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. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 246

SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

Lead Generation is the surest way to drive tangible return on marketing investment. Building a robust B2B Lead Generation program requires the adoption of best practices in two areas; Demand Generation and Lead Management. The decks show a healthy growth curve of leads being generated for Sales.

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Opportunity Demand Generation 325

LeadBoxer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) demand generation is important for any business. It is especially crucial for start-ups, companies launching new apps, and those offering business services. Awareness of your business’ products and services involves demand generation marketing strategies.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Top of Funnel 105

The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 3 Lead Generation Myths That Will Clog Your Sales Funnel & Keep You From Closing More Sales. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Funnel management , Guest Post , Lead Management , Prospecting , Referrlas , Sales 2.0 , Sales Technique , execution. Leads are Qualified.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Pipeline 257

The Pipeline

JULY 29, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Sales And Marketing Alignment In Terms Of Lead Generation In A 2.0 Sales and marketing lead generation tools follow this suit. Other leading content providers such as Olgilvy Advertising and CMO.com agree. Ask them when they want their next follow-up, and follow up.

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Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation. Trade shows are an expensive way to generate leads, even if you don’t have a booth. Social time = networking time.

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Trade Show Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 227

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. No matter where the lead was sourced.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 195

The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. 7 Must-Have Lead Nurturing Recipes for B2B Marketers. Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Lead Management , Marketing , Proactivity , Productivity , Sales 2.0 , e-book , execution. of the RoundTable and The Lead Nurturing Cookbook , I am sure you will enjoy the recipes.

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Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Lead B2B Pipeline 218

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Every company has their own definition of a “good lead.”

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

This guide will help you: Understand what it takes to make up the gap. Getting your New Year quota higher and later then you expected screwed you up. Do you have to increase your demand generation efforts to get new leads? Set up a planning session with your sales managers immediately.

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Quota Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Negotiation 296

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. A year later (just this past July), we converted 1,000 leads to demos. It sounded crazy at first. So, how do we do it?

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

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

B2B Marketing teams are seeing fruit from their investment in content marketing to fuel Lead Generation efforts; 2-3x increase in the quantity of inbound leads. Higher close rates of from inbound leads. More leads that close quicker and at a higher rate of success. Reduced overall sales cycles. No worries.

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Direct Mail Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 319

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

B2B CMO’s are expected to deliver hard Lead Generation metrics: Quantity of Sales Qualified Leads to the sales force. In many cases the CMO inherits a transitional marketing team not set-up to drive revenue. Allows a sales team to sell the way the customer wants to buy. How long is your honeymoon? In Summary.

Top of Funnel 282

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

SBI Growth

JUNE 4, 2013

In this situation, the sales leader better be evaluating net new leads NOW. The number and quality of this week’s net new leads matters…next year. Even if you’re certain your team uses a selling process, that’s not enough. Your reps are “selling” like crazy, but your buyer consumes differently. The punch line?

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Demand Generation 308

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

If you’re at a small company or startup, you were probably impressed and inspired by the highly sophisticated and advanced techniques that your peers at large companies with big teams are using to build lead pipeline. Test up to 5 demand generation tactics. I don’t know, or 2.) everyone – Stop right there.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 270

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Their teams sell a certain way because that’s how the customers have always bought! They sell one way – your Buyers prefer to buy differently. Sometimes he grew up in it. Could you sell with a different model and drive expenses down? Content “sells” your product before your Buyer meets with your rep.

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Hiring Lead Rank Collateral Case Study 326

SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2013

Recent enhancements to LinkedIn’s social network should be leveraged to generate leads. Engaging with these enhancements will drive Demand Generation. Sales teams know that social selling on LinkedIn will help make their number. SBI has helped best in class sales teams build top notch social selling processes.

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LinkedIn Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Networking 332

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.

SalesForce 130

SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. This can be accomplished through programs such as email lead nurturing. And more than ten years later, the definition of what sales enablement actually is has yet to be nailed down.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank 194

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. In the pas I have posted about leads being a renewable resource. Free Resources.

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Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 216

The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2013

As the competition heated up, and costs had to be cut to maintain operating margins, the two teams were collapsed into one that handled both product lines, there was still a clear line between hunting and development of accounts. No one ever had to move out of their comfort zone, mine was hunting.

