markempa

APRIL 13, 2015

Tweet The management of sales leads is critical to generating marketing ROI. Sadly, sales leads often land on the scrap heap because marketers throw leads over the wall and then expect salespeople to catch them. But when you add sales territories and fairness into the mix, this is far from easy. on a real-time basis.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. With a complex sale, many personal touch points in customer relationship management are present – such as directly answering a question posted on social media or an online forum. Marketing, Sales (and IT) alignment.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this video, you’ll see how a bank analyzes sales calls to train reps more efficiently with Einstein Conversation Insights Enhancements , simplifies document workflows with Digital Process Automation , and quickly builds personalized chatbots with Einstein Bots Enhancements.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 2, 2022

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. how to infuse the buyer’s journey into a sales enablement system/program.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. How did you create the conversation? But you may need to look for other commonalities, beyond that: What were the responsibilities for that person?

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s post is about Sales Intelligence platforms/tools. Sales intelligence software/platforms help companies use data to increase sales and improve sales processes. Sales intelligence can be used by both marketing and sales teams and can be especially helpful when combined with other data sources.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 6, 2023

As sales fanatics, we often ask ourselves: What makes top sellers the best at what they do? We wanted to know what sales book made the lightbulb go off above their head, along with their favorite passages and the takeaways that changed how they sell. Some of these titles aren’t even sales books. Don’t take anything personally.

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Martech

APRIL 23, 2024

Finally, scalability and personalization have become buzzwords, but you can’t accomplish either without strong analytics – and getting that has been an uphill climb for many businesses. By unifying their data, Cox Automotive can better segment its audience and deliver more personalized messaging to its customers.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies. SQOs to Deals.

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InsightSquared

MARCH 15, 2019

The excitement generated throughout the sales cycle is quickly stymied once you realize that simply flipping the switch isn’t going to generate the massive ROI you anticipated because…. Define Your Processes. In this case, step one for implementing a new CRM is to ensure your company has defined its own processes.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 27, 2023

So, I’ve compiled a list of some of my personal favorite episodes, in addition to their most popular episodes from the catalog. In this episode, Debbie Millman, a renowned name in branding, discusses her book, “Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People.”

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

The data-driven marketing approach with the ability to track demand waterfall conversion rates is a game-changer across the board and no doubt marketing analytics continues to be a top priority for the CMOs and marketing leaders across all the organizations. MQLs to SALs (Sales Accepted Leads). SALs to SQLs (Sales Qualified Leads).

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B2B Marketing Analytics

JUNE 28, 2020

Whether it is the hyper-personalized contextual engagement approach, increasingly higher marketing ROI/ROMI, higher influence on pipeline generation/acceleration, or the increasingly better demand waterfall efficiencies, marketing analytics capabilities span across the areas of marketing execution and the key strategies. SQOs to Deals.

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Engagio

DECEMBER 28, 2020

But to succeed in B2B Sales and Marketing, we must keep up with the trends despite the unpredictability. We engaged the top minds in B2B Sales and Marketing for their prescient understanding of two powerful questions: What are your predictions for ABM in 2021? The truth is vision isn’t easy. Maneeza Aminy. Pieter De Temmerman.

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The Point

JUNE 18, 2013

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. What are the challenges that presents? (DC)

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as contributed content on Salesforce.com. While most marketers are aware of the incredible effect video can have as part of the marketing mix, I still see a lot of B2B brands create top-of-the-funnel explainer videos and call it a day.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 12, 2020

These behaviors open the door for sales professionals to find themselves falling into unexpected traps, including: Interruption or delays as a result of technology breakdowns. Loss of rapport-building opportunities because of the mediated nature of the conversation. Defaulting to presenting rather than engaging clients in dialogue.

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markempa

MAY 30, 2017

I think what’s relevant to this conversation is I was one of the really early employees at a small startup back in the day called Pardot, which is a marketing automation platform. From there, we grew that, sold that to Exact Target which was then acquired by Salesforce.com. My background’s kind of interesting.

