Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If you’re tired of Zoom calls but would still like to expand your skill set, consider taking advantage of these five professional development resources. Self-guided training resources eliminate this problem by allowing you to consume content, take tests, and earn certifications at your own pace during moments you feel ready to learn.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Businesses have a wealth of options for promoting their solutions to boost sales. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. You’re more likely to sell a solution with the right content than with aggressive sales tactics. Quick Takeaways.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Gaining greater insights into sales and marketing data has been a consistent theme in many recent conversations with our customers, and it’s a topic that ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck believes in passionately. Fortunately, there are many steps businesses can take toward modernizing their GTM strategy, even with limited resources.

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B2B Digital Marketer

MARCH 28, 2024

In this episode, you’ll learn: The myths surrounding B2B paid ads and the truths that dispel them. Quality over Quantity: Focus on generating high-quality leads in B2B marketing, as converting even one high-ticket sale can significantly impact revenue. How to set up a robust analytics foundation for your campaigns.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your next sales kickoff or training event is going virtual for 2021. And as with any year, you’ll likely focus on soft skills, the sales process and using new technologies. Help Your Remote Sales Team Shine An all-in-one video selling resource to support your strategic planning, SKO, and ongoing enablement.

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Training Top of Funnel Resources Work Management 65

Top Rank Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are two competing questions in search marketing that may not have obvious answers: Why spend money on a Google Ads campaign if I can just rank organically? Why try to rank organically if I can just run a Google Ads campaign? What is the difference between Google Ads and SEO?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 31, 2024

Key Steps Ghostwrite an executive email : The sales team can tee C-level officers up for success by drafting key outreach messaging for them — an open-ended ask for help with the account becomes one more to-do on their already busy calendar, but a compelling outreach draft makes approval and sending easy. Schuck says. “If I’m not the AE.”

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InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

Sales is the Growth Engine. Sales is the engine driving SaaS company value. Top and bottom line performance are totally dependent on the sales organization and its performance. And sales expense is typically the largest expense item on a growth SaaS company’s income statement. Typical SaaS Sales Metrics.

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Biznology

JUNE 28, 2019

Implementing an employee advocacy program has a slew of benefits for your marketing team, but you might be surprised to hear it helps your human resources department as well. Sure, you can use employee advocacy to promote marketing content, product announcements, events and more, but it can also help your human resources department.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 5, 2024

Allocating resources and setting a budget that reflects your content marketing goals is like having a GPS for your content strategy — it keeps everything on track. The question is, how do you budget for success and allocate resources to align with your content marketing goals? Content creation. Content distribution.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The more team members you onboard, the more important it becomes to keep up with the best training resources out there. We’ve gathered 32 of the best social media training resources and courses to help keep your growing team up-to-speed and yourself up-to-date. Free social media marketing training and resources. Level: Beginner.

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Social Media Training Course Resources 110

Martech

JANUARY 16, 2024

Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to marketers. From incorrect account suspensions to sales calls “aggressively” pushing automation to confusion over the platform’s products, advertisers are exasperated by the lack of help from Google. And the problem only seems to be getting worse.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. But what happens after that initial spark of interest?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Channel sales — or selling through partners — represents 75% of the world’s commerce, according to Forrester. This approach helps companies accelerate sales and grow revenue without adding to their headcount, a move that’s increasingly important during economic uncertainty. What you’ll learn: What is channel sales?

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Sales enablement is the advocate, teacher, and behind-the-scenes supporter of sales teams. Because there are endless strategies to achieve this, I’ve narrowed them down to the four most important sales enablement best practices—content curation, partnerships, early collaboration, and continuous improvement. Produced Videos 1.2

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 19, 2021

Success not only requires a solid inbound strategy, but it also requires deep knowledge of the latest best practices in marketing, content, and design.Lucky for us, there are tons of marketing resources out there for B2B marketers looking for ways to improve performance and move the needle for their company or organization. Smart Insights.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 18, 2022

Ad hoc marketing can not only be ineffective, it can also have a negative impact on your business. Without this, your ad hoc marketing is doing more harm than good for your business. As a result, there is still tension between sales and marketing. Develop a sales cycle with a buyer’s journey map.

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Paid Search Agency Ads Planning Top of Funnel 120

Hubspot

JUNE 17, 2020

As a marketer, these figures prove that businesses should invest in Google shopping ads. Google shopping ads, the ads that appear on the search engine results page when someone is searching for a product, can be confusing to set up. Featured Resource: Google Ads Planning Template. One campaign and one ad group.

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Paid Search Agency Google Ads Marketing & Strategy 101

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 118

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That pressure to move fast and test things is even more critical for sales-centered organizations. The sales process and toolset has been impacted more heavily than almost any other business unit. AI has become a key ingredient to the modern sales strategy. Humans will always be important to the sales process.

