Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. Here’s the thing, in a HubSpot survey, only 7% of salespeople said leads they received from marketing were very high quality.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

Automation 252

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 26, 2017

And from where I stand -- as the manager of an inside sales team -- one thing is clear. The standard process for SDRs or BDRs (whatever your organization calls them) of sending out sequenced emails, calling, leaving voicemails, rinse and repeat? And if you’re a manager, here’s what you should be teaching to your team.

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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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SmartBug Media

JUNE 12, 2020

While traditional inbound marketing casts a wide net of blogs, e-books, white papers, and emails in an effort to attract visitors from search engines, account-based marketing (ABM) is more like spearfishing, where you identify exactly who you want to target and land as an account—and then you go hunting. What will sales outreach look like?

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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.

B2B Sales 128

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Martech

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Timed to coincide with the opening of this year’s virtual Inbound conference today, HubSpot has announced CRM enhancements designed to make their offering more customer-centric. It also announced the launch of open beta for a new HubSpot Payments solution. CRM enhancements. Payments, available to U.S. Doubling down on CRM.

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FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They are part of strategic SaaS marketing campaigns that understand the different stages of the sales funnel. This post explores landing pages in the context of the SaaS funnel buyer stages: Awareness, Activation/Purchase, and Expansion/Upsell. For inspiration, HubSpot offers many examples of best practices for landing pages.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Intent is the lifeblood of sales. In the fiercely competitive B2B sales landscape, where businesses are vying to paint in lime green, standing out can be daunting. Learn how to leverage intent data for sales and craft the perfect sales strategy to increase your ROI and achieve sales targets.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? In this B2B marketing strategy framework, we provide insights on how to develop a manageable strategy for an early market team. Having ICPs clearly defined helps your sales and marketing teams to understand which businesses would make great prospects.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 24, 2019

Both sales and marketing want their pipelines to be overflowing with leads at all times, and more importantly, they want the right leads that are most likely to convert into revenue-generating customers. So, how can your brand break through the noise and bring in those quality leads that sales wants? Top of the Funnel.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

Automation 130

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Envy

MARCH 4, 2021

These B2B lead nurturing nuggets will help you tweak your funnel for better results. When you find them apply the same tactics and rules to similar contacts who've just entered your lead nurturing funnel. Seek out funnel leaks and work to plug them. Seek out funnel leaks and work to plug them.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. This trend has certainly added more twists and turns to the buying process. Peer Influence and its Effects on the B2B Buying Process.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This enables data-driven decisions in creating landing pages, registration processes, and website copy. B2B organizations must also consider how content pieces fit different sales funnel stages. For example, create and optimize top-of-the-funnel content for a wider audience. Awareness-driven reputation management.

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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.

B2B Sales 78

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In this blog post, we’ll talk about four steps to take to set scalable lead nurture workflows in HubSpot, so that all of your contacts are being touched with relevant content that moves them closer toward a purchase. Buying Process: What steps does this person take before purchasing a solution? Know Your Personas. Audit Your Content.

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Kaon

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The Unified Business Model (The Future of Sales & Marketing) by Oliver Lopez from Structsales. 80% of leads converted are never turned into sales. One organization (Sales and marketing working together). One process. Hope you learned something from my series of posts. What is the unified business model?

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What is now ‘generally available’ in the platform amounts mainly to productivity improvements for go-to-market professionals, with embedded AI prompts that can automate or remove common steps in common GTM workflows — a tactical improvement to the platform. This is still a very new process today, and somewhat manual.

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2023

You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Even if you do, the pushiness is a turnoff and you might buy the product elsewhere or through a different sales rep. For a great sales call, it's key for agents to be knowledgeable about company offerings, conversational, and respectful.

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Hubspot

JULY 13, 2023

AI is increasingly becoming a natural addition to daily workflows across sales and revenue departments. 79% of sales professionals who use AI say AI tools are an important addition to their overall sales strategy, according to our State of AI survey. But what brings about these AI concerns in sales?

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BOP Design

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To use personalization or automation in B2B sales, that is the quandary, or discussion, or battle depending on the parties involved. Benefits of Automation in the Sales Process. Utilizing a CRM like Pardot or HubSpot ensures you are on task with prospecting, communication and follow up with your leads. Brand Awareness.

