ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Someone once told me that CEOs don’t care about leads. Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales?

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 97

ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is the fourth (and last) in a series of four blogs about sales leads, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Why it is important to nurture qualified companies that do not represent immediate opportunity—a step missed by many if not most companies leading to wasted marketing spend.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2022

It also has major economic benefits from a cost of sales perspective — for instance, rather than paying for each sales rep to travel to meet in-person with buyers, plenty of selling can now be done virtually. 5 Hybrid Sales Strategies, According to Dropbox's VP of Sales. Let's dive in.

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Strategic-IC

OCTOBER 20, 2017

What techniques do top SaaS organisations use to improve their sales sequences? We explore key techniques you can use to enhance your processes. When you’re writing and testing your own sales material from scratch, you might lose perspective on other effective methods you aren’t trying.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Sometimes fitting in just means shifting circumstances — and that principle applies to different brands of sales. Sometimes sales professionals currently working outside sales aren't cut out for it. If you find yourself in a position like that, you might want to consider transitioning from outside to inside sales.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But then if it were, every B2B marketer would be driving full-funnel results remarkably. The top B2B marketing players are cutting down the complexities of demand generation strategies that cover different marketing targets, channels, and lead sources. Creating a successful demand generation plan is not easy.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Part of every marketing position is a commitment to ongoing training to ensure you’re staying up to date with industry trends and growing your marketing knowledge. One of the best ways to do this is by earning certifications from HubSpot, a leader in inbound marketing and sales software. Let’s dive in.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 3, 2016

This is Part Two of a two-part blog (read part 1 here) about how to improve accuracy in lead/revenue projections in organizations with a complex sales process: To recap part one, simple lead generation calculators miss these four things: They don’t take critical metrics (like last year’s revenue) into account.

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LeanData

MARCH 14, 2023

A common refrain is being heard from revenue teams across the B2B space — Where have all the inbound leads gone? Inbound is usually the first of go-to-market (GTM) motions for a company, and it starts with a website. An effective inbound motion is the ante to get into the competitive marketplace.

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Content Standard

JUNE 28, 2019

— the marketing world was having an industry-wide internal debate about inbound versus content marketing, and which practice serves the other. HubSpot, the company that coined the term “inbound marketing,” publicly claimed content marketing serves inbound. Online Communities.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2019

In fact, best-in-class software companies report a 60% conversion rate following a free trial ( source ). Many leading companies have also benefited immensely from this business model including Hotmail, Dropbox, and Hubspot. In other words, the tool helps analyze the performance of your website and marketing campaigns.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Rapid technological changes are making it easier for seniors to lead independent lives at home, while looming concerns over who will buy their homes makes it more difficult to move. 7 Tips to Increase Senior Living Sales and Meet Occupancy Goals. Rally your sales department! Hold webinars to nurture and educate leads.

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ViewPoint

MAY 20, 2016

Make marketing accountable for sourcing revenue is the third 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. Measuring marketing’s contribution to revenue.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We’re seeing trends where more and more marketers are combining demand generation with revenue operations to produce high-growth systems with thoughtful, creative digital campaigns that break down the barriers between sales, marketing and customer success through the use of technology. CallRail for Call Tracking.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like sales prospect research , sales outreach, and professional development. We strongly recommend you go check it out!

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. It's a sales AND marketing strategy supported by a process managed by people and enabled by technology.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 30, 2020

Businesses of all shapes, sizes, scope, and industries are trying to turbocharge their lead generation efforts. Generating more leads might just require a few changes to your current sales and marketing strategy, however, generating quality leads and at scale is quite another challenge. marketing Click To Tweet.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. If you're in a hurry, skip to the script , or download free sales call templates.) Cold calling is a way to engage prospects one-on-one to move them to the next step in the buying process. Now all you need is a cold call script.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

But then again, if it were that easy, every marketer of a B2B company would be driving full-funnel results remarkably. The top B2B marketing players are cutting down the complexities of demand generation strategies that covers different marketing targets, channels and lead sources. We don’t think so.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Frequent videos are key because when a customer is interested in your product, it’s pretty unlikely they’ll reach out to a sales person; today’s empowered customer will go through half of the buying process before interacting with sales. Why should everyone buy into your brand message? What are you all about?