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Digilant

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the last installment of our 2024 Partner Predictions series, we met with Crissie Perez, Head of South, Midwest, and West Emerging Sales, at Samsung Ads to discuss her predictions for CTV advertising in 2024 and beyond. Thank you Crissie and the Samsung Ads team for your time and insights! Let’s dive in.

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BenchmarkONE

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Sales gurus have taken to the internet to espouse their wisdom, but sometimes their writings come off as a little preachy or out of touch. So, let’s look at a series of trainings and inspirational sales leaders that are true to their promise—their guidance can help your business find new areas of sales and success.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So, what is the first thing that occurs to you when you start brainstorming about your B2B sales strategy? What are the latest challenges in B2B sales strategies ? The latest B2B sales challenges include: Difficulty in reaching decision makers and engaging with them effectively. But why do these B2B sales strategies falter?

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Contently

MARCH 26, 2021

According to eMarketer , display ad spending is expected to grow a whopping 24 percent this year to over $80 billion. First, that you don’t work in ad-tech (if you do, this post is probably going to p**s you off). Because humans almost universally dislike display ads. Not all digital ads are made the same.

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Top of Funnel Display Paid Search Agency Ads 196

Tiecas

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. Industrial marketing for manufacturers offers solutions that allow us to maximize our resources.

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Top of Funnel Lead Generation Advertising Agencies Lead Scoring 104

SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To skyrocket the numbers, sales reps make use of various sales tools available in the market. Some of them are free while others are paid – but all bring in enormous value to the sales process. Investing in a random sales tool is a waste of time, money and effort. What are Sales Tools? Why Use Sales Tools?

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Optinmonster

MARCH 8, 2021

Do you want to know how to optimize Facebook ads but not sure where to get started? Facebook ads can be one of the biggest assets to growing your company. But, if not set up correctly, these ads can also be more costly than their worth. That’s because Facebook ads are incredibly competitive. Let’s get started.

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Paid Search Agency Facebook Optimization Ads 124

Martech

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Programmatic ad campaigns live and die on getting customer segmentation right. We asked Annamarie Andrews, VP for global marketing at Cielo , an international talent acquisition partner, to walk us through two programmatic B2B ad campaigns — how they did it and what they learned along the way. Brand is the long game.

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Paid Search Agency Ads Campaigns Account Based Marketing 109

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 15, 2023

But the more is more approach doesn’t work when other resources, like budget, dry up. Businesses are frantically seeking opportunities to boost efficiency and become more productive with fewer resources. But marketing and sales teams can only be efficient if they have a trusted strategy behind their efforts. And it isn’t alone.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Efficiency Allocation Top of Funnel 102

ATAK Interactive

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Sales Enablement is a simple concept with a big impact on the future of B2B marketing. In this episode of B2B Marketing Agency Insights, Austin LaRoche, CEO of ATAK Interactive, breaks down how Sales Enablement has grown into an important tool for sales teams and how you can equip your team with the resources they need to close more deals.

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Martech

APRIL 10, 2024

One scathing review or a whiff of buyer’s remorse on social media can hurt a company’s reputation faster than a retargeted ad. Marketing this then becomes a conversation, not a sales pitch. They share design tips, tutorials and user-generated content, establishing themselves as a thought leader and a trusted resource.

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Work Management Marketing Management Product Differentiation 105

Brandpoint

JUNE 4, 2020

Prior to Farmer’s Fridge, Liz spent time working at an ad agency creating email strategies for brands like Crate & Barrel. Liz will be speaking virtually at the SMSS on the topic “Producing Consistent Content with Limited Resources for Small Businesses.” AKA, most of us!) Because there is so much work to be done!

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Binary Demand

MAY 6, 2024

[ps2id id=’introduction’ target=”/]The B2B SaaS sales process typically spans around six months on average, with nearly half of all cycles lasting seven months or more. Lead qualification is crucial for concentrating sales efforts on the most promising prospects each day.

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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. Our head of sales also has two primary KPIs: new revenue and CR from SQL to the client. Why did we choose these KPIs?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MAY 31, 2024

The business of wholesale telecom sales is fundamentally transforming. For example, a major national telecommunications provider has expanded their offerings with an extensive fiber network, but now has the challenge of optimizing management and sales of this new infrastructure across multiple states.

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Martech

DECEMBER 6, 2021

We recommend documenting your lead lifecycle process, which typically begins when a person is a new prospect engaging with marketing and tracks them as they move through sales qualification and then towards a signed contract for a services engagement. What about adding new tech to your stack? Credit: Perkuto. Source: Lucidchart.

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Resources Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Advertising Agencies 97

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. Distinguishing and securing deals can often feel like navigating a complex pattern — wasting valuable time and resources. Wondering why people buy?

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