Vidyard

MARCH 4, 2020

That’s why your business needs demo videos. What is a Demo Video? Benefits of Demo Videos 3. Types of Demo Videos 3.1 3 Main Types of Demo Videos 3.2 Common Demo Video Styles 4. Demo Video Channels 5. Demo Video Strategy 6. Tips for Recording Demo Videos 7. Lyft’s App Update Demo.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

But not entirely unlike when a colleague sends you a link to a gated ebook, you give your contact info to download it, and then get a phone call from a sales rep the same day. You don’t want a demo of their software — you haven’t even had time to read their content yet. Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. We are in a measured buying environment.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“Enterprise sales” and “fast” are two terms that don’t often go together. Here’s the good news: There are ways to move enterprise sales along quicker if you focus on areas you can control. Obstacles to Navigating Enterprise Sales Sometimes, navigating an enterprise deal is like walking through a thicket.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. That’s where your streamlined, four-stage sales funnel comes in.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Q: What do sales leaders, meteorologists, and economists all have in common? It’s a tough ask, and in many ways, sales leaders have the most difficult time of them all when predicting the shape of tomorrow. Accurate sales forecasting is one of the most important skills sales leaders and sales organizations as a whole can have.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every business needs to fill its sales funnel with qualified leads, convert those leads into customers, and retain paying customers for the long term. What makes the difference between a high-performing sales funnel and one that isn’t ready for the needs of a modern B2B sales motion?

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 14, 2020

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the Web each week. How to Make Demo Videos That Drive Pipeline and Revenue. Learn some of the secrets to recording captivating demo videos to speed up buying cycles and save you time.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 15, 2024

Only companies who genuinely grasp their customers’ challenges, goals, and buying journeys can tailor solutions and deliver tangible value. The key to unlocking value lies in alignment between your sales, marketing, and customer success teams—an alignment that comes from a singular, unifying force: customer understanding.

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LeanData

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Your hard-working sales reps hustle to chat with every conference attendee with a pulse. 3) Ask sales reps to research and complete the contact record. (4) 4) Send a mass email to all contacts asking them if they want to schedule a demo. So when the average cost per lead at a trade show is $811 , every prospect counts. .

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When developing a sales strategy, many leaders aren’t sure where to begin. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to revamp an existing sales strategy, creating campaigns based solely on instincts or assumptions is no longer acceptable. To craft an effective modern sales playbook , data and analytics must reign supreme.

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MKT1

AUGUST 7, 2023

The process of buying software is typically a complicated mess with roadblocks around every corner—and I think it might be getting worse. When I run through a bad demo request process (which is nearly every time I go through one), I find myself saying “Just take my money [startup] and stop wasting my time!”

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. But how do you find leads and prime them for buying? When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? Read several blog posts?

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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? Why Use Sales Tools?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. What you’ll learn: What is a sales cycle?

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This massive disruption to traditional buying behaviors also impacts the effectiveness of go-to-market and selling tactics. During the traditional B2B buying journey behaviors of the 2010s, B2B companies would expect an inbound lead to be at the consideration stage. This new path has quickly become the preferred journey.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Scenario When decision-makers at your company evaluate or purchase from a vendor that could be a good fit, they should alert the sales team. Ask your main point of contact at the account for a referral to the best person to pitch on their buying team.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This massive disruption to traditional buying behaviors also impacts the effectiveness of go-to-market and selling tactics. During the traditional B2B buying journey behaviors of the 2010s, B2B companies would expect an inbound lead to be at the consideration stage. This new path has quickly become the preferred journey.

Buy 52

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LeanData

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just before exiting, the visitor fills out a demo request form. Every organization needs a sales playbook, a set of motions and best practices that help move a prospective customer through various stages of the buying journey. Mapping Out Your Sales Pipeline. Creating Sales Plays That Convert. Leads are coming in.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. The buying process is transformed. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. What is inbound sales? Inbound sales is a personalized, helpful, modern sales methodology.

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Metadata

JANUARY 30, 2024

Navattic and ChiliPiper teamed up and requested demos from 100 leading SaaS companies. Or, you know, set up an automated email to say yay or nay to the demo request. The B2B buying experience is in complete shambles. There’s a blue ocean of opportunity to improve the buying experience and set yourself apart from the competition.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 3, 2024

As a sales professional, you don’t have to coerce or pressure. That begins with your sales pitch. What you’ll learn: What is a sales pitch? Why are sales pitches important? What are the core elements of a sales pitch? What are the types of sales pitches? What are the types of sales pitches?

