Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 17, 2020

Author: Steve Rietberg and Craig Riley, Gartner In uncertain economic times accurate, timely, and actionable sales forecasts are more important than ever. A combination of real and perceived data quality issues often drive skepticism from sales leaders and sellers. Poor CRM Adoption and Discipline.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’ve been given the task of setting up your company’s sales and marketing database, you’re probably not overly excited … especially if it’s something you’ve got to build from scratch. But setting up a sales and marketing database from scratch is not as difficult as you may think. How big is your overall market?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. These businesses outstripped mid-market firms when it comes to product launches over the past three years. Job seekers face a new workplace in 2021 that reflects the harshness of the prior year.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And that means data governance — managing the data produced, acquired, and used by a company — has become a critical function. A comprehensive data governance strategy is essential to addressing data quality , security, privacy, and access — all of which are key to maximizing the value of a company’s data assets.

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SBI Growth

MAY 27, 2013

These companies are harvesting vast amounts of internet activity and point of sale data. Many of the B2B sales leaders simply dismiss the Big Data revolution. Within the next three years, the best B2B sales organizations will use “Big Data”. Too often we see CRM systems completely misused by Sales Organizations.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

This post is focused on organizing sales talent to help you make the number. The cost of sales is increasing. Hiring ‘A’ player sales reps is expensive. A symptom of this is: your revenue trends haven’t increased with your sales expense. How to Make the Number in 2014: A Sales Strategy You Can Execute.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The sales organization is into the final run for the year. How has Sales Operations done this year? Did you directly enable the sales organization to close more business? Did you help keep sales expenses in check? With focus, Sales Ops leaders can positively impact sales revenue and costs.

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APRIL 12, 2021

How do you scale your marketing strategy to enterprise-level and keep leads flowing into your funnel? An SMB digital marketing strategy , meanwhile, will typically focus on a customer base that best fits the product or service rather than exponential growth. . What Is an Enterprise Marketing Strategy? Personalize at scale.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 6, 2013

As CMO, you implemented marketing automation; provide great content, and your campaigns are world class. If you don’t have alignment with sales then it will all be wasted effort. For proof, try to measure the return on marketing spend without sales alignment. Historically sales views marketing leads as unqualified.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, having a 360-degree view of customers and prospects is key. Industry classification remains a foundational component to achieving ABM (account-based marketing) success. 4251 Wholesale Electronic Markets & Agents & Brokers. 425110 Business to Business Electronic Markets.

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Transportation Chemicals Automotive Marketing 204

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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SBI Growth

JULY 8, 2013

Social selling is a technique being adopted by many B2B sales organizations. However, company policies against social media are hampering many a sales team. I even provide a sample Social Media Policy for Sales. Without a policy to govern social media use, expect problems and inconsistencies. Policy – It all starts here.

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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. We think the GDPR, based on its plain language, does not apply to B2B marketing under this test, because the offer is to the employer, not the employee.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Most B2B companies have reduced marketing budgets in the wake of the pandemic, even as the need for impactful customer engagement has increased. In order to be nimble, marketers must react to news and events in real time.

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Marketing Trends Government Face-to-face 166

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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?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here’s what it will mean for go-to-market teams. Generative AI as the Next Frontier of Customer Trust The sheer ubiquity of generative AI is accelerating at a pace that has surprised even seasoned industry analysts and raised important questions about responsible regulation and governance. Greene says. “If

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It has little to do with staffing, pandemic-related revenue difficulties, or fluctuations in the market. Large companies also tend to have specialized tech stacks that promote sales and innovation — for example, enterprise CRM systems. It’s tough being mid-market ,” according to accounting services firm Praxity.

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The Sales Heretic

MARCH 24, 2020

The disease—and the government responses to it—have affected every industry, with impacts ranging from mild to devastating. The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc around the world. One of the best things you can do in this unprecedented environment is to ask questions: • “What can we do to keep our employees and customers safe?” • [.].

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2022

How to Align Marketing and Sales with a Gap Analysis. Aligning marketing and sales is a lot like making out in junior high. The reason for that is that there’s no real guide for marketing, sales, and RevOps leaders at software companies as to how to do it… until now! Governance. from Marketo.

