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Approaching AI + GTM Through a Strategic Lens — Powering Your Perpetual Growth Engine vs. Applying AI to Perpetuate “Random Acts”

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Our research suggests that a fifth of current sales-team functions could be automated,” claims McKinsey. Over the past few months, the ANNUITAS|research team has been covering and releasing reports on a number of recent AI additions to leading GTM Technology Stack platforms, such as Salesforce Marketing.

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B2B Lead Generation: The Ultimate Guide

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Because awareness has already been established, lead generation strategies typically are activated in the second stage of the sales funnel — interest. Sales and marketing work to build on existing interest by identifying key customer profiles and selling the right value proposition to each of them through various strategies.

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New B2B Persona Research From Salesforce and LinkedIn Study

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What motivated you or inspired you to do this research? What surprised you most as you analyzed the data from this research, and why? There are over 600 million devices with ad blocking. What can marketers do based on this research for their email? The B2B Persona project from Mathew Sweezey. Think about that.

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Sales Qualified Lead vs Sales Accepted Lead: Distinguishing Sales-Ready Leads from Potential Sales Leads  

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B2B marketers spend countless hours crafting campaigns, social media posts, and targeted ads, all in the name of capturing potential customers. Imagine your sales funnel as a pyramid. As leads express interest and demonstrate fit with your ideal customer profile (ICP) , they progress down the funnel through lead qualification.

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Top-of-the-Funnel Marketing: How to Win in Crowded Markets

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A standout top-of-the-funnel marketing strategy is a must for brands that want to catch the attention of their target prospects and win them over their competitors. Top-of-the-funnel marketing is how you often make your first impression with a potential customer, and how you differentiate from the other companies targeting the same buyers.

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LinkedIn Responsiveness Drops 44% – Why Businesses Are Losing the Social Selling Game

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Michael Brenner (CEO of MIG) Says More “Social Content Campaigns” Are Just Adding to the Noise and Wasting Valuable Marketing Dollars. Matt Heinz (President of Heinz Marketing) Believes Sales and Marketing Teams Are Too Focused on Top-of-Funnel. But sales and marketing are not shifting their content, LinkedIn profiles, and messaging.”.

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The Lead Generation Strategy Guide

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Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. The key to a sound content marketing strategy is mapping messaging to a sales funnel. Email Nurturing.