Hubspot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In sales, it's no different. A good sales hook can prevent your prospect from hanging up the phone, or deleting your email entirely. And a great sales hook can start your entire conversation off on the right foot. Here, we asked six sales reps their tips for creating a convincing sales hook to turn prospects into customers.

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Launch Marketing

APRIL 8, 2022

Public relations (PR) can be a challenge to some B2B marketers who get caught up in the mainstream of typical media relations and interactions with the public. But in today’s landscape, PR isn’t all about writing press releases and interacting with the media to pick up your latest news or to promote your product, service or solution.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies. In other words, they have pain points they need fixing.

Intent Signal 277

Intent Signal Zoominfo B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 277

Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the crowded B2B space, reaching your target audience is challenging. Product alone is not enough to engage and retain B2B buyers. But surprisingly, B2B businesses often overlook the importance of a great customer experience for their buyers, which is typically a top priority for B2C. Who are B2B customers? Reliability.

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Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We are in that moment of hesitation when it comes to the future of how B2B buyers will engage in buying. The coronavirus pandemic has become the fuel of the forthcoming future of the B2B buyer-seller dynamic. Revenue and sales leaders will need to adapt to an accelerated rate of change in buying behaviors. An unsettling time.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Have you ever lost a big sales opportunity without knowing why it slipped away? Those lost sales opportunities can actually be great learning experiences if you take the time to conduct a win/loss analysis. We’ll also share seven tips to prevent losing sales so that you can increase your overall win rate. Let’s get started.

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InsightSquared

MAY 25, 2021

Industry-first Benchmark Study from InsightSquared and RevOps Squared Reveals Top Avenues for Boosting Forecast Accuracy include Improved Data Quality, Increased Sales Rep Accountability and Automation . Following are key takeaways from the research: Sales Rep involvement and data quality are key to improving accuracy.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies. In other words, they have pain points they need fixing.

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Intent Signal Zoominfo B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 246

Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. 60% of B2B SaaS companies reported their biggest marketing problem is a lack of time and resources. What is B2B SaaS Marketing?

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Rev

AUGUST 30, 2023

A disorganized sales process. These are just a few common pain points for B2B organizations. That’s why sales enablement can be an invaluable tool to help you navigate the choppy waters ahead and build a more efficient sales department. What is the goal of sales enablement? Endless meetings.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 31, 2016

B2B marketers have a love affair with the funnel. We have books about the funnel, blogs named about the funnel, personalities like my good friend the @Funnelholic … the list goes on. You would be hard pressed to sit through any marketing conference and not hear about the funnel. We are obsessed!

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Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, few metaphors are as powerful as the sales funnel. At the top of the funnel (TOFU) are fresh new leads who are just discovering your offerings. In the middle of the funnel (MOFU) are leads who are interested to learn more. Why is social media data important to B2B funnels?

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Trade Press Services

MAY 13, 2024

B2B video marketing is a staple for today’s businesses with more than 90 percent of companies leveraging the medium to reach target audiences. The dynamic and versatile medium helps B2B companies connect with decision-makers effectively. When developing your B2B marketing video strategy , here are some common types to consider: 1.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 25, 2022

In a world where speed matters, bulky data processing tasks that can take weeks or months to complete, slow down the entire process and lead to missed opportunities. That’s where ZoomInfo comes in.

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Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether your goal is to acquire leads, boost sales, or increase conversions, content is vital to moving people through the buyer’s journey. The type and the timing of content delivery matters, especially when marketers leverage it to move a prospect through the sales process.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 3, 2021

It seems like every week I see a new research report naming leads as the top priority of B2B marketing departments. Ask any sales person, “What do you want from marketing?’ I’m talking about everything that comes after the lead-to-sales handoff. Never, ever pass an unqualified lead to sales, no matter how much they press.).

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Hubspot

JANUARY 17, 2018

Best Sales Podcasts. B2B Growth Show. Sales Gravy. Linking Into Sales Podcast. The Sales Evangelist. Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The Sales Babble Podcast. Sales Pipeline Radio. The Sales Podcast.

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

B2B lead nurturing is crucial for driving conversions and revenue scientifically and removing "gut instinct" from the equation. These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. B2B lead nurturing isn't a "nice to have" anymore. Seek out funnel leaks and work to plug them.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Most of the advice I’ve heard about upselling is about making the sale. Maximize upsell opportunities with AI Learn how the AI insights and real-time data of Sales Cloud can help you identify upsell opportunities by surfacing relevant customer signals. Let’s say a customer hires me to do a one-time sales training session.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There’s a seismic shift happening in B2B buying, and it’s being driven by a powerful force — generational change. While the most common point of frustration among all age groups was pricing, younger buyers had greater problems with competence during the buying process and relationships with sales representatives.

