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. We believe this rapid journey both validates our initial vision and reinforces our commitment to innovation as we continue to grow and serve B2B marketers everywhere.

Account Based Marketing 147

Account Based Marketing Intent Data Vendor Intent Signal 147

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 25, 2013

A top trend in B2B marketing is the adoption of the Marketing Operations role. Innovative CMO and CIO pairs will throw out the rule book when it comes to IT''s support of Marketing. The best marketers will understand that "Content Marketing" does not equal "Thought Leadership".

B2B 325

B2B Enterprise Enterprise Analytics 325

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) is time-consuming; getting it right takes hard work, consolidation of resources and alignment on the part of both sales and marketing. I Zoom’ed with Hussam AlMukhat, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at ZoomInfo, for all the details. Anastasia: Very cool. Hussam: Yes.

Account Based Marketing 246

Account Based Marketing Account Intent Data Data 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 29, 2019

Author: Paula Sanders There’s a lot of hype around artificial intelligence, but the reality of its impact to sales and marketing strategies promises to be positive. Our new digital workers, consisting of software robots, will be used by at least 40% of enterprises. That’s a significant opportunity. Be Excited about AI.

Marketing 209

Marketing Webinar Metrics Software Software 209

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A growing market suddenly became an uncertain one. And expect that revenue will tilt for a while toward growth from existing customers rather than new logos because, in times of uncertainty, buyers tend to go to the vendors they know. Even in today’s digital world, enterprise technology sales remains a largely in-person business.

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Vendor Guidelines 317

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

How’s that for attracting new clients in a highly competitive market? But only if your salespeople nurture their existing relationships, get referrals to other divisions in client enterprises, and build customer loyalty. Expand your reach within the enterprise by getting referrals to other divisions. Think about that.

Lead Generation 409

Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 30, 2014

In this month’s guest post, Brian Hansford, director of client services for Heinz Marketing, explains why he won’t buy from vendors who make him look up their phone numbers: . If I can’t get in touch with someone because I can’t find a phone number after a series of emails, I will find an alternative option, vendor, or partner.

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Eloqua Face-to-face Vendor Channels 240

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

B2B data is enterprise-focused information used to improve sales and marketing campaigns. Fit data helps marketers score and segment prospects into personas suitable to be in your customer base. Accuracy: Generally speaking, the closer a vendor is to the data source — the more accurate the data will be. What is B2B Data?

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B2B Data Vendor Intent Data 245

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It has little to do with staffing, pandemic-related revenue difficulties, or fluctuations in the market. Small companies and enterprises saw the reverse trend, seeing increases in new launches in 2020. Enterprise firms do the best at innovating new products compared to the total number of businesses. Source: ZoomInfo.

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Company Face-to-face Enterprise Enterprise 246

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

Author: Kaveri Kalavath Implementing enterprise software has never been easy. Business objectives can be complex and often political, end customer expectations are even more demanding in the digital age, and enterprise regulatory and compliance needs have increased. . Too often, the initial implementation cycle takes too long.

B2B 207

B2B Customer Vendor Enterprise 207

SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2017

There are over 3,000 sessions scheduled—936 if you filter by role for sales operations or sales professional, and 179 if you filter by Marketing /ABM as a role. The other thing to keep in mind is that not every solution provider caters to marketing or sales. My Hot Picks for Off-Site SalesTech Vendor Events. avisoinc Groove.

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Vendor Hoovers Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 140

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. Marketing is creating relevant content that the sales team can leverage throughout sales campaigns. Was this a trusted vendor and how could I be sure? You can get a copy by signing up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing research review here.

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Tools Sales Tools Collateral Vendor 300

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 24, 2017

When DiscoverOrg hosted a Meet-Up event, “Overcoming Roadblocks When Selling Enterprise IT,” we expected insights into how successful sales people identify and access key decision makers at targeted accounts. The vendor only presented the two solutions discussed and nothing else. Don’t make a discovery sales call to the CIO.

Account Based Marketing 264

Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Referrals Vendor 264

Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In our first post we focused on how to be product- and market-ready, but that’s still only part of the solution. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs? Specifically speaks to the needs of the enterprise.

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Enterprise Enterprise Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 105

Tenbound

JANUARY 28, 2025

With an ever-growing market of tools designed to tackle everything from lead generation to pipeline management, choosing the right sales technology can feel overwhelming. Step 2: Define Your Budget Sales technology software comes in a wide range of pricing modelsfrom freemium options to enterprise-grade solutions.

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Sales Technology Software Software Vendor 91

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For more than a generation, customer relationship management (CRM) systems have been the unquestioned core of virtually every go-to-market strategy. Your CRM is too often a mirage of the true market, hindering frontline GTM teams, slowing revenue growth, and limiting opportunities across the board. Bottom line?

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CRM Data Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we see a future where our software and intelligence power a closed-loop go-to-market cycle from data, to decision, to action. Data is at the core of every go-to-market motion. It will be purpose-built for go-to-market teams to identify actual buying centers rather than legal entities with no purchasing power.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Oracle 246

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prospecting in the enterprise environment is just different. Enterprise is generally behind the times and slow to move on new ideas. On the flip side, however, the Enterprise segment offers a vast number of decision makers to go after, and, as we all know, there is a big payoff if you can win the deal. Shifting your mental game.

