Scoop.it

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Therefore, it makes sense to sharpen the focus on your lead management and optimize it at every stage. In fact, research shows that automating your lead management process can increase sales revenue by 10% in just six months. That way, you can implement the right system for your sales team and consumer market.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Lead Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 52

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Closing more sales. Ultimately, your marketing automation platform can guide leads through the marketing funnel, setting them up to eventually make a buying decision.

Marketing Automation Services 246

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 246

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2018

Hear us out while we discuss the significance of candidate contact information, data hygiene , and why both of these things are vital in the face of the current recruiting environment. Although contact data is most commonly discussed in sales and marketing circles, data hygiene has a huge impact on recruiting and hiring.

Work Management 157

Work Management Marketing Management Data Hygiene Zoominfo 157

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2018

As a busy recruiter, you don’t have much time in your day to spend reading articles and recruiting blogs. Here are our ten recruiting blogs to bookmark today. And in the process, have some fun and grow our businesses. Recommended reading: The Beginner’s Guide to Data-Driven Recruiting. We get that. We’ve got you covered.

Resource Management 170

Resource Management Zoominfo Enterprise Management Data Hygiene 170

Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2018

Welcome to our June B2B Blog Post Round-Up—a series where we highlight the great work our writers contribute to some of our favorite publications. If you worked in sales or marketing in the past year—you’ve already heard the news: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is an incredibly effective way to target qualified prospects and close more deals.

Account Based Marketing 154

Account Based Marketing Data Hygiene B2B ABM 154

Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2018

The importance of data cannot be understated in the modern sales landscape. Now, data and analytics reign supreme when it comes to running a successful sales organization. But here’s the thing– the world of data and analytics has made massive strides in recent years and many organizations have yet to catch up.

Marketing & Strategy 170

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 170

Zoominfo

JANUARY 28, 2019

Discussions will dive into topics related to sales, marketing, recruiting, business growth, and of course, data. B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sales and marketing alignment is critical to the success of the modern B2B business. Yet, it can be difficult to bridge the divide between sales and marketing departments.

Zoominfo 157

Zoominfo Twitter Account Based Marketing Cold Calling 157

DealSignal

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Table of Contents [Open] [Close] What Is Sales Prospecting? Sales prospecting tools are important in identifying potential buyers (prospects) and then building a business relationship with them. It’s the first step in the overall sales process—and a very important one. But, note the key word here: likely customers.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Generation Account Based Marketing 52

InsightSquared

AUGUST 28, 2019

Startups are built from the ground up and one of the major stepping stones is promoting an environment of accountability among your sales reps to properly input data and to follow sales best practices. How can you properly coach your reps? How can sales operations report effectively? Process Development.

Forecasting 218

Forecasting CRM Process Startups 218

SalesIntel

AUGUST 11, 2021

How to Find The Best B2B Data Partner for Your Business. What Type of Data is Right for Your Company? A solid B2B communication database is at the heart of any efficient marketing and sales plan. Choosing the appropriate B2B data will have a direct impact on the efficacy of your marketing and sales approach.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel B2B Sales Data Hygiene B2B Marketing 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2024

Personalized interactions become a breeze, marketing messages strike a chord with your target persona, and your sales are trending in the right direction. The CRM Hygiene Series This blog is part of a comprehensive series of guides that dive deeper into each of the five steps in the CRM data hygiene process.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking CRM Lead Scoring Work Management 130

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2018

Welcome—or, welcome back—to our monthly blog post round-up. Our round-up blog posts are a series in which we highlight the best work our writers have contributed to outside publications. We cover topics related to sales, marketing, recruiting, and business—just as we do on our own B2B blog. Let’s get into it.

Data Hygiene 113

Data Hygiene B2B Zoominfo Storytelling 113

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. The candidate—let’s call him Steve—had a strong resume, but he really won the team over during the interview process. In fact, 75% of hiring and talent managers say they use recruiting software to improve their hiring process. Continue reading.

