Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 20, 2020

moment and suggests a webinar. Everyone agrees it’s a great idea, and you raise your hand to lead your organization’s first-ever webinar series. Sure, webinar marketing initiatives can lead to high-value impact and brand loyalty for your business. How can you effectively build a webinar strategy that drives ROI?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. Our research suggests that the events of 2020 have made SaaS customers more demanding than ever. It’s about helping your sales organization do what they do best.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Work Management Marketing Automation Services 130

Hinge Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Educational webinars have emerged as a powerful marketing tool for many professional services and B2B firms. But not everyone is on the same page… As someone who has organized, promoted, and produced over 100 webinars at Hinge, you can imagine that I hold some strong perspectives on webinars as a marketing strategy.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 20, 2023

Image credit: Headway on Unsplash It’s not just consumer brands working with content creators; B2B companies are also increasingly leveraging video content to engage with their target audiences and drive demand for their products or services. In this regard, they are often the best kind of material to use when making a video ad.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2022

They must manage multiple campaigns simultaneously, while working effectively with partners across the globe. They need to know what content is promising results and what isn’t. They need to manage their marketing budgets prudently and make sure every dollar is spent wisely. Guest post by Sumeet Anand.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Marketing Qualified Leads 160

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. What is Demand Generation?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Online gatherings are no longer limited to team meetings and webinars using same old video calling tools. The ability to present slides, stream video, collaborate on a whiteboard, and chat with the group or individual members are now just table stakes. A tool to manage and produce conferences, workshops, and other virtual events.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Sales Management Lead Nurturing Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 62

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar , Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

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Martech

MAY 6, 2024

Interactive webinar enhancements You can now provide hosts and presenters with the ability to add a webinar title or rename a room. Giving hosts and presenters the ability to update your webinar title or rename a room can eliminate bottlenecks if last minute changes need to be made before going live with your webinar.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. Our research suggests that the events of 2020 have made SaaS customers more demanding than ever. It’s about helping your sales organization do what they do best.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Work Management Marketing Automation Services 100

Content Standard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I love working with them and they bring fresh perspective to (often) stale content marketing strategies—but they have two common areas of vulnerability: They can tend to approach content from an “inside-out” perspective, and they can be too quick on the content trigger.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2021

Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention. Source: SuperOffice.

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Top of Funnel Deliverability Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services 281

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Is the webinar dead now too? How should we continue generating leads for our sales team while continuing to innovate on the content formats we produce and gate behind a form?". It’s 2018, and the way our prospects and customers find and consume content has certainly changed. Webinars Drive Sales.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The digital-first strategies many companies are adopting have removed countless in-person interactions and sped up sales cycles. Marketers have their work cut out for them in terms of making an impact on buyers well before the sales stage. Focus on audience engagement. This is where webinar engagement tactics shine. “It

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. Gartner’s prediction that 80% of B2B sales interactions will occur digitally by 2025 underscores this shift.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. It’s that time of the year when new objectives drive marketing teams to come up with strategies and initiatives to reinvigorate lead generation efforts.

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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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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 64

Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

That is why organizations need an effective go-to-market strategy. From defining the target market to outlining marketing and sales tactics to reach the audience and more, a go-to-market strategy has it all. Here are four tactics for developing an effective SaaS go-to-market strategy.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tech companies don’t need a “video strategy.” They need tactical videos that support their sales and marketing content strategy. Tactical videos have specific objectives: establish a value proposition in the prospect’s mind, put across a memorable product differentiator, describe a new use case.

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Vidyard

AUGUST 26, 2020

You may have already realized why online events are great for your marketing strategy. They’re easier for your viewers to attend, they put less stress on your budget, and they let you drive ongoing demand by converting event recordings into evergreen content. Webinars are one of the best uses of your online event bandwidth.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Learn more about how a successful demand generation strategy can help to nurture the long-term relationship between your brand and customers. Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. What is Demand Generation? Demand generation is programmatic.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 130

SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Top of Funnel Intent Data Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles 71

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? Guaranteed.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A 2018 study by the University of Zurich found that even a small gift from a sales representative makes customers much more likely to make a purchase. In the study, reps gave customers six tubes of toothpaste — a trivial offering. How are gifts presented? The results? Anything but trivial. On average, orders almost doubled.

Sales Management 130

Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads 130

Martech

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Auseh Britt, vp of growth marketing at account-based marketing platform Terminus, recently hosted a webinar that discussed her organization’s 2021 State of Modern Marketing Report. The study polled over 1000 go-to-Market (GTM) teams — groups tasked with identifying the best ways to reach specific marketing. “It Source: Auseh Britt.

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Account Based Marketing Webinar Metrics ABM Ideal Customer Profiles 121

Scoop.it

JUNE 15, 2021

eBooks, whitepapers, and blogs – all these terms come to mind whenever we think about content marketing. But have you ever pondered about using PowerPoint presentations as a tool to market your content? A presentation provides you an opportunity to showcase your information in a visually impressive way.

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Top of Funnel Tools Planning Content Marketing 103

Televerde

APRIL 30, 2024

It may feel like it’s easier than ever to find and connect with people in the digital age, but for businesses looking for high-potential clients, the process requires a structured approach. Quick Takeaways: Contact acquisition requires a structured approach to gather prospect data for personalized marketing and sales outreach.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“Misalignment between marketing and sales teams is a trillion-dollar problem for B2B revenue teams,” said Julianne Thompson, director of sales development at revenue acceleration platform Drift, in a recent webinar. Marketing and sales now share the same goals. Collaborate on strategy and planning.

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Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel Work Management 131

Only B2B

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because of these crucial elements, account-based marketing presents a fantastic opportunity. The sales and marketing teams collaborate in account-based marketing to identify the most eligible accounts for conversion into customers. Here, you are inverting the conventional sales funnel. To integrate marketing and sales.

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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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Training Top of Funnel Resources Work Management 141

ATAK Interactive

JULY 21, 2020

This is where sales enablement comes in. In fact, 74% of buyers choose to move forward with the sales rep that was the first to share value and insight. So with sales enablement, the marketing and sales teams are able to work together to deliver this value and convert their prospects into actual buyers.

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B2B Sales Work Management B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Management 148

Biznology

AUGUST 5, 2020

Findings from a recent report on lead-gen strategies from Ascend2: Most marketers think their social media tactics are increasing the quality of leads Most marketers are spending more on social media because of COVID-19 Most marketers regard video as the most effective type of content for lead-gen, followed by webinars, and live events/webinars.

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Webinar Metrics Video Marketing Lead Gen Paid Search Agency 177

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. That collaboration is crucial because the content itself is so crucial.

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Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Planning Work Management 149

SalesIntel

JULY 28, 2023

While this has created opportunities for companies to reach their clients at nearly every touch point, it’s also driven them to put the customer at the center of sales, bringing on board new channels, tech, and incentives to drive business. Awareness First and foremost is awareness.

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BenchmarkONE

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The pandemic brought a lot of business sales strategies – and outcomes – to a screeching halt. This year, it’s all about finding ways to get back in motion again — which includes seeking out new tactics that will help boost sales and make up for lost revenue. Focus on Remote Interactions.

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Sales Management Tactics Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels 60