Mereo

MARCH 1, 2023

Many B2B organizations already practice some form or another of value selling — because most organizations understand they need to be driving key outcomes for buyers to succeed for the long-haul. And in this approach, they follow these five leading practices to elevate their efforts.

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Tony Zambito

MAY 26, 2021

Marketing And Sales Teams Should First Align With An Important Buyer Mindset Before Jumping In Helping Buyers To Buy. The phrase – “helping buyers to buy” – has been a new mantra for the past three to five years. Sales development and training organizations use this phrase as well. The phrase certainly makes sense.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. How to spot buying signals. Let’s break that down.

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Contently

APRIL 20, 2023

When you find the right metrics to prove the value of your content, you can showcase how important your work is to the organization. With the right tool, you can track metrics like organic traffic, reader engagement, and content conversions to understand how your assets are performing. So, why is organic traffic so important?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 19, 2021

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers. One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences. What has become evident in the past 14-16 months is B2B buying has undergone radical change.

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

That doesn’t mean that salespeople are no longer a valuable part of the buying process. It means that relying on a salesperson to guide a lead through all stages of the lifecycle is no longer effective. Read on to learn how to balance changing buyer preferences with a hybrid sales model that works for your organization.

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PathFactory

MAY 21, 2024

PathFactory is among many other platforms like Uberflip, Paperflite, Folloze, and Hushly that are leading the charge in revolutionizing how B2B marketers use content intelligence to streamline marketing operations and activate content. Let’s dive deeper into five of the leading content intelligence tools for B2B marketers right now.

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that sales as an industry was driven largely by volume — more leads meant more prospects, which sometimes translated into more revenue. In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations of all sizes are turning to sales engagement platforms to manage this workload. Today, sales is driven by insights.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 8, 2023

As a CMO, you know how important it is to maintain good organic traffic to your website. Organic, or unpaid, website traffic often accounts for the highest percentage of website traffic, and a sudden drop can be detrimental to your digital marketing strategy.

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Martech

MARCH 15, 2024

Sharing insights and experiences from people not on your payroll can help enhance your brand’s reputation, credibility and trustworthiness, potentially leading to more conversions. The post LinkedIn now allows brands to sponsor any organic post appeared first on MarTech. LinkedIn is a key B2B marketing channel. How it works.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this short video, our product content lead, Emily Dumas, covers new features and optimizations for ZoomInfo for Sales, Engage, and Recruiter. We’ve introduced a new feature called Buying Committee to our ZoomInfo for Sales platform. Filter searches to show only contacts that match your custom Buying Committee preferences.

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It forces you and your team to get very, very specific about the people within an account who buy and to define and measure your wins. Allowing every salesperson to define their buying group differently, and record it differently in the CRM, no longer works in ABM. Defining your buying group. Start with your limiting factors.

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Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Sometimes, B2B organizations can act and behave in the same way. Since 2016, various surveys have shown that approximately 70% to 75% of CEOs in B2B organizations believe buyer insights are important to their growth opportunities. Many B2B organizations struggle to interpret buyer insights into actionable growth strategies. .

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Choozle

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Beyond mere economic privilege, the “Have Mores” demonstrate a sophisticated appreciation for sustainable and organic options, reflecting a commitment to health-conscious and environmentally friendly choices. Throughout his tenure at Choozle, he has been improving the way that advertisers buy media through the Choozle platform.

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ViewPoint

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Last week a prospect told me that he needed higher quality leads than were currently being provided by two third-party outsourced solution providers. His definition of a lead was the loosest that I have ever heard. An employee of a targeted company needed only to download some content to be qualified as a lead.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Have you been in a situation where you have a great idea to optimize an internal process or strategy but could not get buy-in from your organization? B2B marketers preach it is important to understand your prospect’s buying committee in order to successfully move that account or lead down the sales funnel.

