Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

Top of Funnel 255

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jim Kruger, chief marketing officer at Veeam Software , a developer of disaster recovery and intelligent data management software, predicts three key . . Virtual events started out of necessity, but are here to stay because of ROI and accessibility. But that requires planning for a new year.

Marketing 176

Marketing ROI Pivotal Travel 176

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

Lead Capture 130

Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 30, 2021

“In March 2020, live events were canceled overnight. Like everyone else, we had to pivot, and fast.” — Danny Daly, manager, marketing events at ZoomInfo. Since the start of Covid-19, in-person events, conferences, and tradeshows have come to a halt. Lessons learned from virtual events. That makes them hot leads.

Trade Show 264

Trade Show Top of Funnel Funnel Conference 264

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. Years ago, marketers primarily segmented their audiences by age range—mainly because the data to get super granular didn’t exist back then. “As

Segment 246

Segment Lead Rank Trends Marketing Qualified Lead 246

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Today we’re closing out this three-part series with a post for our marketing audience. So, if you’re on the hunt for new marketing resources, look no further. 1. Marketing 360. The Marketing 360 YouTube channel offers a wide variety of high-quality video content. 2. Duct Tape Marketing. Go check it out!

Channels 220

Channels Marketing Lead Rank Outsourcing Services 220

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Author: SAM MELNICK VP OF MARKETING, ALLOCADIA At Allocadia, we’re keen on asking the following question: Where will you focus your time in 2018?—?running running marketing, or doing marketing? Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing. Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing.

Enterprise 214

Enterprise Enterprise Marketing Microsoft 214

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

Paid Content 207

Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

And to get there, you have to ramp up your visibility and engagement with your best sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. B2B Tips for Sales, Marketing, Recruitment, and More. These signals alert sales and marketing teams to recognize their pain points and take the next step in putting them through the pipeline.

B2B 237

B2B Trade Show Intent Data Buyer Intent 237

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What does it TAKE to sell to the Chief Marketing Officer? Jill began this task by talking to Heidi Bullock , Chief Marketing Officer at Engagio , formerly GVP of Global Marketing for Marketo. Engagio is a B2B SaaS software company focused on helping marketers and salespeople drive the best business value for their company.

Marketing 193

Marketing Intent Data Face-to-face Webinar Metrics 193

Sales 2.0

JUNE 29, 2014

Find trigger events that show changes in your prospect’s environment, giving you a reason to approach them and potentially enough instability that they may switch vendors. Sweetspot currently focuses on the 2nd part of the framework–trigger events. (I I literally wrote on a napkin.

InsideView 309

InsideView Cold Calling Decision Maker Twitter 309

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Author: Jim Ewel This should be the golden age of marketing. We have more tools at our disposal to implement and measure marketing, and, until the pandemic hit, advertising budgets were at record levels. The traditional marketing plan is broken. The traditional marketing organization is broken. How do we fix this?

Marketing 207

Marketing Advertising Advertising Twitter 207

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Author: Jacob Dillon The marketing environment never sits in one place. As the digital era is here, every marketer and salesman must adapt to the most effective practices that bring the most results. Effective selling is impossible if the marketer/salesman fails to understand his target audience.

Marketing 196

Marketing Social Media Scale Case Study 196

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Truth be told, one of the most important events during new hire onboarding is getting set up on the wide range of digital tools you will need to do your job. Many believe that we adopt software to accomplish a task, what we choose to adopt, and how we use the tool has a large impact on how we market, sell and go to market.

Scale 246

Scale Google Analytics Hiring Software 246

Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2018

More and more B2B organizations have begun to host conferences and live events– and for good reason. Live events help companies engage with customers and prospects, boost brand awareness, generate leads, and so much more. Events require extensive planning and preparation in order to meet goals and maximize results.

Conference 187

Conference B2B Social Media Top of Funnel 187

Zoominfo

JULY 15, 2019

A term like “brand activation” is almost guaranteed to inspire skepticism among modern marketers. In the age of information overload, marketers face the challenge of separating flash-in-the-pan trends from truly valuable business tactics. Experiential marketing. Enter, brand activation. . Let’s get into it!

Trade Show 246

Trade Show Campaigns Face-to-face B2B 246

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2018

While this undoubtedly makes for an ideal buying situation, it makes the job of a marketer significantly more difficult. For seasoned marketers, the practice of personalization – or the process of tailoring marketing efforts to a specific individual or group of people – is not a new concept. Enter, personalization.

Marketing 194

Marketing Scale Segment Channels 194

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

Author: Tessa Burg In a perfect world, your sales team and your marketing team work side by side to find and close customers. In the real world, however, less than half of companies believe their sales and marketing teams are in any sort of alignment at all. CRM Data that Improves Marketing. Prioritize your goals.

CRM 289

CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Data 289

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2021

To better understand what companies are spending money on, ZoomInfo surveyed over 400 CEOs, IT professionals, and marketers to understand patterns of near-term investment and cost cutting. Meanwhile,marketing departments find themselves challenged by how to effectively track ROI and generate more leads. Marketing Spending Trends.