Demand Generation Agencies 296

Demand Generation Agencies Top of Funnel Territories Demand Generation 296

Zoominfo

JANUARY 16, 2025

We recently caught up with Josh Baez , senior demand generation manager at Netline , and Adam Depelteau , senior product marketing manager at ZoomInfo, for a breakdown of the latest trends and tactics for effectively leveraging intent data. The challenge?

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Intent Intent Data Intent Signal Account Based Marketing 130

Pointclear

MAY 14, 2013

Michael is also the author of B2BMarketingInsider.com , where he discusses content marketing, demand generation, mobile strategy, and sales alignment to name a few. Click to start video at this point — Michael summarizes one of his favorite quotes from Peter Drucker that the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Top of Funnel 260

Top of Funnel SAP Cost per Acquisition Customer 260

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2013

He’s facing the extraordinary pressure of leading a Marketing organization at a firm poised to go public. They constantly prepare to meet tomorrow’s buyer behavior and marketing demands. The demands for the CMO keeping pace with the market require constant recalibration. Meet Doug Kuiper. Background. 5 Key Priorities.

Outsourcing Services 300

Outsourcing Services Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Lead Scoring 300

SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

The burden of “selling when a rep isn’t present” has shifted to the marketing department. Marketing not only has to stimulate demand, it has to nurture buyers until they are ready to engage with a rep. Using follow-up techniques to probe deeper. Unfortunately only about 5-7% of customers actually respond to survey requests.

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Customer Buyer Persona Survey Demand Generation 316

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Business Acumen , Coaching , Demand Generation , Hiring Sales Talent , Planning , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation.

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Pipeline Hiring Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 223

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Root Cause — your company does not sell the way the customer likes to buy. There is a best practice to get the sales force ready to sell the new product. Marketing needs to be running demand generation campaigns in advance so sales has leads. Sales leaders are naturally competitive and want to move up.

Promotion 310

Promotion Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Intent 310

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Improved demand generation and account-based marketing (ABM) strategies. Now were able to focus on getting to business leaders and not just technology, so we can better up-sell and cross-sell. With ZoomInfo, Sendoso: Increased access to its Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) by 10% , leading to $4.9M

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Territories Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 130

The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. As always the goal is to provide a couple of actionable things you can implement in your selling. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. EDGE Selling. Gap Selling. Interactive Selling. Lead Management. Sell Better. Social Selling.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 253

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Guest Post , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Video , Voice mail , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. EDGE Selling. Gap Selling.

Pipeline 245

Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Hiring 245

SBI Growth

APRIL 29, 2013

Marketing has plans to help with better Demand Generation and Lead Management. People are starting to understand the science of increasing interest and demand. Dollars are being allocated for things like marketing automation tools and lead development reps. How can you sell more new logos right now?

Hiring 276

Hiring Demand Generation Agencies LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead 276

The Pipeline

AUGUST 10, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Interview , Lead Management , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Process , Sales Strategy , Success , Video , execution. Responding questions and expanding on the topic, we ended up record over an hour of straight and useful talk.

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Sales Cycle Pipeline Conversion Webinar Metrics 244

The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Diving home it struck me that this fellow an unnecessary but real barrier to successfully selling, going to an expo with thousands of attendees, and completely limit the means of buyers to buy does not seem savvy. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. EDGE Selling.

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Pipeline Hiring Top of Funnel Vendor 265

The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Selling to Mr Know-it-all. Have you ever tried to sell to Mr Know-it-all? He’s looked up you and your competitors and and thinks he knows all your relative strengths and weaknesses. I hate selling to Mr Know-it-all. Home About The Pipeline. Free Resources. 0 Subscribers.

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Pipeline Twitter Small Business Small Business 313

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Value , Video , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. EDGE Selling.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Cold Calling 240

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. Demand Generation. EDGE Selling. Gap Selling. Interactive Selling. Lead Management. Sell Better. Selling to Executives. Social Selling. Zone Based Selling. Zone Selling. B2B Lead Generation Blog.

Pipeline 240

Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 240

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Planning , Prospecting , Sales Leadership , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Video , execution , qualifying. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling.

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Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics 231