Only B2B

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The age-old conflict between sales and marketing appears to always come down to one thing: leads. While marketing teams have historically been judged on the amount of demand they drive, sales teams are frequently seeking for more quality prospects to sell to. Both your sales and marketing teams are in charge of capturing leads.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 15, 2022

In today’s fast-paced sales race, no matter how great your product or service is, your business will find it difficult to survive without high-quality leads. Defining Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) for your company can be achieved through a collaboration between sales and marketing.

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Ledger Bennett

MAY 7, 2020

Have you ever wondered how sales and marketing fit together? What someone meant when they talked about the funnel? Well, we’ve put together a complete guide for you to learn all about the two different types of funnels we utilize daily. What is a Marketing Funnel? Marketing Funnel Stages: Top vs Bottom.

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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. If we’re not going to spend on new technology and new programs, what can we do better to generate better results?” This reality has generated what Howard refers to as more sales-oriented tactics.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The efficiency and effectiveness of your sales team directly reflect on the success of your company. To counteract this problem, sales leaders need to find ways to identify possible sales challenges and their solutions quickly before your next sales meeting. Long sales cycles. Disagreement about new processes.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Directive Agency

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With customer generation at the forefront of B2B SaaS goals, it’s pertinent for Marketing to work with Sales to create the best environment for successful paid media strategies. Marketing and Sales are part of a detailed process that work towards generating leads. LinkedIn Leads Do Not Always Equal MQLs.

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Envy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

With 645 million members worldwide , LinkedIn is officially the best place on the planet to network in the professional space. Using LinkedIn's lead generation tools smartly can set your company apart in a crowded cyber security ecosystem. Best Practices for Ads on LinkedIn. LinkedIn LeadGen Forms vs. Landing Pages.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These posed nightmares including inaccurate data, conflicting information and slow processing times. How can it be useful for your lead generation efforts? Mailchimp focuses on email marketing, Unbounce manages landing pages and forms and Google Analytics looks at website tracking. What is marketing automation?

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? Sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. What is Video for Sales? Benefits of Video for Sales Emails 2.1 Benefits of Video for Sales Emails 2.1

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In a landscape where marketing teams are grappling with cutting-edge concepts like generative AI , new search engines and LLM-driven content personalisation , those who fail to get the basics right will find themselves at a significant disadvantage. Effectively running always-on, full-funnel campaigns. Honing SEO skills.

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MKT1

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Many founders, sales leaders, product leaders, and even marketers themselves think B2B marketing teams are just a service organization to sales—marketing only exists to generate leads this quarter. Marketing > Sales handoff templates (and lots of other templates) for paid subscribers below.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Sure, your cost per lead might be cheap, but your cost per marketing-qualified lead (MQL) will skyrocket,” says Colin Chang, a marketing programs manager at ZoomInfo. “Native targeting is okay in some cases, but there are so many ways to make it better,” says Mitchell Hanson, senior director of demand generation at ZoomInfo.

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Metadata

APRIL 21, 2021

We’re tired of the fluffy content in our LinkedIn feeds, with no real substance or actionable takeaways. And giving you new, actionable tactics to implement today. Three ways to lower your CPL on LinkedIn. If you don’t understand how LinkedIn and the algorithm works, you’re bound to fail. It’s worth it.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2023 and beyond, it’s imperative to keep everyone’s favorite tactics in mind but only invest in the ones putting closed-won deals in your pocket. The only way to do that is by building a data-driven demand generation engine. Using these tactics without regard for company dynamics and marketing maturity is reckless.

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Valasys

JUNE 4, 2020

On the 2 nd of June 2020, LinkedIn through its marketing blog announced some new retargeting options to allow the marketers to make their customer interactions more personalized and turn more clicks into actual customers. How Retargeting by Video Views & Lead Generation Forms will Help the Marketers Reach the Right Professionals.

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SalesIntel

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Every sales funnel depends on leads to scale. How can you stand out from the crowd when there are so many businesses fighting for sales leads? We will go over all you need to know about B2B lead generation. The guide includes: Follow the Proven B2B Lead Generation Strategy. Generate Leads from Your Webinars.

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Vision6

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Businesses can identify their most promising prospects by assigning numerical values to leads and tailoring marketing and sales efforts accordingly. Businesses with effective lead generation processes experience a 133% increase in revenue. What is the lead scoring process? How to build a B2B lead scoring model?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

While there are countless KPIs you could track, we’re laying out the ones specifically tailored for demand generation marketers. Let’s take a look at the primary channels to generate demand: email, paid social, content syndication, webinars and direct mail — and which KPIs you should track for each channel.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

B2B list building is the foundation upon which successful B2B lead generation campaigns are built. This targeted approach significantly enhances the efficiency of lead generation efforts, allowing businesses to focus their resources on prospects with genuine potential. Automating the process can significantly alleviate this challenge.

