Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. People want personalization — in fact, in a recent survey, 97% of professionals said it was important to them that vendor websites have relevant content that spoke directly to their company. And How Can They Help Marketers?

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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Top of Funnel 264

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer 20 years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2022, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. Segmenting audiences to target your ideal customer while also complying with privacy laws can be a tricky dance. But times have changed.

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Segment Lead Rank Trends Marketing Qualified Lead 130

SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2013

Marketing leaders are under great pressure these days. More often than not, I find marketers take the “Ready, Fire, Aim” approach to lead generation. Unfortunately Marketers frequently skimp or altogether skip the critical 1 st step in the process: Account Segmentation. What is the size of the potential market?

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Lead Gen Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Leads 282

Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. While there is no precise recipe to segment audiences, we’re here to help you nail down the fundamentals. The marketer’s version of the chicken or the egg. An age-old question.

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Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing B2B 130

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Leads who have engaged with your marketing efforts, and are deemed ready for sales review and converting it to an opportunity. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 118

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Think about it: without accurate information, how can you market, sell, or provide customer service to your target audience? With turnover like that, it’s no wonder companies struggle to keep a clean marketing database. The Impact of Bad B2B Marketing Data. So, what does list churn have to do with B2B marketing data?

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B2B Data Churn Marketing 223

The Pipeline

APRIL 11, 2016

Thus far in this series we have looked at two prospects segments that are popular among sellers, mostly because they are likely the easier of the three. While most sales people spend 80% of their time and effort pursuing these groups, combined they only make up at most 30% of any given market. Status Quo Segment.

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Segment Prospecting Vendor Objections 120

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 1, 2012

There is an evolving marketing tactic called ‘ Remarketing ’ that your marketing team should embrace. A world class marketer today leverages remarketing to recapture those prospective leads. Most of the times it is a 100 user limit, so be careful if your audience segment is very low, under a 100 in a month.

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Advertising Advertising Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 297

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The success of any account-based marketing (ABM) or account-based experience (ABX) depends on the efficient flow of accurate account data across sales and marketing teams. By appending CRM and marketing platforms with enriched data, users can increase the quality and quantity of information, either in bulk or in real time.

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Software Software Account Data 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Not only did this lead to a massive increase in existing segments, but it also led to the establishment of new segments that had not ventured online before that. And like all good markets, this trend, too, demanded that businesses get matched to these segments and audiences. What Marketing Automation Achieves.

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Marketing Segment Lead Rank Lead Scoring 177

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

When its time for go-to-market strategy to become revenue reality, todays most innovative GTM teams know that intelligence makes all the difference. So how different would your team structure, campaign design, and competitive advantage be if you had rich, accurate Go-to-Market Intelligence on 5,000 of the worlds most important companies?

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Company Scale Enterprise 130

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Online marketers should have every little scrap of data they can find when overhauling or fine-tuning their lead generation websites. That’s because conversion data often doesn’t include some crucial information that marketers should have. Implementing a lead validation and tracking process can close these gaps for online marketers.

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Google Analytics Channels Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 201

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

B2B data is enterprise-focused information used to improve sales and marketing campaigns. Fit data helps marketers score and segment prospects into personas suitable to be in your customer base. Accuracy: Generally speaking, the closer a vendor is to the data source — the more accurate the data will be. What is B2B Data?

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B2B Data Vendor Intent Data 245

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.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2019

All sales and marketing tools make big promises—more leads, more engagement, higher click-through rate, better sales—but none more so than marketing automation. For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 197

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Instead they were market leaders and wanted to expand the distance between themselves and the pack, their only “Pain” was that there wasn’t more distance between them and number 2. One reason many default to pain is that they spend too much time with the wrong segment of the market. Passively looking (15%). Status quo (30%).

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Vendor Objections Buyer Guarantee 282

Pointclear

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

TARGET, SEGMENT AND TEST: How often does your team analyze lists? See this article for how to segment and test your list (in this article there is a link to a 10-page whitepaper that digs deeper into the subject). RESEARCH: Are folks responsible for reaching out to your market knowledgeable and prepared for quality conversation?

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Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 315

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 24, 2017

Before we discuss the top 10 takeaways from the panel, I want to make an important point: All the CIOs mentioned – and I agree – it’s often the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) who buys IT these days , rather than the CIO. The vendor only presented the two solutions discussed and nothing else. Do align with marketing.

