The Marketing Blender

APRIL 17, 2024

From mining and transportation to construction and manufacturing industries, industrial companies have high-ticket sales and LONG sales cycles with many stakeholders. This complexity makes it easy to have a sales-centric mindset and focus on closing the next big deal instead of on how to fill the pipeline long term.

B2B Marketing 52

B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency B2B Advertising Agencies 52

Valasys

MAY 13, 2024

Automation is a cool thing to harness for these businesses when they create WhatsApp chatbot and develop email marketing campaigns to streamline their sales workflows. They can now improve collaboration between teams and accelerate the sales cycle. Kommo further has task organization features to streamline workflow management.

B2B Sales 40

B2B Sales Top of Funnel Automation Enterprise Management 40

Seismic

MAY 17, 2023

Chances are, it stood out because the content was personalized for you and your organization. Research shows that modern B2B buyers prefer personalized content experiences during their buyer journey. Organizations that have enablement tech actually save time on content-related activities. Can you blame them?

Marketing AI 52

Marketing AI Personalization Work Management Marketing Management 52

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Through social selling, sales reps can engage prospective buyers and build brand credibility by appearing organically on their feeds during solution searches. This is also an entirely organic approach, as your employees post and share company content manually (no paid ads involved). pushing more leads down the funnel).

Sales Management 136

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 136

Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For a B2B organization, it helps us understand the lifecycle of the buying process. With this kind of insight, organizations can design online experiences that are sending individuals towards having a meaningful conversation with sales. It also includes survey responses collected by another organization about you.

Intent Data 123

Intent Data Intent Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services 123

Sprout Social

JULY 14, 2023

Organizations are constantly looking for strategies to increase leads, customer satisfaction and revenue. An effective way to achieve this is through sales and marketing alignment. The new reality is that sales and marketing are continuously and increasingly integrated. This won’t work if both teams are siloed.

Work Management 76

Work Management Effectiveness Marketing Management Sales Qualified Leads 76

Seismic

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Seismic’s AI-powered platform surfaces hyper-relevant content you can use to connect with prospects, and when combined with the HubSpot CRM, reduces time spent on sales activities and research. Sales organizations that use CRMs see increased sales, revenue, and productivity when used effectively and regularly.

Hubspot 59

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The ABM Agency

APRIL 10, 2023

As a director of marketing or CMO at a large or enterprise B2B SaaS organization, understanding and implementing ABM is essential for staying ahead in today’s competitive landscape. This personalized touch helps build trust and fosters long-term business partnerships that drive revenue growth over time.

Account Based Marketing 97

Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Work Management 97

Outreach

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Common examples of B2B relationships include: Organizations that provide professional services (e.g. CRM) + companies whose teams use those softwares. What is the B2B sales process? B2B selling is a complex process that requires a well designed and executed B2B sales strategy in order to succeed.

Top of Funnel 71

Top of Funnel B2B Sales Process B2B 71

SendinBlue

APRIL 19, 2021

By this we mean putting in place a system to show which stage a lead is at in the buyer journey. As mentioned, B2B acquisition cycles are lengthy. For a B2B marketer whose job is to send high-quality leads to sales, timing is everything. Did you know you can use marketing automation to update your contact lists and CRM?

Marketing Automation Services 95

Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Marketing Automation B2B Sales 95

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 22, 2021

According to a survey conducted by McKinsey among 12,000 sales professionals, sales ops teams drive up to a 10% increase in sales productivity each year. In my work, I’ve heard so many stories of people reducing the average sales cycle by days, weeks — or even months — through productivity and process improvements.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management 98

PathFactory

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Instead, take a more organic approach. Add personalization tools to your martech stack: Most B2B SaaS companies have all the usual suspects: a CRM, web or social analytics platform, and a website CMS, but a growing number of companies are adding personalization tools into the mix as well. Create quality content.

High Quality Lead 52

High Quality Lead Efficiency Top of Funnel CMS Development 52

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Through social selling, sales reps can engage prospective buyers and build brand credibility by appearing organically on their feeds during solution searches. This is also an entirely organic approach, as your employees post and share company content manually (no paid ads involved). pushing more leads down the funnel).

