Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Effective marketing strategies for complex products are essential to driving business growth. You must both become and remain creative throughout the marketing process to stand out in a competitive market — even when promoting a complicated or confusing product. Effective marketing works in reverse.

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Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Work Management Product 213

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. But today’s outbound lead generation tactics are more than just dialing for dollars. Here’s how to effectively execute outbound lead generation, with examples and definitions to get you started on a new or refreshed strategy.

Sales Management 130

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 130

Martech

MARCH 1, 2024

As buying shifts online and marketing takes on some traditional sales roles, retaining existing customers is essential for driving growth and profits. Year after year, survey after survey, leads were number one. Year after year, survey after survey, leads were number one. This last one is a biggie.

Tactics 111

Tactics Work Management B2B Marketing Marketing Management 111

markempa

JULY 6, 2017

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to do lead management that increases sales conversion. Source: Forrester US and Europe B2B Marketing Tactics and Benchmarks Online Survey. Source: Forrester US and Europe B2B Marketing Tactics and Benchmarks Online Survey. Where lead management often falls short.

Sales Management 326

Sales Management Lead Management Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 326

Martech

MARCH 21, 2022

Congratulations to all you B2B sales and marketing warriors! You’ve made lemonade from COVID lemons by dramatically improving efficiency of your sales process during the pandemic. Three-quarters of B2B sellers say that they are more efficient than prior to COVID, according to a recent McKinsey & Company survey.

B2B Sales 85

B2B Sales Process Peer-to-peer Effectiveness 85

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When developing a sales strategy, many leaders aren’t sure where to begin. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to revamp an existing sales strategy, creating campaigns based solely on instincts or assumptions is no longer acceptable. To craft an effective modern sales playbook , data and analytics must reign supreme.

Marketing Automation Services 130

Marketing Automation Services Marketing & Strategy Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 130

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 15, 2024

So if you want real, predictable revenue growth, it’s time to forget the one-off quick-win tactics. The key to unlocking value lies in alignment between your sales, marketing, and customer success teams—an alignment that comes from a singular, unifying force: customer understanding. Marketing: Marketers are the customer whisperers.

Top of Funnel 114

Top of Funnel Work Management Verticals Marketing Management 114

Zoominfo

APRIL 30, 2021

Like everyone else, we had to pivot, and fast.” — Danny Daly, manager, marketing events at ZoomInfo. So, what happens when the conference seat your marketing and sales team offers is your registrants’ preferred chair at home? Danny Daly, marketing events manager at ZoomInfo, has had the same experience.

Trade Show 264

Trade Show Top of Funnel Acquisitions Enterprise Management 264

Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2023

Those are just a few of the findings from the Marketing Manager Mindset Report 2023 , recently published by Livestorm , Mention, and Jotform. But the #2 goal for all marketers (#3 for B2B) in this survey was “increase sales.” Midsized companies (those with 500 to 5,000 employees) are most likely to cut spending.

Marketing Budget 282

Marketing Budget Marketing Budget Creation Top of Funnel Marketing & Strategy 282

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A sales funnel, stretching from early-stage brand discovery to final purchase, represents the customer journey. Most companies use the funnel to track prospects as they move through sales stages, adjusting strategies and marketing methods in response to their behaviors. In real life, the buying process is never so linear.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Marketing AI Digital Marketing Funnels Lead Ranking 98

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For many sales professionals, today’s business environment is unlike anything they’ve ever seen. Broad economic and societal shifts — amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and continued technological disruption — are resulting in longer sales cycles, more discerning buyers, intensifying competition, and lingering uncertainty.

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Zoominfo Customer Surveys Marketing Analytics Tools Sales Cycle 130

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

This makes routing marketing leads to your sales team a critical step for driving revenue growth. Lead routing is the process of collecting and assigning leads to your sales team in real-time. When done correctly, leads are organized, assigned, and delivered to the sales rep who is best suited to manage them.

Work Management 130

Work Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Sprout Social

MAY 5, 2021

As a marketer, you know getting customers’ attention can be tough, but actually closing those customers is just as much of a struggle for sales reps in your org. That’s because the average sales process is more complex than ever. What is sales enablement, anyway? How-to videos. Case studies.

Paid Search Agency 111

Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Work Management Sales Qualified Leads 111

Hubspot

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Today, 68% of business leaders we surveyed believe it will help them scale in a way that would otherwise be impossible.

Marketing AI 59

Marketing AI Creativity Top of Funnel Work Management 59

Hubspot

MAY 30, 2023

Like all disruption, generative AI in sales has the potential to completely change the way things are done. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales. In this post, we’ll share the state of generative AI in sales today with three use cases for AI in sales.

Generation 75

Generation Lead Ranking Enterprise Management User-Generated Content 75

SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So, what is the first thing that occurs to you when you start brainstorming about your B2B sales strategy? What are the latest challenges in B2B sales strategies ? The latest B2B sales challenges include: Difficulty in reaching decision makers and engaging with them effectively. Target Audience? Investment?

Sales Management 95

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel Marketing & Strategy 95

Tony Zambito

JANUARY 13, 2022

The 20th Anniversary of Buyer Personas Survey To Help Determine Usefulness. The years 2001-2003 in these engagements were groundbreaking and helped to establish the value of buyer personas for informing buyer strategy and tactics. For instance, we saw sales knowledge and effectiveness ramp up shortened by months.

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Buyer Personas Customer Surveys Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency 195

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Businesses have a wealth of options for promoting their solutions to boost sales. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. You’re more likely to sell a solution with the right content than with aggressive sales tactics. Quick Takeaways.