Buyer Personas 150

Buyer Personas Zoominfo B2B Work Management 150

SmartBug Media

JUNE 6, 2024

HubSpot offers a robust CRM equipped with AI tools for marketing and AI-powered capabilities that can revolutionize your processes, both internally and externally. Enriched by HubSpot's extensive data, these AI tools are dedicated to streamlining marketing, sales, and service operations with personalized solutions. The outcome?

Marketing AI 59

Marketing AI Enterprise Management Tools Data Hygiene 59

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Closing more sales. Ultimately, your marketing automation platform can guide leads through the marketing funnel, setting them up to eventually make a buying decision.

Marketing Automation Services 113

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 113

DealSignal

JULY 27, 2023

Table of Contents [Open] [Close] What Is Sales Prospecting? Sales prospecting tools are important in identifying potential buyers (prospects) and then building a business relationship with them. It’s the first step in the overall sales process—and a very important one. But, note the key word here: likely customers.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Generation Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Leads 52

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Technological advancements have the ability to transform any industry or job function overnight—including B2B sales. Today’s blog post breaks down some of the most impactful technological developments B2B selling has seen in the last few years. in sales revenue ( source ). in sales revenue ( source ).

Work Management 225

Work Management B2B Marketing Management B2B Sales 225

Martech

JULY 19, 2023

Applying generative AI to minimize typos when creating sales emails on mobile devices (iOS only). Generating personalized sales emails from within HubSpot Sales Chrome Extension for Gmail. Creating SEO-optimized page titles, post titles, and meta descriptions for blogs, website pages, and landing pages.

Data Hygiene 90

Data Hygiene Privacy Landing Pages CAN-SPAM 90

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

With the rise of sales enablement technology and the variety of available communication methods, one might expect phone calls to become a thing of the past. Yet, cold calling is still a key component of B2B sales. Less than 1% of cold calls lead to a sale ( source ). The Problem with your Data. of sales reps’ time.

Cold Calling 198

Cold Calling Statistics B2B Data Hygiene 198

InsightSquared

AUGUST 28, 2019

Startups are built from the ground up and one of the major stepping stones is promoting an environment of accountability among your sales reps to properly input data and to follow sales best practices. How can you properly coach your reps? How can sales operations report effectively? Process Development.

Forecasting 136

Forecasting CRM Process Startups 136

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Think about it: if your department doesn’t prioritize data hygiene, it’s likely that list churn is wreaking havoc on your email campaigns. If a prospect has just been promoted to a senior manager or director position, it might rub them the wrong way if you continue to send them emails addressed to ‘marketing specialist’.

Work Management 223

Work Management Marketing Management Data Hygiene B2B Marketing 223

DealSignal

APRIL 11, 2022

1-What Is Sales Prospecting?2-Why 2-Why Sales Prospecting Is Key in 20223-Challenges of Sales Prospecting4-Top Sales Prospecting Techniques5-The Best Sales Tools for Prospecting6-How to Scale Sales Outreach Without Draining Resources. What Is Sales Prospecting? Sales prospecting is back-breaking work.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Tools Data Hygiene Generation 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

Your go-to-market actions are only as good as the data they run on. You can hire the best sales and marketing talent and outfit them with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools , but without high-quality data, their efforts will fall short of your targets. What does bad data actually cost businesses?

Cost 130

Cost High Quality Lead CAN-SPAM Buyer Personas 130

SalesIntel

JUNE 7, 2021

Data hygiene has become increasingly important to marketers, and the increasing volume of data has only made processing harder. To overcome this challenge, the need for quality data has led to automated data enrichment tools. Enriched lead data is required for accurate lead routing and assignment to sales.

Process 52

Process Automation Data Hygiene Paid Search Agency 52

DealSignal

MARCH 8, 2021

CRM data quality is a critical variable in ensuring a strong ROI for your investment in a CRM system. Such accuracy should not be acceptable to your sales and marketing teams. How poor contact data quality impacts Sales and Marketing. Bad data shows up in a series of tangible and expensive process failures.

