InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Put yourself into the shoes of a software sales rep. If only you had known that your prospect had already signed up for a free trial and was farther along the buying journey. Having that context could have meant you spent your time closing a prospect who was close to buying, rather than wasting their time.

CRM 153

CRM Marketing Analytics Tools API Lead Scoring 153

ViewPoint

AUGUST 28, 2013

Mobile and social technologies have radically changed the way people buy. Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Salesforce.com Marketing Management 120

ViewPoint

MAY 13, 2016

How to define a lead and gain agreement is the first of 7 Truths about Sales and Marketing that CEOs need to know. This post is part of a series about the CEO’s role in eliminating wasted marketing spend and increasing sales results. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog for Salesforce.com about lead definition.

Allocation 174

Allocation PointClear SIC Ideal Customer Profiles 174

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s post is about Sales Intelligence platforms/tools. Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Sales intelligence can be used by both marketing and sales teams and can be especially helpful when combined with other data sources.

B2B Sales 70

B2B Sales Enterprise Management Zoominfo Work Management 70

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. Director – the upper-level manager whose primary interest is achieving goals set by the executive and proving the value of their department.

Account Based Marketing 218

Account Based Marketing Segmentation Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 218

InsightSquared

MARCH 15, 2019

The excitement generated throughout the sales cycle is quickly stymied once you realize that simply flipping the switch isn’t going to generate the massive ROI you anticipated because…. Define Your Processes. In this case, step one for implementing a new CRM is to ensure your company has defined its own processes.

CRM 239

CRM Work Management Sales Cycle Cross-Selling 239

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 6, 2023

As sales fanatics, we often ask ourselves: What makes top sellers the best at what they do? We wanted to know what sales book made the lightbulb go off above their head, along with their favorite passages and the takeaways that changed how they sell. Some of these titles aren’t even sales books. Let’s take a look. Get started 1.

Enterprise Management 86

Enterprise Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Salesforce.com 86

Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But to succeed in B2B Sales and Marketing, we must keep up with the trends despite the unpredictability. We engaged the top minds in B2B Sales and Marketing for their prescient understanding of two powerful questions: What are your predictions for ABM in 2021? Don’t think of ABM as a marketing tactic. Randy Frisch. Justin Gray.

Account Based Marketing 139

Account Based Marketing ABM Sales Management Enterprise Management 139

Vidyard

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as contributed content on Salesforce.com. While most marketers are aware of the incredible effect video can have as part of the marketing mix, I still see a lot of B2B brands create top-of-the-funnel explainer videos and call it a day.

Top of Funnel 56

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Video Marketing FAQ 56

Seismic

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Interviews with sales enablement industry leaders, sharing best practices, strategies, and words of wisdom. In case you missed it, here are part 1, part 2, and part 3 of the Sales Enablement Chronicles interview series. He is also one of the founding members of the Sales Enablement Society. and Selleration Inc.

Marketing Analytics Tools 97

Marketing Analytics Tools Salesforce.com Cross-Selling Thought Leadership 97

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2016

It still feels odd to think of a software company owning a data business, although Salesforce.com bought Jigsaw (now Data.com) in 2010 and Oracle purchased the BlueKai and Datalogix in 2014. If nothing else, this confirms the foundational role of data and data management in marketing and sales technologies.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors Linkedin 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 25, 2014

The more interesting question is who, if anyone, will buy the business from Bizo. The Oracle announcement provided unintentional symmetry with Bizo: as LinkedIn was leaving the customer data sales business, Oracle was expanding its offerings. intent, sentiment, themes, topics, entities, etc.);

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Linkedin Buy Privacy Policies 120

ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

All of the usual suspects were in the room – head of marketing, head of sales, marketing automation power users, demand generation leads, content marketer … but also present were the head of their CRM install and the lead project manager of their website and web analytics team — both IT roles in this particular company.

Process 100

Process Planning Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. These functions, plus supporting features for database management, content management, sales system synchronization, and reporting, form a basic template for measuring demand generation software.

Active Conversion 120

Active Conversion Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Lead Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. A B2C platform can support those other functions.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Webbiquity

MARCH 12, 2019

But where do you turn for help with a big-ticket buying decision that is anything but “everyday”? You’re going to need guidance from a competent, trustworthy sales professional. Or what if you’re in sales, living daily the truth of how it’s getting harder to reach and connect with buyers?

Burn Rate 196

Burn Rate eCommerce Salesforce.com Click Rate 196

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The bottom line, according to the study, is that “43% of the marketers surveyed saw ABM as a sales enablement approach, noting that it’s most effective for converting leads to deals. Specifically, “… ABM lacks specificity and is applied inconsistently to many different approaches.”. Look at the case studies in this same issue.

Account Based Marketing 168

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 168

Digital B2B Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2012

Buying email marketing lists. The challenge with buying email marketing lists is you don’t know if you are getting something worthwhile until it is too late and few marketers understand the email list market. It makes many think of the spam emails selling a database of millions of top executives.

Buy 100

Buy Email Marketing B2B Marketing Jigsaw 100

markempa

MAY 30, 2017

From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. I write for lots of different publications, and now I head up the forward-looking marketing ideas and theories as Principal of Marketing Insight at Salesforce.com. This doesn’t really give a lot of tactics as to what you do with email.

