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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. Demand generation enables you to make smart marketing decisions for your company.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets B2B 271

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. The sales and marketing technology landscape has grown from just a few hundred applications to thousands—each one promising to streamline go-to-market operations, accelerate pipeline and generate revenue at scale. Insight-Driven Engagement for Sales AND Marketing.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Scale Marketing 58

Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2020

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. Marketing team structure by audience segments.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Hiring Marketing 246

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

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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

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. 2: New sales or marketing leader play. 1: The funding play. 4: Customer technology play.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. Companies that made significant investments in WFH technology will not drop the tools once COVID-19 vaccinations are widespread. Want to work from home or have greater flexibility?

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Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You can track their buying signals.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 246

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Allow me to share some examples of typical emails/messages so that you can avoid these mistakes and then I’ll show one that suggests there is finally hope for improvement. Example 2 – Cold In Mail: Imagine what we could create together with expert Web Development, SEO, or custom animations—just to name a few.

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LinkedIn Channels Hiring B2C 334

Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

Do some salespeople lack relationships in the market? Sales tools: Do you have too few sales tools, or too many? Are your tools actually being used by your sales team (CRM for example)? Do your tools support your sales process? How are different sales team members doing vs. each metric in your pipeline?

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Follow-up Proposal 378

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

Author: Luke Kreitner The element of surprise has been proven to be a powerful motivational tool. You can use them as a tool of instant engagement to make the reward experience more meaningful, which in turn can motive sales teams more effectively. In short, surprise incentive rewards are powerful because they’re universal.

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Incentive Incentives Motivation ACT 394

Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples?

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Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Rank 171

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli “A trend gains power over time, because it’s not merely part of a moment, it’s a tool, a connector that will become more valuable as other people commit to engaging in it.". — Seth Godin. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io To cut down on the time it takes, many tools are emerging.

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For today’s marketers, data is more than just numbers on a dashboard — it’s the key to unlocking new opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. But here’s the catch: many marketing teams are flooded with disconnected data points and siloed insights, struggling to understand what truly drives customer behavior.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer 130

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch. For announcements, organizations can link to all the right content and tools to help educate the seller, helping them understand, position and articulate the value of the new solution to prospects. Effective:?

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Campaigns Sales Enablement Education Collateral 326

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Choosing the best-fit revenue operations tools can dramatically enhance cross-departmental collaboration, enabling unified platforms where sales, marketing, and customer service teams are able to access and share critical data. To help with the vetting process, here are some suggestions of the top RevOps tools worth considering.

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Revenue Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. Read on to discover how your marketing and sales teams can close more leads by recognizing and responding to prospects’ buying signals. Consider this.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 20, 2024

For companies with a wide range of products, use your website or marketing efforts to highlight what others in their situation have done. Provide a comparison tool. Add a tool that makes it easy to see what those different options translate to in tangible terms. Here is the tiered structure for Marketing Hub.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AI tools are reshaping the way salespeople tackle their day-to-day work, automating many of the core business development tasks that have eaten away at the average sellers’ day. Leverage the same B2B data that fuels go-to-market for 60% of the Fortune 100 Start Your Free Trial! But AI isn’t just taking over mundane administrative work.

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Scale Sales Qualified Lead Intent Data CRM 235

Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Sync your HubSpot fields into your conversational marketing platform to make this happen. Ask them how it was.

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Hubspot Conversion Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 195

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. Today, the average company is using anywhere from 20–200 tools, with an average of around 75+ technologies. Change management limits the number of tools a company can absorb.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 12, 2019

While companies have traditionally considered CRM programs as sales tools , the CRM program and the customer experience today is one and the same. Beyond Sales and Marketing. CRM programs go above and beyond marketing and sales. You need to know the whole customer journey, not just the marketing journey. That’s a mistake.

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Lead Rank CRM Lead Scoring Automotive 258

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

So let’s get into how CLV plays into sales and marketing campaigns and how to calculate it. And this requires your sales and marketing teams to prioritize retention strategies over acquisition strategies. Sales and marketing teams must collaborate in order to calculate CLV and implement retention strategies. Average Lifespan.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2024

That put a sour taste in my mouth regarding using that AI tool for my small business. While I’m still not overly impressed with ChatGPT’s ability to write (or, should I say, generate ) content, I’ve come to think it’s a handy research tool. This round-the-clock support is driven mainly by AI-powered chatbots and self-service tools.

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Small Business Small Business Tools Social Media 116

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Of all the B2B lead generation tools at your disposal, referral selling is the most effective and least expensive. There’s no better example than Bob Wiesner, managing partner of the Americas for The Artemis Partnership , on how to grab that business. How’s that for attracting new clients in a highly competitive market?

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2020

I remember when clients started giving reps iPads, loaded them up with collateral, and turned to market and announced, “We are Digital!” They urge leaders to equip reps with digital tools, and the example they give is Skype or WebEx. I didn’t see any new tools introduced. Use Your Head Not Your Hands.

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Sage Real Estate Skype Collateral 288

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.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

And they require the tools that allow them to leverage that data in ways that differentiate your business from the rest of the pack. Maybe they all found you in a similar way – social media, a trade show or sales outreach, for example. The number of tools is growing because they are useful and in demand. They need data.

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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. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. What Impact Does Bad Data Have On Marketing?

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Data B2B Churn Buyer Persona 251

Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

“Best in Breed” vs “all in one” The sales tool market will likely follow the same pattern that has played out in the marketing tech market. The key problem with the “best of breed” approach is integrating all the tools, so they communicate to each other. Do we need more tools in certain areas and fewer in others?

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Scale Top of Funnel Territories Sales 221

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Prompted by predictions of massive economic impact and the disruption of multiple industries, professionals in many fields are assessing how this new breed of AI tools will complement and complicate their working lives. Marketers are definitely at the forefront of experimenting with GenAI. What Does this Mean for Marketers?

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Data Scale Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

As a marketer, you know how to get your audience’s attention. Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. But like with any marketing channel, you need to make them feel valued in their interactions with your company.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 246

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For many venture capitalists, 2020 was an opportunity to invest in the tools and technology that accelerated due to the pandemic. This adoption of new tools spurred early-stage funding in favored B2B companies. New Tools Needed to Sell New Products. For example, online shopping carts were added consistently throughout 2020.

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