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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markempa

JUNE 17, 2012

Tweet CSO Insights , which interviews thousands of chief sales officers to benchmark B2B sales best practices, has tracked an alarming trend. Jim Dickie, CSO Insight’s managing partner, says this should make any sales leader cringe. No deal = broken sales cycle. Examine your sales process.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What you need is an easy-to-understand sales playbook to guide your team to victory. We’ll walk through everything you need to know to create the right mix of winning plays that guide your sales team to big wins. What you’ll learn What is a sales playbook? Learn more What is a sales playbook?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 24, 2023

Imagine a sales representative who never sleeps, never gets tired, and possesses an uncanny ability to analyze vast amounts of data in seconds. This is the promise of AI sales reps, and their potential to revolutionize the sales industry is undeniable. The application of generative AI in sales is diverse.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. Probably the most common complaint that I hear from Sales is that “Marketing just doesn’t understand engineering problems, and they generate ‘crappy’ leads that are not ready to buy.”

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Winning large business contracts leads to increased revenue — but selling solely to large enterprises isn’t necessarily sustainable for a sales strategy. SMBs differ from enterprises in clientele, goals, and needs, but stepping up your SMB sales game can eventually increase your revenue. Why Divide Enterprise and SMB Sales?

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Rev

JULY 26, 2023

Our budgets are roughly 75% of what they were in 2022,” reports Kendrick Shuler, Outbound Marketing Manager at Tipalti. When demand gen organizations were flush with resources, we could afford tactics that today might feel reckless and random. This reality has generated what Howard refers to as more sales-oriented tactics.

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The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. Understand their needs, pain points, and decision-making processes.

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The Lead Agency

APRIL 28, 2020

The marketing funnel is a representation of the customer/buyer journey, from a sales/marketing perspective. So, how does the marketing funnel differ between B2B and B2C marketing ? The truth is, the stages of the marketing funnel don’t differ at all. In fact, the average B2B buying group is 5.4

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

In sales, as with any other field or practice, sometimes you need to think outside the box to come out on top. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. Our research has shown how much sales calls have changed in the last year. Longer sales cycles.

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Madison Logic

JUNE 14, 2023

The Challenge Rachel Simon, the Senior Manager of Demand Generation at AgentSync, is responsible for overseeing the company’s digital media, nurture programs, and account-based efforts.

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Varicent

MARCH 24, 2022

Ask any sales manager their most important job, and they’ll likely answer, “Hitting target.”. The smart ones will answer by adding, “Securing the sales pipeline to hit the target after that.”. What Exactly Is a Sales Pipeline? The Stages of Sales Pipeline. What’s the Importance of a Sales Pipeline?

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Seismic

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the past year alone, the sales process has undergone significant changes. As more business takes place in digital environments, customers are changing the way they interact with sales teams. Champion training for new sales activities.

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Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Most of the recommendations for improving Marketing and Sales alignment revolve around how these two organizations need to work together. Regardless of various approaches taken by companies to address this issue, the lack of alignment and collaboration between Marketing and Sales persists. Go-to-market strategy, process, and planning.

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Mereo

APRIL 1, 2021

Each competitor had created a marketing tool that might attract mid-level influencers online — but would never influence real action in a sales cycle. Salespeople need to cut to the chase with the benefits that differentiate them from the competition and drive the buyer to act. The calculations need to drive home the sale.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Marketing to professionals, such as doctors or lawyers, will often involve tactics borrowed from both sides. Companies that are looking for products or services with which to assist their own operations will typically have or assign a “product champion” to conduct research on solutions and manage the sales relationship.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2020

Now, sales and marketing want to increase customer engagement to make sure that their program is not cut as the C-suite looks to conserve cash. But, sales and marketing’s focus should have always been balanced between new and existing customer as sales cycles in existing accounts are at least 50% shorter than new accounts.

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xiQ

JANUARY 30, 2023

Adapt or Perish: The Evolution of B2B Sales in the Digital Age “The only constant in life is change” Heraclitus Greek philosopher This is especially true in the world of B2B sales and marketing these days. In the last 2 years in the post-pandemic world, B2B sales and marketing have drastically changed.

