Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hey, Marketing. Is your team going in the same direction as sales development and sales? B2B marketing and sales can use swim lanes to map and track their responsibilities — from qualifying marketing leads to closing deals. In other words, swim lanes are a way to align your sales and marketing teams.

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Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 214

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? It’s not the biggest issue, right?

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Webbiquity

JULY 21, 2020

There’s a lot of excitement and new technology developing around artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing. Here’s what you need to know, along with several tools that can help you enhance your marketing efforts with AI today. Myth #1: AI is going to take my marketing job. 10 AI-Based Marketing and Sales Tools.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 13, 2022

Although both marketers and sales personnel strive to provide an optimal customer experience, new research shows that their misalignment may be holding them back. In the year ahead, 28% of marketers stated that they would like to align the marketing and sales teams.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Understanding sales means comprehending the roots of the profession as well as looking ahead to the future of sales strategies. While basic philosophies still stand the test of time, social media tools and video-based platforms have turned sales into a totally new ballgame. Guest post by Sean Gordon. 1: Start At The Beginning.

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Work Management Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 309

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

Top of Funnel 207

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Sales Cycle Cross-Selling 207

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2021

Are you using empathy in your marketing ? Because marketing isn’t something you do to people; it’s something you do with people. The problem with modern sales and marketing. I see with marketing (and sales) this: we get clinical and treat our customers as objects to convert rather than people who need help.

Paid Search Agency 291

Paid Search Agency B2B Sales Marketing & Strategy CMO 291

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.

Top of Funnel 281

Top of Funnel Deliverability Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services 281

Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2020

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads. And in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place.

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Tactics Marketing Generation Leads 264

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 15, 2024

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing B2B purchases are complex, involving multiple decision-makers, each with specific needs. 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.

Top of Funnel 107

Top of Funnel Work Management Verticals Marketing Management 107

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?

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Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs Ad Frequency Work Management 116

Varicent

MARCH 5, 2024

In the past two decades, Sales Performance Management technology has undergone a remarkable transformation – from calculator to dot connector. We were fortunate to host a seasoned sales vet who has actively participated in it all – Varicent’s very own Product Marketing leader James Mulligan.

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Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2020

Businesses recognize the value of email marketing. It’s the most widely used tactic, and 59% of B2B marketers say email is their most effective channel in terms of revenue generation. But with so many different email marketing tools available, how do you pick the right one for your business? Constant Contact.

Marketing Automation Services 282

Marketing Automation Services Email Marketing Marketing Management Tools 282

Martech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While business development representatives (BDRs) were always associated with sales, more and more companies have started integrating them into their marketing departments. A recent study found that such alignment brings 208% more value from marketing with 108% less effort. Marketing efforts also generate leads.

Lead Ranking 116

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Scoring ROMI 116

Martech

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While businesses value the synergy between marketing, sales and product teams in theory, they often struggle to create a cohesive atmosphere and deliver seamless customer experiences in practice. For example, my primary KPIs as a head of marketing at Belkins are CAC and new revenue. Why did we choose these KPIs?

Top of Funnel 125

Top of Funnel Planning Product Ad Frequency 125

Benchmark Email

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite the rise of social media and other messaging platforms, email marketing continues to offer unparalleled return on investment, direct access to a targeted audience, and personalized communication options that can significantly boost sales figures. But how do you connect A to B?

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Email Marketing Advertising Benchmark Social Media Marketing 98

Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

John Leonelli is head of sales, B2B Americas, at Babbel, a company that provides subscription-based language learning software and an e-learning platform. They recently moved into the American market, where companies of all sizes are looking for help with Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish language skills.

Ideal Customer Profiles 117

Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Marketing Automation 117

Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. It means missing out on important buying signals, wasting money on generating leads, and ultimately losing out on potential sales. Benchmarking Your Success: Where Do You Stand?

Marketing Qualified Leads 71

Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads High Quality Lead 71

Full Circle Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Our first official fall webinar focused on uniting marketing and sales to drive revenue growth. I mean, how many times have we all talked about marketing and sales “interlock”? This webinar addresses some of the underlying issues that sales and marketing teams encounter when working together.

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Multi-Touch Attribution Top of Funnel Full Circle Insights Sales Qualified Leads 98

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing It’s no secret marketing and sales are equally critical to your go-to-market success. But sometimes, things go off track, and marketing and sales operate in their own silos causing them to be misaligned in the way they attract and acquire new customers.

Top of Funnel 116

Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 116

ClickDimensions

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Many small to medium businesses (SMBs) often grapple with one common challenge: disjointed sales and marketing communications. The Impact of Disjointed Communications Inconsistent Messaging One of the most significant repercussions of misaligned sales and marketing communications is inconsistent messaging.

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SMB Cross-Selling Buyer Personas Marketing Management 110

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 15, 2021

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. What is Sales and Marketing Alignment? As Matt Heinz says – there is No Sale without Marketing and No Marketing without Sales. For a greater marketing conversion, you need an efficient sales program.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Planning 136

ATAK Interactive

MAY 26, 2022

There’s a reason why talk about marketing and sales team alignment is all the rage right now. Read on to break down the top 5 challenges facing marketing and sales teams as they try to align, as well as a few solutions for making team alignment a reality.

Account Based Marketing 147

Account Based Marketing Lead Gen ABM Marketing & Strategy 147

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 31, 2023

Ask questions “Be curious, not judgmental” Create a long-term plan for your new alignment Discover resources for Salesblazers and Moment Marketers One of the most well-known issues in business is the lack of alignment between sales and marketing. How many leads will marketing deliver to sales each month?

Marketing Qualified Leads 98

Marketing Qualified Leads Practices Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 98

Biznology

AUGUST 2, 2021

The yawning gulf between sales and marketing is a fact of life in B2B companies. We grab onto new strategies like account based marketing (ABM) in the hope that this will be, at last, where the two functions will finally work together in harmony. Sales owns the P&L. We all know this. I don’t have the whole answer.

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B2B Digital Marketer

APRIL 11, 2024

He brings a wealth of experience from the B2B enterprise sales space, having managed complex sales in the tens of millions of dollars. The conversation delves into the importance of processes in data-driven marketing and sales in the B2B realm. The impact of timely engagement on high-value B2B sales.

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Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

Those in marketing and sales will have different requirements to those in retention and credit control. Then Go Into Finer Detail Get specific, and close in what’s needed for your sales process to run smoothly. How Do You Create a Buyer Persona? Then open up the discussion… Start On the Big Picture Factors Start large.

Buyer Personas 52

Buyer Personas B2B Sales B2B Marketing Planning 52

Lead Forensics

APRIL 18, 2024

Those in marketing and sales will have different requirements to those in retention and credit control. Then Go Into Finer Detail Get specific, and close in what’s needed for your sales process to run smoothly. How Do You Create a Buyer Persona? Then open up the discussion… Start On the Big Picture Factors Start large.

Buyer Personas 52

Buyer Personas B2B Sales B2B Marketing Planning 52

Visitor Queue

DECEMBER 2, 2023

No matter the industry you are in, or where you are located in the world, as marketers we are always looking for new ways to increase sales. But, with the market constantly changing, it’s difficult to figure out where to invest your time and money in order to increase B2B sales.

B2B Sales 72

B2B Sales B2B Marketing B2B Marketing & Strategy 72

Markempa

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Yet, it highlighted a persistent challenge: the critical need for teamwork in sales and marketing teamwork. The familiar narrative of misaligned marketing and sales teams swapping complaints is all too common, and frankly, it’s a narrative we need to change. Just returned from a industry summit, and it was a blast.

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