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

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2018

Author: Joe Andrews What defines a mature go-to-market model in B2B companies? Is it having a growth strategy focused on new market segments? Does it include a focus on account-based marketing (ABM), a topic with a lot of buzz today? Does it include a focus on account-based marketing (ABM), a topic with a lot of buzz today?

Ideal Customer Profile 204

Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing InsideView Lead Rank 204

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Location data (Marketing loves).

Ideal Customer Profile 202

Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2013

Recent enhancements to LinkedIn’s social network should be leveraged to generate leads. The new LinkedIn user profile offering is one of many recent enhancements. Engaging with these enhancements will drive Demand Generation. The Marketing team can help support sales rep social sellers by growing their own networks.

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LinkedIn Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Networking 332

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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Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Leads 282

SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2013

I recently had a conversation with a marketing VP of an equipment manufacturing firm. Her key objectives were: Generating demand at the top of the funnel & acquiring new customers. Justifying her marketing spend and showing an ROI on her initiatives. There are tons of metrics marketing leaders track.

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Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 296

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

Businesses are constantly seeking ways to gain an edge and connect with their ideal customers more effectively. This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. With marketing account intelligence software, teams can focus their efforts on accounts with the highest probability of converting into loyal customers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Account Software 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

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. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

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 246

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? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. Pretty simple, right?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2023

A few years ago, companies looking to expand into new markets and territories might see a big budget as the surest sign of a serious campaign. At ZoomInfo, our demand generation team engages hundreds of thousands of global customers and prospects every month using our MarketingOS platform.

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Lead Rank 130

SBI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In the B2B marketing arena, Account Based Marketing (ABM) is on fire these days, and it isn’t showing signs of cooling off anytime soon. You can achieve a higher close rate with an ABM strategy if 1) you’re focused on best-fit accounts, and 2) your sales and marketing teams are aligned. then you’re cheating yourself.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Inbound Lead Rank 132

Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. We hope you use it to create your own personas and scale your marketing efforts. Do you need help identifying your buyer persona profiles?

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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Lead Gen 165

Autoklose

JANUARY 15, 2024

Crafting an ideal customer profile (ICP) and buyer personas is a fundamental step for any business aiming to connect more effectively with its audience. And yet, even though those two concepts are marketing staples, some business professionals tend to mix the two up and use them interchangeably.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Buyer Lead Rank 52

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Over the last few months, marketers have witnessed one of the biggest changes to LinkedIn’s professional social network since its inception. The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. Redesigned Profile Pages.

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Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 314

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Over the last few months, marketers have witnessed one of the biggest changes to LinkedIn’s professional social network since its inception. The purpose of this blog post is to provide marketing leaders with a five minute executive summary explaining the new offering and what it means to your business. Redesigned Profile Pages.

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Lead Generation LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 317

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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Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Decision Maker 174

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.

Lead Rank 195

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

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.

Top of Funnel 282

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

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? Lead generation is by and large a more focused effort toward familiarizing potential customers with a company’s value proposition with the end goal being conversion. Pretty simple, right?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

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. Understand your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Although buyer personas are typically considered marketing territory, they’re also critical to the prospecting process.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy 208

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 130

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s coming up on the end of the third quarter and demand generation at the top of the funnel has been cooling off. As the leader of a marketing organization, you are getting pressure from the top to make changes.

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Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Revenue Demand Generation 189

Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2021

Back in 2018, 90% of B2B customers reported investigating between two and seven sites before they made a purchase. Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. In an ideal world, you wouldn’t. But marketers still do.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 147

Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer. You could have a big customer that’s very frugal or a small customer that spends a lot.

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Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing B2B 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 9, 2021

Not All Web Traffic is High Quality Back in 2018, 90% of B2B customers reported investigating between two and seven sites before they made a purchase. Further digitization of the buyer’s journey, along with the pandemic’s impact on field sales and marketing tactics, has only accelerated this trend. In an ideal world, you wouldn’t.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Google Analytics Strategy Google 130

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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Ideal Customer Profile Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation 111

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

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. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 130

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. My presentation, “Customer 2.0, ” focused on how the buyer has changed and has more power than ever before. Part of the Customer 2.0 era is choice.

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Report Pipeline Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 244

Sales Hacker

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, we’ve got Auseh Britt , a seasoned B2B marketer with 20 years of marketing experience across a wide range of industries and companies spanning global hospitality to startups, who currently serves as the VP of Growth Marketing at Terminus. The keys to being a successful growth marketer.

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Strategy 94

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

Hubspot Sales

JULY 1, 2019

An account-based model treats every account like a market of one. Instead of one salesperson targeting a single contact within a company, an entire team is dedicated to targeting multiple stakeholders at the prospective customer’s company. How to Define Your Ideal Customer Profile. But what is account-based sales?

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel 100

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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Account Based Marketing Account Software Software 130

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

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

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Bridging the Massive Social Media Gap Between Sales and Marketing ) Apparently, only 11% of companies in the report they were discussing had a formal approach, while at the same time 82% of the companies had a formalized approach for their marketing teams. Specifically SMB, which makes up the vast majority of businesses in the USA.

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