Company 324

Company ROI Survey Face-to-face 324

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. When you understand the types of events that precede spending, you can look for them in the future. Wells Fargo.

Company 156

Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Testing is for marketing not sales. The more time I spend in sales and marketing, the more I see overlap between these areas. Now, sales people are starting to “geek out” and use software tools like marketers have been for the last decade, or so. Using trigger events : try using trigger events in your prospecting.

Top of Funnel 240

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead How To Referrals 240

Sales 2.0

MAY 2, 2014

Tim Harsch has let me know that Owler is still working on their marketing messaging as they just launched in April and he promises they will get better at conveying what they are all about as they age.). It serves up the trigger events you need in a nice way and combines them with some good company data. Now that’s a good thing.

Jigsaw 377

Jigsaw InsideView Tools Call-back 377

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Likewise, sales and marketing departments may be siloed, so implementing a formal customer reference program requires some marketing of its own. It requires the insights and direct input from multiple departments, but perhaps most significantly, from sales and marketing.

Ideal Customer Profile 248

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Policies Promotion 248

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2020

While electronic signature technology as a whole has grown, Docusign has increased their market share over the last three months. HR & Payroll Software. HR and payroll software was the third-largest increase in technologies surveyed. We have seen a growth of 17% for HR and payroll software since January 30.

Tools 179

Tools Real Estate Travel Face-to-face 179

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 31, 2020

With the emergence of COVID-19, we saw events (both personal and professional) get canceled, we lost the comfort of seeing loved ones without worry and had to shift into a more secluded world by working remotely and upholding social distance. Get a deeper understanding of the digital event space.

Conference 177

Conference Cancellation Social Media Collateral 177

Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2020

The company hasn’t had to do too much pursuing as of late, given that the pandemic—and the worldwide corporate transition to working from home that has accompanied it—has supercharged the demand for what Zoom sells: web conferencing software. Was it the Marketing? . Has Zoom’s marketing just been that inventive?

Video 207

Video Cancellation Microsoft Comparison 207

Nutshell

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Email marketing is the dominant channel for marketing communications when measured by ROI, reach, cost, etc., Before email marketing was commonplace, marketers used advertisements, fliers, coupons, and other distributed promotions in order to build their audience and reach potential customers. What is email marketing?

Marketing 144

Marketing Webinar Metrics Email Marketing Top of Funnel 144

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. Now more than ever, sales and marketing leaders should be looking to bolster those strategic partnerships in meaningful ways to solidify their channel. That’s the bad news. That’s a win-win.

Engineering 207

Engineering Revenue Incentive Incentives 207

Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. Remember, nobody buys business software for its own sake. People invest in business software to solve specific problems. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Customer Demand Generation Agencies 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author: Mandy Truong With 2021 in full swing, marketers are making their plans for recovery and business growth. In the early days of the pandemic, many companies and organizations slashed marketing budgets in the wake of dire uncertainty and widespread lockdowns. Virtual Events.

Webinar Metrics 177

Webinar Metrics Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Cancellation 177

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A Fortune 250 software company recently conducted a highly controlled field experiment where the only difference between the participants was whether they received training or not, and what modality the training was delivered. Because events, no matter how outstanding in the moment, carry an inherent risk of diminishing returns.

Training 214

Training Exercises Decision Maker Coaching 214

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 8, 2018

To get the most out of their investment in Salesforce, small businesses should utilize specific aspects of the software to help them acquire and retain customers, as well as boost sales and manage contacts. After Einstein Activity Capture is enabled and connected, emails and events are automatically associated with related Salesforce records.

SalesForce 208

SalesForce Enterprise Enterprise Scale 208

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. What will change, however, is this: Marketers who fail to adapt to the changing B2B landscape will fall behind. That won’t change.

Lead Generation 243

Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 243

Go for No!

JANUARY 31, 2023

Go for No is a sales and marketing strategy that encourages individuals and teams to embrace rejection as a necessary step toward success. From a marketing perspective, you can get a ton of “implicit” nos. So, much of marketing is testing. And finally, More than bad marketing though is usually bad marketing data.

Marketing 132

Marketing Social Media Scale Top of Funnel 132

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2022

Here, we'll explore the concept of financial forecasting in depth, review some popular financial forecasting models, go over some prominent financial forecasting methods, and see some of the best financial forecasting software solutions on the market. Financial Forecasting Software. Financial Forecasting Software.

Forecasting 105

Forecasting Software Software Sage 105

Zoominfo

JUNE 17, 2018

In the marketing world, brand storytelling refers to campaigns that use creative narratives to showcase a brand or product. Brand storytelling is a staple of B2C content marketing, but it’s less common in the B2B world. It’s an entertaining story that also makes viewers understand how vital HP’s printer security software can be.

Examples 237

Examples B2B Microsoft Telecommunications 237