Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. As a result, B2B companies are investing heavily in sales enablement tools.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Now more than ever, trust is important in the buying process as prospects continue to carefully consider purchases. ANNUITAS Research conducted interviews with sales leaders across industries to see how this change has impacted both sales strategy and day-to-day life. ANNUITAS Research interviewee.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

APRIL 18, 2023

Welcome to #Salesblazer Q&A, a column by sales pros, for sales pros. Dear Salesblazer: What is generative AI and how will it affect sales reps’ jobs over the next year? I don’t see it replacing reps any time soon, but AI will certainly affect the way we work in the coming months and years. Have a question?

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Amid an overly-optimistic marketplace outlook for AI, growth leaders — across marketing, sales and customer success — are increasingly turning to AI and/or AI-enhanced technology tools. Our research suggests that a fifth of current sales-team functions could be automated,” claims McKinsey. What are they tackling?

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 21, 2020

How to know if your marketing and sales efforts are eroding your growth. How would you describe your current marketing and sales motion? If you had another dollar to invest in sales and marketing, do you know what impact it would have? How do you know if you engage in random acts of marketing? Build a brand.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A sales funnel, stretching from early-stage brand discovery to final purchase, represents the customer journey. Most companies use the funnel to track prospects as they move through sales stages, adjusting strategies and marketing methods in response to their behaviors. In real life, the buying process is never so linear.

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ANNUITAS

JULY 2, 2020

Managing the timeframe to purchase in a customer’s lifecycle has always been a challenge for financial institutions. In an industry heavily reliant on relationships, the reality is that the B2B banking customer’s buying process is typically long, and rarely linear. The Traditional Buying Process for Financial Institutions.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Marketing and sales teams are famously frenemies. Sales and marketing alignment is no small task, but it’s not a mystery. Real or imagined cultural clashes (“Marketers are mired in process and research.” Sales only cares about hitting targets, by any means necessary.”).

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Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2024

Buyers are doing the same: most come to the table with extensive research in hand, and nearly all of them buy from a company on their “day one” list. Add outreach down the org chart with counterparts who would be potential end users and valuable champions, involving the rest of your GTM team and their relationships or research.

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Sprout Social

MAY 5, 2021

As a marketer, you know getting customers’ attention can be tough, but actually closing those customers is just as much of a struggle for sales reps in your org. That’s because the average sales process is more complex than ever. What is sales enablement, anyway? The list goes on.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. But when your prospects are moving more slowly throughout their buying journey, our marketing leaders advise their peers to prioritize full-funnel engagement. “We

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

When it comes to sales forecasting , it’s a simple truth: if you can see what’s coming, you can prepare and react accordingly. Sometimes you have to react on the fly, act on the best information you can find, and just give it all you’ve got. Sales Forecasting Step 1: Get a CRM Reality Check. Don’t you believe it!

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tech buyers really hate B2B marketing tactics. Now, a new TrustRadius study, How to Sell to Millennial B2B Buyers , expands on that research and adds many key new findings. There were also some “yes, but” findings from the research. ” Affiliate sales support independent media. Free trials/accounts.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

And if you jump into it without a solid strategy in place, you aren’t going to see game-changing results (or a happy sales team). In addition to marketing and sales, Suzy Balk, our Sr. Marketing Campaigns Manager, advises that product teams should be included in lead scoring. “If So let’s break it down.

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Seismic

JANUARY 24, 2023

Sales enablement has changed tremendously since Aragon Research published its first Aragon Research Globe on sales enablement in 2016. In its latest Globe for Sales Enablement, Aragon highlights the rapid expansion of sales enablement platforms (SEP).

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SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To skyrocket the numbers, sales reps make use of various sales tools available in the market. Some of them are free while others are paid – but all bring in enormous value to the sales process. Investing in a random sales tool is a waste of time, money and effort. What are Sales Tools?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

Creating a global sales strategy is one of the most important and challenging exercises for a business. However, it’s not a simple rinse-and-repeat process across different countries, where culture and resources will differ as much as the local cuisine. When we built ZoomInfo’s global sales team, we gained some valuable insights.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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ANNUITAS

JULY 20, 2021

For most companies, the challenge of regularly delivering enough leads and opportunities to hit growth targets has historically meant building a strategy around producing high volume, low quality marketing and sales campaigns. When you do, you’ll know you’re stuck in a cycle of random acts of marketing, and it’s costing you time and money.

