SmartBug Media

JULY 28, 2023

In today's competitive business environment, it's crucial to find effective tactics that speed up lead-to-opportunity conversion in the deal pipeline. If you're looking to maximize your sales potential and close deals faster, this blog post is for you. Get ready to take your sales game to the next level!

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Marketing to professionals, such as doctors or lawyers, will often involve tactics borrowed from both sides. Companies that are looking for products or services with which to assist their own operations will typically have or assign a “product champion” to conduct research on solutions and manage the sales relationship.

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seo.co

MARCH 28, 2021

Typically, you have to let them gently slide down the funnel. And though a bottom-of-the-funnel (BOFL) lead is the most fun kind of lead, every BOFL starts as a TOFL, or top-of-the-funnel lead. By learning how to generate and manage these leads, you can accelerate your results. Quick Funnel Primer.

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Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

To thrive, these companies must consistently attract qualified leads to fuel their sales pipelines. However, this sales-driven environment presents unique challenges for industrial and manufacturing marketers. For more on these challenges, see my earlier blog post, “Industrial Lead Generation for Sales – It’s Complicated!”

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2016

I don’t mean to get personal here, but do you have a leaky sales funnel? Are you losing some customers somewhere along their journey from initial contact to final sale? Or is your sales funnel fully clogged, in need of middle-of-the-night emergency attention that’s costing you a fortune? Feature Study.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

In the modern marketer’s race to capture buyer attention and create meaningful experiences, differentiation is more important than ever. . Digital tactics are effective, but too much can create noise, drowning out your brand message and leaving consumers with the negative side effects of digital overload. Demand Generation.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Looks like you’re ready to make a sales call. The most successful sales calls include tailored presentations and focus on building trust with prospects by addressing their unique pain points. As celebrated entrepreneur Siva Devaki noted, “Sales is not about selling, but about building trust and educating.”

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2022

In today’s crowded B2B ecosystem, where personalization and relevance are seen as crucial competitive differentiators, the idea of cold calling might seem archaic. Pop into any social media feed or read industry publications, and you’ll invariably hear about unsolicited phone outreach as a spray-and-pray tactic from yesteryear.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 18, 2021

Form a comprehensive plan, pledging to follow the tactics you outline and use benchmarks to adjust for success. Your posts are only as effective as they are relevant to your audience, so prioritize each social post’s value over securing a sale. Hosting webinars is a great way to solidify your thought leader position. Sources: S.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog equips you with 50 common sales objections, categorized for easy reference, along with effective responses to turn those objections into stepping stones towards closing the deal. Use case studies to show how similar companies saved money by implementing your solution. The key lies in having a response strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report shows that 44% of sales and marketing teams are seeing a significant drop in responsiveness to social and email messaging. So, why are sales and marketing teams challenged to build strong social relationships so they can overcome sales plateaus, sales drops, and sales troughs?

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

So whether you’re here because you’re a content person looking to enhance your business case for more content dollars or because a content person wants you to understand their perspective on why content is (still) queen, you’ve come to the right place. At ClearVoice, we understand that not all people are content people.

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Content Standard

MARCH 28, 2019

Recently, a project sent me looking for mid-funnel content examples for a financial services content marketing strategy I was working on. The client—an investment brand—had a well-established content plan with plenty of individual articles, pithy blogs, and top-of-the-funnel awareness content. Enter the mid-funnel asset.

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DealSignal

DECEMBER 28, 2021

These disciplines can include brand storytelling, differentiated messaging and positioning, account-based marketing, content marketing, digital marketing, lead-to-revenue processes, and the tracking of key metrics for ongoing optimization. Demand Generation Strategy and Tactics. Demand gen tactics. Demand gen strategies.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Predict what factors influence them to buy before they even speak to one of your sales reps? So, you need a way to uncover the underlying motivations, preferences and behaviors that drive your customers’ decision-making processes. Want to understand your customers better than—and before—anyone else? Think about it.

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Thinkers360

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the ever-evolving B2B landscape, cultivating strong relationships with industry analysts and thought leaders (B2B influencers) is crucial for establishing brand awareness, achieving thought leadership status, and ultimately driving sales growth. This comprehensive blog post, informed by insights from Thinkers360.com,

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Tiecas

MAY 17, 2024

Tip: Involve your sales team early in the planning process. Plant Managers: Focused on efficiency, productivity gains, and cost savings. Operations Managers: Interested in streamlining processes, reducing downtime, and improving safety. Does it resonate with your target audience’s pain points and challenges?

