Zoominfo

MARCH 3, 2021

The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Here’s a breakdown of each sales cycle stage with relevant tips: 1.

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Martech

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The B2B sales cycle is lengthy and complex. Sales isn’t easy. But after 15 years in relationship-based sales and management, I can tell there’s a solution to close deals 25% to 30% faster. Read on to discover the six tried-and-true strategies that you can use to shorten your sales cycle.

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SalesGrape

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Does account-based marketing work for long sales cycles? Understanding the Role of Account-Based Marketing in Long Sales Cycles Account-based marketing (ABM) has gained significant popularity in recent years as a highly effective strategy for targeting and engaging key accounts.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 20, 2021

Overflowing the sales funnel with leads doesn’t necessarily guarantee more paying customers in the end. Abundant lead conversion can happen when sales reps practice meaningful engagement with them throughout the sales funnel. What is Funnel Mapping? How Do You Plan a Sales Funnel?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing are two distinct types of marketing strategies with different focuses. B2B is focused on developing relationships between businesses, while B2C is focused on connecting directly with end consumers. 10 Key Differences Between B2B and B2C Marketing 1.

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Kevin Indig

APRIL 11, 2023

Attribution models are the most common way to quantify the returns on marketing investments, but not every company can use them successfully. Long sales cycles (+90 days) are the biggest enemy of attribution models, often to the detriment of channels like SEO that play an important role in early touches.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

Yet Another Marketing Buzzword? Every few years there is a new buzzword in B2B marketing. A few years ago it was “Inbound Marketing.” The inbound philosophy advocates publishing content through digital channels to entice qualified individuals to consume the content and enter the sales cycle.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? However, there are a handful of solution categories that any sales ops team needs to focus on for success.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. The reality, of course, is that go-to-market teams still need to take an active role in pushing their companies to new heights of growth. But today’s outbound lead generation tactics are more than just dialing for dollars.

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Martech

MAY 24, 2024

B2C marketing deals with consumer purchases, which means B2C marketers are targeting individuals or small groups of people who make purchase decisions. High-end consumer purchases, like automobiles and home improvement projects, will bear some resemblance to a B2B engagement because of their cost.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. These are as follows: Interview Questions For Sales Rep Qualities 1. Perceptive Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. In the job market yourself?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Purposes of a Sales Report.

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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?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2022

By Lauren Bensussen , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. People are pestered with hundreds of emails entering their inbox daily, and that number skyrockets for business professionals in the B2B space. But marketing emails aren’t pointless if they’re eventually opened and at least skimmed through.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 2, 2023

By Win Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing There are two core schools of thought when structuring your B2B lead and opportunity stages–simplified or complex. A few arguments exist for using a simplified versus a more complex set of stages in B2B marketing and sales.

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Seismic

MAY 3, 2022

As business evolves, two things remain the same: sellers want to bemore productive and B2B buyers want purchase experiences that help them solve their business challenges. Sales has become increasingly digital-focused over the past few years with buyers and sellers adapting to digital-first sales models. Prospecting.

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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? Increased Productivity.

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Lead Forensics

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s often taken for granted that we all know and understand these B2B sales terms, as these pieces of vocabulary become used so often they are undoubtedly commonplace. Sales pipeline and sales funnel, for example, are believed by many to be one and the same, but this belief is far from the truth.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

But not entirely unlike when a colleague sends you a link to a gated ebook, you give your contact info to download it, and then get a phone call from a sales rep the same day. Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. For marketing and sales teams, that handoff is a potential minefield.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

In B2B marketing, the traditional approach of casting a wide net is increasingly being challenged by a more targeted and personalized strategy: account-based marketing (ABM). This method focuses on identifying and engaging with specific high-value accounts, treating each as its own distinct market.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

B2B industrial marketing presents unique challenges compared to other forms of B2B marketing. Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. But I’m not just another marketing consultant. Need proof?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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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. Target Audience? Investment?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? 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.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2018

Every sales manager wants their team to be successful– but sometimes, that’s easier said than done. Sales reps face a number of obstacles that can keep them from their goals and it’s your job as their manager to help them overcome these challenges. Five ways to support your sales team and increase productivity.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

The way B2B buyers consume content has changed significantly in the past two years. But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. B2B tech buyers most highly value product demos, factual product information, and free trials. No surprise there.

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SnapApp

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the face of increasing goals and changing preferences of B2B buyers, sales and marketing teams alike are being forced to evolve in order to meet the needs of their prospects today. Better Qualification, Shorter Sales Cycles. What is Lead Qualification? Tools for Interactive Lead Qualification. Interactive PDFs.

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. But with mounting pressure to demonstrate impact through hitting MQL targets, it’s easy for B2B marketers to overlook quality and become fixated on the latter. Reading time: 4 minutes Why is Lead Quality the key area of focus for Demand Generation?

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Inbox Insight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Organizations with aligned Sales and Marketing teams generate more than 200% revenue growth from marketing tactics, experience 24% faster growth in revenue, and are over two-thirds (67%) more effective at closing deals ( MarTech Alliance ). Why is Sales and Marketing Alignment so Important? Top-line growth.

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ClearVoice

APRIL 2, 2021

What is the sales cycle? The sales cycle includes all the activities that a company performs when selling products or services to prospects. It provides a framework for organizations and sales professionals to understand where prospects are in the process of becoming a customer. .

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The Lead Agency

APRIL 28, 2020

The marketing funnel is a representation of the customer/buyer journey, from a sales/marketing perspective. Its visualisation extends from the initial ‘awareness’ stage, where they first learn about your business/product, all the way through to purchase. In fact, the average B2B buying group is 5.4

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Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 17, 2022

Deals in B2B are increasingly complicated and more likely to be scrutinized by top executives and the finance department. More people are involved in today’s buying process as well, with executives playing a greater role than in the past.”. Each survey polled at least 800 people making B2B purchases.

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Metadata

JANUARY 30, 2024

The B2B buying experience is in complete shambles. B2B demand gen marketers, we gotta step it up. Make it easy to talk to Sales Looking for an absolute layup to improve the B2B buying experience? Make it easy to talk to Sales Looking for an absolute layup to improve the B2B buying experience?

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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.

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