Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2022

To gain their prospects’ trust, sales teams need to understand the customer and leverage all of the tools at their disposal to deliver value before their competitors. “Firmographic and demographic data are table stakes,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Free Trial 2.

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Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2021

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. Look for titles such as CEO, CFO, and VP of sales. To do that, you need robust, high-quality data. That’s where intent data comes in.

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Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2021

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. Look for titles such as CEO, CFO, and VP of sales. To do that, you need robust, high-quality data. That’s where intent data comes in.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Bridging the Content Chasm Sales is increasingly using strategic content creation and distribution as part of the sales process – from outbound, to advancing pipeline along, to awareness and education on social platforms. With that responsibility, often there is a need to create content to assist with the sales education process.

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SBI

JULY 10, 2018

For many sales and marketing teams, discovering an in-month deal requires a whole lot of luck. Traditional demand generation methods just aren’t cutting it anymore. A marketing team judges how qualified a lead is based on engagement alone; a sales team takes that lead and discovers it isn’t a fit at all.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Greater Sales and Marketing Alignment Timing and relevance can make or break the effectiveness of your ABM strategy. This is where sales and marketing alignment can make a difference. Intent data and website visitor data are combined into a funnel view, showing where each account is in the buying journey.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

. “Your company puts out products in the market to solve problems for people — which naturally begets the messaging,” says Mitchell Hanson, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Then there’s intent data. Your buyer persona is the VP of sales for both. sales, marketing, operations, etc).

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. A MQL is the foundation of processes within a marketing funnel — namely, an inflection point of engagement met that drives expectations for sales intervention.

Lead Rank 246

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“We’re in a time of uncertainty,” says Hussam AlMukhtar, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Marketing Intelligence & Automation This will help your demand generation team interpret data and put it to good use. Tools may include intent data, personalization, and chatbots.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2023

Those rapidly evolving challenges are only exacerbated by a long-standing problem among sales and marketing teams: misalignment. Inaccurate data means leads aren’t routed properly to sales. It all increases friction between sales and marketing — two teams who, now more than ever, need to work in lockstep. What’s it take?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. A MQL is the foundation of processes within a marketing funnel — namely, an inflection point of engagement met that drives expectations for sales intervention.

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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. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Poor data quality leads to targeting the wrong accounts at the wrong times and in the wrong way. The reason?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. Set your own benchmarks,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Intent lift. Run two variations of a campaign — one with intent data layered in and one without.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 27, 2022

How Deal Intelligence Solves Sales Challenges Challenge #1: Reaching clients and prospects at the right time In an account manager’s dream world, their clients would simply reach out and offer to spend more money. You can’t know everything but, with a sales intelligence platform , you don’t have to. What else can you solve for them?

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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! Unfortunately for many demand generation professionals today, their inability to write a compelling, cohesive story is no exaggeration. More Quick Tips.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 7, 2023

Inaccurate or generalized targeting means wasted time and money. Company and contact data As you begin audience building, align with your sales team on which companies and contacts you want to target and make sure you have accurate company and contact data to rely on.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2022

On an average morning in early 2020, sales reps left their team huddles pumped up on yesterday’s success stories and a few cups of dark roast, ready to start dialing for the day. They had a system of tried-and-true tactics for making sales calls and historical data that supported what worked best. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 3, 2018

Even if you hit your sales goal, the new quarter is still a great time to take stock of wins and losses … AND start building your pipeline for a quota-crushing Q3. Just like exercise and eating your vegetables, building sales pipeline means doing the hard things now in order to reap a future reward. It starts today. Not always.

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SBI

JUNE 19, 2019

TechTarget Priority Engine Named Best Account Based Marketing and Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution by SIIA. Priority Engine provides B2B marketing and sales teams the real, observed purchase intent they need to act with speed and confidence. TechTarget, Inc. Michael Cotoia, CEO, TechTarget.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

It’s better to add in dynamic data that is ever-changing and always up-to-speed with your audience’s most recent behaviors. “Native targeting is okay in some cases, but there are so many ways to make it better,” says Mitchell Hanson, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. Always put the goal first.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

International marketing demands a substantial level of research in order to ensure a good product-market fit and a high probability of ROI. “It It can take anywhere between one to two years to penetrate a new market, and then you have to show consistent growth,” says Amir Biran, senior director of sales at ZoomInfo. Intent data.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, most sales teams rely on long-term accounts and word-of-mouth to maintain revenue, which is not a sustainable approach. Create a Formal Sales Process The first step in elevating your lead generation process is to build a definite sales process. Lead evaluation: not every lead is worth pursuing.

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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. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Crunchbase

JULY 31, 2019

As the founder of a B2B sales intelligence product , I work with sales & marketing leaders every day that are creatively answering this question. How Sales Teams Should Build Their B2B Lead Generation Strategy. This is how sales teams should build their B2B lead generation strategy. The answer?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. An MQL is the foundation of processes within a marketing funnel — namely, an inflection point of engagement met that drives expectations for sales intervention.

Lead Rank 100

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2021

Was it the Facebook ad that helped us drive the sale? Moreover, you must measure lead attribution at the moment it becomes an SQL, rather than waiting for purchase, due to long sales cycles. The foundations of the marketing/sales attribution problem. Or was it the blog, or the TV ad? What’s the impact of each?

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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. 1) Outreach.io 1) Outreach.io

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jake Dunlap, Founder and CEO of Skaled. Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps companies implement best in class sales and marketing processes and technology. Why we need sales development. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jake Dunlap , Founder and CEO of Skaled. Skaled is a modern sales-consulting firm that helps companies implement best in class sales and marketing processes and technology. Why we need sales development. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes.

Scale 53

Scale Intent Data Outsourcing Services Direct Mail 53

InsightSquared

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Guest blog by Eileen Chow, Director, Demand Generation and Marketing Operations at Evergage. Data may be the lifeblood of organizations, but it seems like there’s never enough good data to go around. To start the process, we inventoried the needs of our sales, marketing, and product teams.

Ideal Customer Profile 66

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. Demo Day is as much an opportunity for Marketing as it is for Sales. It sounded crazy at first.

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets 246

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, ZoomInfo CEO and Founder Henry Schuck and his then-VP of Sales Operations, Chris Hays, came up with the bold idea to challenge the sales team to convert 100 leads into product demos in one day. Demo Day is as much an opportunity for Marketing as it is for Sales. It sounded crazy at first.

Lead Rank 104

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Demand Generation Targets Sales Qualified Lead 104

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you’re at a small company or startup, you probably are impressed by the highly sophisticated and advanced techniques that your peers at large companies use for building sales lead pipeline. The broad availability of data is truly democratizing growth – and as a small startup, the trick is knowing how to use it.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”. The availability of data is truly democratizing growth. That’s frustrating.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 270

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If you’re at a small company or start-up, the idea of building a robust sales pipeline may sound daunting. But once you understand the structural needs and stages of a sales pipeline, you can build your own with ease. What Are the Stages of a Sales Pipeline? Free Trial 4 Steps to Building a Sales Pipeline 1.

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