ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

Marketing & Strategy 257

Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Content Marketing Planning 257

The Forward Observer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

High-Impact Content Marketing: Strategies to Make Your Content Intentional, Engaging, and Effective by Purna Virji About the Book Create meaningful engagement, drive conversion rates and boost customer retention with this crucial resource to unlocking the true potential of your content marketing strategy.

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Planning Top of Funnel Content Marketing PPC 130

Marketing Craftmanship

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Most B2B company websites, across all industries, contain some combination of self-produced “owned media” content, including blog posts, case studies, white papers, podcasts, archived webinars, and event calendars. There are 3 reasons why most B2B companies do not pursue earned media: They fear the lack of editorial control.

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Public Relations Paid Search Agency Companies Media 130

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

In e-commerce, investing in multi-channel marketing can help you quickly take your business to the next level, but it can also come with a number of challenges that you may or may not be aware of. To overcome multi-channel marketing challenges, you have to know how you’re going to address these challenges when they appear in front of you.

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Directive Agency

JULY 17, 2019

This was a struggle for one of our clients that creates construction project management software. Blog posts earned the most traffic, so we felt this was a smart place to start. We decided to prioritize content marketing funnel tactics. We didn’t think blog visitors would be ready for a demo yet.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Tactics Conversion 61

Vidyard

JUNE 8, 2022

You hear it within any sales organization structure: AE…SE…BDR…SDR. What are all these sales titles, and what do they even mean? If you’ve ever found yourself walking in circles trying to understand what makes up a sales team, what each role does, and what all these different acronyms stand for—you’re not alone. Contents 1.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Thought leadership content marketing is one of the most effective ways of establishing your name and company as an authority in your industry. Thought leadership marketing means going beyond the same blog posts and regurgitated ideas that everyone seems to be publishing. Avoid direct sales messages in this type of content.

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Thought Leadership Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 304

SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sales prospecting on LinkedIn is preferred by most salespeople. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria.

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Sales Management Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel 52

Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2022

Launching a business can be intimidating if you’re unfamiliar with the process (and even if you are). Between product design to staffing to fundraising, finance, and marketing your startup , it can feel overwhelming. These errors can range from product-market fit misfires to marketing strategy and post-launch mistakes.

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Startups B2B Business Budget Programs 254

Conversica

AUGUST 19, 2019

Is your Sales team as effective as they could be? Even the best Sales rep knows there are only so many hours in a day to follow up with leads via emails, SMS text messages, and phone calls. The good news is that one core shift can solve this problem quickly — establishing consistent sales processes within your organization.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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Planning Analytics Enterprise Management Work Management 309

Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For marketers, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that blogs are the second most used tactic for content marketing (behind social media content). Source : B2B Content Marketing – 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report. That’s exactly why we share a list of the top marketing blogs each year.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today’s B2B buyers are time-strapped and overwhelmed with information, making sales harder than ever. Being able to communicate with the correct context and timing is essential as a sales representative. Market volatility, environmental or economic adversity, and reputation concerns are all possible trigger events.

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Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Marketing Automation Services Work Management 254

SmartBug Media

APRIL 6, 2021

Understanding the intersection of reporting and sales can be difficult. With so many questions, processes, use cases, and users, it can feel overwhelming to even determine the best place to start. With this blog post ( and many others like this ), we hope to help you drastically increase your odds of implementation success.

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Hubspot Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Report 69

Kabbage

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For marketers, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that blogs are the second most used tactic for content marketing (behind social media content). Source : B2B Content Marketing – 2017 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends Report. That’s exactly why we share a list of the top marketing blogs each year.

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Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Account Based Marketing 188

Valasys

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Partnering with a data provider also allows you to make the most of your dollars invested, and to leverage your marketing intelligence in a way to improve data integrity, increase targeting accuracy in marketing, and close deals faster. This is a critical step in the process. It is indispensable to your brands’ success.

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B2B Sales B2B Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Advertising Agencies 52

Hubspot

APRIL 8, 2020

It can be hard to get a clear picture of how the market is changing in real time. From now until the end of June, we’ll plan to update these insights based on additional business metrics such as website traffic, email send and open rates, sales engagements, close rates and more. The economic impact of COVID-19 is undeniable.

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TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 97

TrustRadius Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you’ve been in marketing for a while, you know funnels inside and out. Funnels are the mechanisms that convert leads into customers. Over the past few years, the relevancy of the funnel has slowly died out, leaving room for a new, digitally-informed strategy to take its place. Your Old Pal: The Marketing Funnel.

