Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

By Sheena McKinney , Executive Assistant & Operations Specialist at Heinz Marketing. Our own Josh Baez , Client Engagement Manager, recently joined Jim Obermayer, outgoing president of The Funnel Media Group for a great conversation on SLMA Radio entitled: Is Sales Engagement the Most Important Platform in your Marketing Stack?

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Hubspot

APRIL 28, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, few metaphors are as powerful as the sales funnel. At the top of the funnel (TOFU) are fresh new leads who are just discovering your offerings. In the middle of the funnel (MOFU) are leads who are interested to learn more. Why is social media data important to B2B funnels?

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Varicent

JUNE 24, 2020

How to Manage Sales Activity Effectively Tracking, completing, and managing sales activity effectively is critical to the long-term success of any growing sales organization. But before we get into how to manage sales activity, let’s talk about why it’s important to manage sales activity.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2020

LinkedIn’s 2020 State of Sales Report shows that 44% of teams are seeing a decrease in responsiveness to email and social outreach because of C-19. Buyers still want relationships with experts that can help them now with their current challenges and in the future.

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Madison Logic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We hate to break it to you, but only a small percentage of B2B buyers are actively seeking solutions at any given time. According to LinkedIn’s 95/5 rule , only 5% of your target accounts are in-market, which means that 95% of accounts aren’t ready to buy just yet.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That may seem like quite a hurdle, but we’ll show you how to build a healthy sales pipeline, step by step. Table of Contents What is a sales pipeline? Why is a sales pipeline important? How do sales pipelines work? What are the stages of a sales pipeline? How do you build a healthy sales pipeline?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But surprisingly, B2B businesses often overlook the importance of a great customer experience for their buyers, which is typically a top priority for B2C. B2B and B2C customers, despite their different needs, are still human decision-makers. Unpleasant buying processes and subpar service deter B2B customers. Scalability.

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6sense

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Having been privy to the lead management processes of hundreds of B2B organizations of every stripe, I would estimate that at least half have internal demand funnel (AKA waterfall) stages that combine stages of their sales process with what are really stages of the buyer journey.

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NetLine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In a previous post, we covered how to get the sales handoff right and why first-party and validated buyer data is essential in this process. It’s important to realize that although intent data has played a major role in discovering and nurturing leads before being handed over to sales, its job isn’t finished at that handover.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One of Hollywood’s most famous depictions of the sales world is found in Glengarry Glen Ross. According to Blake, regardless of the individual prospect and their needs, the rep's ultimate task is to bring money in the door. But is it the best sales advice for modern reps? What’s a sales rep to do?

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What would you think if I said I had the secret to making sales? But, there’s no easy trick to successful sales. Forget trying to trick people through sneaky tactics. The secret to keeping your sales pipeline full comes down to simply understanding other people and genuinely meeting them on their own level.

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ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Content marketing is ever-evolving. And for B2B marketers and large enterprises, the cost of lagging behind the content marketing trend curve is too massive to ignore. To help you keep up with the times, here is a compilation of the top 15 trends in content marketing that will shape the industry in 2023.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 27, 2017

Search engine advertising – or PPC – is not typically associated with account-based marketing. Generally in PPC, we target high value keywords to inform and acquire new customers based on need, specific pain points, or keywords associated with products or services. Products or services tailored to specific buyer needs.

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Scoop.it

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Content marketing is no longer a new fad. In fact, 65% of brands who report being successful with content marketing have gone through the time and effort of documenting their content marketing strategy. Why Do Salespeople Need Content? Much of the content buyers consume will come from a brand’s content marketing engine.

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ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2020

Business leaders and marketing and sales teams are struggling now, more than ever, to not only drive new demand, but to replace the loss of existing demand in the marketplace. Here are our top four recommendations to (re)focus demand marketing through this current crisis and beyond: 1. So ‘where’ you use Webinars is key.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There’s good news: Revenue teams can better understand buyers’ needs by leveraging information found in what we call the Dark Funnel. When this anonymized buyer-intent data becomes visible, sellers can know precisely when Someday becomes Today — the right moment to engage a buyer. Market forces.

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Madison Logic

JANUARY 5, 2023

2023 will pose challenges to B2B marketers as they navigate global economic uncertainty and a push to maximize their marketing spend and ROI on account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns. Customer marketing will be critical in 2023. “It 2023 will be a year of enhancing the customer experience .

