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What Is a Sales Cycle and How Do You Optimize It for Consistent Sales?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. What you’ll learn: What is a sales cycle?

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Making Social Engagement Data Work for You: How to Nurture Leads Effectively

Oktopost

Listen to the podcast: Or catch us on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Resources mentioned: In any B2B sales cycle, knowledge equals power. She joined the company in 2014 when the team was 5 people strong and has since been transforming the way B2B organizations manage and measure social media. Episode Summary.

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8 tips to boost your video conversion rate

Sprout Social

Thanks to the OG TikTok, social media algorithms have prioritized video, especially short-form vertical video, like Reels and YouTube Shorts. Our survey also revealed marketers are prioritizing short-form vertical video across TikTok (60%), Instagram (53%) and YouTube Shorts (52%).

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How to Make Your B2B Industrial Marketing REALLY Work

The Marketing Blender

From mining and transportation to construction and manufacturing industries, industrial companies have high-ticket sales and LONG sales cycles with many stakeholders. This complexity makes it easy to have a sales-centric mindset and focus on closing the next big deal instead of on how to fill the pipeline long term.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. Company news and industry SIC codes tied for third.

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What’s the Difference Between B2B and B2C Programmatic Advertising?

The ABM Agency

For instance, a sports memorabilia company can buy a consumer target, such as “sports fans,” to be pursued across sites. Several years ago, it was revealed that ads for many of the world’s largest companies appeared alongside hate-speech videos on YouTube. Programmatic ad buying is focused on the individual viewing the ad.

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Paid Social Media for B2B: Strategies that Get Results

Oktopost

While anyone can make organic posts, paid social refers to ads placed by a company that also pays for increased exposure to these ads. Paid social media can enhance your current marketing efforts by driving more sales and better targeting your prospective leads by using social media. Paid Social Media Strategies for B2B.