No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. Talk to any software vendor, and they can’t wait to show you their cool software. Problem is, buyers don’t actually buy software.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

LeadBoxer

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you spend more of your time scouring the internet for leads than actually closing deals, consider adding lead capture pages to your marketing strategy. With the right software and strategies, you can get a lead capture page up, running, and working for your business in no time. What is a Lead Capture Page?

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Lead Capture Paid Content Lead Rank Lead Scoring 135

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!

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Channels Marketing Lead Rank Outsourcing Services 220

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

No, not those blokes in marketing that never have time to help you, your own team.). You can use a software program (I use QuickTime on the Mac) to record you moving your mouse around and you can record your voice giving instructions at the same time. Hey, but what if you had a team helping you? (No, Train Your team.

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Account Scale Social Media Small Business 385

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Chances are good they know what solutions are on the market — and have likely done an enormous amount of research on you and your competitors by the time you reach them. For instance: A while back, the PandaDoc team was in contact with Autodesk , a software provider company. Now, procurement teams are armed with loads of data.

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Solutions Selling Exact Buyer Sales Methodology 123

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 11, 2014

CRM software can be tough to choose, but it is imperative to your team’s success. Act-On automates your social media and email marketing efforts, measures customer interaction, performs A/B testing, scores leads, and integrates with your CRM. Use the management side of Clari to direct your sales team in real time. Salesforce.

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Tools SalesForce Sales Management Lead Rank 319

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As a small business owner, you toggle between marketing, sales, operations, and customer service daily — and sometimes within the same hour. What you need is customer relationship management (CRM) software. Here are four ways a CRM software pays for itself once you get it up and running.

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Small Business Small Business Software Software 122

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.

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Marketing Scale Segment Channels 194

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.

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B2B Trade Show Intent Data Buyer Intent 237

Zoominfo

AUGUST 14, 2020

Part one of our GTM series was all about our inbound go-to-market motions. Beyond the sales organization, these SDRs move all across the company; driving placements in product marketing, operations, product management, and even engineering. Contrast that with other software companies that have to actually go out and buy this talent.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 200

The Pipeline

JUNE 17, 2021

Do you need to work with marketing more effectively on lead profiling and scoring? Do you need to work with Product Management and Marketing to reduce your closed lost ratio with features and positioning fixes? Execution can even be via a cross-functional team. Everyone is likely to be running around and feel thinly spread.

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Top of Funnel Quota Proposal Lead Rank 352

Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

By adding automation to these high-quality results, day-to-day sales and marketing efforts get easier, too. Savvy sales reps and marketers can take this approach to engage with leads earlier and stay ahead of their competitors. Figure 1 : Real-time buying signals can boost various sales and marketing activities.

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Data Intent Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

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.

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Marketing Intent Data Face-to-face Webinar Metrics 193

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 7, 2018

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs still aren’t making quota. Talk to any software vendor, and they can’t wait to show you their cool software. Problem is, buyers don’t actually buy software.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 276

Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2021

copper baking pans,” or “data privacy software”). For example, would you search for “automated invoicing cloud-based software,” or would you rather go for “online payment solutions”? Also, consider leveraging some help from an influencer to help boost awareness about your software.

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Media Engineering 246

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 21, 2017

Our gracious host is determined to show two newcomers – from sales and marketing, respectively – how the DiscoverOrg platform powers a bigger pipeline , more appointments, and faster revenue growth. The sales and a marketing professionals gaze around a room filled with … people. DiscoverOrg for Account-Based Marketing.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

If you’re in MarTech–or know someone who is–you’ve likely come across a somewhat dizzying supergraphic portraying the MarTech landscape through categories and logos (around 8,000 to be exact). The lightbulb goes on, and they’re like, ‘we can build software to do this.’