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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2021

Having conversations with prospects is baked into sales — in a lot of ways, it's the basis of the whole concept. You need to be able to successfully initiate and conduct productive sales conversations if you really want to thrive in a sales role. You can't do that without doing your research.

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Tomorrow People

JULY 26, 2022

What you need to know about brand research, and how it can help you stand out from the competition. The answer lies in brand research. This article will help you understand the most fundamental components of brand research—including goals, techniques, and ways you can use brand research to develop (or redevelop) your brand strategy.

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SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Top of Funnel Intent Data Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles 71

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. These tidbits can be the difference between an average sale and a humongous deal.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JUNE 7, 2022

Are your sales reps spending their time selling? Seems like an odd question to ask, but research shows why it’s relevant. According to our latest State of Sales report , sales reps only spend one-third of their time on revenue-generating tasks. It doesn’t have to be that way. Sign up now.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As a sales rep, one of your main responsibilities is building credibility with your prospects so they trust you. Unfortunately, this is also one of the biggest hurdles reps face. In fact, 82% of B2B decision-makers think sales reps are unprepared. They do their research. Below, let's learn their best tips.

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As she looked through the data, she also figured out which messaging performed best with our target ICP but also aligned with where a person was in their journey (top of funnel, middle of funnel, or bottom of funnel). Of course, this is a quick summary of the process. 27% say it’s getting overwhelming.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories.

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Outreach

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Understanding what works and what doesn’t within the sales process can be complex for any sales team. In order to gain an accurate picture of progress and better manage performance, organizations need a sales pipeline. What is a sales pipeline? And because sales people already have a lot on their plates—e.g.,

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Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management Ad Building 98

Choozle

MARCH 29, 2022

Catering your messages and tactics to align and guide your potential customers through the decision-making funnel will yield long-term results, as each stage demands its own tactics and goals to ensure it fuels user action. And remember, this stage is not where sales are made. Tactics to Consider(ation).

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Vision Edge Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Confirmation bias, often unintentionally, can significantly impact the quality of research and decision-making. AI-enabled research can be a powerful way to surface valuable insights and better inform decisions. They rely on research to understand economic and industry trends.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 28, 2022

Fortunately, sales leaders can work to avoid these hardships by acting now. To ensure your company is recession ready, develop a game plan for your sales organization that focuses on investments in tools, training, and effective sales tactics. Refocus on delivering value, not hitting quotas.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles 98

SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Today's buyer is more informed than ever, and as sales and marketing professionals, it’s our responsibility to educate and provide relevant information at each step of the buyer’s journey. While the idea of a sales funnel isn’t new, the way we approach it has changed significantly over the years. Research reports.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MARCH 4, 2023

Is your sales pipeline generating enough leads? To keep afloat in these times, sales leaders need to have access to reliable data, and these sales management dashboards can help. Data dashboards , standard with Sales Cloud, provide minute-to-minute visibility of your business as things change.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

From defining the target market to outlining marketing and sales tactics to reach the audience and more, a go-to-market strategy has it all. Here are four tactics for developing an effective SaaS go-to-market strategy. That is why organizations need an effective go-to-market strategy. Identify The Target Audience.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s business environment, the ability to discern and act upon a potential customer’s needs and desires can be transformative, enabling businesses to engage with prospects more effectively and convert them into loyal customers. Recent findings indicate that leveraging intent data yields promising results.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Twitter research reveals that 40% of users say they’ve made a direct purchase as a result of a tweet from an influencer. Other research found that 57% of all internet users over age 16 have made a purchase based on an influencer recommendation and 69% of millennials report buying products that influencers recommend. Click To Tweet.

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Seismic

JULY 23, 2019

Buyers have taken control of the sales cycle, and successful salespeople today know they need to act like trusted advisors with prospects to simplify their decision-making process, understand their needs and behavior, and deliver immediate value, otherwise they will lose the deal. Sales is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

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