Sales Management 62

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 62

The ABM Agency

MAY 26, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes An effective account-based marketing plan is crucial for B2B SaaS organizations aiming to target high-value accounts and maximize ROI. Leadership team: Identify key decision-makers within the organization who may be involved in purchasing decisions. What is the account based approach to marketing?

Account Based Marketing 52

Account Based Marketing Planning Marketing Plans Work Management 52

Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2019

However, even if you can't predict when you'll experience slow business, you can use the list below to help scale your sales process. Analyze your CRM. During periods of slow business, you can analyze the contacts in your CRM and examine the performance of your sales team. Adding opportunities or leads to your CRM.

Work Management 92

Work Management Burn Rate Business Sales Cycle 92

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

An opportunity moves from stage to stage of your pipeline based on concrete actions, which is usually represented visually in your CRM. Because sales processes differ from company to company (and even product to product), your sales pipeline should be unique and reflect the typical buyer's journey.

Top of Funnel 101

Top of Funnel Forecasting Marketing Proposals Work Management 101

Albacross

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

To meet ideal buyers earlier in the journey and make an impact before your competitors do so, B2B companies need to craft company-wide strategies to dig deeper into the unseen buyer journey. Source: Forrester , 2021). The Fundamentals: What is Intent Data? Intent data is a collection of behavioral data points.

Intent Data 52

Intent Data Ideal Customer Profiles Intent Buyer's Journey 52

Engagio

JANUARY 14, 2021

2020 was a particularly difficult year for our teams to push their accounts through a Sales cycle and hit the revenue goals they had in front of them. In their 2019 World Class Sales Practices Report , CSO Insights notes only 56.9 percent of Sales representatives are meeting or exceeding their quotas.

Ideal Customer Profiles 118

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking DemandBase Sales Qualified Leads 118

Oktopost

MARCH 2, 2020

When you think of it the buying journey of 2020 is not the same as 2010, and definitely not the same as pre 2000. The 2020 buyer journey is an online journey. In fact, the whole concept of “buyer journey” has become commonplace because of the complexity of online purchasing and research.

Top of Funnel 136

Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Paid Search Agency Buyer Personas 136

Vidyard

MARCH 5, 2021

Chances are your organization is creating and sharing more video content than ever before. With that growth comes the need to organize, track, and measure your video investments’ effectiveness, which means the time has come to evaluate an online video platform built for business. Demand Metric Report, 2020. Taggable folders.

Enterprise Management 155

Enterprise Management Work Management Video Marketing Marketing Management 155

Convert

APRIL 29, 2022

Experimentation in B2B marketing is much harder than in B2C, greatly because of the long sales cycle and its implications. In a long sales cycle, the metrics most closely correlated to revenue are lower-funnel metrics. It might mean an entire lost sales cycle! Here’s why.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Lead Ranking 52

6sense

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Most importantly, you’ve finally leveled-up your sales team so that your reps — with an almost balletic grace — always leverage content, outreach, and engagement in ways that expertly usher buyers through the sales cycle. This organization-wide alignment brings clarity to key moments in sales calls.

Account Based Marketing 62

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Hubspot

APRIL 26, 2016

Whether you're a newbie or experienced with market research, this guide will give you a blueprint for conducting a thorough buyer's journey study. How to Do Market Research: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding Your Buyer's Journey. Step 2: Recruit Buyers. Step 1: Define Your Personas. Let's walk through them.

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SnapApp

MAY 28, 2019

Or, maybe a sales rep who wants to sell your company on their product. It’s no use having 60 new leads in your CRM if only five of them are actually qualified. Strengthen Alignment With Your Sales Team. The key to a solid lead generation strategy starts internally within your organization, and research proves it.

Lead Ranking 75

Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Leads 75

Hubspot

JULY 3, 2020

ABM has a lot of moving parts that need to move as a synchronized whole to bring success to your organization. Here, we'll break down the steps of how to put ABM mapping into practice within your organization and implement the right process to make it happen. What is Account Mapping? Account Mapping Software.