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The Point

APRIL 1, 2014

Recent studies tell us while the adoption of marketing automation technology continues to gain momentum, fewer than 20 percent of marketing executives say that they are fully integrating the technology into their current sales and marketing initiatives. Once initiated, the steps are as follows: 1. Marketo sends first follow-up email.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 10, 2013

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 18, 2014

All of the usual suspects were in the room – head of marketing, head of sales, marketing automation power users, demand generation leads, content marketer … but also present were the head of their CRM install and the lead project manager of their website and web analytics team — both IT roles in this particular company.

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Valasys

MAY 22, 2019

B2B companies thrive on the idea of tapping into several niches so as to discover their potential customers, evaluating their potential as leads for their product or services & finally guiding them through their sales funnel to convert to sales. This is where CRM takes over.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. We'd discovered over years of consulting to Sales and Marketing VPs that most firm's CRM systems were not really functional.

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Vidyard

JUNE 17, 2015

It is an amazing time to be in sales. According to Google, 70% of B2B buyers now view video throughout their path to purchase, and nearly half of these prospects will consume over 30 minutes of video when evaluating solutions and it’s Sales’ job to guide them the rest of the way through the buying journey as a trusted advisor.

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

When confronted with the details – database management, segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. How did you create the conversation? But you may need to look for other commonalities, beyond that: What were the responsibilities for that person?

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Is it the person who signed up for your webinar this week? Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. They won’t get followed up.

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Capstone Insights

MARCH 13, 2018

And before you read this post, if you haven’t read “ Don’t Use Leads (Only Use Contacts) in Your CRM ” and “ Challenges in Not Using Leads in Your CRM: Data and Process ,” read them first. This post makes the assumption that the lead management construct at your company is leads reliant. They will put this post in context.

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Engagio

MAY 12, 2020

Improvements to Engagio Scout for Sales enables revenue teams to better understand account engagement and take action accordingly. May 12, 2020) – Engagio , the leading B2B account-based engagement platform, today announces a significant upgrade to its engagement intelligence solution, Engagio Scout for Sales. SAN MATEO, Calif.

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LeadSloth

MARCH 16, 2009

ActiveConversion first became known for its sales-focused Web Analytics, such as identifying companies that visit your website (similar to Leadlander ). After that, the (previously anonymous) website sessions are linked to a specific person. Salesforce.com integration. Only customers with specific conversion tracking (e.g.

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markempa

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We went from zero to 20% to 30% of our opportunities in Salesforce.com resulting from video in the first six months.”. They have one person, a former writer, dedicated to video plus some people who contribute to script writing and ideation or who do quick edits on videos. Linda and her team are taking a different path. And it worked.”.

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ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2013

Leveraging social media is a familiar tactic for individuals. That’s quickly changing, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Koka Sexton, LinkedIn’s senior manager of social marketing. Sales Managers Didn’t Want Their People on Social Media All Day. The more people you’re connected to, the bigger your sales pipeline.

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 14, 2018

When confronted with the details – database management, segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. How did you create the conversation? But you may need to look for other commonalities, beyond that: What were the responsibilities for that person?

Account Based Marketing 120

Account Based Marketing Segmentation Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management 120

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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. A Wide-Reaching Conversation with Jon Ferrara “ .

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B2B Marketing Analytics

APRIL 3, 2022

Every marketing leader takes immense pride in talking about the marketing analytics teams at their organizations when they have implemented attribution tools/frameworks and can provide attribution data either via salesforce.com or via in case of more mature analytics teams in platforms like Tableau, Looker, DOMO, etc.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This weeks’ Dreamforce event, with some 135,000 attendees, brought home the enormous investment organizations make in their CRM solutions and sales reps. But also begs the question – is the large investment in CRM and sales enablement delivering an adequate payback? You are not alone if you are getting mixed results.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 17, 2017

But when your job depends on finding new leads, collecting data on leads, having meaningful conversations, managing opportunities, and helping close revenue, any time you can save on these tasks is worth its weight in gold. Streak Used for: Managing your clients and deals in Gmail.

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B2B Marketing Analytics

AUGUST 2, 2020

With the onset of this pandemic, all marketing organizations had to adjust their annual plans and more importantly, double down on the “digital-first” strategies to account for the cancellation of the in-person events, which have been biggest driver of marketing pipeline and revenue. This is where.

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