Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Are you thinking about increasing sales with a webinar? Start with your webinar funnel. What Is a Webinar Funnel? A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. How Do I Create a Sales Webinar? Choose a Buyer -Centered Topic for Your Webinar. Define Your Offer.

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Act-On

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. As a result, B2B companies are investing heavily in sales enablement tools.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 10, 2024

Navigating the sales funnel can be complex for any business. Developing a journey from prospect to customer acquisition demands a specific sales process—and, often, sales and marketing teams aren't sure of which responsibilities they hold during that process. Why Should I Have a Process for Our Sales Cycle?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? On a basic level, a buyer persona is essentially a fictional representation of the person who is most likely to buy from your company—your ideal customer.

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Buyer Personas Top of Funnel SEO Marketing & Strategy 196

Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. Developing Your Buyer Personas. That’s Product Marketing 101.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 18, 2021

Misalignment between your marketing and sales departments can cost your business money, waste valuable B2B content, and cause lead-to-sale conversions to fail. Conversely, aligning your sales and marketing can lead to increased marketing revenue, better close rates, and higher customer retention. Source: SuperOffice.

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Top of Funnel Deliverability Marketing & Strategy Marketing Automation Services 283

NetLine

APRIL 23, 2024

Technology and data—specifically buyer-level intent data —take a lot of the guesswork out of sales prospecting, making it more precise. How can intent data help sales teams identify high-potential prospects more effectively? It tells you what buyers have been searching for, where they are searching, and why.

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Intent Data Top of Funnel Intent Outreach 52

Tony Zambito

DECEMBER 20, 2015

A recent survey conducted by Cintell*, entitled 2016 Benchmark Study On Understanding B2B Buyers , indicates that high performing organizations utilized qualitative research for their buyer personas. The study focused entirely on the use of buyer personas for understanding B2B buyers.

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Business Brainz

JULY 19, 2021

B2B revenue leaders and marketers are spending a lot of their time focusing on understanding buyer personas. Since B2B buyers have become more cautious, it becomes monolithic to understand them and their changing behavior. One of the best ways to dive deep into your prospective customers is by building a buyer persona insight.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 14, 2022

Effective face-to-face client sales meetings, whether online or in person, are critical to your B2B operation. Image credit: LinkedIn Sales Solutions on Unsplash. The less-experienced members of your sales team may think they need to revamp their presentation strategy to truly wow clients. Plan Well Ahead of Time.

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The Lead Agency

MARCH 17, 2024

Every click, like, view and interaction brings us insights and edges buyers at every stage of the sales cycle toward the ultimate goal: the purchase. Simply adding a few testimonials, case studies, or client logos next to your form can increase your conversion rate by 26%. But what comes first is the lead.

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Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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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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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

From defining the target market to outlining marketing and sales tactics to reach the audience and more, a go-to-market strategy has it all. Here are four tactics for developing an effective SaaS go-to-market strategy. To craft messaging, consider some of the overarching pain points each buyer persona faces.

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Tactics Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy Webinar Metrics 118

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Businesses have a wealth of options for promoting their solutions to boost sales. Content marketing directly improves sales in many ways, and typically costs much less and has higher returns than ads. B2B buyers are changing; they seek out more informational and educational content to solve problems. Quick Takeaways.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 10, 2023

Image Source Key Takeaways: Decision intelligence tools process data to give you predictive analysis and solid recommendations. CRM software, buyer intent data, competitive analysis, automation, CMS, and web analytics are vital decision intelligence tools. Another example is inventory management software.

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Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services CMS Development Marketing Budget 238

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What you need is an easy-to-understand sales playbook to guide your team to victory. We’ll walk through everything you need to know to create the right mix of winning plays that guide your sales team to big wins. What you’ll learn What is a sales playbook? Learn more What is a sales playbook?

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2023

Lead nurturing is a powerful B2B marketing strategy for companies to create meaningful connections and drive engagement with customers and prospects at every stage of the sales funnel. Almost 80% of marketing leads don’t actually convert into sales. What is lead nurturing?

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Sales Management Lead Nurturing Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 62

Hubspot

MAY 26, 2021

Buyer personas typically include descriptions like Elizabeth's, along with other demographics and personality information. But with growing markets and increased consumer awareness, companies need to go beyond standard buyer personas to reach their audiences. Standard Buyer Personas Aren't Enough.

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Buyer Personas Customer Satisfaction Paid Search Agency Segmentation 101

Only B2B

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

One of the biggest advantages of lead management strategy and marketing automation is the ability to create a process that continuously manages leads at a bigger scale. The secret to making it work is to develop an effective process for automation. This subsequently influences your sales results directly.

