SalesIntel

APRIL 7, 2022

While often used interchangeably, sales and marketing are two separate functions within a business. While you may be concerned with your sales team meeting their quotas, your colleagues in marketing are likely focused on campaign ROI. What is Smarketing? How To Align Your Smarketing Team.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 7, 2022

While often used interchangeably, sales and marketing are two separate functions within a business. While you may be concerned with your sales team meeting their quotas, your colleagues in marketing are likely focused on campaign ROI. What is Smarketing? How To Align Your Smarketing Team.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In a recent interview, I sat down with Matt Heinz of Heinz Marketing and picked his brain about what makes up a CMO’s marketing dream team. In part one, Matt reveals what CMOs can do to earn their company’s trust and three essential roles that round out a solid marketing dream team. See part one here.).

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ANNUITAS

MAY 12, 2015

The vibe was noticeably relaxed at last week’s B2BCamp Atlanta event: local sales and marketing superstars gathered at Tech Village, chatting about current obstacles and recent successes at the office. Nathan Remmes - VP of Marketing and Business Development at NanoLumens. Sangram Vajre - Co-Founder and CMO at Terminus.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Gone are the days when content marketers and SEO experts relied on tactics such as keyword stuffing, spamming links , and posting content on blogs and social media somewhat aimlessly in order to help boost rankings. Additionally, marketing leadership has also lost sight of the importance of a strong SEO approach.

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DemandBase

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For eight weeks this summer, I was lucky enough to work on the Demandbase marketing team as an intern. Want a sneak peak into the life of a Demandbase marketing intern? My first task was to understand how B2B businesses use Account-Based Marketing (ABM) to identify, engage, and close top accounts. Class is back in session.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sales prospecting on LinkedIn is preferred by most salespeople. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Personalized marketing, done right, is extremely powerful for B2B marketers. Personalized email messages are 26% more likely to be opened , personalized content is more likely to lead to a sale, and companies that do this well are more profitable. Yet marketing and sales teams still struggle with personalization.

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I pitched him the question, “What makes a dream marketing team and how should a CMO build one?” Matt was one of SLMA’s 40 Most Inspiring Leaders in Sales Lead Management in 2015 , and his Seattle-based marketing company’s involvement with many CMOs around the country certainly qualifies him for this topic. Matt Heinz.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 10, 2020

SaaS marketing is not for the faint of heart. If you’ve read anything I’ve written about SaaS, I’m probably sounding like a broken record, but SaaS marketing is challenging. In fact, there isn’t another type of marketing that’s similar. or else (*cue dramatic music*). Thus, hyper-growth is a prerequisite for survival.

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

How often does your marketing team sit in on sales calls? Or vice-versa, how much feedback does your sales team pass over to marketing about lead quality? The sad fact is, most of the time marketing and sales don’t talk as much as they should. B2B Buyers Mandate a New Charter for Marketing and Sales.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Once upon a time, when I was working exclusively in sales, I had never really talked to a marketer. After talking to more marketers I realized that – especially at larger enterprises – sales and marketing teams can get a bit disjointed and this disconnect isn’t efficient; the teams can’t operate independently.

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Lake One

MARCH 12, 2020

That’s what marketing automation provides. Marketing automation is technology that allows you to automate, streamline, and measure your marketing tasks and workflows. Once you’ve collected the prospect’s info, the marketing automation software will sync the data directly to the prospect’s profile. Leads and Landing Pages.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Consider tapping your marketing department to fill those knowledge gaps. Consider tapping your marketing department to fill those knowledge gaps. You may have heard the term "smarketing," which describes the ideal alignment of Marketing and Sales through shared goals and direct communication.

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Hubspot

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I often talk here about the need for better alignment between marketing and sales. In fact, it is often cited as the biggest challenge for B2B marketers. It is because of this that I like to reach out to some of my friends in B2B Sales AND Marketing to provide their perspective.

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

With so many conflicting priorities, is it realistic to align your sales and marketing teams in 2017? As a Product Marketing Specialist at Vidyard I know the struggle of sales and marketing alignment first-hand. Why is alignment so tricky? First, let’s talk about why this struggle exists.

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Vidyard

MAY 27, 2014

Over 2,000 attendees, a buzzing solution showcase, and most importantly, a ton of relevant content capturing the essence of modern marketing. Here’s a snapshot of the 5 key takeaways that I walked away with as a marketer in attendance: 1. When Sales and Marketing come together, I like to call it Smarketing.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 15, 2022

In today’s fast-paced sales race, no matter how great your product or service is, your business will find it difficult to survive without high-quality leads. Defining Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) for your company can be achieved through a collaboration between sales and marketing.