Linkedin 297

Linkedin Research Studies B2B 297

ViewPoint

JULY 11, 2011

While Lauren provides 10-year financial data, I excerpted this column of the most recent fiscal year as it was fascinating to see all three companies reporting an identical 48% of revenue committed to sales and marketing expenses. Sales and marketing activity. Selling subscriptions via a direct sales force.

Enterprise Management 120

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Valasys

MAY 22, 2019

B2B companies thrive on the idea of tapping into several niches so as to discover their potential customers, evaluating their potential as leads for their product or services & finally guiding them through their sales funnel to convert to sales.

B2B Sales 53

B2B Sales Top of Funnel CRM Work Management 53

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

Take 30 seconds and really think about the message this is conveying: Here are some items to consider: The only parking spaces reserved were for outside sales and customers There were enough parking spaces available for everyone (reserved spaces were not essential) What do other employees (including inside sales) think when they see this?

Sales Management 100

Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 3, 2013

Reachforce’s core business is assembling data on marketing prospects, which it then sells for as many uses as possible: appending to Web leads, enhancing existing databases, and buying as lists.

Reachforce 120

Reachforce Buy Marketing Management B2B Marketing 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

The list of independent marketing automation systems shrank by one yesterday when Leadformix was purchased by sales enablement vendor CallidusCloud for $9 million. While its feature list covers all the usual marketing automation categories, the company's real focus was always on providing the most useful information to sales people.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Engagio

MAY 12, 2020

Improvements to Engagio Scout for Sales enables revenue teams to better understand account engagement and take action accordingly. May 12, 2020) – Engagio , the leading B2B account-based engagement platform, today announces a significant upgrade to its engagement intelligence solution, Engagio Scout for Sales. SAN MATEO, Calif.

Marketing Analytics Tools 62

Marketing Analytics Tools Account Based Marketing Salesforce.com ABM 62

Digital B2B Marketing

APRIL 2, 2013

The buying process may take 12 to 18 months. It is called a complex sale for a reason, but B2B marketers keep trying to fit it into a simplistic measurement framework: where did we get that lead? In most B2B organizations, Salesforce.com or a similar solution is the system of record. Sweeping up late stage contacts.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer B2B Work Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 25, 2009

recently on the idea that the boundaries between marketing and sales are breaking down because leads now interact with both departments throughout the purchase cycle. This is clearly inevitable: if nothing else, leads still visit your Web site (controlled by marketing) even after they are “turned over” to sales.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Salesforce.com 120

The Mx Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Sales Empowerment. Demand Gen and Lead Management. Sales and Marketing Alignment. If you’d benefit from aligning your sales and marketing against a list of specific companies rather than a profile of companies, then it could be an effective tactic for you. However, Sales must be aligned on the methodology.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Marketing Automation Services Demand Generation Agencies 95

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The bottom line, according to the study, is that “43% of the marketers surveyed saw ABM as a sales enablement approach, noting that it’s most effective for converting leads to deals. Specifically, “… ABM lacks specificity and is applied inconsistently to many different approaches.”. Look at the case studies in this same issue.

Account Based Marketing 100

Account Based Marketing Marketing Management Planning ABM 100

markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. By using RSS, Woods has eliminated the time consuming task of lead notification, distribution and keeping his management team up-to-date.

RSS 120

RSS Salesforce.com Lead Generation Sales Leads 120

LeadSloth

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Often, this is based on product, company size, industry or sales channel (direct, partner, affiliate). Several people had worked with the sales team to better understand the buying process, and one company even started a user experience group to better understand the customers. Email Sent on Behalf of Sales Reps.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Automation Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The company made the announcement at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Although the improved UI is the big change, the new version also adds integration with SalesForce.com for AdWords campaigns and improved lead generation capabilities.

Manticore 100

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Marketing Automation 100

Biznology

APRIL 2, 2015

New tools, new technologies, and most importantly, new buying behavior among businesses—these changes are accelerating the pace and driving new directions for B2B data-driven marketing. So the outlook for talent to manage the new technologies in marketing is bright. Sales and marketing symbiosis. Real-time marketing gets real.

B2B Marketing 80

B2B Marketing B to B Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 80

DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

When confronted with the details – database management, segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. Director – the upper-level manager whose primary interest is achieving goals set by the executive and proving the value of their department.

Account Based Marketing 136

Account Based Marketing Segmentation Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 136

ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2013

Leveraging social media is a familiar tactic for individuals. That’s quickly changing, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Koka Sexton, LinkedIn’s senior manager of social marketing. Sales Managers Didn’t Want Their People on Social Media All Day. People Still Buy from People, Regardless of Technology.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Cross-Selling Salesforce.com 120

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This weeks’ Dreamforce event, with some 135,000 attendees, brought home the enormous investment organizations make in their CRM solutions and sales reps. But also begs the question – is the large investment in CRM and sales enablement delivering an adequate payback? You are not alone if you are getting mixed results.

Forrester 40

Forrester Budget Programs Peer-to-peer Salesforce.com 40

NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 27, 2013

Keyword target examples: gifts, buy flowers, Valentine, presents, date tonight, going to funeral. Keyword target examples: going skiing, ski equipment, online skis, buy skis, ski resorts, ski gear. Keyword target examples: manage contacts, new CRM, Salesforce.com, lead management, sales tools, sales management.

Keywords 100

Keywords Promotion Campaigns Adwords 100