markempa

JUNE 17, 2012

Tweet CSO Insights , which interviews thousands of chief sales officers to benchmark B2B sales best practices, has tracked an alarming trend. Jim Dickie, CSO Insight’s managing partner, says this should make any sales leader cringe. No deal = broken sales cycle. Examine your sales process.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 29, 2019

More times than not, when a client comes to us looking for help with their B2B content marketing strategy , we notice the strategy itself is either very new, or it exists with a lack of focus (both SEO and target audiences). Here are five quick tips to take your B2B content marketing strategy beyond the educational phase: 1.

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SmarkLabs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Think of it as any activity that brings attention to your B2B company to bring people into your sales funnel. Demand generation is truly your sales and marketing teams working in tandem. After all, the sales cycle of a B2B customer is quite different than a B2C customer. What is demand generation?

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Top Rank Marketing

JUNE 5, 2024

B2B SaaS content marketing can be notoriously complex. Many of the key challenges that characterize B2B marketing more generally are intensified in the SaaS environment: Market education: Solutions are often especially complex and innovative, driven by advancements in digital transformation.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Especially in the B2B Realm?). Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

So whether you’re here because you’re a content person looking to enhance your business case for more content dollars or because a content person wants you to understand their perspective on why content is (still) queen, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s start with the business brass tacks. Here we go!

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Conversica

JULY 27, 2022

What Is B2B Sales? Business text is full of acronyms, abbreviations, and quite honestly, jargon. What Is B2B Sales? Business-to-business (B2B) companies sell their products and services to other companies rather than individual customers. B2B vs B2C Sales. B2B vs B2C Sales.

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B2B Digital Marketer

APRIL 25, 2024

B2B Digital Marketer What Are Digital Sales Rooms? As businesses seek more dynamic and engaging ways to connect with clients, digital sales rooms stand out as pivotal platforms for interaction, presentation, and collaboration. In this episode, you’ll learn: The definition and purpose of digital sales rooms.

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Only B2B

JUNE 5, 2024

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a highly focused approach where marketing and sales teams collaborate to target high-value accounts rather than a broad market. This enables sales and marketing teams to tailor messages according to their needs, aligning to their buyer journey. Why should you care about ABM?

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Oktopost

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Hitting targets and meeting sales quotas has become harder for most sales teams over the past year. The impact of the economy has slowed down the pace of B2B sales, leaving sales teams wondering how to meet their KPIs. So, in order to efficiently guide prospects to closed-won, nurturing relationships is key.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JULY 12, 2022

Both sales and marketing cite a “lack of willingness to collaborate” and say “communication” is the top barrier to correcting the problem. A survey of 329 B2B sales and marketing professionals commissioned by SharpSpring and conducted by Ascend2 does well to identify the problem of sales and marketing alignment.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 13, 2023

Marketing your company is as important as your routine business operations and requires just as much work. Can this producer-oriented framework still be valid, especially since modern business and marketing are more customer-centric than ever? This practice applies doubly so to B2B selling.

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Mereo

JULY 27, 2022

What is the last step of your sales cycle? Most B2B sales organizations will consider the job complete at the contract signature. Yet, if the true goal of sales is to Seek to Serve a buyer, the sales cycle is not over until the value promised is actually the value delivered.

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Rev

MARCH 23, 2018

When it comes to traditional sales, it seems the standard method is to push as many prospects through the funnel as quickly as possible until they make a purchase, fill out a form, subscribe to a newsletter, or whatever “call to action” goal may be. That outcome alone is reason enough to say the traditional sales cycle is broken.

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Stevens & Tate

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In spite of the enormous success of social media marketing, many B2B companies still haven’t successfully jumped on the social train. This because many B2B companies are unsure how to utilize their social media platforms to the best of their advantage. Read More: B2B Branding Tips For The New Buyer.

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SendinBlue

APRIL 19, 2021

Successful B2B marketing automation requires thought and preparation but once up and running, can do serious heavy lifting for your sales funnel. Now you might be wondering how exactly one should use marketing automation for B2B. What are the most effective B2B automation techniques and tactics for nurturing leads?

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Oktopost

MAY 12, 2021

If you had to guess which business decision could increase your company’s ROI a staggering 6,469% this year, what would your guess be? It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . A brand community is more than just a powerful business tool.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. Historically, Sentinel has put a lot of weight on our behavior scores to define an MQL and how we hand off leads to our sales development reps,” says Angelique.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Actionable contact and prospecting information may be the most significant piece of the “success” or “failure” puzzle in B2B sales. Did you know that sales representatives squander an average of 60 minutes daily due to bad data? What is B2B data? What are the Types of B2B Data?