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Hubspot

JUNE 15, 2022

But while paper checks have one foot in the grave, eChecks are alive and thriving. To make sure all that money gets where it’s supposed to, the eCheck process takes several steps: Payment Authorization - First, the customer enters their bank account information and authorizes payment. Benefits of eCheck Payment Processing.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The first believes that demand-generation is superior, and that marketers should avoid gating content assets that can create friction in the marketing funnel. Giving everything away for free may build brand equity, lead-gen advocates argue, but doing so deprives a sales team of qualified leads that can drive revenue.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Even in mature businesses, it’s tempting to funnel a lot of budget into short-term, paid campaigns for quick wins. Paid is straightforward, it’s sexy (to non-marketing executives, at least), and it’s a simple sell internally when navigating the budgeting process because of the instantly measurable ROI.

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Strategic-IC

DECEMBER 2, 2020

What is sales enablement? Sales enablement has recently surged in popularity, experiencing a 343% increase in adoption over the last 5 years. And the impact of a sales enablement strategy? 65% of Sales leaders with a dedicated sales enablement team outperform against revenue targets. So what is sales enablement?

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nDash

MAY 26, 2022

With trends changing rapidly in the digital space, identifying technologies B2B marketers should use for managing their content marketing is challenging. eBooks, guides, and white papers. HubSpot’s Marketing & Analytics. HubSpot’s Email Marketing Tools. Content Management Services. Google Analytics.

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nDash

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With over 100,000 active users in 120 countries, the HubSpot ecosystem is an enormous market. The inbound marketing, sales, and service software boasts nearly six thousand partner agencies and service providers. If your business is looking to capitalize on this potential, read on for six expert HubSpot writers on nDash.

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ClickZ

JULY 30, 2020

Then, you need to review your sales process to see how your company can benefit from marketing automation. It does not do you any good if you are going to buy robust software and not have the right people and processes in place to fully utilize it. Review the sales process. B2C company: Local dry cleaner.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Sales Role Play Exercises. Sales Role Plays. The same concept can apply in sales. Guidelines: Write down the most extreme negotiating situations you’ve ever experienced (tight deadline, massive deal, legal complications, and so forth) on pieces of paper. Shuffle the papers and randomly pick one. The prospect.

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Hubspot

MARCH 18, 2020

How much time does a sales rep actually spend, you know. It's a question I've often asked myself while managing busy sales and marketing teams. And the answer is somewhat disappointing — sales reps spend less time in the field than we'd like to think. Benefits of Sales Automation. HubSpot Sales Hub.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While there are many reasons why a business fails, one major one is the inability to sustain successful processes as your organization grows rapidly. And, as you begin to scale, your sales team will be one of the first teams you'll want to ensure are prepped for the increase in demand.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In today’s world of digital transformation, customers have come to expect streamlined and easy processes for every interaction they have with a company – and are willing to go elsewhere when those needs aren’t met. Because of this, you’re losing precious time and revenue to clunky processes that leave your teams and customers frustrated.

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2023

The situation has put a strain on management resources and forced a lot of seasoned marketers back to completing entry-level tasks, especially in areas like content production — rather than strategic planning or performance optimization. with custom personalization in outreach to prospects, helping the productivity of sales reps.

Marketing AI 88

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Full Circle Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to HubSpot , 70% of marketers reported using ABM last year, which is a 15% increase from the prior year. By personalizing the approach to specific accounts, companies using ABM show their prospects that they understand the challenges they’re facing, which increases engagement and leads to more sales. Download eBook.

Account Based Marketing 98

Account Based Marketing ABM Full Circle Insights Ideal Customer Profiles 98

Strategic-IC

DECEMBER 2, 2020

What is sales enablement? Sales enablement has recently surged in popularity, experiencing a 343% increase in adoption over the last 5 years. And the impact of a sales enablement strategy? 65% of Sales leaders with a dedicated sales enablement team outperform against revenue targets. So what is sales enablement?

Statistics 101

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Martech

JULY 27, 2023

Jen Bergren has been breaking down HubSpot releases for us since May 2022. As head of operations at a HubSpot RevOps and WebOps agency and a teacher at the HubSpot Academy, she’s the ideal person to explain HubSpot innovations in a language everyone can understand. Q: How did HubSpot come into your life?

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