Zoominfo

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. 237110 Water & Sewer Line & Related Structures Construction. 3231 Printing & Related Support Activities.

Transportation 204

Transportation Chemicals Automotive Marketing 204

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

Paid Content 207

Paid Content Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cost per Acquisition 207

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. All measurable, all quantifiable and can be improved with skills and the right tools. Productivity. Customer Value Management.

Lead Scoring 352

Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

Top of Funnel 218

Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

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.

Company 324

Company ROI Survey Face-to-face 324

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. These are useful tools, but we’re long past the era where companies can rely solely on them to drive business.

Quota 296

Quota Channels Decision Maker Cold Calling 296

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.

Lead Rank 309

Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

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!

Direct Mail 323

Direct Mail How To Advertising Advertising 323

Nutshell

MAY 15, 2023

Sales prospecting tools for lead generation are critical for helping sales representatives find, qualify, and reach more prospects. These tools streamline the prospecting process and can help sales teams close more deals. LeadIQ increases sales and marketing efficiency by allowing your sales team to focus on higher-value activities.

CRM 128

CRM Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting 128

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. Live, online footage of your event provides extensive reach, and a streaming video service can give you the tools necessary to maximize views. But it never hurts to go all in and capture everything.

Video 316

Video Strategy Maximizer ROI 316

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. Speed to Lead.

Hubspot 195

Hubspot Conversion Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 195

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. Bring it all together.

Top of Funnel 352

Top of Funnel Quota Proposal Lead Rank 352

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.

B2B 277

B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 277

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Whether they’re talking about artificial intelligence, new marketing tools, or hiring initiatives, ZoomInfo Intent alerts can surface the companies showing the most interest — so you know who you should reach out to next. With ZoomInfo Scoops , you can track any funding news or announcements related to these companies.

Lead Rank 244

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Scale Hiring 244

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Many salespeople becoming mass email marketers. My estimate is that with modern tools and social networks we can be on the high end of this number, if we are organized and disciplined. You can get by without overthinking your plan for relating to these kinds of people. Most businesses have sales and marketing plans.

Scale 195

Scale Social Media Outbound Referrals 195

Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing. Outbound marketing does push the brand’s message via cold calling, advertising, and email campaigns. Sales agrees!

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Inbound 246

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Tools for Store Owners to Provide Better Customer Service Do you want to run a successful store ? Delivering excellent customer experiences is critical but requires using the right tools to streamline your operations while building a loyal customer base.

Customer Service 101

Customer Service Tools Customer Hiring 101

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? 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! What is a Sales Funnel?

Top of Funnel 246

Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 246

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.

Small Business 116

Small Business Small Business Tools Social Media 116

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.

Top of Funnel 114

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnel Small Business 114

Zoominfo

APRIL 28, 2020

ZoomInfo’s data shows a similar increase in the adoption of a number of other tools as well. This sudden adoption of working-from-home technologies by businesses all over the world does not apply to Slack alone.

Company 258

Company Lead Rank Cancellation Report 258

Zoominfo

MARCH 30, 2023

Whether they’re building a brand, fueling revenue generation, or supporting the customer journey, marketers are constantly looking for ways to highlight their value and increase ROI. A B2B marketing funnel is unique because it often involves multiple people from a single business moving through each stage of the funnel in a haphazard fashion.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead 130

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.

B2B 246

B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 246

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?

Data 130

Data Scale Lead Rank Marketing 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 24, 2020

We live, breathe, and obsess over how to deliver B2B intelligence that unlocks go-to-market success. We know, according to ZoomInfo data, as of the end of March, most small businesses still lacked critical tools to enable team collaboration and web conferencing in remote working conditions. At ZoomInfo, data is our passion.

Outsourcing Services 227

Outsourcing Services Intent Data Transportation Intent 227

The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2019

That is how our clients get paid; by helping their clients deal with their market realities. Ask a group of sellers what they sell, and the majority will respond in something related to their deliverable. I understand every minute counts and stopping to do something related to an event six months ago may seem odd.

Prospecting 284

Prospecting Trade Show Objections Buyer 284

Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

Ben Salzman, SVP of ZI Labs and GTM Strategy at ZoomInfo, thinks that generative AI is already having a positive effect on go-to-market motions by encouraging sales and marketing leaders to experiment and question conventional wisdom. Generative AI is going to allow companies to run so much faster,” Salzman says.

Marketing 130

Marketing System SalesForce Ideal Customer Profile 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At this year’s virtual event Henry Schuck, delivered a keynote presentation called “Hit Your Number: How To Fast-Track Your Outbound Sales and Marketing in Europe.”. How future changes with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect go-to-market motions. Best practices for going to market across Europe. Public tasks.

Outbound 246

Outbound Ideal Customer Profile NetSuite Microsoft 246

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.

Top of Funnel 111

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnel Relationals 111

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

Demand Generation Agencies 225

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Paid Content 225

Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2023

That’s because smart recruiters have learned to apply marketing principles to their talent acquisition process, helping them fill and nurture robust talent pipelines they can hire from at a moment’s notice. Here are the key components your talent team should have in place to make recruitment marketing work for them.

Paid Content 130

Paid Content Webinar Metrics Hiring Top of Funnel 130

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Link Building Strategies and Tools for Boosting Your SEO Link building is still one of the most critical components of search engine optimization (SEO) for increasing website visibility and domain authority.

Tools 91

Tools Strategy Lead Scoring Lead Rank 91

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Photo by Geralt Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Advanced Property Management Tools Improve the Bottom Line Effective property management requires carefully balancing various tasks, from tenant communication to financial tracking. Our collaborative blog offers insights on how property management tools improve the bottom line.

Tools 78

Tools Scale Analytics Hiring 78

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Naturally, platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook have become essential tools in a recruiter’s strategy. Recruiters often treat social media as a supplementary tool; they post sporadically, engage with passive candidates when they have the time, etc. You don’t have a social recruiting strategy. Enter social listening.

Social Media 221

Social Media How To Media Twitter 221