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

All the best sales advice out there, from Entrepreneur to Sales Hacker and HubSpot , tells you to have a plan. In today’s sales ecosystem, teams copy each other extensively. As a sales consultant, help your reps and be bold—think differently—and try sleeping through a demo. Create a process.

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Madison Logic

MARCH 6, 2024

But tight budgets, limited resources, and longer, more complex sales cycles require you to work more efficiently. Account-based marketing (ABM) takes a more strategic approach to audience targeting that uses data to move away from a generalized dream list of ideal clients to instead focus on the accounts ready to buy or engage.

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DemandBase

JULY 16, 2020

Phrases like “hyper-personalization” and “personalization at scale” are tossed around frequently in the sales community, but what does it mean and how do you do it? The Demandbase sales team has achieved considerably higher results from personalized outreach than with generic blasting. Personalization: It’s Not Just Jargon.

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Lead Forensics

MARCH 21, 2024

So how is the sales funnel – and the way it is formed, used, and managed – changing? And what are the most effective sales and marketing teams doing to optimize their chance of achieving success? Then during the final decision-making stage the sales pipeline will kick in. What next for leads?

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team. B2B buyer behavior has shifted dramatically to independent, online research.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The efficiency and effectiveness of your sales team directly reflect on the success of your company. To counteract this problem, sales leaders need to find ways to identify possible sales challenges and their solutions quickly before your next sales meeting. Long sales cycles. Sales demos are failing.

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Vidyard

MARCH 4, 2020

That’s why your business needs demo videos. What is a Demo Video? Benefits of Demo Videos 3. Types of Demo Videos 3.1 3 Main Types of Demo Videos 3.2 Common Demo Video Styles 4. Demo Video Channels 5. Demo Video Strategy 6. Tips for Recording Demo Videos 7. Contents 1.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 2, 2020

At the top of a recent article titled “ Attitudes Toward Information Signal Buying Effectiveness ,” Gartner analyst Hank Barnes billboards this alarming headline. IT-led buying teams want more information. What these technology buying teams have in common is that they are IT-led, or exhibit good cooperation between IT and the business.

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SmartBug Media

JULY 12, 2023

Did you know that every time sales books a meeting with a qualified website visitor, an inbound marketer gets her wings? I’m not talking about the scalding hot demo request from the VP at the account you’ve been targeting for the last month. Hello, marketing and sales automation. Wings for everyone!

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 26, 2023

Companies use B2B data to understand other firms better, make better decisions, develop new business prospects, and support marketing and sales teams. Whether you are just exploring B2B data or thinking about buying it, this article will help. Let’s get started with a quick understanding of B2B data. What is B2B Data?

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Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Adding a recent sales popup or live sales notification to your site is a quick and easy way to convince website visitors to stick around. That’s a pretty sobering statistic , particularly if you’re an eCommerce store owner who relies on sales. But, with a recent sales popup, it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Martech

JULY 26, 2022

When written properly, an RFP will facilitate the sales process and ensure that everyone involved on both sides comes to a shared understanding of the purpose, requirements, scope and structure of the intended purchase. From the RFP responses, you should be able to narrow your list down to three or four solutions that you’ll want to demo.

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Velocity Partners

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

So let’s say, hypothetically of course, that it’s late 2023, your revenue is down and there’s mounting pressure on you to increase sales. For complex B2B businesses, one common move is to try and make it easier for customers to buy by simplifying your offering. Just, y’know, for instance.

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Seismic

JANUARY 17, 2023

As more organizations embrace remote work, inside sales has become more important than ever. Inside sales plays a critical role in sales cycles because buyers are engaging online in higher numbers than ever before. What makes a good sales rep is continuously evolving, but some core principles remain the same.

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Rev

AUGUST 2, 2023

When it comes to sales prospecting, there is no magic formula. That’s why we’ve compiled this ultimate guide to sales prospecting, providing actionable steps and advice so you can start growing your customer base and driving sales. Here’s an overview of everything we’ll cover along the way: What is sales prospecting?

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