Show 79

Sales Hacker

JULY 15, 2019

We’ll dive deep into the origins behind the business, the developments in event and in account based marketing, why direct mail and sending physical objects improves conversion rates through your sales cycle, and a lot of different conversations about how to grow and expand an early stage company as the co-founder and CEO. What You’ll Learn.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Direct Mail Conversion 51

SBI Growth

AUGUST 31, 2012

“When we have deep information about our customers, it makes all the difference in the world,” said the Chief Marketing Officer of one Fortune 500 company. Understanding exactly how buyers are behaving and thinking is becoming more of a premium for achieving success in marketing today. Market to the Right Buyers. What do you do?

Buyer Persona 282

Buyer Persona Buyer Analytics Research 282

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. What is the impact of bad data on sales and marketing?

Data 130

Data Outsourcing Services Churn Buyer Persona 130

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Andy Gray is a senior marketing professional with proven expertise in directing, centralizing, and strengthening how customers are acquired and retained as well as how companies are positioned through marketing strategies, demand generation, sales support and enablement programs, market research and product development.

Trade Show 154

Trade Show Webinar Metrics Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 154

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Recent research from The Aberdeen Group and Docurated indicate good salespeople today spend less than a third of their time selling, while increasingly more time is spent managing various administrative tasks surrounding sales and demand generation. This creates greater discipline and velocity. Stop focusing on efficiency.

Strategy 129

Strategy Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 129

Hubspot Sales

JULY 28, 2021

Identify your target markets. You're much better off identifying a few key target markets that you would like to sell to and focusing on their needs and interests. You're much better off identifying a few key target markets that you would like to sell to and focusing on their needs and interests. Create a plan.

Top of Funnel 121

Top of Funnel Churn Face-to-face Pipeline 121

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 22, 2020

As a marketer I must admit, we love templates. That’s because Associate Manager, Demand Generation at PandaDoc, Jan Aclan, AKA the guy who architects all of our follow-up cadences, said that he turned to this article on cadences when he was first creating ours. Creating a "why __” document for your prospects.

Hubspot 112

Hubspot Call-back Report Follow-up 112

Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 24, 2011

Marketing-Sales Alignment. Much has been written about the Marketing-Sales chasm. That’s why I was struck by a post by Christine Crandell in the Forbes blog on how Marketing and Sales can gain alignment. In that post, four techniques were offered to assist in aligning the Marketing and Sales effort.

Marketing 67

Marketing Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Territories 67

Pointclear

AUGUST 18, 2015

In today’s B2B companies, marketing and sales alignment is critical to success. Proper alignment is the result of a documented, effective, efficient and measurable process for capturing, engaging, nurturing, managing and converting leads into customers. Increased spending on lead generation. Hired a social media marketer.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revenue Leads 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And it’s not just for CROs; if you’re a marketer, SDR, sales rep, manager, VP, or CRO, this one’s for you. Marketing and Sales Development groups tackle engagement, Sales covers execution, and Customer Success and Account Management handle continuity. Revenue Engine Optimizers Focus on the Entire Customer Lifecycle.

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Engineering Revenue Hiring Lead Rank 126

Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2020

Inbound , sometimes referred to as high-velocity marketing, is a newer strategy that’s been popularized by companies like HubSpot. It focuses on allowing potential buyers to find you (through marketing, SEO, etc.), A broad ICP favors an inbound strategy, and a niche market will push you towards an outbound strategy.

Inbound 101

Inbound Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel 101

Openview

AUGUST 23, 2018

Your chosen go-to-market path and profiles of the partner targets you seek. Once your business can articulate and document the items in the assessment phase, you are ready to move on. Demand generation tactics, leads and marketing platforms. Competitor strategies and results. Phase 3 – Growth Levers.

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Channels Competition Scale Lead Rank 60

Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. The same can be said about basing your sales and marketing messages on personas. Thank you for reading this post from Corporate Visions - Differentiate Your Marketing Messages and Sales Conversations.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Decision Maker Demand Generation Agencies 100

Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue.

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Top of Funnel How To 219

OnePageCRM

MARCH 2, 2017

Companies with dynamic, adaptable sales and marketing processes report an average 10% more of their salespeople meet their quotas compared to other companies. A loose analogy perhaps, for the age old battle that is sales versus marketing. Benefits of sales and marketing alignment. CSO Insight. Increased revenue. CSO Insights.