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PathFactory

MARCH 21, 2024

Here are five things you can do to find real opportunities in the trove of data your anonymous buyers provide. 1) Acknowledge buyer behavior On average, buyers are 70% through their buying journey before they begin to engage with sellers. This isn’t a new stat, but it reminds us that buyers are in control.

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Sana Commerce

MAY 26, 2024

Unlike B2C e-commerce, where individual consumers make impulse purchases, B2B transactions typically involve larger order volumes, longer sales cycles, and complex decision-making processes. This means your approach to marketing, customer service, and even website design is going to be tailored to the specific needs of B2B buyers.

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Hubspot

JULY 28, 2021

One of the most lucrative ways to improve your bottom line is through boosting your sales team's effectiveness — yet many companies choose to focus on aspects of the business like product velocity or customer support costs rather than dialing in on their sales execution. That said, sales execution can be elusive. Create a plan.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 1, 2023

With the help of AI, you can gain powerful insights about your marketing segments to help cater your website strategy to your audience. As a result, you’ll save your team time and resources that can be dedicated to actually implementing your website design strategy and creating marketing materials. Let’s get started!

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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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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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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Personalization allows brands to tailor their content and messaging to align with individual buyer needs, establishing a strong connection that fuels loyalty and accelerates conversion. Most buying decisions involve an average of six stakeholders , each with distinct needs, concerns, and priorities.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

2020 was a tough year for B2B marketers – and everyone else. A few B2B marketing strategies did particularly well in 2020, and demand generation was one of them. For the marketers who were able to pivot quickly, many B2B demand generation best practices helped to ease the pain of 2020. But there were some bright spots.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 7, 2016

If you thought that coffee was for closers, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it’s for content marketers too. At the top of the funnel, when you’re trying to generate interest, no one cares about you or how you do what you do. Prior to the content revolution, buyers needed salespeople to get the information they needed.

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Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

By Cameron Katoozi , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Sales outreach has become almost exclusively digitalized, as new software and process automation make lead generation efforts so much simpler. Here are some benefits of keeping the human connection alive and why it’s a fundamental part of the buyer’s journey.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2021

By Carly Bauer , Marketing Coordinator at Heinz Marketing. Sales and Marketing Alignment History. In the past, there has often been a division between sales and marketing. In the past, there has often been a division between sales and marketing. What is Sales and Marketing Alignment?

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6sense

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Latané immediately discussed the central theme for the conference — Welcome to the RevTech Revolution — and explained that revenue teams are finally recognizing that the old ways of marketing and selling simply don’t work anymore. Most Companies Still Operate in the Dark Funnel. Only 60% of sales reps meet quota.

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Atomic Reach

JUNE 6, 2019

As a marketing professional, you know that the relevance of your content is just as important as its quality. No savvy marketer would send pricing information to a prospect who’s just beginning their journey, or create a high-level brochure for a buyer who’s two steps away from signing a deal. Act 1: Sales Activity Monitors.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Challenge T-Mobile for Business is a telecommunications company that provides comprehensive wireless solutions tailored to the needs of businesses. As Senior Marketing Media Manager, Janice Barbosa manages paid media, account-based marketing (ABM), and demand generation for T-Mobile for Business’s enterprise and public sector groups.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 2, 2023

Traditional marketing approaches that rely on mass messaging and generic campaigns are no longer effective in capturing the attention and loyalty of potential customers. B2B buyers need more attention and information to make a purchase decision, ideally, a personalized buying experience. And it works.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

.” – Mary Meeker, Partner at Kleiner Perkins With the ocean of customer data at your fingertips, identifying the right buying intent aligning your business offerings is critical to driving sales. This article explains the intent data and why it is crucial to include it to hit your sales goal in 2024.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I’ll admit it: For many marketers, the motivation behind these exchanges used to be, “So I can sell my product.” Then, it evolved into, "So I can help my buyers." How Buyers and Marketers View Interaction. Buyers and marketers tend to view that phenomenon from different perspectives. How We Got Here.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 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 The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals.

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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. Viewing Your Sales Pipeline Stages with Buyer Focus.

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KoMarketing Associates

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

If you visit the About Us page on our website, you will notice text on the left-hand side that reads, “ Our Mission: Deliver strategic online marketing programs tailored to maximize results.” We frequently refer back to this document as we get the online marketing program launched. Gather Buyer Personas and Data.

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