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?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Christina Longo, Content Marketing Coordinator, DiscoverOrg. Larry Anderson, Director, Demand Generation, Adapt Telephony Services, LLC. Dominique Catabay, Demand Generation Specialist, DiscoverOrg. I majored in Marketing, and now I’m working in HR and Operations, which is something I never expected.

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The SalesPro Leader

OCTOBER 6, 2023

There’s a good reason why there are nearly 800,000 marketing specialists in the United States. Marketing is a broad field that requires a lot of different specializations. One of these specialized positions is the demand generation manager. But exactly what exactly is a demand generation manager?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What Is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important. Yet, generally speaking, a lead can be considered anyone who begins to exhibit buying behaviors.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

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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Pointclear

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Chris Selland is CMO at Terametric , a company focused on maximizing marketing ROI by helping marketers capture and measure all their channel marketing data. However, that difficulty does not absolve marketers from making an effort. A recent lawsuit, for instance, values Twitter followers at $2.50

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 13, 2020

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? Every marketer wants to make an impact. Your buyers interact with your marketing in one moment, but they make the decision to buy in the future. Unfortunately, most marketers don’t believe their content is memorable or actionable. Why Most B2B Marketing is Forgettable.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

This month we focus on the marketing technology stack, the power of direct dials, productivity myths, SEO, and more! Investing In Marketing Technology: 7 Key Considerations. The marketing landscape changes constantly as new trends emerge and innovative tactics catch on as effective marketing strategies. Let’s get into it.

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MarketJoy

MAY 29, 2025

Thats your real roadmap, not your marketing calendar. Not because the content isnt good, but because its generic. This is where services like MarketJoys demand generation can add serious lift. Sales and Marketing Should Finish Each Others Sentences If sales and marketing dont meet regularly, the funnel will leak.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The increasing trend of having marketing take over the MDR or lead qualification role of inside sales has been hotly debated and tested in recent months. I still think it’s a good idea, but needs certain expectations and circumstances across sales & marketing to work long-term. Revenue responsibility. Higher lead to SQL conversion.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Marketing mistakes are costly. Although B2B display advertising isn’t an exact science, enough experimentation can teach you valuable tricks of the trade. Yet marketers often struggle with this crucial step. If you get one variable wrong — the audience, the content offer, or even the channel — you can waste thousands of dollars.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 27, 2025

GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. Her Internet Trends reports helped a generation of founders navigate shifts in consumer behavior, platforms, and growth models. It’s a 340-slide deep dive into how AI is reshaping business, product, and go-to-market strategy.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. But this abundance demands a focused, strategic approach to lead generation that minimizes wasted spending and drives meaningful results.

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SalesFuel

JUNE 6, 2025

Over 40% are shifting some marketing spending to the second half of the year. B2B event marketing appears to be one form of outreach these businesses are investing in across the board, reports Plural Strategy Group. This year, around $111 billion in marketing spending is predicted for the B2B sector. Here’s what they found.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 25, 2018

DiscoverOrg’s content strategist, Charity Heller, sat down with Schuck to ask about how he has handled DiscoverOrg’s evolution in the marketing and sales intelligence industry, from a scrappy startup to the industry heavyweight. Marketing doesn’t just do SEO when its convenient – you do it in a systematic way.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

10 Reasons Why a B2B Lead Generation Department Should Report to Marketing and Not to Sales. As a consultant, I regularly advise that appointment setting Lead Generation Departments report to Marketing and not to Sales. Marketers typically are more available than sales road warriors, when answers are needed.

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SBI

APRIL 17, 2013

DemandCon’s purpose is to offer education and insight into the art of aligning and accelerating the sales and marketing funnel. Meagen Eisenberg , VP of Demand Generation at DocuSign described how she accelerates the pipeline with a content marketing and lead nurturing system. You do have an end-goal defined, right?

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Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies InsideView Demand Generation 127

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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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Paul Nolan A new year means a new calendar, and new trends to incorporate into your go-to-market strategy. It may be a fool’s errand to predict what B2B marketing strategies will emerge in 2019, but trendwatching is an important skill for business leaders across all industries. Video soars.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with Andrea Kayal , Chief Marketing Officer at Upserve and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Signpost. We talk about how to align marketing and sales with demand generation to drive scale. How to align Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Demand Gen.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 12, 2011

Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Community Marketing Blog. Sales and Marketing Loudmouth. ” Or, if I’m completely confused, I may ask, “Are you asking me to do something?” ” That’s the pivotal moment when I learn what their hopeful outcome is. Book Notice.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I further suspect that most would see themselves in the “open source” sales camp, evolving and improving with the market and customer demands; demands that are forced to evolve with the market and other developments. Demand Generation. When Sales Met Marketing. Tibor Shanto. Book Notice.

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 29, 2018

During a recent analysis of the available “operations” jobs on LinkedIn, we discovered a significant number of “revenue operations” jobs — 59,110 to be exact. What I’ve seen happen is a siloing in data structure and processes for marketing, customer, services, and sales teams.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Let me use a DiscoverOrg example: We work with a particular client, and because of the quality and the accuracy of the data and the sales intelligence that we provided, the demand generation team at this particular client was able to take a very meaningful metric in their world and improve it 14x over. Be a change catalyst.

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Video Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Top of Funnel 139

Sales Hacker

MAY 6, 2021

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. What’s the difference between a VP of Sales and a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)? Their peers.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 14, 2012

They have a sales process, they have hired the right people, they have a good organizational structure, they have a compensation plan, they have training, they have demand generation programs, they have marketing and nurturing programs, they have CRM and other Sales 2.0 In one sense they are exactly the same.

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System Demand Generation Agencies Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 98

Corporate Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Anyway, the other thing I remember about olden times was that demand generation and marketing campaign professionals used to be experts at direct response copywriting! We didn’t have 7,000 different marketing technologies to master. Do I sound like a cranky old marketer yet? But it’s not necessarily their fault.

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 23, 2019

Whether your sales and marketing teams are crushing their numbers or they are struggling to generate sufficient pipeline, there is always a desire for more leads at the top of the proverbial funnel. Top Stages of a Typical B2B Marketing Funnel. However, capturing the exact reason why a lead was disqualified can be very helpful.

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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. workplace scenarios.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

But first, here is how NOT to do it (and unfortunately how so many buyer personas are built): When marketing organizations are not sales driven, you end up with the above scenario. Marketing builds a buyer persona that is filled with a bunch of information that does not help sales do anything! Now it’s time to use it!

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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.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Trade Show 83

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

And while the precise definition can vary by team, GTM teams often have two high-level ways of categorizing leads: Marketing qualified leads (MQLs), who are early in the journey but have interacted in a way that indicates they could be ready for sales. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Allego

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Allego is happy to announce that Heather Moses has joined the company as chief marketing officer (CMO) to drive the next chapter of the company’s growth. Heather brings almost 15 years of experience in the marketing industry. This means sales and marketing teams cannot continue doing things the way they always have.

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Marketing Face-to-face Sales Enablement Demand Generation Agencies 62

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?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 5, 2018

In order for these salespeople to be successful, you need to increase your marketing qualified leads by 20%. let’s flash forward to six months from now and you're generating the same lead flow as today. Can’t the salespeople simply cold call to supplement the marketing qualified lead flow?”. Is this correct?”. Rep: “Why?”.

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