SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2012

Today’s post gives the sales rep a recipe to get more from their marketing leads. Reps often hunt down new leads themselves, discounting many from marketing. But it’s marketing that has the tools and data to deliver. Marketing must be on the hook to get good quality leads to sales. Marketing has to answer the call.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Eloqua Ideal Customer Profile 282

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In today’s world of marketing and sales, a significant key to generating leads is a company’s ability to get potential buyers to find them. There is an entire industry dedicated to inbound marketing and social media management with companies such as HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot.

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Marketo Marketing Social Media Inbound 157

Pointclear

APRIL 26, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. Amy Guarino says marketers should follow along as a prospect journeys through the company’s various channels.

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B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring PointClear 185

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Note this quote from Marketo.

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B2B Cold Calling PointClear Outbound 392

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 211

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

For example, one study by Marketo found that 79% of buyers “are only likely to engage with a brand… if those promotions are directly tied to how they have interacted with the brand previously.” According to Marketing Insider Group , 78 percent of U.S. This mistake begins with marketers’ failure to understand their audiences.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Buyer Persona Marketo 246

SBI Growth

MARCH 15, 2019

Today Jill Rowley, former Chief Growth Officer of Marketo, discusses how this emerging role brings together sales and marketing leaders to leverage the power of their best salespeople: their customers. Jill shares key drivers that bring about executive alignment that.

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Marketo Marketing Customer Influencer 184

SBI Growth

APRIL 20, 2013

An article written by Jenna Cheng cites the following: “Several research studies reveal the growing importance of social technologies to competitive and marketing strategy. LinkedIn Groups and Connections allow for: Following Specific Trade Groups (ie: Sales / Marketing Executives ). Marketing Software – HubSpot /Eloqua/Marketo/Alexa.

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Social Media Competition Media Eloqua 316

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

You’re completing 2013 and building your marketing strategy for 2014. Perhaps you’re beginning to roll out marketing automation or some form of company-wide communication program. Maybe you are supporting sales with a CRM implementation, linking your marketing collateral into each phase. Product Marketing.

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Eloqua Marketo Buyer Persona Collateral 316

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. The first thing Bullock emphasizes is that today’s marketers aren’t just focused on customer acquisition.

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Marketing Intent Data Face-to-face Webinar Metrics 193

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

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Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

SBI Growth

AUGUST 26, 2012

I hear from sales and marketing leaders on a regular basis that they need more leads. The most common marketing efforts to drive leads include paid search, SEO, social media, outbound email, teleprospecting and trade shows. In other words, content marketing is communicating with your customers and prospects without selling.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead Leads 306

Pointclear

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That brings us to what the Sales Lead Management Association started 28 months ago in August of 2010 with its first interviews of Dan McDade of PointClear and Phil Fernandez of Marketo. The shows fall into 33 categories covering a wide spectrum of marketing and sales topics. Phil Fernandez of Marketo. Bill Godfrey of Aprimo.

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Aprimo Aprimo Marketo PointClear 199

SBI

JUNE 24, 2014

They arrived as a result of long hours and countless dollars of marketing devoted to various, successful, lead gen tactics including SEO and SEM. That’s the premise behind real-time personalization (RTP) software and Marketo’s ebook entitled “ Unmask Inbound Visitors. ” They are hiding in plain sight. So far, I’m with them.

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Marketo Top of Funnel Groups Prospecting 137

Pointclear

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Sales and marketing headcounts have increased to generate new customers.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead NetSuite 173

Pointclear

JULY 23, 2013

If you don’t implement a nurture program, you’ll waste marketing dollars by giving salespeople more than they can handle, and irritate prospects because follow-up falls. What’s worse, sales will not incrementally increase in proportion to the marketing spend. If you don’t have a marketing automation tool, get one.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads360 NetSuite Marketing Qualified Lead 206

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast , we talk to Bill Binch , Chief Revenue Officer for Pendo and a former sales executive at Marketo who, over close to 10 years, helped guide the company through multiple phases of growth including both an IPO and an acquisition. . We’re going to market in about a month.

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Scale Marketo Hiring PeopleSoft 17

Pointclear

MAY 18, 2016

How to drive revenue from all sources is the second of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. I developed this simple formula to illustrate the risks of overdependence on inbound marketing.