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Lake One

MARCH 14, 2019

The idea behind lead scoring is that certain activities speak to a lead’s readiness to be contacted by sales. A user who is highly engaged on the site, downloading multiple offers visiting key pages (like pricing), and signing up for the blog, etc. Learn how to align your sales and marketing teams.

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Lake One

JULY 9, 2019

When it comes to your digital marketing program (or at times, lack thereof) conducting a digital audit can be both eye-opening and exciting. The digital marketing audit is your ticket to finding out the state of the state and where the opportunity is for you to make a quick splash on your modern marketing and sales program. .

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Terminus

OCTOBER 25, 2017

You might not expect marketing and football to have much in common, but they’re a lot more similar than you would think! —To In order to do this, your sales and marketing teams must be more closely aligned than ever before. In the past, sales reps and marketers have had different goals.

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TaylorMadeIn KEW

JANUARY 9, 2015

Besides the 1,068 emails I’ve been ploughing through, I’ve been catching up on the inevitable plethora of ‘top trends’ and ‘predictions’ for B2B marketing in 2015. But, like Tim, I believe that B2B marketers will be taking a fresh look at many of these tactics. Sales and marketing alignment.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

In celebration of the Year of the Monkey, we created the Marketing Fortune Generator. This free tool does what you'd expect: it generates your marketing fortune for the new year. To give you a preview of what you can expect, check out some of our favorite "marketing fortunes" from the generator below. Want to give it a spin?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 6, 2015

My interest in smarketing best practices started when our Latin American sales team grew a ton in just a few weeks. Suddenly, communication between Sales and Marketing was much harder to get right. Turns out, each marketer I spoke with had great advice and processes to better work with Sales.

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Hubspot

MAY 9, 2014

No, I’m not referring to “Brangelina” or “Kimye,” I’m talking about “Smarketing.” ” If this is the first time you’re hearing of Smarketing, let me break it down to just four words: marketing and sales alignment. Getting to Know One Another.

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Lake One

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Our readers just couldn’t get enough of these blog posts this year: Sales and Marketing Alignment Guide. With our guide to sales and marketing alignment, learn how to get your teams to work better together. Sales and Marketing Alignment Statistics. History of Inbound Marketing.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2014

This post originally appeared on the Sales section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. Smart sales and marketing leaders know how important it is to collaborate with cross-functional teams. In a perfect world, the two teams would be working in tandem and complete harmony with one another.

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Terminus

JANUARY 4, 2016

2016 will be the year of account-based marketing (ABM). We launched our account-based marketing (ABM) platform in March and ended the year with $1 million in annual recurring revenue. Simply put, we want to help B2B marketers win at ABM and we are willing to battle test our own theories to ensure that we do just that.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Where do you think marketers landed on that lovability scale? If you weren't there, the results revealed that people find marketers less lovable than stockbrokers and lawyers. Well, while there's obviously the component of marketers creating salesey, pushy, generally cringe-inducing marketing, there's something else at play.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2012

By now, most marketers understand the importance of mending the traditional rift between sales and marketing. In fact, organizations with good alignment between sales and marketing teams achieved 20% annual revenue growth in 2010 , according to a study by the Aberdeen Group. what does yours look like?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 9, 2014

Sales no longer controls the flow of information in the buying process -- the customer does. One of the most significant consequences of this change is that marketing teams now play an equal role to Sales in new customer acquisition and have a huge and increasing influence on the sales pipeline and the sales outcome.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 20, 2012

Marketers spend plenty of time fretting over what sometimes seems like a lofty lead generation goal. But luckily (for the leads and the sales organization), marketers are also still thinking about what happens to those leads once they enter the CRM. So how do you ensure you're rocking your middle of the funnel marketing?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 23, 2014

Once you''ve established your reputation as a marketer who delivers quality leads to Sales, you''ll be every salesperson''s best friend. But not every new lead is destined to make a beeline to the bottom of your marketing funnel and request follow-up with a helpful, appreciative salesperson. Timing Is Everything.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Sales and marketing departments share a lot in common, including the pivotal role they play in customer engagement and revenue generation. The chasm that separates sales and marketing is dark. The absence of a proactive relationship between the two divisions can make your business struggle to meet sales targets.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2013

Are you ready to build your dream team of inbound marketers? Hiring inbound marketers is a fairly new priority for businesses as they stray from traditional marketing to more inbound-driven, web-based tactics. Just recognizing that you need to invest in inbound marketing is step one. Definitely! 1) Social Media Manager.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Of course, these goals could pertain to your personal life, but what about some career and marketing-related goals , too? Of course, these goals could pertain to your personal life, but what about some career and marketing-related goals , too? What marketing resolutions do you want to make? 1) I will blog at least twice a week.

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