Top of Funnel 358

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Work Management 358

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2023

The sustained growth that can only come from retaining and expanding your customer base relies on sales reps who consistently build genuine relationships with customers. Internal communication and alignment between corporate and sales objectives are crucial for success. Setting SMART goals. Measuring progress.

Marketing & Strategy 130

Marketing & Strategy Cross-Selling Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 130

SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To skyrocket the numbers, sales reps make use of various sales tools available in the market. Some of them are free while others are paid – but all bring in enormous value to the sales process. Investing in a random sales tool is a waste of time, money and effort. What are Sales Tools?

Marketing Automation Services 97

Marketing Automation Services B2B Sales Enterprise Management Work Management 97

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.

Top of Funnel 270

Top of Funnel Deliverability Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services 270

Marketing Craftmanship

JANUARY 8, 2021

In its landmark 2018 Pulse Survey of 220 Chief Marketing Officers, the executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry reported that, although financial results were the most important factor in their performance-based compensation, “52% of CMOs say they cannot make a direct and obvious correlation between marketing efforts and company performance.”

Work Management 264

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 264

ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

B2B companies have greatly succeeded in enhancing the effectiveness of their ABM campaigns through careful content planning, creation, and distribution. Engagement and Conversion Issues Don’t rely on generic conversion funnels. Map out where they are in your funnel and decide the best content to push them to the next step.

Account Based Marketing 95

Account Based Marketing ABM Tactics Top of Funnel 95

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Experiences like these often contribute to a strong work ethic, high motivation, and better job performance — one key reason that a diverse and inclusive sales culture has far-reaching benefits. Diverse Sales Teams Outperform Their Competitors As sales leaders, we care about our teams hitting their quotas.

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Ad Building Lead Ranking Forrester Customer Satisfaction 130

Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. As a result, B2B companies are investing heavily in sales enablement tools.

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Sales Cycle Practices Marketing Automation Services Buyer Personas 228

Outreach

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Sales can be a tough job in the best of times. This puts tremendous pressure on salespeople to perform well — and on sales leaders to maximize their team’s productivity and improve sales outcomes. How Sales Teams Perform Throughout the Sales Funnel. How Sales Teams Perform Throughout the Sales Funnel.

Top of Funnel 90

Top of Funnel Sales Cycle Outreach Organic Leads 90

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

The quality of your company’s data and the way it’s routed have a direct effect on your bottom line. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for sales teams to be hamstrung by incomplete routing systems and low-quality data. Your reps miss out on new sales, cross-selling, and upselling opportunities. Simple enough, right?

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Top of Funnel High Quality Lead Lead Scoring 130

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

2021 will bring sales professionals a host of new challenges and trends to consider, and it could be tricky to adapt. Of course, reps will need to add certain strategies into their repertoires, but "adapting" doesn't stop there. Remaining mindful of these inevitably ineffective sales tactics will only help your case in 2021.

Sales Management 94

Sales Management Tactics Top of Funnel Cold Calling 94

B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 9, 2024

(This month's Research Round-Up discusses some of the major findings found in the Spring 2024 edition of "The CMO Survey" and a set of interesting perspectives from the "2024 Annual Marketing Report" by Nielsen.) Source: Christine Moorman Spring 2024 edition of "The CMO Survey" A survey of 292 marketing leaders at U.S.

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CMO Customer Surveys Marketing Report Research 43

Martech

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sales executives and marketers are caught in a Catch-22 that says we need more marketing activity because we have more sales resources — we have more sales resources, so we need more marketing. As a result, sales organizations have added enormous headcounts of SDRs and BDRs. How did we get here?

Ideal Customer Profiles 110

Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs Ad Frequency Work Management 110

Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2024

Key Steps Ghostwrite an executive email : The sales team can tee C-level officers up for success by drafting key outreach messaging for them — an open-ended ask for help with the account becomes one more to-do on their already busy calendar, but a compelling outreach draft makes approval and sending easy. Schuck says. “If I’m not the AE.”

Buy 130

Buy Enterprise Management Top of Funnel Work Management 130

Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2019

B2B lead generation tools help marketers more effectively develop new prospective sales opportunities. Here’s why and how, as a marketer, you may want to integrate new lead generation tools and processes into your B2B lead generation strategy and campaigns. HubSpot helps in this realm with HubSpot sales.

Marketing Automation Services 207

Marketing Automation Services Lead Generation Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 207

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 6, 2021

World-renowned sales coach Timothy Gallwey has captivated CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders for decades. With one simple idea: “[Sales] coaching is [the key to] unlocking a person’s potential. Learn to create an A+ team with digital sales coaching. Focus on rep wellbeing. The problem is twofold: 1.

Work Management 98

Work Management Effectiveness Tips Allocation 98

Hubspot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Any company's sales leadership needs to keep a pulse on how its salespeople are performing, both individually and on a broader organizational level — getting there often starts by understanding the degree of effort reps are putting in. That's where performance indicators known as sales productivity metrics come in. Calls Made.

Work Management 81

Work Management Cold Calling Product Thought Leadership 81

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?

Sales Management 62

Sales Management Lead Nurturing Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 62

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?

Intent Data 59

Intent Data Top of Funnel Intent Outreach 59

Unbounce

JUNE 28, 2022

Online sales are expected to make up 22.3% of retail sales overall by 2023. In reality, ecommerce and social commerce are two very different sales techniques. It’s the process of generating leads and creating conversions through online stores. Here’s how to increase your social commerce sales.

Tactics 144

Tactics eCommerce Landing Pages Cross-Selling 144