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Martech

MARCH 20, 2024

Here are seven critical lessons learned from my 15 years of experience guiding global B2B technology companies through rebranding initiatives, as an internal team member and external consultant. Start this vetting process by seeking recommendations from trusted sources and realize that you’ll need someone to manage the entire scope of work.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 3, 2020

While companies benefit the most by complementing all channels to one another, Telemarketing has been the heart of lead generation for B2B companies. Companies depending on their Industry use different forms of marketing like B2B (Business to Business), B2C (Business to Consumer) & B2G (Business to Government). It isn’t actually!

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Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2020

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t have …. Retaining unconverted leads comes at no cost, but the ongoing obsession with adding more prospects to the funnel can undermine the value of lead nurturing. How To Build A Better B2B Sales Tech Stack. an unusual second quarter. We adjusted goals. You’d be wrong.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2023

While it’s undeniable that generative AI is already changing how businesses engage with the world, sales and marketing leaders are quickly realizing that AI alone isn’t the solution to all their problems. Next steps for ZoomInfo include baking generative AI call analysis into sales-call coaching. Today, it’s sales and marketing.

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Oktopost

MARCH 7, 2022

There is no shortage of imperative marketing tactics that if you don’t do right now, your B2B organization will crash and burn. In this piece, we’ll break down social listening, how it’s different from social monitoring, and the benefits and ways to use social listening for your B2B brand. What is Social Listening?

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Pam Didner

JANUARY 17, 2022

Brennan Parrott was searching YouTube for informative videos demonstrating how to be a sales enablement manager as a content marketer. He had one question: What could he do to be a successful sales enablement manager? He’d started a new job as a sales enablement manager on January 4th, 2022.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. According to Content Marketing Institute, 69% of top-performers in B2B content marketing have a documented content strategy. Most likely, it’s your sales reps. Get together with your sales team to understand your ideal customers’ attributes.

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Varicent

APRIL 20, 2020

The 1-click plugin for Salesforce is free for any sales team to use with up to 20 sales reps APRIL 20, 2020 — KITCHENER, ON — FunnelCake, leader in Revenue Operations software, has announced a free plugin for Salesforce users to measure and report on key sales metrics while sales teams adapt to remote work: The Sales Rep Grader.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2023

But organizations typically seek to accelerate this process as much as possible. To that end, here are nine recommendations for strategies and tactics to get the attention of both search engines and your prospective customers or website visitors. Sites like Inc., Slate, and Thrive Global regularly publish syndicated content.

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Biznology

APRIL 8, 2021

But like many aspects of B2B marketing, message strategy can be developed—and improved—by following a proven process. Lawson Abinanti , the co-founder of Messages That Matter , is a master of message development for B2B companies. I asked him to explain his process to us. And that may be true, sometimes.

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Biznology

JANUARY 19, 2018

My list is about the most interesting people that I came across in B2B marketing during 2017. So meet this year’s fascinating B2B marketers, and let’s not forget the outstanding members of my lists in 2016 and 2015. . Have a look at her case for how to manage PR in the “age of the Kardashians.” The payoff? Highly recommended!

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Affiliate sales support independent publishing Before creating your page’s primary image, make sure to search for your target query on a mobile device to see which images are currently showing up in search and what kind of a signal they may be sending to a user. However, if you use all of the following ways, your odds are pretty high.

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Trade Press Services

MAY 6, 2024

The B2B trade show market was $10.2 Cristina Danila , global marketing manager of Backbase, agrees. Connecting with your prospects and clients in person is a main driver for sales and marketing, and events are still a top choice for this. Attending industry trade shows and events is a valuable strategy for organizational growth.

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FunnelEnvy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the 2000s, video production costs plummeted, bandwidth increased, and B2B videos quickly became a staple for online marketing. Initially popular with mostly young viewers watching videos for entertainment, TikTok’s bite-sized videos offer an increasingly viable option for B2B marketing.

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B2B Marketing Video Marketing Effectiveness Buyer Personas 62

Sana Commerce

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Learning how to improve sales performance is the key to driving organizational focus and success. Great sales seasons are inevitable but turning them into sustainable strategies that can steady your business requires more effort. This blog explores 16 actionable steps that can help you enhance sales performance.

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Thinkers360

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the ever-evolving B2B landscape, cultivating strong relationships with industry analysts and thought leaders (B2B influencers) is crucial for establishing brand awareness, achieving thought leadership status, and ultimately driving sales growth. B2B influencer marketing is not merely about securing a fleeting endorsement.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership 52

Top Rank Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While AI-related buzzwords are now more common than morning coffee, differentiating B2B brands through authentic thought leadership has never been more important. This sentiment is very much in line with what I’ve shared in my own presentations on AI and B2B content marketing. At Content Marketing World in Washington D.C.,

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