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Analysis Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 107

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. Nearmap, the company I work for, captures, manages and delivers high-resolution aerial imagery to engineering and construction firms, governments, property and real estate companies, solar installers, telecoms, and others. Cold calls. Building relationships. There is a hitch.

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APRIL 12, 2021

How do you scale your marketing strategy to enterprise-level and keep leads flowing into your funnel? An SMB digital marketing strategy, meanwhile, will typically focus on a customer base that best fits the product or service rather than exponential growth. What Is an Enterprise Marketing Strategy?

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Scale Enterprise Enterprise Account Based Marketing 130

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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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most conversations around big data reference healthcare data, GPS/location data, data within government and education systems, financial data – all personal information at the consumer level. Sales Development Reps still don’t know what to say,” TOPO’s analysts add. “We “Big data” is very 2012. But they know what to do.”.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 29, 2017

First, RainKing and DiscoverOrg were playing in a very large market: B2B Sales and Marketing is a massive opportunity, so it was okay to have a competitor. Ten years selling in the same market. High-quality data drives every successful sales and marketing campaign. And then doubt crept in as well.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? However, there are a handful of solution categories that any sales ops team needs to focus on for success.

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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. Being well-prepared and truly understanding how to get your people, your operations and your sales back and running at full bore will be essential for survival. That’s the bad news.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Since marketers rely heavily on personal data to inform their campaigns, understanding how to adapt to these new privacy acts can be daunting. This includes the protection of sensitive data such as: Government ID (social security number, driver’s license number, etc.) As a marketer, you wouldn’t be able to deliver any conversions.

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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. Gong: Analyzes sales calls and customer interactions to offer actionable feedback and insights at scale.

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Revenue Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sales content is poorly organized in disparate systems, and sellers spend much time looking for what they need. Every revenue organization must have a governance strategy and the right tools to support it. If you’re unsure what corporate governance is, you’ve come to the right place. What is content governance?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 26, 2018

Author: Erik Charles When sales professionals look at artificial intelligence (AI), what do they see? And, at that point, the winners and losers will be separated by how well they combine their sales talents with skills for using AI. For example, sales applications should draw on a focused set of data? Additional data sources.

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MARCH 28, 2023

A strong data management framework combines data governance, quality control, security, analysis and automation to make sure data is both accurate and reliable. Your third-party data sources are equally as important as the tools you use to manage your data,” ZoomInfo product marketing manager Neha Nirkondar says.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

A public health crisis, limping economy, divisive election, and heavy unemployment have all made the job market unpredictable. These businesses outstripped mid-market firms when it comes to product launches over the past three years. Job seekers face a new workplace in 2021 that reflects the harshness of the prior year.

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Nonprofit Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 130

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Predict Future Sales Trends By incorporating accurate firmographic data — industry, company size, location, and revenue — with relevant signals that reflect up-to-date buyer behavior, data teams are able to build AI models that can better predict future sales trends.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 2, 2018

What you learn when you hold down a police beat, cover a major research university or monitor local government is that everyone has a story. In fact, the sources we reached for this cover story made it clear that being a great storyteller isn’t merely an advantage in sales and marketing, it’s an essential job requirement.

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Government Report Relationals Research 168

Alice Heiman

JULY 9, 2024

Complex Sales Require Technical Expertise Marko emphasizes the need for deep technical understanding when selling intricate compliance solutions. Marko states, “In our industry, sales cycles are very long and involve numerous technical evaluations and integrations. He recalls, “We went from 32 people down to six.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

No doubt, sales teams would appreciate knowing how each of their customers currently viewed the company. A separate but equally important issue related to survey data, is the governance and security of it. Survey data will be better governed than it is today. Survey data will be better governed than it is today.

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Government Customer Survey Data 136

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MAY 1, 2020

says Director of Sales Michael Veschio. A lot of companies struggle to get prospects to show up to sales demos. Effective salespeople focus on solution sales instead, which includes a thoughtful demo process that addresses issues specific to the customer. Software Sales Demo Tips & Best Practices.

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