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Revenue Inbound Outbound Marketing 140

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point — Christopher notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 178

Costello

APRIL 11, 2018

We continue along in our People > Processes series with our eighth article featuring Danielle Pata , Account Executive, Commercial Sales at Marketo , a world leader in marketing automation software. On that note, Danielle often reminds her team that Marketo’s contacts are humans before they are prospects.

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Marketo Account Conversion Face-to-face 75

Score More Sales

MAY 11, 2012

Ashley Furness, CRM Market Analyst at Software Advice recently wrote about this very issue – teams of salespeople have received or will received tablets but do not have clear deployment plans. Did your team receive iPads or other tablet PCs and you find them under-utilized? Read the insightful article here.

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Marketo Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 214

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Growth – more opportunities, higher sales velocity and expanding market segments – is the prize of victory and the successful growth hacking tactics of business to consumer (B2C) companies are becoming more popular in B2B. Identify a common set of target accounts for sales and marketing. AI is a game-changer for truly agile marketing.

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Demand Generation Targets Ideal Customer Profile Marketo Hiring 222

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 Rank Lead Scoring 246

Pointclear

OCTOBER 7, 2017

I can’t mediate those in the world of football, but I can weigh in on three areas of argument in our industry that are dramatically impacting sales and marketing spending and results that I feel are important to understand: There are some who say that Inbound/Content marketing is king and Outbound is dead. Are you listening?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B 185

SBI

JULY 2, 2014

With a large percentage of buyer’s now beginning their search for solutions on the internet, and with more and more marketing content being delivered to those buyers, sellers have a lot more inbound leads. These two factors paved the way for a new type of solution referred to as marketing automation.

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketo Lead Scoring 123

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

As a result, sales and marketing professionals are constantly looking for new ways to improve their lead generation strategies. In fact, 68% of B2B marketers rank “generating high-quality leads” as their top priority for this year ( source ). Social media has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than outbound marketing ( source ).

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Social Media Lead Generation Media Lead Rank 214

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

For example, we sell to sales and marketing, so the fiscal calendar year drives decisions for our prospects. The budgeting process is top of mind for our target market during October-November (and we want to get in during budget planning!).”. XX email marketing trends you must know.” I like to use puns in marketing emails.”.

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B2B Hubspot Marketo Account Based Marketing 243

Pointclear

APRIL 18, 2013

Integrating customer relationship management and marketing automation systems can be expensive, complicated and scary, but doing so is necessary for your organization''s optimal performance, writes Justin Gray, CEO of LeadMD. Via Marketo B2B Marketing and Sales Blog. Via Harvard Business Review online/HBR Blog Network.

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PointClear B2B Marketo Sales Qualified Lead 165

SBI

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Analyst for Smart Selling Tools and advises executives in SaaS MarTech companies and interactive marketing agencies who seek a competitive advantage in meeting the needs of marketers. -. I’ll separate the Snickers from the Candy Corn, or in this case, the really yummy tools that will energize your 2015 Marketing Journey!

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Outsourcing Services Lead Rank B2B Lead Scoring 122

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 130

Igniting Sales Transformation

APRIL 6, 2018

Prior to joining Kyndi as Chief Operating Officer, Amy spent eight years at Marketo, which she joined in early 2009 as the Vice President of Business Development. It is there that she learned all about scaling an organization globally from less than $1M to over $250M: the Marketo story. Amy started and led Marketo’s business in Japan.

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Marketo Scale Microsoft Twitter 49

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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Marketing Webinar Metrics Reachforce Top of Funnel 113

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The cultural phenomenon that is Dreamforce – the Burning Man of the sales world – is a testament to the influence wielded by today’s sales and marketing professionals. If you’re a B2B sales, marketing, or business development, we’ve got a hand-picked don’t-miss Dreamforce session for you. Sales and marketing alignment.

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Account Based Marketing SalesForce Top of Funnel Hotels 202

SBI

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Get ideas for how you need to evolve the way you do business across your organization including marketing, sales, finance, and customer service. Marketing Cloud: CTRL ALT DEL –. Here are a few of the Exhibitors with solutions that we recommend: Marketo (Booth 801). Marketo works within or without Salesforce CRM.

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SalesForce CRM Marketo Small Business 122

Pointclear

MAY 10, 2012

He is former editor-in-chief of Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and has written for Architectural Record, Inc. Click to start video at this point —Chris notes the importance of the maturing of social media marketing in the last year by saying, “It’s no longer a hobby.

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CRM Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Social Media 133

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! from Marketo. What is a gap analysis? Governance.

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Analysis Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 129