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Enterprise Enterprise Prospecting Cold Calling 128

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

Author: Kaveri Kalavath Implementing enterprise software has never been easy. End customer expectations are even more demanding in the digital age, and enterprise regulatory and compliance needs have increased. . Post go-live, enterprise technology customers tend to feel stranded and lost in space. Covering the bases.

B2B 177

B2B Customer Vendor Enterprise 177

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Turning a free sign-up into an enterprise logo involves a multi-step process that requires careful planning, design, and execution. Establishing an inside sales team can enhance freemium conversion rates for enterprise-level B2B products by focusing on identifying and directly engaging high-priority leads. Anyway, let’s get into it.

Enterprise 120

Enterprise Enterprise Scale Lead Rank 120

Bernadette McClelland

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

He says, ‘ Very few people in the business world seem to realize that the number #1 factor that is impacting sales performance today is shrinking target markets. Unless you happen to be lucky enough to be working in an early growth market, then your total addressable market (TAM) is not as big as you think it is.

Pipeline 207

Pipeline Vendor Policies Sales Leadership 207

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

This begins at the sales rep level but can become an enterprise-wide problem when sales staff, from reps up to SVPs, focus on their year-to-date (YTD) positions against quota. I wish vendors would look at their product training costs and reallocate some funds to make their sellers better business consultants.

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Revenue Meeting Top of Funnel Forecasting 95

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Increasing sales with enterprise customers starts here — find out how to build custom solutions. Get a Demo Why Do You Need a Go-to-Market Strategy?

Ideal Customer Profile 147

Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 147

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Your competitors have access to the same data, social-selling tools, and marketing applications that you do. Your customers already think all vendors are the same, because everyone has the same message and makes the same promises. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' Here’s a hint. It’s not technology.

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Competition Referrals Gatekeeper Social Media 218

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Top Sales Tools for 2025 Breaking down the top sales tools means sorting the market into key categories that satisfy the top needs of your B2B sales team. Thats why weve waded through the available data, including third-party rankings and our own research, to assemble this list of top sales tools for your B2B sales team in 2025.

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Sales Tools Tools B2B Lead Rank 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“I get involved with the relationships that we have with vendors, service providers, and product provisioning,” Kingsley says, “that speaks to the employee experience. Sales and marketing messaging should address the employee experience, and lowing the cost to serve. Data security, vendor trust, and system reliability.

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Resources Decision Maker Compensation Vendor 224

Zoominfo

MARCH 2, 2021

Take a look at payment processing technology reviews and you can see why they are so popular amongst enterprises. Leading Payment Apps for Enterprise Businesses. These mobile payment processing apps are great for large enterprises: Shopify. Mobile payment processing apps can do much more for businesses.

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B2B Nonprofit Enterprise Enterprise 244

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2022

Market intelligence software helps companies better understand consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry trends. These powerful platforms gather, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for go-to-market teams.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Marketing Hoovers 130

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2019

Author: Steve Norman I recently saw the CMO of a high-profile company present at an international marketing conference. The CMO said this “breakthrough” strategy was the foundation of the company’s sales and marketing plans. Steven Norman has more than 25 years of experience in consumer, small-business and enterprise sales.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Rank 229

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Author: Annie Reiss, Chief Marketing Officer, CloudShare While businesses determine how to safely return to something resembling a pre-COVID world, software sales teams are still racing to meet their quotas and keep business moving. Today, the stakes are higher than ever for them to make a good impression. . Accelerate With the Cloud.

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Software Software Skype Transportation 177

Zoominfo

MAY 26, 2020

Nowhere is this more critical than in enterprise sales, where understanding an organization’s corporate hierarchy can illuminate the battlefield. And, it’s made up of data points related to a company’s relationships to other companies within the market. It helps enterprise sales reps streamline and improve their entire strategy.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data B2B 100

Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2019

When we hosted a recent MeetUp event, “Overcoming Roadblocks When Selling Enterprise IT,” we expected to hear about how to find and engage decision makers. And if you have access to more robust data on buyer intent and opportunity, look for leadership moves, acquisitions, vendor changes, and other initiative which signal buying events.

Account Based Marketing 199

Account Based Marketing Referrals How To Vendor 199

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

B2B sales pros and marketers swim in an ocean of information. We asked over 200 sales and marketing professionals about 78 data points (and “secret sauce” combinations of data points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Sales?

Ideal Customer Profile 238

Ideal Customer Profile Data Intent Data Lead Rank 238

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Yet for the last two decades, efforts to automate sales and marketing motions at B2B companies have stalled, often because of bad data. Until recently, just having access to accurate intelligence about all of the companies in a business’ total addressable market was a big gap in go-to-market efficiency.

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Data Company Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. Plenty of companies have sales and marketing plays, but not all plays are created equal. What is a Play?

Marketing 130

Marketing Scale Call-back Decision Maker 130

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2012

In keeping with my theme of “Get Personal,” I’m sharing with you a blog by email marketing and copywriting guru, Ivan Levison. My name is Bill Smith and I’m hoping to reach your online marketing representative. How do your vendors speak so you’ll listen? Ivan is king when it comes to content. Name and company name changed.).

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ACT Advertising Advertising Direct Mail 275

SBI

DECEMBER 4, 2018

John: TechTarget’s data and insight products for sales called Priority Engine and Qualified Sales Opportunities are built on proprietary knowledge of enterprise purchase intentions and the specific people involved in them within accounts. NANCY: WHAT SHOULD COMPANIES DO TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF YOUR SOLUTION?

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Intent Data Intent Data Enterprise 139