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Sales Management Lead Management Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 117

Hubspot

JUNE 2, 2020

Do you know who your business's buyer personas are? Buyer personas are semi-fictional representations of your ideal customers based on data and research. Follow along with this guide and download these persona templates to simplify this process. Why exactly are buyer personas so important to your business?

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The efficiency and effectiveness of your sales team directly reflect on the success of your company. To counteract this problem, sales leaders need to find ways to identify possible sales challenges and their solutions quickly before your next sales meeting. Long sales cycles. Disagreement about new processes.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 98

Tiecas

APRIL 23, 2024

To thrive, these companies must consistently attract qualified leads to fuel their sales pipelines. However, this sales-driven environment presents unique challenges for industrial and manufacturing marketers. For more on these challenges, see my earlier blog post, “Industrial Lead Generation for Sales – It’s Complicated!”

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Lead Ranking Lead Generation Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 52

Webbiquity

APRIL 23, 2024

Image credit: Pixabay on Pexels You’ve probably seen studies and statistics on the enormous ROI (return on investment) that email marketing for B2B delivers compared to other tactics. Other studies have reported similar figures, meaning the potential ROI for email marketing may actually be close to 3600%.

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ROI Email Marketing B2B Marketing Marketing Automation Services 170

Hubspot

JULY 9, 2019

When thinking about ways to boost your revenue and grow your business, you might consider evolving your product line, reaching your buyer personas in new ways, or launching a brand awareness campaign. You can do this during team or one-on-one meetings or add the information to the reps' sales enablement kits.

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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. Triggers provide an excellent view into how a company is changing, allowing your sales team to see future possibilities.

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Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Marketing Automation Services Work Management 253

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Align and Build Ongoing Partnerships with Sales.

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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. But when your prospects are moving more slowly throughout their buying journey, our marketing leaders advise their peers to prioritize full-funnel engagement. “We

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Lead Ranking Privacy Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 130

Tony Zambito

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has become the fuel of the forthcoming future of the B2B buyer-seller dynamic. Various studies from McKinsey, Gartner, Forrester, Salesforce, and others show increasingly that B2B buyers want seller-free buying experiences. Today, a third to 40% of buyers want a seller-free buying experience.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 11, 2019

Sales is hard and getting harder all the time. The number of decision makers in the buying process is increasing; they all want different things, they’re getting younger, and your marketing strategy must cover all the bases. But you want to grow sales; you want to really reach your buyers and thrive in the new sales arena.

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Buyer Personas Studies Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Cycle 59

Tony Zambito

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the 15 years since originating the concept of buyer personas in 2001, there has been one issue that continues to plague fully understanding exactly where, how, and why buyer personas can be beneficial. Buyer profiling is often another quantitative exercise for organizations. Buying processes and buyer journeys.

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Buyer Personas Ideal Customer Profiles Segmentation Profiling 100

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 225

Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

Implementing hit-or-miss content marketing tactics is not likely to produce the results you want. The hurdles in industrial marketing strategy for manufacturers can seem daunting because the long and complex sales cycles involve many stakeholders, from engineers to purchasing and executives.

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Marketing Budget Advertising Agencies Marketing Strategy Marketing & Strategy 92

Heinz Marketing

APRIL 29, 2021

I cannot overstate how vital sales and marketing alignment is to a successful ABM program sale. With a well-maintained sales-marketing partnership, prospects are participants in a seamless sales pipeline transition through to the end, with the right content and message served up to them at the right time.

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Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing ABM Practices 135

SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Feeling bamboozled by marketing tactics, channels, and buzzwords? In this B2B marketing strategy framework, we provide insights on how to develop a manageable strategy for an early market team. Define Buyer Personas & Ideal Client Profiles. Aim to create 2-3 personas and 1-2 client profiles.

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Paid Search Agency Paid Content Ideal Customer Profiles Sales Management 97

Tony Zambito

APRIL 17, 2016

This coincides with previous studies and surveys showing content marketing effectiveness continues to be an enormous struggle. We have seen this in marketing and sales with CRM, sales automation, marketing automation, and now content automation. Technology is an enabler of strategy and the tactics in support of strategies.

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Buyer Personas Research Personalization Marketing Budget 100

Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. Probably the most common complaint that I hear from Sales is that “Marketing just doesn’t understand engineering problems, and they generate ‘crappy’ leads that are not ready to buy.”

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