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 48

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 8, 2018

Maybe… Is it the announcement of new marketing initiatives to support lead generation and demand generation efforts? Often times people think a review of the numbers, new product announcements and marketing plans are good enough. Sort of… Is it the announcement of a new product, service, feature set?

How To 97

How To Demand Generation Agencies Coaching Demand Generation 97

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

They rely on manually-entered data to monitor the sales pipeline and coach their salespeople, and they run sales and marketing independently, creating a disjointed experience for buyers. Demand Generation. Align sales and marketing.

Webinar Metrics 120

Webinar Metrics Strategy Hiring Inbound 120

Pointclear

JULY 7, 2015

Marketing Automation makes it easier than ever to deliver more poor-quality leads to sales. One of the funniest but also most illustrative responses came from The Bridge Groups’ Trish Bertuzzi who nailed it when she said: Companies are still thinking marketing automation (MA) is the silver bullet. The No Marketing Strategy Approach.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. This sales glossary is meant to reduce ramp time for new reps that are getting immersed in B2B sales jargon for the first time. AB Testing. Account-Based Everything / Revenue.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 103

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Copiers as an example, you may refer to document management at one end, and sell copiers to the other end. For a great view on SMB, Social Media and internet marketing, just check out “ SMB’s, social media and reality intersect ” a post earlier this year on the SMEBS-B2B Blog. Demand Generation. Book Notice.

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Pipeline Social Media Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile 226

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps companies implement best in class sales and marketing processes and technology. How to better optimize your go to market. Conga is the leading end-to-end digital document transformation suite. What You’ll Learn. The evolution of scaling a company. Why we need sales development.

Scale 65

Scale Intent Data Outsourcing Services Direct Mail 65

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. We based call cadence on engagement in our marketing automation tool. New to ABM?

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Account Based Marketing Account Video Decision Maker 46

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps companies implement best in class sales and marketing processes and technology. How to better optimize your go to market. Conga is the leading end-to-end digital document transformation suite. What You’ll Learn. The evolution of scaling a company. Why we need sales development.

Scale 53

Scale Intent Data Outsourcing Services Direct Mail 53

The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

When you know what issues are likely to be on the minds of buyers, when you know where you have been able to deliver specific measurable and documented value to those buyers, (this is why you should always be collecting testimonials and case studies); you can start building a set of better questions. Demand Generation.

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Pipeline Lead Scoring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 267

Costello

MARCH 11, 2019

As one of the leading SaaS industry sales and marketing advisors, Anna Talerico is an expert on aligning teams for long-term success. SaaS companies tend to follow a pretty similar demand-generation and sales model because it works. You have to have a documented process and a robust playbook.

Ideal Customer Profile 45

Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Hiring 45

Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. It works for you if you can control it. Outside that – it’s a free-for-all.

Outsourcing Services 79

Outsourcing Services Buyer B2B Lead Rank 79

Vengreso

MAY 5, 2022

Your sales team needs more than a slick marketing campaign and a great product or service. Sales training, product, and market information, a great CRM, and sales enablement software are all essential factors that can shape the sales reps’ chances of success. That is where a live demo or a free trial are useful.

Sales Enablement 55

Sales Enablement Lead Rank Sales Operations Demand Generation Agencies 55

Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2018

In order to build a successful company, you’ll need to create and fine-tune a business plan, assess your finances, complete all the legal paperwork, pick your partners, choose the best tools and systems to help you get your marketing and sales off the ground … and a whole lot more. Analyze your market's conditions. Keep it short.

Top of Funnel 145

Top of Funnel How To Hiring Buyer Persona 145

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The second would be around getting rid of the C’s, which should go according to a policy of documentation. As the C shows that they are falling behind, and you have a proactive sales manager in place, it should be documented and by the time it comes time to part company, it is clean. Demand Generation. Book Notice.

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ROI Pipeline Training Twitter 243

Costello

MARCH 11, 2019

As one of the leading SaaS industry sales and marketing advisors, Anna Talerico is an expert on aligning teams for long-term success. SaaS companies tend to follow a pretty similar demand-generation and sales model because it works. You have to have a documented process and a robust playbook.

Conversion 40

Conversion Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 40

SugarCRM

JANUARY 23, 2019

The number of opportunities in your pipeline is predominantly influenced by your ability to generate demand for your product or service. Whether it’s through traditional outbound efforts or inbound content-driven marketing, prospects are ultimately in control of when and how they express interest in your products or services.

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Sales Cycle Influencer Lead Rank Demand Generation Agencies 34