Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

Today, the information that buyers need to make a purchase decision is just a click away. The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. The buying process is transformed. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too.

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Akoonu

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Sales pipeline. Sales funnel. Marketing and sales pipeline. Buyers journey. Pipeline v Funnel v Buyers Journey. These stages, from the naming of them to implementation usually don’t consider the buyer’s point of view. Is a buyer’s journey enough? The problem?

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Mereo

JUNE 29, 2023

Content marketing is an important strategy but can be challenging to master. Your buyers desire meaningful content that is shares keen insights and is backed by facts (statistics, client testimonials). On top of this, content marketing is notorious for consuming valuable resources.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

Boosting their demand generation efforts, in other words, gave B2B marketers a way to counteract the weak performance that so many other marketing tactics suffered from in 2020. While the two tactics share a lot of similarities, they are not the same thing. Or, as the Content Marketing Institute recommends , “Be customer-centric.”.

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LeadSquared

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Your website is one of your core touchpoints for prospects to enter your funnel. As a result, your salespeople spend valuable time picking apart opportunities getting buried in complex processes that could otherwise be used for selling. Automated lead capture takes the manual element out of the process.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Let’s say, for example, you’re offering a piece of downloadable content to your site visitors. While it’s important to look through the perspective of the funnel at that journey (and the way we reach our audiences throughout it), we also have to examine what those efforts look like on the receiving end -- in the buyer’s shoes.

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Golden Spiral

MAY 19, 2021

We are still far away from equilibrium in the healthcare marketplace, but enterprise buyers are decidedly embracing the reality of a more self-service, digital sale. This is not a new trend by any stretch, but for the sale of high-ticket complex solutions, the market has moved from unproven to undeniable. What You Need to Do.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 4, 2018

Another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio for you! It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities heading into and throughout the year.

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Aberdeen

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They want to connect to their customers and prospects because that’s how sales happen. It’s why technology vendors spend more than $300 billion annually on marketing and sales. Too often, B2B marketers approach marketing as a “see what sticks” tactic. It’s a strategic way to spend your marketing and sales dollars effectively.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 26, 2022

B2B sales and marketing success depends heavily on data. Every good marketer and sales professional knows the potential value of B2B data and its power to help achieve comprehensive business objectives. And one of the most important types of data for driving sales and marketing insights is Intent Data. What is Intent Data?

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Televerde

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The key is sales and marketing alignment. Because such an engagement strategy should serve as the foundation for all your marketing and sales activities, both parts of the business must share a common language and agree on goals around lead qualification, buyer personas, and more. Build Buyer Personas and Map Buyer Journeys.

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Aberdeen

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They want to connect to their customers and prospects because that’s how sales happen. It’s why technology vendors spend more than $300 billion annually on marketing and sales. Too often, B2B marketers approach marketing as a “see what sticks” tactic. It’s a strategic way to spend your marketing and sales dollars effectively.

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Aberdeen

JULY 12, 2019

There are plenty of reasons to invest in third-party intent data —to improve content marketing strategy, maximize sales enablement, support personalized marketing, or even optimize ABM efforts. One of the biggest advantages of using intent data to improve win-rate percentage is that you get visibility into individual buyer journeys.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 6, 2021

B2B sales and marketing success depends heavily on data. Every good marketer and sales professional knows the potential value of B2B data and its power to help achieve comprehensive business objectives. And one of the most important types of data for driving sales and marketing insights is Intent Data. What is Intent Data?

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Valasys

AUGUST 19, 2019

The very purpose of content marketing has been associated with the feedback mechanisms to trigger lead generation processes for B2B businesses. According to the Content Marketing Institute, Content marketing lies at the very core of all the lead generation efforts.

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Kapost

APRIL 5, 2017

Organizations that use a mapping program to manage buyer and customer journeys average a 79% increase in cross-sell and upsell revenue, marketing research from the Aberdeen Group reveals. In the new B2B marketing landscape, buyers are in control of their journeys. 6 Ways to Create a Buyer Journey Map.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 8, 2020

Now we need to break through the endless noise of content, ads, and cat videos to earn our buyer’s trust. Does that mean we need to abandon product marketing and fully embrace the idea of content marketing alone? The answer lies somewhere in the middle. Are Product Marketing and Content Marketing at Odds?

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Hubspot

MARCH 28, 2019

Some things just obviously go together -- but what if I put sales and marketing together in that list? More than likely, you haven't quite considered your sales and marketing to be the "peanut butter and jelly" of your company. Definition of Sales and Marketing. Sales is ultimately critical to your company's bottom line.

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Varicent

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This is a guest post from Nis Frome of Alpha When I talk to struggling content teams, I encourage them to put every ongoing effort on hold and to instead focus their attention toward a single objective that requires them to collaborate more with sales teams. Further, content teams can educate sales teams about personas and use cases.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 5, 2020

What’s great today that we didn’t necessarily have so much in the past is how we can get the awareness that we need for all of our content marketing.”. My story kind of begins and I’m going to date myself right here, Jim, but I got into technology sales back in 1990. Jim Rembach ( 00:00 ): Okay, B2B DM gang.

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PureB2B

APRIL 10, 2016

It doesn’t help either that people seek one killer lead tactic that is all-encompassing while failing to realize that a good B2B lead generation is made up of many activities, which must be measured and tested to find out what’s working best. Supplement inbound tactics with outbound. Collaborate with sales.

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Sharpspring

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? 71% of companies that exceed lead generation and revenue goals have documented buyer personas.

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Sharpspring

JANUARY 23, 2020

If you work in marketing, you probably hear a lot about optimizing the customer experience, tracking buyer journeys and identifying decision-making factors and/or paths to purchase. But what about developing buyer personas? 71% of companies that exceed lead generation and revenue goals have documented buyer personas.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 2, 2020

” — Milton Hershey “If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain.” ” — Michael Brenner “If you build it, you may still need Google AdWords.” ” — Jonah Sachs “It’s hard to target a message to a generic 35-year-old middle-class working mother of two.

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Tony Zambito

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

With this comes the realization that some of the embedded thinking about how to reach and market to buyers are not working well. In part 1 of this series we looked at how the funnel is facing a slow death and the limitations of so called funnel thinking. We are entering a new era of the buyer.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

By Josh Baez , Client Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing. As we continue delving into the foundations of a modern B2B demand generation engine, the next thing we need to think about is the B2B buyer’s journey. Because now more than ever, buyers need our guidance to help enable better decisions.

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Seismic

AUGUST 31, 2020

Throughout my time at Seismic we have focused our product development efforts on building a robust end-to-end sales enablement platform that touches every aspect of the content journey from campaign orchestration and activation, to seller discovery, buyer engagement, and ultimately content measurement and optimization.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 1, 2015

The B2B marketing and sales world was abuzz a few weeks ago when SiriusDecisions reported that the decline in importance of the B2B sales person, which has been reported by many, has been greatly exaggerated. Sirius went on to show additional research that shows the importance of the sales rep at all stages of the buying cycle.

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6sense

AUGUST 24, 2017

We sat down with David Simon, our new Chief Revenue Officer and Sanjay Kini, our new Vice President of Sales Engineering to hear more about their plans to help 6sense transform marketing technology and empower sales and marketing teams with the power of big data and artificial intelligence.

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