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

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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Steven Rosen

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

VP’s of Sales and Marketing and Business Unit Heads can relate to this. I have learned over my many years as a VP of Sales and Marketing and working with VP’s that many large companies have well-developed marketing processes and rigorously follow the process. Can you relate? Have the right team in place.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 9, 2024

Transforming your sales approach from a transactional to a relational process mirrors the gardener's journey from planting to harvesting and requires similarly patient nurturing. The post Cultivating Sales Success: How Serving Transforms Connections Into Harvests appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 5, 2020

Sales Scrum was created for individuals in sales, marketing, and related disciplines. Herron draws his lessons from his experience as a salesperson, a sales team leader and his active engagement with non-for profits. The post A Discovery Question You Should Always Ask appeared first on TiborShanto.com.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Relationals 383

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Five steps that give you a consistent and scientific method to assess sales candidates and hire applicants who have crucial work-related qualities like your company’s superstar sales reps. The post A Scientific 5-Step Method to Hire Superstar Sales Reps appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A recent study by the Relational Capital Group revealed that 89% of senior leaders believe that relationships are the most important factor in their success year over year. Similarly, in many businesses, customer-facing employees can’t relate to their customers. That asset is the customer. . .

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SBI Growth

MARCH 21, 2019

A product leader at a recent client of mine expressed a frustration that most product leaders can relate to. His organization had recently invested heavily in developing a new product that targeted a growing segment of the company’s customer base.

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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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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Humor will also help you deliver tough realities, be they product or price related. They don’t think about marketing automation, content, or anything we labour over daily, nay hourly. In each episode, Tibor and his guests explore elements of sales and selling with the goal of creatively addressing complex revenue-related issues.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I didn’t relate to a lot of the stereotypes about my generation, especially since it spanned 20 years, and I was born at the very beginning of it! So, it’s completely logical that many of them prefer communicating digitally rather than talking in person, even if older generations can’t relate and worry about the future of human communication.

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Fill the Funnel

JUNE 18, 2024

While these developments bring many benefits, they also pose significant challenges, particularly regarding job displacement within the marketing industry. There is plenty of conversation about the positive and negative impact that AI is having on marketing and sales professionals.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 9, 2020

Sales Scrum was created for individuals in sales, marketing, and related disciplines. Herron draws his lessons from his experience as a salesperson, a sales team leader and his active engagement with non-for profits. Listen and subscribe to Sales Scrum on your favorite podcast outlet.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Author: Warren Fowler Sales teams and marketers focus on digital communication so much that they seem to forget the power of offline promotion channels. While online tools are often more convenient and practical than traditional marketing techniques, the fact remains that the latter usually perform better. Let’s take a look!

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2020

Created for individuals in sales, marketing, and related disciplines, all published episodes of Sales Scrum can be found here. In this episode, George and I explore some of the faulty assumptions people make in sales, the selection of CRMs, and other areas of selling.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Oh ya, the marketing team that “developed” the “value prop” does. Not just with a marketing intern’s or contract writer’s view of things. Same for value propositions, leave them in the marketing guy’s car. . By Tibor Shanto. Frankly, who cares? Your prospects sure don’t! No, seriously! Prospecting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2020

Potential customers are risk-averse and reevaluating their budgets and priorities while trying to decipher the winds of the market. It doesn’t need a long, meandering discussion about world politics, science, or global markets. Even more oddly, it is a crisis with no clear time horizon to help establish expectations. .

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The Pipeline

MARCH 3, 2020

When you understand why you are winning losing or failing to get a decision is a great way to stay with or ahead of changes in the market. Sales Scrum is a bi-weekly podcast series hosted by sales thought leader Tibor Shanto featuring a range of voices from Marketing, Sales and other related disciplines.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Prospective Memory means “remembering a future intention,” and using this model has remarkable advantages for every seller and marketer. related concepts are linked. The reminder of one spreads through a network of related concepts, making recall of a particular concept more likely. Becoming Part of Your Buyer’s Future.

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Fill the Funnel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

OpenAI’s GPT-4o is a game-changer for marketers. It allows for creating longer, more detailed content and offers powerful new ways to engage audiences, helping marketers take their strategies to the next level.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Shawn Finder Ask sales and marketing leaders what digital channels they leverage to generate leads and help their teams hit quota and you’ll likely get the same answer over and over: cold calls and emails. Prospective customers want answers to their product-related questions instantly. Conversational Bots: ?Prospective

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

If your solution can indeed help prospects facing challenges relating to these processes, it makes more sense to start with those, rather than things they were not thinking about when you called. Better to start with something they can relate. Get In Their Head. What is that? Affirm Forward.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices. No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value. Not product related, but objective, outcome and impact based. We need to communicate things related to that.

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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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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Many salespeople becoming mass email marketers. You can get by without overthinking your plan for relating to these kinds of people. Most businesses have sales and marketing plans. About a decade ago, certain subject matter experts came up with a solution to this problem. The solution was do more.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 8, 2019

After the event, the video can be used for training and professional development, marketing and sales materials -- the sky’s the limit. Just think of all that valuable content your audience could reference – and you could market – year-round. This will result in better customer relations and an increased ROI.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. Through consistent processes, leaders derive quick insights on how its sales organization attacks their market. Related infographic: Ultimate Guide for Sales Outreach in 2020! Related blog: How to Manage Expectations Around Marketing Vanity Metrics.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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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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The Pipeline

JUNE 17, 2021

It relates directly to how goals, targets and quotas are set and hit. 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? Hear me out.

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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. Consider this.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The people without needs or problems, which is most of the market, will think and answer no. Even people who do not admit to a need or pain can relate to where they would like to go. What if instead of needs or problems, you framed yourself as an outcome, a positive, desired outcome for the prospect? Rinse & Repeat.

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