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Seismic

MAY 16, 2019

The true mark of a working sales enablement strategy is a sales force that constantly maintains meaningful conversations with prospects and customers. What collateral you should create depends on the particular needs of your reps. Sales enablement is vital to all effectiveness and acceleration efforts on the floor.

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Rev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

You’ll also learn how MQLs compare to sales qualified leads, (SQLs) and how they work together in the sales funnel. In other words, MQLs are leads that have met specific criteria that indicate that the leads are more likely to move further down the sales funnel. But, this is not the case with SQLs.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog equips you with 50 common sales objections, categorized for easy reference, along with effective responses to turn those objections into stepping stones towards closing the deal. Use case studies to show how similar companies saved money by implementing your solution. The key lies in having a response strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Avoid direct sales messages in this type of content. The enterprise cloud services market is extremely crowded, so it’s important for providers to differentiate themselves from the competition. Business (discussion and guides on management, digital transformation, and leadership). Nutanix The Forecast.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

When it comes to winning new business, marketing and sales alignment might be the most amazing strategic alignment a company can embrace. Before joining Marketo as a sales development representative , I was working in the marketing department of a small FinTech start-up. Build Your Arsenal of Collateral. We’re All in This Together.

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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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markempa

JUNE 17, 2012

Tweet CSO Insights , which interviews thousands of chief sales officers to benchmark B2B sales best practices, has tracked an alarming trend. Jim Dickie, CSO Insight’s managing partner, says this should make any sales leader cringe. No deal = broken sales cycle. And your sales cycle must take that into account.”.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Think of things like downloading white papers, requesting demos, or attending webinars related to your offerings. Streamlined Sales Process: Equip your sales team with valuable insights into prospects that allow them to tailor their outreach, shorten sales cycles, and close deals faster.

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Hinge Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2023

When McConaughey and team return to their spacecraft, he is greeted by the one team member who stayed behind to study the planet from above. The Case for Inbound Content Marketing. Closing the sale. And it is here where we find one of the primary use cases of inbound content marketing. See also: Crux Solutions Case Story.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Marketers know that they have to tolerate this dilemma because content development is proven to generate awareness, thought leadership , leads, engagement, and sales opportunities. that content development is the top priority of most marketers—edging out brand differentiation. In fact, our own research shows in Figure 1.

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accelerate agency

APRIL 12, 2023

In one sense, SaaS marketing is similar to other kinds of traditional marketing—it’s about targeting potential customers across one or more channels with a view to growing your sales. If you’re offering a CRM solution, for example, it would make sense to approach the directors of sales departments at B2C companies.

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Hinge Marketing

MAY 23, 2019

For many, the ultimate goal is to help increase/improve opportunity engagement throughout their funnels or pipelines. Traditional and digital marketing and sales tactics aren’t working as well as they once did. Why wouldn’t you prioritize account-based marketing tactics over other less effective, traditional and digital means?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

It’s a constant battle to differentiate yourself, capture interest, and maintain it. Advanced personalization requires content intelligence because it allows B2B marketers to go beyond simple segmentation and personalization tactics. So, how do you win in this crowded arena? The answer lies in personalization.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2019

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.” Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Spend 10% of Revenue on Marketing.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is the case for most industries and companies. In fact, a longitudinal study in 2020 revealed that B2B professionals are struggling to differentiate their brand even more than they did in 2015. Nowadays, relationships are no longer just about sales. Brand awareness. Brand meaning. Continually innovate your offering.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This, in turn, translates into building a case for further investment in social to keep these vital brand conversations going and turn more customers into advocates. It provides a treasure trove of info for marketing, customer support, sales, research and development, product packaging, human resources and public relations.

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Metadata

AUGUST 30, 2021

You captured all the data to position your product effectively You educated the hell out of your audience to prep them for your launch You introduced totally new technology to the market And you made sure every rep and buyer had every tool they needed to know how to use it. This kind of marketing should include: Webinars. I’m serious.

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Metadata

AUGUST 30, 2021

You captured all the data to position your product effectively You educated the hell out of your audience to prep them for your launch You introduced totally new technology to the market And you made sure every rep and buyer had every tool they needed to know how to use it. This kind of marketing should include: Webinars. I’m serious.

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