Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2018

As a marketer, your results are directly dependent on strategy and budget. Measuring marketing ROI is no longer optional—and while most marketers understand this, it’s a lot easier said than done. 5 Signs You’re Not Tracking Marketing ROI Effectively: You let marketing trends dictate your strategy.

ROI 219

ROI Marketing Scale Campaigns 219

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an era where efficiency and productivity are paramount, AI sales assistant software emerges as a game-changer for businesses eager to streamline their sales processes and maximize output. In this comprehensive guide, I will dive into crucial factors to consider when selecting the ideal AI sales assistant software for your business needs.

Software 114

Software Software Scale Sales Qualified Lead 114

Tenbound

JANUARY 28, 2025

In todays competitive business landscape, Sales Technology software has become a must-have for organizations aiming to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and drive revenue growth. Creating a clear list of pain points and desired outcomes will guide you in selecting software tailored to your requirements.

Sales Technology 91

Sales Technology Software Software Vendor 91

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Now, B2B companies must implement digital marketing into their sales funnels. Barriers to measuring ROI. Even though B2B marketers have learned fast and implemented nimble approaches, they still struggle to measure and track consumer behavior in our increasingly digital world. Because buyer behaviors are changing.

ROI 166

ROI Lead Rank Customer Marketing 166

Zoominfo

MARCH 13, 2025

Marketing leaders are constantly challenged to drive growth, personalize engagement, and uncover new revenue opportunities. But without the right Go-to-Market Intelligence foundation, marketing efforts can become fragmented leading to wasted budget, missed opportunities, and ROI thats nearly impossible to prove.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 130

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.

Conversion 70

Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

Top of Funnel 255

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

B2B buyers will look at their business requirements and a product’s technical specifications to determine the initial fit, and they’ll sign contracts based on potential ROI, provider reliability and post-sale support, and the flexibility of pricing terms. Table of Contents What Is a B2B Buyer?

Hubspot 116

Hubspot B2B Buyer Data 116

Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? Obstacles to Marketing Productivity. Either way, there are a host of obstacles to marketing time management that can impede productivity. Lack Of Strategy And Alignment: Sales and marketing alignment is imperative for efficient time use.

Marketing 221

Marketing Campaigns ROI Scale 221

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In the crowded arena of GTM demand generation, most organizations are laser-focused on optimizing whats already known: nurturing interest in established markets, identifying accounts actively searching for solutions, and meeting familiar challenges head-on. The lesson: Latent demand exists before the market realizes it. Lets see how.

Demand Generation Agencies 130

Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Scale 130

SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

I recently had a cup of coffee with a good friend and marketing peer. Kathy is the CMO of an emerging software company. I had recently read Hubspot’s newest release of the State of Inbound Marketing Report, and a key stat hit me. Kathy was going to pay more attention to the formal management of leads between sales and marketing.

Cost per Lead 323

Cost per Lead Inbound Buyer Persona Cost per Acquisition 323

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

Email Marketing 231

Email Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 231

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Since I didn’t know any better, I figured that I might as well build the recruiting engine in the same fashion that I built a marketing engine, and it turned out the approach worked. Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1.

Hiring 222

Hiring Marketing Top of Funnel Cold Calling 222

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. Source: ZoomInfo.

Company 324

Company Survey ROI Face-to-face 324

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Not getting the ROI you expected from your lead-gen tactics? Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. Talk to any software vendor, and they can’t wait to show you their cool software.

Lead Gen 397

Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2025

Every marketing team should clearly understand whether its efforts are yielding results. However, many marketing departments struggle to define their key performance indicators (KPIs) or establish effective analytics tracking, which can make their marketing reports less useful. Table of Contents What is a marketing report?

Report 83

Report Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 83

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 26, 2018

The software allows companies to organize their customer data in one place. The tool is used by many people across different departments: administration, marketing, sales, customer support, and sometimes even logistics. Is it for the back office, the marketing team or for your sales team? . Who is going to use the system?

Software 180

Software Software CRM System 180

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Facebook likes. Twitter followers.

Social Media 234

Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

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

Segment 246

Segment Lead Rank Trends Marketing Qualified Lead 246

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

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

Author: SAM MELNICK VP OF MARKETING, ALLOCADIA At Allocadia, we’re keen on asking the following question: Where will you focus your time in 2018?—?running running marketing, or doing marketing? Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing. Doing marketing” refers to the execution of marketing.