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Martech

MAY 24, 2024

High-end consumer purchases, like automobiles and home improvement projects, will bear some resemblance to a B2B engagement because of their cost. But generally speaking, a couple considering a B2C purchase will have an easier time coming to a decision than a business buying group with varied wants and needs in a B2B setting.

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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. Contributed post.

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Only B2B

MARCH 10, 2022

“Generating B2B leads is simple and easy.” You know how difficult it is to boost sales with B2B lead generation tactics. Overhyped case studies from huge firms that might raise sales. More sales = more leads. Are you ready to discover the best B2B lead generating tactics for your company?

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy. To properly leverage intent data and efficiently drive more business, here’s what you need to know. Fortunately, intent data has become a mainstay among business analytics to do just that.

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NetLine

JULY 5, 2023

To put it simply: customer intent is important because it allows businesses to cater their sales and marketing strategy to meet prospects and customers where they are currently. This typically means shorter sales cycles and more closed-won deals. But, why is customer intent so important?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2020

Account-based marketing (ABM) offers a lot of benefits to most B2B organizations. Clearly, ABM has an effect on sales – but is true alignment between both the sales and marketing departments in terms of goals, strategies, and key areas of focus entirely necessary in order for this type of marketing to be a success?

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Kaon

JULY 23, 2018

So, how can sales teams rise above? Today’s sales teams need a strategy, strong communications and up-to-date technology. Cutting-edge technology allows the sales professional to convey innovation and create a lasting memorable engagement. This is especially true in the sales industry.

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xiQ

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Rise of the Next-Generation B2B Salesperson: From Sellers to Advisors and Orchestrators The B2B sales landscape is constantly evolving, and the role of the Account Executive (AE) or salesperson is undergoing significant changes. Key measurement criteria for sales and marketing must be win-rates and not volume.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sellers embracing a digital-first and video-first approach to customer engagement see significant gains in 2020; New video-for-sales training tools help every business ramp up their sales teams to embrace video in new ways in 2021 . Free Video-for-Sales Training Tools Help Sellers Embrace Video in 2021.

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PathFactory

MAY 3, 2022

Everyone has a hot take on how the traditional B2B sales model has died, changed, morphed, or remains relevant – alive and kicking. The first is “ Traditional B2B Sales and Marketing Are Becoming Obsolete ” posted on The Harvard Business Review by Brent Adamson, Vice President at Gartner.

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Lake One

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Regardless, this past year has left an impression on businesses, good, bad, or otherwise. One area of business we were especially interested in gaining some outside perspective on was sales. Ultimately we wanted to learn how this pandemic shifted sales processes and how HubSpot, SalesReach, and Vidyard adapted to this change.

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sagefrog

APRIL 16, 2024

To the uninitiated, B2B marketing may appear to be a smattering of strategies and tactics coming together in an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-style soup. The B2B buyer’s journey and buyer personas are critical aspects of this carefully constructed process. Why Are B2B Buyer Personas Important?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

On the other hand, while it is aided by top-of-funnel awareness that demand generation drives, lead generation is the process of converting sales-ready prospects into qualified pipeline. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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BOP Design

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Since opening our B2B marketing agency, we’ve stressed how our marketing collateral—specifically our website design—support the sales process. There are significant differences to a B2B sale that have a major impact on how B2B should be marketed versus B2C. B2B vs. B2C. Source: Google, 2015 ).

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Martech

APRIL 3, 2023

Did you know that 91% of business buyers and 86% of consumers consider the company’s experience as important as its products and services? This article is a guide to conversational marketing and why it should be a key component of your B2B go-to-market strategy. Who is conversational marketing for?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know the standard sales process looks something like this: You identify a prospect and conduct research, you figure out what pain point or challenge they’re trying to solve, and then you offer your product or services as the solution. These tactics are as follows: 1.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 22, 2023

By Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, video marketing has emerged as a dynamic and engaging medium for businesses to connect with their target audience as opposed to traditional methods. The main objective is to drive immediate sales and create brand loyalty.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A sales rep eating blazin’ hot wings during a pitch. Vidyard’s 2019 Video in Business Awards showcased an incredible array of video marketing and video selling strategies that are helping ordinary businesses achieve extraordinary results. And what can the rest of us learn from these award-winning video-in-business strategies?

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