Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 13, 2023

The post Is the Clash Between Your Sales and Finance Teams Killing Your Revenue Growth? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Mending the fractured sales/finance relationship needs to be a priority at the top level. It needs to start from the top down.

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Revenue Sales Marketing 379

SBI Growth

JULY 15, 2020

To kick off the summer, SBI held a virtual meeting comprised of an intimate group of market-leading B2B Chief Revenue Officers (public and private, $240M to $8B in revenue) as part of their advisory board program. These global CRO’s gathered.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing B2B 376

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But if you asked “Are any of these newly minted sellers adding a premium to intrinsic revenue growth? The time is squandered rather than being applied to better execution of high-value activities that lead to higher-value revenue and EBITDA. Could you use technology to accelerate, requiring fewer bodies per dollar of revenue?

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Conversational marketing opens new ways for brands to engage audiences and drives business impact through increased customer satisfaction, deeper brand affinity, lower acquisition costs and boosted revenue. The post The Rise of Conversational Marketing appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 9, 2021

Since the turn of the millennium, mastering and perfecting the Customer Experience (CX) has been a goal for Marketing Leaders. Through CX strategy, leading revenue marketing teams will uncover areas of friction and process as a continuous feedback loop between.

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Retention Marketing Revenue Strategy 331

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It’s vital to ensure that sales teams have the skills to thrive during a period of revenue resilience and the skills to bounce back when enterprise spending goes back to normal. The post Top Skills to Reinforce During a Period of Revenue Resilience appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Revenue Enterprise Enterprise Marketing 289

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2022

The pending recession presents a great opportunity for marketers to lead in their organizations, and be the revenue generators that CEOs have expected for some time. The post 4 Ways Marketing Can Take the Lead During a Recession appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

Leads 347

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Revenue 347

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The post How to Optimize Your Sales Funnel to Boost Revenue appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Sales funnel optimization involves improving each stage of the sales funnel to increase the number of leads that convert into customers.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Revenue How To 260

SBI Growth

APRIL 12, 2024

Marketing is an integral part of any successful go-to-market model, yet they are typically the most misunderstood, with many relegating them to the role of cost-center. What roles do they play in a B2B environment, and how can leaders transform marketing into a key revenue driver for their organization?

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Revenue Marketing B2B 177

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 31, 2021

Personalizing the B2B sale while being mindful of new privacy laws that are coming, and how to deal with the proliferation of marketing technology and revenue technology tools. A discussion with Gino Palozzi, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Dun & Bradstreet.

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Sales Technology B2B Marketing Sales 308

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Marketing leaders have faced numerous difficulties over the past year, but one challenge is not exclusive to just 2020—sales and marketing alignment. Getting this correct is more imperative now than ever before and can make-or-break your growth strategy. Ultimately, companies.

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Marketing Face-to-face Strategy Company 398

SBI Growth

MARCH 29, 2024

The marketing engine is a crucial part of a B2B organization’s branding and pipeline. While CMOs invest heavily into enhancing the customer experience and moving prospects down the funnel, their spending is often scrutinized by other functions, questioning marketing’s contribution to the company’s revenue.

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B2B Revenue Marketing Engineering 177

Steven Rosen

JULY 8, 2024

In this article, Jenn Steele discusses the vital role of customer feedback in refining marketing and sales strategies. In addition, she tackles common challenges in aligning sales and marketing efforts, offering practical insights for overcoming these obstacles.

Revenue 156

Revenue Marketing Pivotal Promotion 156

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well.

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Funnel 301

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Many CEOs often ask us while planning for 2020, “what’s the secret marketing sauce? What’s worked for your other clients when it comes to the marketing mix? What isn’t working?” ” And as most CMOs can agree, there’s no such thing.

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Campaigns Marketing Consumer ACT 339

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An unhealthy sales culture can cost you talent, sales, revenue and growth. Increased turnover is possible among sales reps who need more personal connection. As the word gets out, it's more challenging to attract the best, most talented reps. In sales, it can be a fine line between me, me, me and us, us, us.

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Inside Sales Revenue Lead Rank How To 348

SBI Growth

JULY 2, 2020

There has been exponential growth in the amount of data generated since the start of the digital age. This has enabled almost every industry and business to become more productive, but a function like sales that is largely relationship-based (especially.

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Account Revenue Data Industry 368

SBI Growth

MARCH 18, 2024

For many firms, marketing is often relegated as a cost center, and marketing leaders often find themselves competing for a voice at the strategy table. Despite significant investments into MarTech, CMOs often struggle to demonstrate how they contribute to the company’s bottom line, unlike sales.

Revenue 177

Revenue Marketing Competition Strategy 177

SBI Growth

AUGUST 20, 2020

If you’re like most Sales Leaders we’ve worked with, you’re glad the first half is behind us. You are also trying to figure out how to make up lost ground. We’ve found the two most effective ways to recover from.

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Revenue Sales How To Channels 386

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It can make it hard to predict what B2B marketing and sales will look like when we enter the post-COVID-19 era. . With that in mind, here are four things you can expect to occur in B2B markets as things reopen. Marketing spends will be lower. This is an excellent time to double down on your automated content marketing.

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Trends Marketing Lead Rank Conference 333

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The post How Kimberly-Clark Professional Sharpened Its Marketing Messaging and Accelerated Revenue Growth appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Revenue Marketing Consumer B2B 156

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The post How Kimberly-Clark Professional Sharpened Its Marketing Messaging and Accelerated Revenue Growth appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

Revenue 156

Revenue Marketing Consumer B2B 156

SBI Growth

MARCH 31, 2020

Going into 2020, Market Leaders were already counting on the majority of their revenue coming from their existing customer base. Most companies build their 2020 Revenue plans on an assumption of GDP growth, and this assumption has shifted.

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Retention Customer Revenue Marketing 401

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

With more independent and educated customers, where do sales and marketing fit into this new model? With more and more possibilities available to the online consumer, the desire for self-serve options does not seem to be subsiding anytime soon.

Ideal Customer Profile 374

Ideal Customer Profile Customer Marketing Education 374

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One of the main differences this past year was the emphasis on digital strategies geared towards getting closer to the customer rather than traditional cost-cutting. The impact of this is profound, and in industries where getting closer to the customer.

Revenue 334

Revenue Industry Strategy Customer 334

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Over the past several months, SBI’s latest research has unpacked how market-leading CEOs have responded to market disruption and how they approach planning for 2021. Those identified as “Accelerators” have not only managed to thrive in the face of adversity.

Leads 305

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Face-to-face 305

SBI Growth

MAY 7, 2020

As a sales leader, you have most certainly heard the words “Customer Success,” especially if you are a sales leader for a subscription-based technology company. Some companies tout customer success as the critical driver of their growth. Many others, however,

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Customer Revenue Sales Company 353

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

We launched Workflows to activate market insights, buyer intent, and website activity. But there are only a few milestones in ZoomInfo’s history that have had a game-changing impact on our trajectory and transformed how businesses everywhere go to market. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent.

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Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

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. You’ll get high ROI.

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Email Marketing Benefit Webinar Metrics Marketing 264

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. The sales and marketing technology landscape has grown from just a few hundred applications to thousands—each one promising to streamline go-to-market operations, accelerate pipeline and generate revenue at scale. But, many of these technologies fall short.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Scale Marketing 58