SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2013

There are four fundamental steps to developing and executing your Year 1 marketing strategy: Develop a Lead Generation Strategy. Implement Demand Generation. DEVELOP A LEAD GENERATION STRATEGY. There should be both demand generation and nurture campaigns. IMPLEMENT DEMAND GENERATION.

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LeadBoxer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) demand generation is important for any business. Awareness of your business’ products and services involves demand generation marketing strategies. You can skip some parts of the post and jump ahead: What is Demand Generation Marketing?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

As we conduct research across 19 different industries, patterns emerge. Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. Again and again, we encounter sales leaders who are certain they know their customers. They do research online and are less inclined to agree to a F2F appointment.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions Are marketers and salespeople so focused on early stage demand generation that they’re missing other big opportunities to drive revenue? Marketers and sales pros agree that early-stage demand generation matters most across all of these areas.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 14, 2013

It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. When trained and armed with the battle-tested tools, an Internal Content Marketing team can produce high quality demand generation content consistently. You will be working with Sales to conduct buyer research.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 22, 2012

In fact, sales leaders are tired of hearing about traffic stats when all they care about is if any of it is generating leads for the sales force. Guide your team to build reports to measure the effectiveness of your Content Marketing and Demand Generation campaigns at driving leads. Why do you care?

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 12, 2012

It utilizes personnel from Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other parts of the organization. When trained and armed with the battle-tested tools, an Internal Content Marketing team can produce high quality demand generation content consistently. The CEO will be holding you accountable for revenue generation.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. The new buyer isn’t hanging out at trade shows.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 26, 2013

So I asked the next logical question: “ Tell me about your buyer research; How do you do it? ” They rely less and less on a sales rep for information. Marketing not only has to stimulate demand, it has to nurture buyers until they are ready to engage with a rep. A Framework for Buyer Research. Are my customers spending?

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 4, 2013

World Class marketing leaders approach Sales Kick-off as an engagement opportunity. Credibility with sales is a natural result. Marketing leaders are active participants throughout the sales meetings. Insights derived from discussions are used to; Sharpen marketing research. Marketing Evolution at Sales Kick-off.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 4, 2013

Plagued by Sales Rep turnover? This post is to help discover the root cause of Sales Rep turnover. It is for HR Business Partners working with Sales Leaders. Here’s a sales rep turnover example. According to Gallup research , the top five predictors of turnover (in general) are: 1. 25 Million a year!

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

It’s been two years since The Challenger Sale was published. Since this publishing, many B2B sales organizations have embraced this methodology. Since this publishing, many B2B sales organizations have embraced this methodology. The thesis of The Challenger Sale is sound. Most sales reps don’t have “Challenger” DNA.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 4, 2013

For example, how long is your sales cycle? For many of our clients, the average sales cycle exceeds 6 months. In this situation, the sales leader better be evaluating net new leads NOW. Why does everyone evaluate sales comp at the end of Q4? Sales Process/Sales Training. Compensation Planning.

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SBI Growth

JULY 7, 2013

In 2011, 57% of the Buyer’s Journey was completed before first contact with a sales rep. A BPM provides the marketing team a blueprint for effective demand generation and lead management. To map it right, you must conduct extensive buyer research. BLUEPRINT FOR EFFECTIVE LEAD GENERATION. And the trend continues.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 1, 2013

Her key objectives were: Generating demand at the top of the funnel & acquiring new customers. Gaining sustainable credibility with executive team and sales. The first step in building a persona is Buyer Research. This research provides insight into the CEO’s goals, focus and initiatives.

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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. The path to success for year a B2B CMO’s year one includes: Generate quick wins to build momentum. The quick wins will build credibility with sales and the CEO. How long is your honeymoon?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 2, 2014

As the first post of the years, I thought I would set the tone for the blog and hopefully sales in 2014. Let’s start by setting straight some unadulterated s**t that has made its way into main stream sales over the last few years. A cute marketing term that elevated the noise created by Sales 2.0, Big difference.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

This caused mass confusion, frustration and demotivation on your sales team. Sales leaders want to start strong in the first quarter. Yet most companies actually ‘issue’ their sales quota sometime in the first quarter. Get it here along with over 90+ tools by registering for our research tour. It happened last year.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. Buyer personas can be a big help in aligning marketing and sales around a launch. You Developed Buyer Personas Without Buyer Research. My experience in conducting qualitative buyer research tells me they will be less so.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Top 25 Sales Influencers for 2012. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Productivity , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , execution. Start by downloading our new book: Sales & Consequences. Sales Success , Tibor Shanto.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Sales Force (Mis)Alignment. 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.