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Directive Agency

JULY 23, 2020

For many business-to-business (B2B) software organizations, paid advertising is essential to generating leads and driving revenue. Through paid channels, marketers are able to segment and target audiences more precisely, leading to higher conversion rates and ultimately, more sales. What is B2B advertising? Awareness.

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DiscoverOrg

APRIL 14, 2017

Your sales team is doing double duty: They’re selling to the leads delivered by your marketing department—and they’re de facto researchers. According to a CSO Insights survey, 82% of sales teams feel challenged by the amount of data available and the time it takes to research a prospect before making a call.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 14, 2020

Amid the day to day progression of the coronavirus, companies are seeing one of their major lead generation programs dry up – event marketing. Add to that the fact that many prospects are cancelling face-to-face sales meetings as companies mandate social distancing. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs/Appointments) – Another Alternative.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

By Sheena McKinney , Sales Pipeline Radio Producer If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. My job is to generate business impact.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 26, 2023

Companies use B2B data to understand other firms better, make better decisions, develop new business prospects, and support marketing and sales teams. B2B data is often comprised of a list or database of individual contacts with various data points that may be utilized for various sales and marketing operations.

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SalesIntel

JANUARY 15, 2024

Companies use B2B data to understand other firms better, make better decisions, develop new business prospects, and support marketing and sales teams. B2B data is often comprised of a list or database of individual contacts with various data points that may be utilized for various sales and marketing operations.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Paid Search Agency Marketing Qualified Leads 52

Vidyard

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? They are overwhelmed and busy and sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. Watch and Learn Want to learn about using video in sales emails via video?

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6sense

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

According to a LinkedIn poll last week, just 26 percent of B2B marketers have migrated from a lead-based to an account-based go to market motion, including dashboards. I’ve seen so many companies happy with their inside sales teams measuring dials and talk time. MQL just becomes a leading indicator. Gina Hortatsos ).

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? They are overwhelmed and busy and sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. What is Video for Sales? Benefits of Video for Sales Emails 2.1

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Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 65

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Demand generation just isn’t a subset of marketing. The majority of B2B marketers still think about demand generation as a series of tactics, rather than a larger marketing strategy. We’ll walk you through our approach to creating a winning B2B demand generation strategy. What is B2B demand generation?

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Belkins

OCTOBER 4, 2020

MQL, SQL…Some people who are only starting with their B2B marketing efforts are probably thinking that appointment-setting involves complicated programming languages. However, you do need a deeper knowledge of leads and how to ensure that only the most relevant sales leads are flowing through your pipeline. What are MQL and SQL?

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

You can follow him on twitter @brandon_lee_09 or connect with him on LinkedIn. Account-Based Sales Development. Our interview with Brandon Redlinger, Engagio’s Director of Growth, simplifies the details of how to implement ABE from account-based metrics to processes and team alignment. Account-Based Marketing. Check it out!

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Marketing 261

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The original video interview with Alex Field highlighting how to reverse engineer your marketing funnel lives on Leadsift’s Linkedin page. Reverse Engineer Your Marketing Funnel. Spinning up a reverse funnel will instill that sales, marketing, and the company are working towards the same thing — that BIG revenue number.

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6sense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A marketing qualified lead (MQL). A sales qualified lead (SQL). According to the latest Hubspot report , lead generation is a top priority for marketers around the world in 2021. It can be a LinkedIn user you have found via search or someone who has left a question on Quora and needs help. A sales qualified lead (SQL).

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The Marketing Blender

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The 11 undeniable benefits of marketing automation for B2B sales and marketing teams. Examples can be as complex as lead generation campaigns and email nurture campaigns, or as simple as scheduling social media posts in advance. Improve your sales and marketing alignment. Define and refine your marketing processes.

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PureB2B

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you've ever wondered if your sales prospecting efforts were a waste of time, you're not alone. The truth is, you’re going to experience this situation more than a few times in your sales career. That’s because not all sales leads are created equal. That’s because not all sales leads are created equal.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Sales and marketing have always been a bit of an odd couple – think Tom and Jerry. Sales people tend to have Type A personalities and we marketers tend to be Type B. Obviously a generalization, but you know what I’m saying. In most cases, sales and marketing teams want to be aligned but getting aligned is the challenge.

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