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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

Zoominfo

B2B lead generation, often shortened to lead gen, is the lifeblood of a healthy business. A typical definition of a lead is any potential customer who has expressed interest in a company’s goods or services. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Who should own lead generation for a complex sale?

markempa

So, who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing lead generation because they both believe it’s the others job. Companies don’t typically call what salespeople do “lead generation” or “demand generation.” Let me explain.

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Beyond the List: Unique Strategies Employed by Leading B2B Lead Generation Companies

New North

If you’re a B2B marketer, you’re responsible for generating leads. But when you’re in B2B tech, your SDR team can’t cold call down a list all day. Even some of the best cold callers can’t get more than a 2% success rate. So where do you go to generate leads?

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Why You Need Market Intelligence to Improve Lead Quality

Televerde

It’s time to address the 600-pound gorilla in the room: lead quality, or the lack of it. 92% of marketers say they’re running an account-based marketing strategy (ABM). But despite all the data and technology at our fingertips today, 58% of business leaders say generating high-quality leads is still their top challenge.

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The Best Outbound Sales Strategies and How To Track Performance

Outreach

It’s been more than a decade since many experts predicted that outbound would become irrelevant amid the growing preference for inbound sales, and the rise in growth marketing. Owning the process of outbound prospecting, SDRs routinely make cold calls and send cold emails to potential buyers.

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(Re)Focusing Your Demand Marketing Plan Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak

ANNUITAS

Business leaders and marketing and sales teams are struggling now, more than ever, to not only drive new demand, but to replace the loss of existing demand in the marketplace. We are currently deploying a massive calling campaign to try and accelerate existing mid-funnel Persons into Pipeline. this is not cold calling). .

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How to turn the great buyer resignation into B2B career opportunities

Martech

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. B2B marketing expert Tony Zambito calls this the “ Great Buyer Resignation.”