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SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

She has helped build the company with superb demand generation efforts. Kathy, the latest research on Cost Per Lead (CPL) scenarios surprised me. She quickly read through the research and realized she just found part of her gap. Aligning with Sales is as important as measuring ROI of Inbound. Top Insights.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When we launched ZoomInfo Marketing in 2022, our goal was to bring ZoomInfo’s unparalleled B2B data and insights to demand generation and marketing teams. When ABM first emerged, the promise of an account-based view meant better sales and marketing alignment. This is even more true for existing ZoomInfo Sales customers.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

The platform supports the integration of these insights directly into CRM and marketing automation systems, ensuring that marketing efforts are aligned with sales strategies for improved lead conversion rates. With Pocus, sales and marketing teams can confidently build pipeline and consistently close more revenue.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 19, 2013

Complete extensive buyer research to understand the customer’s needs, wants, goals & objectives. Align your Lead Generation strategy with your buyer research. Track ROMI on all your demand gen activities. Implement Lead Management to nurture leads until sales-ready. Be ready to report on all of it when asked.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 8, 2013

These questions are the Holy Grail of sales and marketing. A Buyer Process Map will focus your marketing efforts for maximum demand generation. Based on your research, list the questions your customer is asking him/herself. When do they make their decision to purchase? Answer them and you’re on your way to a great year.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Getting ghosted is an unfortunate fact of sales life nowadays. To help you out on that front, we here at The HubSpot Sales Blog — the Internet's definitive, ultimate, unimpeachably authoritative authority on all things sales-related and sales-adjacent — tapped some experts for strategies they use to get an unresponsive prospect talking again.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

Research shows the quality of the creative is a distant #2 in influencing outcome. This happened with one of my demand generation clients. This strategy also extended to outside sales. We encouraged the sales reps to flood the industry with the competitors offer (a Gartner white paper).

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Removing The Barrier From Sales – Sales eXchange – 107. Stored in Attitude , Listening , Proactive , Proactivity , Review , Sales eXchange , Success , execution. Sales eXchange , Sales Success , Self improvement , Tibor Shanto , Win/loss analysis. Demand Generation.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Capital One: Enhanced Sales Efficiency with Centralized Data and Automation Capital Ones Commercial Banking division faced significant challenges in optimizing relationship managers (RMs) efficiency due to time-consuming manual data entry and fragmented information sources.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We’ve done the research to compare the top-rated website visitor identification software vendors — but first, here’s an overview of the definitions, features, and benefits of website visitor ID software platforms. Unlike basic analytics, this software bridges the gap between raw traffic data and actionable sales intelligence.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Maybe the internal marketing structure failed to evolve with the customer demands. Like many marketing organizations, the sales organization doesn’t give you the time of day. Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) numbers were so low, they didn’t bother measuring it. The BPMs were developed for each vertical and shared with Sales.

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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? Intent data should be seen as go-to-market intelligence.

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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? 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. B2B Lead Generation Sources.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 3, 2013

Step 2: Product features are drafted and prioritized based on audience research. Traditional sales support literature. Demand Generation campaigns. Based on research, identify the questions your customer is asking himself at each stage. Step 1: Subject matter expertise is captured into product descriptions.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Freeman Event Research reports that some are pushing boundaries and reimagining virtual events in useful, unusual, and offbeat ways. Research shows that almost 50% of respondents believe that it will take six to 12 months before they will start hosting in-person events again. Face to Face?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sign up for our annual research tour. An expert will help you think through your sales strategy. Sign up now and get the Sales Strategy Grader to ensure you are ready! It necessitates a shift in your sales strategy. 3 Steps to Develop a Sales Strategy to Sell the Orange. Poor sales people hold on and waste time.

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