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Moving Upmarket: SMB to Enterprise—What Does Your Marketing Plan Need?

SmartBug Media

In most situations when seeking out enterprise clients, you should expect a longer sales cycle—especially when you’re talking about a larger potential deal size. This is crucial for your sales/marketing teams to anticipate so you can plan your touch points and develop properly timed lead nurture workflows.

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How the Buyer's Journey is Changing in 2023 and 7 Ways to Keep Up, According to G2's Director of SMB Sales [+ New Data]

Hubspot

Sharing stories that directly tie into your prospect's needs throughout the entire sales cycle is critical. Request reviews on social media or through newsletters. Buscemi adds, "I think we'll move to a method where it's the individual's expertise in the space that makes or breaks the sales cycle.".

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We’ve Seen a 117% Increase in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Researching AI Solutions. Here’s Why Marketers Need to Capture Their Attention

Madison Logic

According to Gartner , SMBs are defined as organizations with 100 to 999 employees. Another criterion commonly used to determine the SMB market is annual revenue: small businesses typically have less than $50 million in annual revenue, while midsize enterprises have annual revenue ranging from over $50 million to less than $1 billion.

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Fresh Insights in Selling to SMBs

Biznology

Despite the attention given to large enterprise marketing, it’s small and medium businesses (SMB) where the bulk of marketing investments go. SMB is where there’s enough volume to do plenty of testing. You’ve got a tighter decision-making unit and shorter sales cycles. And you’ve got a lot of company.

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Digital-first Small Businesses Are Better Prepared for the Future

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Marketers and sales teams look to the web and social media to find their next prospects. Remote and hybrid work, increased adoption of ecommerce, and leveraging social media to expand audience and customer base are just a few examples of how digital-first SMBs leaned into technology when doing business in person wasn’t possible.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual.

The ROI Guy

Thursday, January 20, 2011 New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advisor EMC wanted a quick way for small / medium business IT executives and buyers to quantify how virtualized data center solutions could help drive capital cost savings, operations and application management savings and improved resiliency. Latest Research.

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5 leading providers of enterprise marketing automation solutions

ClickZ

Social Media Today’s 2019 State of Marketing Automation survey revealed that two-thirds of marketers are currently using at least one type of marketing automation tool, while a Salesforce survey found that 67% of marketing leaders currently use a marketing automation platform. The global marketing automation software market was $2.4