Sales 2.0

JULY 2, 2024

Your email box became full of marketing emails and newsletters you forget you signed up for. Then we added social media to the mix. At first it was really social, but now social media is full of marketing messages. At first it was really social, but now social media is full of marketing messages.

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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?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 20, 2024

Social media likes offer a surface-level view of engagement that doesn’t necessarily translate to real business value. The post Likes Galore, Sales Zero? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Aim higher.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In the digital age of texts, tweets, likes, and posts – here are three steps that more companies should take to successfully integrate social media into their overall business marketing strategies. The post 3 Ways to Avoid Social Marketing Missteps appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 21, 2023

The lingering effects of Covid-19 lockdowns, the persistent supply chain disruptions and increasing fears of a global recession have injected a great deal of uncertainty into the market. At the same time, the turn toward digitalization has had significant impacts, both positive and negative, on B2B enterprises.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If one of your goals in 2021 is to grow your online sales, you’re not alone. But what if you’re a small business and don’t have extra marketing dollars (or time) to spend on massive engagement-boosting campaigns? Zero in on Your Target Market. First, make sure you understand who you’re target market is. Never fear.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement. Read on to discover the latest CRM trends for sales and marketers to use in 2021—and beyond. Share the same goals and tools between sales and marketing teams. Future Trends in CRM.

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Nimble - Sales

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we enter 2024, the marketing landscape is prepared for significant changes, with a specific focus on the dynamic realm of social media marketing. The new year offers businesses a valuable opportunity to reassess and update their marketing strategies, particularly within the ever-evolving social media sphere.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

To stay ahead of the competition and thrive, it’s essential to identify and adopt sales techniques that can boost your productivity and results. The front-runners focus on data hygiene and ensuring they have accurate and holistic customer information across sales, marketing and service departments. Automated sales prospecting.

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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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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2020

You may easily say “yes” but if I look at real sales people’s actions over the course of a couple of decades, I see that their actions say “no”. Going retro and sending people old-fashioned “boring” letters without any marketing glitz has worked well. You will have to try a bunch of approaches and repeat some of them many times.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Online reviews and company websites are the two primary platforms for research, but other channels such as social media can provide valuable information, too. Because marketers live on the very channels the customers are engaging with, clever marketers harness these channels to reach potential and loyal customers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. Demand generation enables you to make smart marketing decisions for your company.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 7, 2024

Potential customers just aren’t comfortable with in-person meetings and door-to-door sales anymore. According to a report by stirista , many B2B organizations are turning to paid social media ads. That means roughly half of B2B marketers have no defined processes or expansion plans. Yes, you read that correctly.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

I’m embarrassed by the bad sales behavior that blasts us every day. Obviously, I’ve never been a fan of cold calling, but now the uninvited sales pitches are multichannel. LinkedIn invitations to connect from people who immediately send you a sales pitch. Rude, rude, rude sales behavior. Sales Reps Not Closing Sales?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2020

You’re the ultimate sales technology—and this is the ultimate sales conversations book. If there ever was a time for real, authentic sales conversations, it’s now. Do you know how to have that kind of sales conversations? Reps told me they didn’t need to have sales conversations. The phone works. INTRODUCTION.

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

97% of consumers use social media, according to a study by IAS. That spells big opportunity for branding on social media. Branding on Social Media 101 Social’s Impact Not only are most consumers active on at least one social platform, they spend a lot of time on it/them.

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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? Closing more sales.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 12, 2024

Consumers are once again changing how they use social media and you know what that means. Your client has to change their social media tactics to keep up with how consumers want to be interacted with. Search Engine Land says that consumers usually have accounts on multiple social platforms.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 24, 2019

As a marketing leader, if you have ever thought about where your next new form of revenue is coming from, the answer is Outbound Marketing. Eric Quanstrom, CMO of Cience, joins us to discuss how Outbound is the new normal.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Brooke Friendly is an experienced Marketing Director developing diverse customer solutions and revenue generating campaigns through new and innovative content for digital, web, video, radio, print & social media on a national scale. Listen to other episodes here.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There are two dovetailing arguments for using TikTok, the fastest-growing social media platform, as a B2B marketing tool: Its generous algorithm and its lack of polish. Third-party reports show that companies advertising on TikTok are getting significantly higher ROI than legacy social media advertising.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. And that content is a gateway to a possible sale. What is the Landing Page’s Importance in Digital Marketing?

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

OK, maybe keep it a secret between us for now, but when you kill your sales quota and everyone starts calling you a Rockstar, you may want to let on (in the right circumstances). No, not those blokes in marketing that never have time to help you, your own team.). I can’t go spending money like this.”. Build Your team.

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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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SBI Growth

APRIL 7, 2021

Imagine the following: As you scroll through social media, you come across an ad. Not just any ad though, an ad for a product so specific to what you are looking for that you wonder how they were able to.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. 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. That’s a fact. Have We Met?

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

As marketing leaders, it makes sense to explore multiple channels to reach your target audience. With so many options, it quickly becomes not only expensive but also difficult to manage. How do you decide which channels will be worth the.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Author: Jeff Kalter When it comes to building a winning B2B sales strategy, forget about business as usual. Whether you’re managing inside or field sales, gut instinct needs to take a back seat to data-driven insights. Maybe they all found you in a similar way – social media, a trade show or sales outreach, for example.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2020

We see deals in our sales pipeline postponed or disappearing. Sales leaders: Lead generation must be your primary focus. What do businesses typically do when clients stop buying and the sales pipeline dries up? They cut advertising, travel, training, marketing, and discretionary expense line items. So, what do you do?

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Sales 2.0

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re taking a new job in sales or marketing, read this book first. I love the “bullseye framework” developed by Louis Gudema and explained in his book Bullseye Marketing —just out this week in its second (updated) edition. But so many marketers and salespeople don’t do this and do not do it in the right order.

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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.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Does your (sales) funnel have flow? Learn data-driven strategies that support each stage of the sales funnel, along with key performance indicators (KPIs). Contents What is a Sales Funnel? What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. What is a Sales Funnel?

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The incredible rise of smartphones and social media has been pivotal to this cultural shift. With the advances in mobile phones and social media, “instant” isn’t always fast enough. For small and medium-sized businesses, the equalizing forces of mobile technology and social media are a double-edged sword.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2C selling has dominated social media for the last 10+ years. Customers do their research, ask questions, and even address customer service issues on social channels. B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. What is B2B Social Selling?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It’s also raising big questions about the future of the sales profession — including lingering worries that many sales jobs could soon be replaced by machines. According to several top sales experts, it’s not quite that simple. This is what takes your sales process to the next level,” Frattini says.

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