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Televerde

AUGUST 10, 2021

Whether you’re a small startup or large corporation, odds are your company focuses quite a bit on sales metrics. Sales velocity is one of the best ways to truly understand the effectiveness of your marketing and sales efforts as well as the overall health of your company. What is Sales Velocity? Assess Your Sales Process.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the fast-paced world of B2B marketing, businesses often face difficult times characterized by slowing win rates and longer buying cycles. One key strategy that can significantly impact B2B success in such times is sales enablement.

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Outreach

JUNE 22, 2021

Your sales reps forget about 50 percent of information they have just processed within the first 60 minutes. This isn't just specific to sales reps. It may not be a big deal if your reps forget their Netflix password. So how can you help all of your reps remember critical information on calls?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 23, 2022

Having powerful software is an undeniably critical component of any strong sales strategy. Fortunately, we did some digging to determine which areas of the sales cycle leaders are investing in most heavily for 2022 and beyond. So here's a breakdown of sales tech that can deliver quantifiable results for sales teams in 2022.

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Mereo

JULY 27, 2022

What is the last step of your sales cycle? Most B2B sales organizations will consider the job complete at the contract signature. Yet, if the true goal of sales is to Seek to Serve a buyer, the sales cycle is not over until the value promised is actually the value delivered. All seems to be in order here.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 31, 2018

I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. Drop the 18 tactics below. 18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Kick to the Curb in 2018.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Winning large business contracts leads to increased revenue — but selling solely to large enterprises isn’t necessarily sustainable for a sales strategy. SMBs differ from enterprises in clientele, goals, and needs, but stepping up your SMB sales game can eventually increase your revenue. Why Divide Enterprise and SMB Sales?

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

In this highly competitive and saturated market, SaaS companies must continuously meet their KPIs, drive customers down the B2B funnel, and ensure they stand out from their competition. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Increasing sales with enterprise customers starts here — find out how to build custom solutions. Case in point: 40% of CMO Council members agree that improving GTM processes are top priority. To keep sales and marketing alignment intact, implementing key performance indicators (KPIs) is important with room for future development.

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Lake One

JULY 18, 2023

One such strategy is leveraging the power of HubSpot , a comprehensive marketing, sales, and customer service platform. In order to thrive in such an environment, manufacturers need to overcome these challenges and differentiate themselves from competitors. The transformative power of HubSpot for manufacturing is evident.

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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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Seismic

AUGUST 25, 2019

.” – Peter Drucker, father of modern management theory. ‘Sales efficiency’ and ‘sales effectiveness’ sound like vague concepts, but they can actually have a significant impact on the success of your sales strategy. If you can improve sales productivity, then why wouldn’t you?

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Tiecas

MARCH 15, 2024

Imagine an industrial marketing strategic roadmap with a laser-sharp focus, a plan that directly aligns with your sales goals and delivers a predictable flow of qualified leads. What if you could stop wasting time and money on random tactics and transform your marketing into a true growth driver?

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 28, 2022

You’ve done your research, bravely picked up the phone to make the first sales call of the day, and on the other end of the line, you’re met with crushing sales objections that stop you dead in your tracks. What Is a Sales Objection? How to Overcome Common Sales Objections 2.1 Is This a Sales Call?” Contents 1.

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Hubspot

APRIL 12, 2021

When it comes to sales, some might think the only difference between sales roles is the product you’re selling. However, enterprise sales strategy differs vastly from self-service, SMB (small-medium business), or mid-market sales. To build trust, your sales team needs to custom-fit their processes for each customer.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 26, 2024

Next up is the crucial moment: passing the baton to the sales team, set to dash to the finish line, er, close. This is the thrust of converting marketing qualified leads to sales qualified leads (MQL vs. SQL). Fortunately, knowing the right strategies and a few expert tips will help ensure sales success.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2015, my team has conducted vendor-agnostic primary research into high-performance account-based sales and marketing strategies. We’ve uncovered that one of the primary determinants of revenue impact for these elite high-performers is the process for account selection — 63% use a data-driven rationale to identify targets.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog equips you with 50 common sales objections, categorized for easy reference, along with effective responses to turn those objections into stepping stones towards closing the deal. Ask clarifying questions to understand their current processes and identify potential areas where your product can improve efficiency or effectiveness.

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PureB2B

MARCH 5, 2019

As anyone in sales or marketing knows, there are plenty of issues that can derail everything from a campaign funnel to a prospect’s buying decision. Check out these follow-up tactics to revitalize your cold leads. You’ll also have to find out where you lost them along the sales funnel , so you can pick up where you left off.

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