Contact Marketing 52

Contact Marketing Contacts CRM Enterprise Management 52

DealSignal

AUGUST 30, 2021

. #1 Create alignment across key departments Any effective account based marketing strategy starts with creating a framework that consists of sales and marketing alignment. But to truly rise to excellence, you’ll want to connect the dots across your organization — so, more than just sales and marketing.

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing Tactics Work Management Marketing Strategy 52

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 12, 2019

While it’s impossible to avoid spam traps entirely, good data hygiene will help you limit exposure. In most cases, this happens as a result of the sender’s lack of data hygiene , and the consequences can be severe. Great idea…unless you want to generate new leads and increase sales.

Data Hygiene 195

Data Hygiene CAN-SPAM Marketing Automation Services Zoominfo 195

DealSignal

MARCH 11, 2019

The consultants ran through a series of standard CRM processes including lead management, dashboards, record customization by the site admin, and Outlook integration. Yet, at no point did I hear a discussion of data quality, data hygiene, contact verification, field standardization, or company and contact enrichment.

Enterprise Management 78

Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Data Hygiene De-duplication 78

Zoominfo

JULY 9, 2020

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well.

Data Hygiene 244

Data Hygiene Opinions Zoominfo Practices 244

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Before you know it, you’ve gotten lost—and wasted time and money in the process. In fact, research shows over 73% of businesses are investing more than 20% of their overall technology budgets on intelligence and data analysis ( source ). External data is readily-available information a business can gather through research.

Planning 140

Planning Zoominfo Data Hygiene Multi-Channel 140

eTrigue

JANUARY 16, 2024

.* It’s the quality, not the quantity, of your data that will help glean the best results. With B2B data decay rates at an all time high it’s important to keep on top of your data hygiene. Clean data helps you understand your market. Build an effective ABM strategy.

Account Based Marketing 78

Account Based Marketing ABM Data Hygiene Gartner 78

DealSignal

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s easy to shrug off this scenario as “the way it’s always been,” but misalignment between sales and marketing teams can create detrimental results and cost B2B companies 10% or more of their revenue per year. So how do you shift from working in disconnected silos to working as a collaborative, revenue-generating sales and marketing team?

Practices 52

Practices Marketing Budget Ideal Customer Profiles Planning 52

Rev

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Marketing, sales, finance and customer success operated in silos; each using their own databases with their own set of metrics, chasing their own goals and then wondering why their numbers didn’t align at the end of the quarter. Set revenue targets based on data and analysis, not just gut feelings or guesses. Do you remember?

Ideal Customer Profiles 78

Ideal Customer Profiles Practices Lead Ranking De-duplication 78

Zoominfo

JULY 29, 2019

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes— leaving their contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well.

Data Hygiene 216

Data Hygiene Zoominfo Practices Marketing AI 216

SalesIntel

APRIL 28, 2022

However, this is frequently a multistep process with several points of contact with a prospect. This implies that you shouldn’t anticipate every marketing spend to result in a sale. Are you only seeking more sales, or are you also looking for fresh qualified leads? Help You Make Data-Driven Market Expansion Plans.

Marketing Budget 52

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Content 52

Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2024

The most important growth drivers for any business simply can’t succeed without a core infrastructure of high-quality, trustworthy data. For most companies, the first step in building that advanced data foundation is to cleanse the trove of business data already on hand in their customer relationship management (CRM) system.

CRM 130

CRM Enterprise Management Work Management Process 130

Content4Demand

MAY 21, 2020

This years’ Campaign Optimization Series , hosted by Demand Gen Report , put a spotlight on the strategies and tools marketers have seen success within this new environment, with targeted webcasts led by industry thought leaders addressing topics such as ABM for sales success, virtual event best practices, data strategies and more.

Marketing Budget 98

Marketing Budget Sales Management Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel 98