Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Many marketers view MQL as flawed because less than 1% of these leads typically reach the final stage of the buying process, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll convert.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We talk to some of the best leaders in B2B sales and marketing every day.

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NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Technology and data—specifically buyer-level intent data —take a lot of the guesswork out of sales prospecting, making it more precise. How can intent data help sales teams identify high-potential prospects more effectively? These signals can help later on when your sales team approaches a potential buyer. The good news?

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. But how does it work?

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more]. But generating qualified leads isn’t – because the number of qualified leads is the most immediate result of your effective B2B lead generation strategy or tactics.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Channel sales — or selling through partners — represents 75% of the world’s commerce, according to Forrester. This approach helps companies accelerate sales and grow revenue without adding to their headcount, a move that’s increasingly important during economic uncertainty. What you’ll learn: What is channel sales?

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Seismic

MARCH 22, 2022

At most organizations, sales is responsible for generating revenue. But sales is becoming more difficult as the buyer’s journey evolves. We understand that the sales process is not a one-size-fits-all formula. After all, shaping it depends on the company you work for, the product you sell, and your target audience.

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Outreach

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

What is Sales Management? Behind every successful sales team is a strong sales management process: One that relies greatly upon effective managers and leaders. Implementing the right strategy and process can help a business ensure its health and drive further growth. What is sales management?

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Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your next sales kickoff or training event is going virtual for 2021. And as with any year, you’ll likely focus on soft skills, the sales process and using new technologies. Help Your Remote Sales Team Shine. Virtual Sales Training Resources. Sales Gravy: Virtual Selling Skills Bootcamp. Get the Kit.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The last time sales teams were offered real change in their tech offerings was back in the early 2000s, when cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) systems came into vogue. That technology permanently shifted the way sales teams operated. Types of Sales Automation Tools The reach of this technology is widespread.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 16, 2024

This blog explores 10 ways AI and beyond can supercharge your sales game, from identifying high-potential leads to crafting personalized outreach and automating tasks. Get ready to leverage data-driven insights, improve forecasting accuracy, and become a sales superstar in the age of AI.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

More Time to Gather Insights Conversation intelligence provides reps with a deeper understanding of sales calls by recording, transcribing, and analyzing these meetings to deliver AI-based insights. Research firm Forrester found that 57 percent of B2B sales leaders intended to invest more on AI and automation tools in 2021.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. More importantly, they may be losing top-of-the-funnel prospects due to impersonal chat experiences. Here’s how: 1.

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Terminus

MARCH 11, 2024

In our recent webinar, Anne Murlowski VP of Marketing at Terminus, sat down with Seth Marrs, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, to delve into the evolving landscape of how to unify go-to-market strategies. This integration faces challenges however, especially when marketing and sales do not work together as one cohesive unit.

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. Without these capabilities and high-quality data, sales teams that implement chat can be overwhelmed by poor-quality leads.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

With so many logistics to handle and compliance regulations to consider when managing pharma events, working with expert pharma event management companies can help reduce stress and ensure you achieve your business goals more easily. Disclaimer: The objective of this list is to share useful information.

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Content4Demand

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Informing Content Based on Interest. A buyer “interest” set can be developed, similar to a persona, where intent data can inform what content to target based on the interests of the buyer at that time or, in some cases, based on actual articles consumed (and when exact article consumption is known to the seller).

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team? Optimizing your funnel based on this difference maximizes your ROI. Requesting quotes or proposals.

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Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. The new reality is that sales and marketing are continuously and increasingly integrated.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2023

And here’s the hard truth: Even businesses with high-quality data can still lose ground if that critical information is stuck in silos. A data silo is a specific collection of data owned, managed, and accessed by one group of users within a business. Data silos make it difficult to share information across an entire company.

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Seismic

JULY 2, 2019

Buyers today can obtain product information without ever talking to a salesperson, embarking on as much as 57% of the buyer’s journey alone before ever speaking to a sales rep. Because prospects and buyers are savvier and more educated, they expect salespeople to act as trusted advisors and present them with information.

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Sales Engine

MAY 24, 2016

With directives from above to grow revenue through sales, groups as varied as marketing, products, human resources, and even sales itself will rally to find ways to support the sales team. Sales reps are left to wade through this mountain of information, and they respond to it in one of two ways: 1.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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6sense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But to the right sleuths, these tracks might be the next big sale. We refer to this world of anonymous buyer intent data as the Dark Funnel. We talk to B2B revenue teams a lot about how matching traditionally unidentified Dark Funnel clues to known accounts is the new key to chauffeuring buyers through the sales funnel.

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Hitting targets and meeting sales quotas has become harder for most sales teams over the past year. The impact of the economy has slowed down the pace of B2B sales, leaving sales teams wondering how to meet their KPIs. So, in order to efficiently guide prospects to closed-won, nurturing relationships is key.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2022

They can retard the velocity of sales, stunt the company’s brand development, jeopardize relations with customers and create opportunities for competitors to gain market share. Gauging the relative success of each of your marketing tactics is important no matter which way the economic winds are blowing.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 30, 2023

But what changes will it bring to the sales industry? Will it be the end of salespeople, or will it become the secret weapon to help sales reps work more efficiently? Furthermore, we’ve interviewed leading sales teams to collect 11 AI sales predictions that you should watch in 2023.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Sure, they were from some company I’d never heard of, only had 2 customer reviews and were a fraction of the cost of name-brand competitors. If you manage a marketing budget, you know how much money goes into two critical areas: paid media and marketing technology. Manager, Marketing Automation, Hyperscience. I bought them.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 19, 2022

This new organizational model represents a complete rethink of traditional B2B sales, marketing and customer service roles, with blended teams, organized around stewardship of customer journey phases. What’s wrong with the status quo of siloed teams and random acts of sales and marketing ?

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Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your next sales kickoff or training event is going virtual for 2021. And as with any year, you’ll likely focus on soft skills, the sales process and using new technologies. Help Your Remote Sales Team Shine An all-in-one video selling resource to support your strategic planning, SKO, and ongoing enablement.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Caroline Robertson , Vice President, B2B Marketing and Sales Research Director. Although women make up more than half of the global workforce, they represent fewer than one-third of all B2B sales and one-quarter of all B2B tech sales roles. In our study, we examined some of the systemic biases women in B2B sales face.

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B2B Marketing Directions

MAY 30, 2021

Changes in the business environment have led many B2B companies to adopt new approaches for managing their revenue generating activities. Therefore, it's important to treat such activities as components of a larger revenue generation process that must be managed holistically.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

Forrester predicts that “marketing leaders will turn to smarter (more autonomous and automated) solutions with complex tech stacks” — and we couldn’t agree more. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I learned that the firm: Experiences 12 to 18-month sales cycle on enterprise accounts with most efforts leading to RFP automatically reducing margin growth. They could not clearly see the impact you’d have on the company, P&L, operations, and their customers. If manufacturers, retailers, distributors, etc.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lead scoring, a critical component of any successful sales and marketing strategy, can be the bridge that guides your leads towards conversion. It’s a systematic approach that quantifies the quality of leads , allowing sales and marketing teams to prioritize their efforts. This is where lead scoring enters the picture.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Conventional lead generation tactics for B2B marketers will not work in 2022. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels. According to a 2020 McKinsey research , 90% of B2B sales have switched to digital channels. As an example—. Adopt An Omni-Channel Marketing Strategy.

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