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seo.co

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There’s less space online for ads than organic listings, so an effective SEO strategy gives you more real estate coverage. However, more organic reach doesn’t always mean that it’s quality. Since your rankings rise organically , it seems that your content is high-quality and liked by audiences. Pay-Per-Click Marketing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 16, 2020

Buying an existing eCommerce store is sometimes a better option than starting up. Buying an eCommerce store is not a simple process, as you need to be extremely tactical and switched on to ensure you invest in a worthwhile business. Benefits of buying an eCommerce store. When not to buy. Existing customer base.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Securing C-suite buy-in is essential to getting any new project off the ground. To communicate your vision in a clear and concise way, you need to lead with numbers. Other reasons included driving more qualified leads, establishing thought leadership and creating new networking opportunities. Take IT software company Ivanti.

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ClearVoice

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One of the biggest challenges content marketers face is having to get executive buy-in. This doesn’t mean that you can’t get them to buy into your content marketing strategy — however, it does mean that you should not (and must not) assume they appreciate content marketing the way that you do.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Everyone is aware that B2B buying is complex. In a large enterprise, this can take months, if not years, and involve dozens of individuals in the buying circle. But new research from CEB , now Gartner , suggests that things are even worse these days: it’s buying gridlock. today, and the average buying group now consists of 3.4

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 16, 2021

Is your organization ready for a culture shift? Wherein, not only are group goals met, but everyone feels like they have contributed to the organization’s overall success. Get buy-in from the executives in your organization for the concept of bringing the teams together, to work towards a common goal.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 23, 2023

In digital marketing, a key decision businesses face is whether to build their own email list over time or buy one. In this blog, we’ll delve into the intricacies of building versus buying email lists for marketing and explore how SalesIntel can play a crucial role in this decision-making process.

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Martech

JANUARY 11, 2023

Does every B2B marketing organization need a marketing automation platform? Prospects are managing more of the buying process themselves. Enhanced ability to generate more and better-qualified leads. Marketing automation can combine multiple criteria with a lead scoring system to generate and identify sales-qualified leads.

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Mereo

MARCH 14, 2024

They increase client acquisition costs (CAC) for your organization and frustrate sellers, leaders and prospective buyers stuck in their status quo. If your salespeople are on a losing streak, it is time to reassess your selling engines: Are you sending salespeople after truly qualified leads, or could your qualification process be improved?

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Conductor

MAY 4, 2022

As SEO professionals, it’s challenging to get people to buy into and care about what we do. However, more and more companies are putting their efforts and attention into building out their digital marketing teams, especially within organic marketing or SEO. Why is the organic marketing workflow so important?

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Martech

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In the B2B space, this process has naturally evolved into buying group marketing, which focuses these tactics toward multiple decision-makers within accounts. And in the B2B space, treating business prospects as buying groups can help brands work toward that goal. B2B as a buying group. And, the data backs this up.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are a critical part of the martech ecosystem for many businesses, offering many benefits by streamlining manual B2B marketing tasks, including lead management, email campaign development and landing page creation. Is lead scoring a crucial part of your marketing process? What are our goals?

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The Forward Observer

MARCH 15, 2024

While this sounds like common sense, shockingly few organizations actually conduct business this way. is the founder and CEO of MarketingProfs, the largest B2B marketing training, consulting, and event company dedicated to helping large organizations, teams, and individuals execute marketing campaigns that drive actual results.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Is lead scoring a crucial part of your marketing process? Bring key stakeholders together to establish the organization’s goals.

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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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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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LeanData

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So when the average cost per lead at a trade show is $811 , every prospect counts. . For many organizations, conference follow up looks like this: . (1) So here’s a better approach: map out a digital-first buying journey supported by a connected RevTech stack. And it’s not just the booth space. A lot, it turns out.

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BOP Design

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Organic traffic includes the visitors who arrive on your B2B website after performing a search online using a search engine. Ideally, these organic traffic visits come from searches using terms (also known as keyword phrases) that are relevant to the products or services you sell. The Prospect Is Looking for Your Products/Services.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. How does lead scoring work? Too early, and everyone wastes time.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Before jumping in, gather your team and answer these 10 questions to help you decide if these platforms are right for your organization. Are we optimizing inbound phone calls as a sales or lead-generating channel? How much of our revenue (if any) do we attribute to inbound phone leads? Click here to download!

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