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Gong.io

JANUARY 31, 2022

While the exact list depends on who you ask, the following (alphabetized) traits are all critical for a sales manager: Able to coach, analytical, available, confident, empathetic, good listener, innovative, leads by example, loyal, motivating, passionate, positive attitude, serves vs. dictates, strategic vision, strong communicator, and thoughtful.

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Software Software Sales Management Sales Forecasts 118

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

To reduce the probability of such inaccuracies, sales forecasting software has become an indispensable part of the professional sales kit. This post shares 12 forecasting software that can help you predict, monitor, and optimize your deal pipeline. Benefits of Sales Forecasting Software. The 12 Best Sales Forecasting Software.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Software Software 124

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s one of the most talked-about trends in the marketing world. Marketers — us included — continue to preach the importance of understanding your customers and delivering targeted, personalized campaigns based on what you know about them. But what does developing an actual personalized marketing strategy actually entail?

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B2B Marketing Segment Consumer 130

Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

We recently discussed AI in the following post: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on B2B Marketing. As with many software offerings that fail to thrive, they changed their name (to Customer Relationship Management [CRM]) and introduced expanded functionalities. And, at ZoomInfo, we’re no exception.

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Forecasting B2B CRM Quota 272

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As the person responsible for Innovation at ZoomInfo, a core part of my job is understanding markets where we do not currently offer a solution — but might want to in the future. My research landed me squarely on Bizo, a company that once aspired marketers to “precisely target business people by specific business demographic criteria.”

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Data Advertising Advertising Lead Rank 246

Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2018

In fact, best-in-class software companies report a 60% conversion rate following a free trial ( source ). Did you know most B2B marketers consider customer testimonials and case studies to be the most effective content marketing tactic ( source )? Leverage customer testimonials or case studies.

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Objections Case Study Face-to-face Study 239

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. .

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Trade Show Campaigns Face-to-face B2B 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

The email inboxes of B2B executives are already filled with so much marketing clutter. Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Creating customer profiles for these prospects is crucial for your marketing campaigns—and in the end, your sales.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

We’ll also dive into a few guided selling examples, cover some software tools that can help, and finish off with guided selling best practices to get this most from this approach. In a typical sales approach, customers find your site via traditional marketing or social selling solutions. Great Guided Selling Software.

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Software Software Tools B2C 116

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 28, 2019

Especially now, when new sales-related tech seems to crop up weekly: data management systems, sales forecasting, customer relationship management software, and automated email marketing platforms. Video marketing is one of the simplest ways to pull this off, even when you have a large team. And … Action!

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Video Closing Scale Face-to-face 214

Zoominfo

APRIL 24, 2019

As a result, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has stepped into the spotlight as a vital digital marketing tactic. This has led many marketers to question whether or not SEO is dead. 57% of B2B marketers state that SEO generates more leads than any other marketing initiative. Exact match domains.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Engineering Google 189

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.

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Forecasting Software Software Sage 105

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Not just in ZoomInfo’s sales and marketing technology bubble, but everywhere. It unlocked another dimension in identifying when target buyers were actively in-market for a particular solution. And that’s the exact opposite desired effect of the product’s intention (see what I did there? Let’s start here: Data is a fickle beast.

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Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Data 208

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time. Marketing teams typically have their process of scoring and qualifying leads (MQLs), but it may look different for sales teams (SQLs). Align with your marketing team for unified lead scoring and qualification.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

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. Say you’re in a market for a new car.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2021

Author: Mary Beth Addison During 2020, we all dealt with unprecedented change, both as customers making buying decisions and as B2B and B2C sales and marketing professionals working to engage prospects and customers in new ways. Putting the customer at the heart of every business decision. What exactly is customer-centric selling? .

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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

Allego

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Yet, many still rely on learning management system (LMS) software designed for basic, classroom-style training. In this post, we’ll explore the difference between a sales enablement platform vs. LMS software. With that type of software, top reps can train, prepare, and grow every day—without having to switch tools.

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Sales Enablement Software Software System 62

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel—meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team. What does a “good lead” look like anyway? What is a Lead?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240