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Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Referrals Vendor 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For more than a generation, customer relationship management (CRM) systems have been the unquestioned core of virtually every go-to-market strategy. Your CRM is too often a mirage of the true market, hindering frontline GTM teams, slowing revenue growth, and limiting opportunities across the board. Bottom line?

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CRM Data Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Segmenting. Here we want to segment along lines of what specific factors contributed to the outcome. And honestly, some are set up for them with the scrubbing leads get from Marketing before they reach the SDR. On the surface, the predictions may have been wrong, more sellers than ever. The predictions may not be off the mark.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Bernadette McClelland

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

He says, ‘ Very few people in the business world seem to realize that the number #1 factor that is impacting sales performance today is shrinking target markets. Unless you happen to be lucky enough to be working in an early growth market, then your total addressable market (TAM) is not as big as you think it is.

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Pipeline Vendor Policies Sales Leadership 207

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Buyer Persona 147

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we see a future where our software and intelligence power a closed-loop go-to-market cycle from data, to decision, to action. Data is at the core of every go-to-market motion. It will be purpose-built for go-to-market teams to identify actual buying centers rather than legal entities with no purchasing power.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Oracle 246

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In our experience, the following tips will help you make the most informed decision: Request a free trial to put each vendor’s data to the test. Ask how often each vendor’s database is updated. Determine where each vendor gets their data. Make sure each vendor has the market segments you’re looking to contact.

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B2B Vendor Data Segment 209

SBI Growth

MAY 9, 2013

Losses will tell you much more about your position within the market and against the status quo. Does your product meet the entire market’s needs or just a segment? Many times this is a loss to a non-competing vendor who was able to reprioritize budgeted dollars for his project.

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Decision Maker Report Trends Competition 306

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?

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Marketing Webinar Metrics Reachforce Top of Funnel 113

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.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile NetSuite Microsoft 246

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. And How Can They Help Marketers? How to Build Marketing Personas Marketers can use buyer personas to build content strategies that speak directly to their targeted audience, and therefore build trust and reliability with customers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Marketing How To 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2022

Market intelligence software helps companies better understand consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry trends. These powerful platforms gather, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for go-to-market teams.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Marketing Hoovers 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

We recently reported that, while marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. In fact, only 14% of B2B marketers report their use of marketing automation as “good” or better ( source ). So, what’s holding them back?

Marketing 113

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Vendor 113

The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Depending on your industry, and who is measuring, it usually is 10% or less of a given target market. By Tibor Shanto. And that’s when they are on their own.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Our recent Purchasing Power Index revealed that the Sales department influences the purchase of most of a company’s technology (21% of the entire Sales budget); however, Operations and Marketing are close behind. The vendor only presented the two solutions discussed and nothing else. Do align with marketing. Now quintuple it.

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Account Based Marketing Referrals How To Vendor 199

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

This makes routing marketing leads to your sales team a critical step for driving revenue growth. Every field is accounted for with the right records, so new leads can easily be classified, segmented, and routed properly. That engagement time becomes even smaller when you add competing vendors going after the same buyers.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revenue Leads 130

Nimble - Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Personalization is more than a marketing buzzword— it’s widely accepted as best practice for business communication in today’s economy. It is also expected by consumers due, in large part, to the growing availability of technology to accelerate and optimize customer service and client-vendor relationships. Here […].

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Segment Vendor Consumer Customer Service 75

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 2, 2019

Another interesting use case suggested by TOPO is segmenting by Intent rather than traditional segments. While firmographic and demographic segmentation is important in determining a company’s fit or lead score, prospect intent is useful data for focusing marketing efforts, too. Get up to speed on Intent data.

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Data Intent Data Customer Intent 196

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The challenge is that any given point in time, at best about 10% of your B2B market has a compelling event, these are Actively looking buyers, what we like to call the “57 percenters!”; At a high level, revenue organizations (sales & marketing) take one of two routes to this large pool of buyers.

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SME Quota Groups Buyer 225

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The point, though, is that intent data is an incredibly valuable resource to marketers, salespeople, and recruiters alike. Closing a sale is typically based on the first contact — and in fact, 30-50% of sales go to the vendor that responds first. B2B Streaming Intent Data: The Future Of Sales And Marketing.

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