Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI.

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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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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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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 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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2020

Until this change, there has been a healthy long-term battle between marketing and sales. Marketing has been saddled with delivering leads to sales. Sales has perennially complained that the leads were inferior, while marketing complained that the salespeople were inferior at closing leads. . Questions That Matter.

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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. 4: Customer technology play. Filtering criteria stays the same.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Lead mining is becoming increasingly commonplace among companies seeking to expand into new markets and territories, as well as those hoping to increase profitability. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 7, 2020

Author: Luke Kreitner The element of surprise has been proven to be a powerful motivational tool. The novelty of this unexpected outcome breaks us out of our habit-forming mindset and sparks mindfulness, signaling the brain to absorb important information associated with the reward outcome.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

For a successful campaign or product launch, you’ll want the right content and up-to-date information at the fingertips of your sales reps. 1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch. However, even with all this time and effort, 40% of new product launches fail.

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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. Through an operational CRM, your team has all the information they need to streamline their operations.

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Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Rank 171

Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

If only you could clone the best customers produced from your account-based marketing campaigns… Well, you basically can, using a well-known and effective trick in the B2C toolbox that B2B types should be eager to adopt: lookalike audience targeting. Along with targeted ads , B2C marketers utilize Facebook for lookalike modeling.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. If you’re looking to assemble a new sales operations tech stack — or simply want to upgrade your existing tools — this comprehensive guide to the key categories can help. What Are Sales Operations Tools?

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Sales Operations Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Despite advancements in tools, methodologies, and other attempts, sales as a profession continues to struggle. Doesn’t matter the tools, the technique or anything that take the conversation away from the why of it all. While they do have more information coming at them, they lack the time to capture it all. By Tibor Shanto.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In April, Echo Market Research and Tango Card asked 500 newly remote employees how engaged they were feeling. Video technology tools like Zoom and Slack were reported helpful in fueling connection and engagement. It’s often an area that companies overlook, however, due to lack of time, money or technology tools.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But for business, AI is having an early transformative effect on sales and marketing by helping people make better decisions and serve customers more effectively. The sales function is uniquely well-suited to be transformed by AI tools. AI can diagnose diseases faster than human doctors. It helps supply chains run more efficiently.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

But what if you’re a small business and don’t have extra marketing dollars (or time) to spend on massive engagement-boosting campaigns? Zero in on Your Target Market. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. Have a Content Marketing Strategy.

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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.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

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

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). When marketers look over a lead’s qualifications, they examine their engagement with the brand along with their b udget, a uthority, n eeds, and t imeline (BANT). Instead, it’s a chase.

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Lead Qualification Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 246

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are two dovetailing arguments for using TikTok, the fastest-growing social media platform, as a B2B marketing tool: Its generous algorithm and its lack of polish. Many marketers have expressed skepticism about the app’s viability as a B2B marketing tool. Good Content Gets Rewarded. The TikTok Look and Feel.

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B2B Top of Funnel Social Media Advertising 285

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. Maintaining clean CRM data by ensuring that customer information is kept current. But AI isn’t just taking over mundane administrative work. Sell Smarter.

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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 and Marketing Management

MAY 8, 2019

And even if you had the good fortune to attend, you had to rely on your note-taking skills or memory to walk away with valuable information. After the event, the video can be used for training and professional development, marketing and sales materials -- the sky’s the limit. But it never hurts to go all in and capture everything.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Automated emails are great for showing possible buyers relevant and personalized information in a timely manner. In fact, over 20% of marketers in a HubSpot survey say that personalization improves their engagement.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), disconnected data can cause havoc across a company’s entire go-to-market operation, leading to missed growth opportunities and wildly incorrect decision-making. The solution? “The more data you can feed AI, the more you give it context and enable it to make smarter decisions,” Levy says.

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Data Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The rapid adoption of modern go-to-market (GTM) is creating immense opportunity for businesses in every sector and vertical. As companies in highly competitive industries look for new vectors to drive efficient and sustained growth, they’re increasingly turning to global markets.

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