Top of Funnel 97

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 97

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Marketers approach long-term planning armed with data and strategic frameworks. Business school classes are filled with cases and proactive approaches for long-term decision-making. Alternatively, short-term marketing decisions must be made quickly to react to barriers, competitive threats , and opportunities.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2018

As a B2B sales rep, you already know objections are an unavoidable part of your job. Yet, as we explained in a recent blog post , there are many tips and tricks sales reps can use to bypass common objections during the sales cycle. Keep reading. Four Ways to Establish Value in the Face of Price Objections.

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Pricing Price Case Study Case Studies 239

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. You can even ask Siri, Alexa and Google!

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Training Work Management Class Marketing Management 99

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

Although we’re in a down economy I’ve still been able to travel twice out of the last three weeks meeting with clients, working until all hours of the night and seeing first hand what is on the minds of marketers these days. Why should sales get their own parking spaces? I personally wouldn’t have it any other way. Come Together.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Hubspot

JANUARY 31, 2018

I’ve seen some incredible changes, and I can say without a doubt that right now is the best time to invest in a sales career. Sales is fun, critically important to scaling businesses, financially lucrative, and intellectually stimulating. Drop the 18 tactics below. 18 Outdated Sales Tactics to Kick to the Curb in 2018.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 12, 2019

Do you want to implement a top-notch sales enablement strategy or do you need to take your approach to the next level? Advice from experts can expand your knowledge and guide you to achieve a successful sales enablement program. Their sales blog covers a wide variety of topics that appeal to both marketers and sales reps.

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The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If you ask most B2B marketers how they use chat platforms like Drift , the immediate answer would most likely be: converting Web visitors. And now that chat is becoming a staple of the B2B tech stack, creative marketers are finding ever more innovative ways for leveraging their investment to drive engagement throughout the lead lifecycle.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps.

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Full Circle Insights

JANUARY 16, 2024

When it comes to marketing insights, your CEO is primarily interested in one thing: attribution. In other words: which marketing efforts are driving the most revenue, and what is the return on investment of the marketing spend? So, which CRM marketing insights does your CEO want to see? 2: Funnel Velocity What is it?

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Full Circle Insights Top of Funnel Marketing Attribution Work Management 52

Outgrow

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

All You Need to Know About Funnel Builder Software. If you’re working in sales or marketing for a significant period of time, then you know that leads can be generated at various stages of the buyer’s journey. – The answer is simple, you can do this with the help of a Funnel Builder ! What Is a Funnel Builder?

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6sense

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

As we’ve learned in this blog series highlighting key findings from our new interactive ebook , shining a light on the otherwise invisible Dark Funnel of buyer intent is novel to say the least. . But Dark Funnel visibility is much more than a neat trick. Personalizing sales and marketing motions.

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Seismic

MAY 18, 2023

This is the final post of our five-part blog series and provides an outline of Seismic’s Enablement Maturity Growth Framework. My name is Liz, and I am on the incredible product marketing team at Seismic. Controlling Chaos Look at how chaos may manifest within your organization: Examine your content management process for red flags.

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6sense

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But to the right sleuths, these tracks might be the next big sale. We refer to this world of anonymous buyer intent data as the Dark Funnel. We refer to this world of anonymous buyer intent data as the Dark Funnel. 70% of today’s buying process occurs undercover without engaging sales . What is Dark Funnel Data?

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 62

Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Your revenue operations team can reliably get inbound leads into the hands of your sales representatives in roughly two minutes, executing every step of your lead management process along the way. Fast and reliable lead routing is extremely important for lead management. But nobody gets off easy.

Work Management 113

Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management Lead Scoring 113

Contently

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Of the marketers who responded to Wyzowl’s State of Video Marketing 2023 report , 92% say video gives them a good return on their investment. In return, you’ll feature them on those channels.

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Top of Funnel Video Marketing Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 198

Varicent

JULY 8, 2020

How to Improve Sales Pipeline: 5 Best Practices for Sales Pipeline Growth When you’re looking at your sales, and wondering how to improve sales pipeline growth, there are five best practices we’ve identified that you can start doing today. There is no best set of sales pipeline stages that every company can use.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Practices Best Practices 52

Biznology

APRIL 28, 2017

Here’s a question: what’s the ONE content marketing tactic that drives the majority of your revenue? Is it blogging? Teaching small classes? But somehow, the concept gets lost when it comes to our content marketing, and bad things happen. Yes, my client tried to blog. ” Well yes and no.

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Webinar Metrics Long Tail Marketing Correlation Advertising Mediums 146