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Belkins

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Can you sell via your inbound sales materials? Truth to be told, it makes no sense to view outbound separately from inbound and vice versa. These two channels work in sync, supporting one another to achieve a healthy, and productive sales system. Audit your existing inbound sales process.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 24, 2012

Where before it took a narrow approach to the funnel, the new approach showcases how inbound marketing, marketing automation and telemarketing intertwine with regard to demand generation. Of equal importance, it showcases how marketing and sales should be aligned, and how the funnel process integrates both fields.

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NuSpark Consulting

MAY 24, 2012

Where before it took a narrow approach to the funnel, the new approach showcases how inbound marketing, marketing automation and telemarketing intertwine with regard to demand generation. Of equal importance, it showcases how marketing and sales should be aligned, and how the funnel process integrates both fields.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 26, 2011

Inbound marketing with content has been getting all the attention lately. Consultants and practitioners of “pull” marketing want marketers to abandon “push” marketing because they say it is old school and no longer effective. Inbound marketing requires prospects to be actively searching for products and solutions.

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Hubspot

MAY 19, 2020

Before my kids woke up this morning, I had ordered groceries for the week, subscribed to a digital news channel I've been meaning to read more, and signed up for an online workout class (that I'm likely to skip). The purchase process for each was personal, quick, and easy — something I've come to expect from all my service providers.

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Account Based Marketing ABM Buy Enterprise Management 95

Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2019

Online lead generation is difficult. There are tons of companies competing for the attention of a finite group of website visitors, and the content marketing world is only getting noisier. Optimize your lead generation pathways on your site. Optimize your lead generation pathways on your site. HubSpot Marketing.

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BenchmarkONE

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The beauty of personalization is that it shows your leads that you know who they are. It also doesn’t hurt to have a tool with tagging capabilities , so you can take that information, label, and segment your leads based on whatever organizational approach works for you. The more leads you have, the bigger your selling pool is.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

There are over 20 presentations available, ranging from Social CRM and Lead Generation, to Case Studies and Sales Enablement. The problem is, there are 4 key battles playing out in organizations: Task ownership (who does what in demand gen process). Accelerate (help sales move deals more quickly through the pipeline).

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some incredible results. The Video Marketing Contender: No Lift Install System These small businesses prove that video doesn’t have to be a big production to get big results. No problem!

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ViewPoint

APRIL 18, 2012

He adds that this is part of a larger, content-driven marketing trend that includes rich media. Social Media is Becoming a Lead Gen Vehicle. Click to start video at this point —Trip sees social media marketing starting to turn a corner. Along with this trend, media integration is becoming more prominent.

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Hubspot

JULY 21, 2014

When it comes to building a world-class team, they need to get creative. As you’re reading this post, remember -- the most powerful enterprise marketing strategies will often take years of dedicated investment and resource allocation to take off. ” Alignment between Marketing and Sales begins with effective communication.

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Terminus

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a product creator and innovator, I wanted to plant my flag in the next wave of leading B2B MarTech solutions and create something special with Terminus. That brief history of my MarTech journey still lives on LinkedIn , but in essence, I declared that I wanted to make things easier for marketers. .

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Or spending hours on end tracking down information, manually sending out emails, and following up with leads? We’ll take a look at some of the top digital marketing tools out there today and key features they include. But first, it’s important to consider your overall marketing goals. The #1 Inbound Marketing Platform.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Because You Can’t Beat Free Marketing Training This is the second post finalizing the review of the Inbound Marketing University program from HubSpot.

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