Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 265

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Since I didn’t know any better, I figured that I might as well build the recruiting engine in the same fashion that I built a marketing engine, and it turned out the approach worked. Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1.

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Hiring Marketing Top of Funnel Cold Calling 222

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company. Sales management.

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In today’s marketing landscape, personalization has quickly become the gold standard—and for good reason! In this content-saturated marketplace, personalized marketing is the only way for companies to stand apart from the competition. Luckily, as technology advances, it’s easier for marketers to personalize their efforts. .

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B2B Marketing Retail Consumer 214

Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. 5 Ways to Facilitate Better Marketing and Sales Alignment.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 223

Zoominfo

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know the standard sales process looks something like this: You identify a prospect and conduct research, you figure out what pain point or challenge they’re trying to solve, and then you offer your product or services as the solution. Why don’t some buyers admit they need help?

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Prospecting Case Study Sales Cycle Direct Mail 235

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2018

May 25, 2018 is a date on the minds of many sales and marketing professionals: the day the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. Download a PDF of this document. So, if you are simply processing business contact data and using it to reach out to prospects, that would not appear to constitute monitoring.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona 201

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You’ll receive business guidance, marketing assets, training, and much more. This is where a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) comes into play. Here, we'll get a clearer picture of what this document is, review what it's used for, and offer some advice on when it's fit to sign. What is a Franchise Disclosure Document used for?

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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).

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Scale Marketing 202

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). Recently, we brought a new HR dataset to market.

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Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2018

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here and mandates major changes to the modern marketer’s B2B lead generation efforts. Most marketers are (or should be) well on their way to GDPR compliance when it comes to website and landing-page form language, data transfer procedures, and documentation.

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Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen 217

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 29, 2018

GDPR: It’s the 4-letter word keeping marketers up at night. There’s a lot of confusion and anxiety surrounding the upcoming General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which goes into effect May 25, 2018, l eaving a lot of people wondering how it impacts them as a B2B marketer. Direct marketing as a legitimate interest.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Information like this will tell you a lot about how to streamline your sales and marketing efforts as well as which companies have the greatest likelihood to buy. . Marketing technology guru Scott Brinker has been tracking and documenting the growth of the marketing technology landscape for almost a decade.

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Data B2B Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 240

Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. Wait, are they working with bad data?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s a topic you’re likely familiar with if you work in marketing— and especially if you’ve read our blog in the past. Consider these statistics ( source ): 62% of organizations rely on marketing and prospect data that’s up to 40% inaccurate. It’s safe to say personalization is the defining trend of our modern era of marketing.

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Retention 178

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the key promises of generative AI for business is the ability to eliminate time-consuming, manual research and prospecting tasks for frontline go-to-market professionals. This indicates upcoming investments in software development, data science, and marketing — along with competitive intelligence for competing providers.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sales prospecting is arguably the most critical part of a sales professional’s workflow. Sales prospecting is a foundational element for a revenue team — it’s the practice of identifying and connecting with potential customers to initiate the sales cycle. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Buyer Persona 130

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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Today’s most effective go-to-market teams are increasingly embracing signal-based selling , a strategy that leverages real-time data and unique insights about promising prospects to gain a crucial edge in intensely competitive markets. Funding Funding rounds are among the strongest signals for both sales and marketing teams.

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Hiring Data Prospecting Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2019

This GDPR for marketing post is informational only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. GDPR: The 4-letter word that kept marketers up at night. If you’re still wondering how it impacts you as a B2B marketer, a year later, read on. It may appear that #2 applies to you if you are marketing to EU contacts.

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Marketing Government B2B Data 165

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As your business expands into new markets, privacy considerations must be top of mind. Maintaining a compliant go-to-market strategy, on the other hand, can help your brand build customer trust and grow your revenue in a sustainable and scalable way. Canada has its own set of privacy laws that impact how companies go to market.

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Telemarketing Marketing Inbound Intent Signal 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively. Profiling prospective customers also enables sales and marketing teams to predict larger problems before they arise.

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Customer Demand Generation Agencies 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 7, 2019

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities. Where could they be going wrong?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Sellers and their manager should take care not to jeopardize future orders with prospects by closing too early and aggressively. Have I documented the buyer's goal(s)? Have I diagnosed and documented the buyer's current situation? Have I documented how the buyer's goals can be achieved using my offering?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Author: Michael Nørregaard When prospects are evaluating your company, they’re looking to ultimately maximize their return on investment. You can have the best and most user-friendly offering on the market. Create a community that is their go-to place for tech support, product documentation and networking. It’s a win-win.

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Loyalty Customer Face-to-face Video 274

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 11, 2019

Senior leaders might have certain doubts about specializing teams because they want to give salespeople the opportunity to touch multiple activities, from prospecting, to social selling, to managing new business, to participating in events, and more. Specialize teams. The list is long. Create access to information.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. Well, for starters, inbound prospects, by definition, choose themselves as leads. Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing. Sounds great, right?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 24, 2017

Risk is commonly created by a sales rep having to “take the prospect's word” for various aspects of the pending deal. It merely requires the rep to know and follow documented internal processes and best practices. Limited access to information can create a fantasy world through inference (i.e. Happy selling!

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Forecasting Quota Pipeline Follow-up 224

Zoominfo

MAY 15, 2019

As a sales rep, you can make the most calls and send the best emails, but if you’re targeting the wrong prospect, none of that matters; you won’t be able to close the deal. Then, document your process and make sure your reps know how to follow it. Companies with poor sales and marketing alignment see a 4% revenue decline ( source ).

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Hiring How To 224

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A organized, accessible database helps give a full, 360-view of potential customers, and is overall essential for marketing campaign success. As the heart of any data-driven company, your database helps sales and marketing professionals understand prospects in-depth, improve segmentation, pinpoint audiences,, and convert more leads.

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Ideal Customer Profile Data B2B Webinar Metrics 245

Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2020

Sales and marketing often speak different languages: Convert vs Close, Prospect vs Leads, Sales cycle vs Marketing funnel. And using it collaboratively can help alignment and improve go-to-market results from a campaign planning standpoint. The whole point of data collaboration is to promote sales and marketing alignment.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

Author: Tim Riesterer Have you ever had a service problem with a customer and worried about the damage it could do to your relationship and long-term revenue prospects? And, worse, maybe they will spread the word throughout their network and negatively influence other prospect or customer decisions. Maybe they won’t renew.

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Loyalty Remedy Journal Study 234

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2019

But, sales and marketing organizations must resist this instinct in order to constantly adapt to changing markets, new technologies, emerging trends and so on. Marketers structure their entire strategy around moving prospects through the funnel, towards the ultimate goal of winning a new customer.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 228

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

Versus the common practice of starting with the product, then shoehorning in the prospect. Absent the product; the only thing left to talk about is what does the prospect wants to do? Let’s borrow descriptions from marketing to simplify. All smart salespeople want to have a hand in “helping” their clients write the RFP document.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 11, 2021

B2B sales tools are meant to automate day-to-day processes, increase efficiency in all aspects of the sales process, and simplify various aspects of a sales rep's day to save valuable time — time that can be spent focusing on prospects and deals. prospecting) while others support all aspects of B2B sales (e.g. B2B Sales Tools.

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