Account Based Marketing 101

Account Based Marketing ABM Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs 101

SnapApp

JUNE 11, 2019

Year after year, one priority remains at the top of the list for many B2B marketers: better alignment with sales, and the benefits that come with it. And it makes sense—tightly aligned sales and marketing teams are 67 percent better at closing deals, on average. Do you know your sales team’s definition of a qualified lead?

Lead Ranking 59

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Reachforce 59

Metadata

JULY 21, 2022

And at the end, you’ll find a step-by-step guide to creating an effective ABM strategy that generates leads and boosts your organization’s long-term revenue potential. The more you’re willing to invest in quality analytics tools, the more you can get out of your CRM. Reduces the sales cycle.

Account Based Marketing 72

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Work Management Top of Funnel 72

ActiveDEMAND

MAY 22, 2018

There are so many factors that contribute to fast growth, but one of the most common technical similarities across the growth teams of winning start-ups is a powerful real-time integration between a sales CRM and a marketing automation platform. Synchronizing your sales CRM and your marketing automation platform.

Sales Management 40

Sales Management Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Automation Services 40

Kaon

JULY 23, 2018

Considering that the major portion of a buyer’s journey takes place without his or her knowledge, salespeople have to rise above a long list of challenges, regardless of their industry. Competition is fierce, and organizations are finding that their salespeople are unable to tell a compelling enough value story to set themselves apart.

B2B Sales 113

B2B Sales Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing 113

Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The B2B buyer has changed in several fundamental ways: It’s a joint effort. There’s more than one decision-maker: for B2B organizations, purchases are made by committee of as many as a dozen people. The sales cycle has gotten longer. Some may develop their stack according to each stage of the buyer’s journey.

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management Paid Content 62

ViewPoint

MARCH 12, 2013

In our discussion, Lori shared key insights into the B2B buyer's journey as well as marketing and sales alignment. In that article and elsewhere, you've suggested that many buyers get as far as 70 percent through the sales cycle before they find it useful to engage the sales teams.

Forrester 120

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 21, 2019

When alignment is solid, marketing and sales processes are positively influenced, with outcomes that include a shared understanding of the expectations and responsibilities of each group throughout the buyer’s journey, continual innovation and collaboration, healthier cultures overall and ultimately, a positive influence on the bottom line.

Top of Funnel 48

Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads 48

Varicent

MARCH 24, 2022

Given its significance, how can you best focus your efforts on enhancing how you manage your sales pipeline? How to Enhance Your Sales Pipeline. Every organization will have its own approach to sales pipeline management. Begin with the User Experience and the Buyer Journey. Let’s explore in more detail.

Enterprise Management 52

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Top of Funnel 52

SnapApp

JANUARY 15, 2019

You aren’t going to find a lot of CRM software buyers at a kids’ astronomy club. Remember, too, how much value B2B buyers put in personalized content these days. Consumers are now in the driver’s seat in their buyer journey.”. But grasshopper, you cannot control “your” B2B buyers. Not so fast.

Demand Generation Agencies 99

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 99

Vidyard

MARCH 5, 2021

Chances are your organization is creating and sharing more video content than ever before. With that growth comes the need to organize, track, and measure your video investments’ effectiveness, which means the time has come to evaluate an online video platform built for business.

Enterprise Management 65

Enterprise Management Work Management Video Marketing Marketing Management 65

Tony Zambito

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Recently, I had an engaging conversation with Lauren Carlson, a CRM Analyst with   Software Advice , as well as read her article Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software posted on The Software Advice Blog.    Closely related to this trend is another, that buyers will not answer the phone. 

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Trends Peer-to-peer Buyer Personas Marketing Automation Services 100

SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

By the time the average B2B buyer connects with any particular vendor, they’re already more than 70 percent of the way through the Buyer’s Journey —and 67 percent of that journey is digital. Bonus: The Everstring platform can be incorporated into existing CRM systems (i.e.,

Intent Data 79

Intent Data Marketing AI Intent Bombora 79