Enterprise 214

Enterprise Enterprise Marketing Microsoft 214

Sales 2.0

MAY 12, 2014

Two software firms approached me with a product in the same space. As a buyer, I knew that my decision maker (in my case our CEO) was not going to buy anything in this space unless there was a clear ROI. What I really need to see is the ROI on your solution”. I saw an example of this recently in my own buying environment.

ROI 273

ROI Decision Maker Case Study Film 273

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.

Analytics 164

Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

With the right sales enablement process, revenue leaders can confidently improve sales team skills, boost customer retention, expand market differentiation, and drive revenue growth. That reflects the fact that effective enablement relies on contributions from multiple teams, including product, marketing, and customer success.

Sales Enablement 130

Sales Enablement Strategy Hiring Scale 130

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Author: Brandon Brown Today, most marketers and salespeople agree that we need to build relationships with our customers. But many of those same marketers and salespeople are implementing old-school marketing tactics that bombard consumers with unwanted ads and clickbait. Two words: influencer marketing.

Influencer 194

Influencer Marketing How To Face-to-face 194

Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Your chosen app should integrate seamlessly with your existing systems, such as accounting software, CRMs, or communication platforms. Understand the Cost and ROI Apps often come with upfront costs, subscription fees, or ongoing maintenance expenses. Compare these costs to the potential return on investment ( ROI ).

How To 97

How To Hiring ROI Networking 97

The Pipeline

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Data can help you improve your process – and your workforce ROI. CRM software can be tough to choose, but it is imperative to your team’s success. Act-On automates your social media and email marketing efforts, measures customer interaction, performs A/B testing, scores leads, and integrates with your CRM.

Tools 319

Tools SalesForce Sales Management Lead Rank 319

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 30, 2025

This blog will guide you through choosing the right sales quote software that fits your business needs and various other factors to look for while making the decision. By replacing manual spreadsheets and disconnected systems, sales quote software minimizes human errors, speeds up the quoting process, and improves overall sales productivity.

Software 48

Software Software Discount Lead Rank 48

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 22, 2025

Not only that, but you can instantly access sales history and marketing campaigns and gain useful insights into clients and contacts with the ease of a customizable dashboard. Importance of a CRM Perhaps, no other software application has had as profound an effect on sales as your CRM. makes its own use of the common data.

CRM 118

CRM Lead Qualification Social Media Data 118

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s no surprise to see more and more marketers explore and invest in attribution modeling in 2019 and beyond. It’s imperative for marketers to understand their customers’ journey and the role that each touchpoint plays in an eventual purchase — and marketing attribution is the one tactic that helps them do so.

Trends 160

Trends B2B Marketing Channels 160

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Expectations and reality don't always fully align when it comes to software purchases. The effectiveness of a CRM doesn't solely rely on its software or its features. In this post, we'll walk you through how to know when your CRM is set up for success and how to increase your chances of getting the highest ROI from it.

ROI 115

ROI CRM Churn Face-to-face 115

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You’ve decided you need customer relationship management (CRM) software. These are just some of the reasons CRMs have become such an integral part of business success today and why so many companies have invested in finding the right software for their team. Many CRM software providers operate under a freemium model — like HubSpot.

Software 136

Software Software CRM Hiring 136

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this post, you’ll explore the best lead distribution software that can help you optimize your sales process and improve lead conversion. What is lead distribution software? The 25 Best Lead Distribution Software. Finding a Lead Distribution Software That Fits Your Needs. The Best Lead Distribution Software.

Distribution 129

Distribution Lead Rank Software Software 129

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

You manage a small business and its marketing. Maybe your marketing efforts are more ‘throw it at the wall and see if it sticks’ than a fine-tuned ROI machine. What is small business marketing? The goal of small business marketing is to attract leads to your business. How to Grow Your Small Business with Marketing.

Small Business 145

Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 145

Cincom Smart Selling

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software has become indispensable for streamlining pricing, quote generation, and deal execution. This article outlines 10 CPQ best practices to help optimize your performance, eliminate inefficiencies, and maximize ROI. However, simply deploying CPQ is not enough.

ROI 48

ROI Maximizer Lead Rank Discount 48

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

That’s why you need sales tracking software to help hit your revenue goals. The right software can help your sales team optimize its strategies and close more deals. This post reviews 17 of the top sales tracking software packages available today to help you select the right one for your team. Sales by lead source.

Software 111

Software Software Top of Funnel Lead Rank 111