Oktopost

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

One of the essential keys for B2B sales success is keeping your pipeline filled with quality leads. Once those leads are identified, they need to be brought into your sales funnel. This is where sales outreach, a proactive way of discovering and following up with potential customers, increases conversions.

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Outreach

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email marketing is a core element of the buyer journey, serving as one of the earliest touchpoints in the sales cycle (at Outreach, we refer to the optimized series of such touchpoints as Sequences). As a result, most enterprises consider a high email open rate a barometer for gauging campaign success. What is Email Open Rate?

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Sales teams at HubSpot, Terminus, League, PostBeyond and others rely on Vidyard to cut through the noise, book more meetings and accelerate deals with personalized video. Modern sales professionals are struggling to cut through the noise with traditional tactics like traditional emails and phone calls.

Sales Management 71

Sales Management B2B Sales Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel 71

Vidyard

JULY 25, 2019

We all know one-to-one video is highly effective for boosting click-through rates and getting an initial response from a prospect. Whether you use the whiteboard-and-wave webcam or screen share approach, video is proven to get up to 3x the response rate and 5x more meetings booked than boring text-based emails.

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Process Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management 116

KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Many companies and their executives recognize the power of B2B marketing to drive sales and conversions, but marketing actually has a lot of benefits beyond just bringing in revenue. The sales funnel for B2B marketing is usually longer than a traditional B2C purchase: Salesforce reports that the average B2B sales cycle takes 84 days.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. However, since social selling is a relatively new concept, few sales teams manage to get it right.

Sales Management 62

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 62

Vidyard

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Modern sales professionals are struggling to cut through the noise with traditional tactics like traditional emails and phone calls. By incorporating personalized videos into their outbound communications, top-performing B2B sales teams are increasing their connect rates by more than 300% and progressing sales deals faster than ever.

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Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 50

Vidyard

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Modern sales professionals are struggling to cut through the noise with traditional tactics like traditional emails and phone calls. By incorporating personalized videos into their outbound communications, top-performing B2B sales teams are increasing their connect rates by more than 300% and progressing sales deals faster than ever.

Sales Management 50

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 50

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The first ever banner ad earned a 44% click-through rate —that’s a story almost every marketer knows, but few are aware that the first marketing email makes that look like a vanity metric. 86 percent of marketers rate their lead nurture campaigns as “average or worse” according to a Demand Gen Report.

Sales Management 105

Sales Management Top of Funnel Banner Ads Lead Nurturing 105

Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Click here to download! Do your sales reps need real-time access to marketing data? Do you want to improve the quality of leads handed off by marketing to sales? Or increase revenue by increasing conversion at key stages in the buying cycle? more cooperation and data sharing between marketing and sales).

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 97

Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

It provides insights into the online behavior of potential buyers, helping sales and marketing teams identify prospects who are actively researching solutions similar to what they offer. This approach leads to higher response rates, more meaningful conversations, and a shorter sales cycle.

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Intent Data Intent Intent Signal Account Based Marketing 62

The Point

JANUARY 13, 2015

As a B2B agency , our firm creates and executes dozens of email campaigns every month, and that experience tells me that a large percentage of B2B marketers, even at companies that otherwise do a very sophisticated job at demand generation , fail to measure or compare email campaign performance using any metrics other than opens and clicks.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 19, 2020

Alternatively, you can also set up ads that will lead clicks to Messenger and nurture them into valuable leads. For this strategy to work, keep in mind that you have to create a highly compelling Facebook ad copy that draws prospects in and makes them want to click the Messenger prompt. Providing exceptional customer service.

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Facebook Business Paid Search Agency Work Management 141

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Where to Use Video in the Sales Cycle 4.1 Post-Sale 5. The use of video in customer and sales conversations and prospecting has increased by 93% since 2019. Using video for financial services ticks all the boxes and creates a more extended reach for what teams can accomplish and what sales targets they can hit.

Enterprise Management 139

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Sales Management 139

Martech

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Do your sales reps need real-time access to marketing data? Do you want to improve the quality of leads handed off by marketing to sales? Or increase revenue by increasing conversion at key stages in the buying cycle? Do you want to improve visibility into the buying and sales cycles to optimize marketing engagement?

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation 96

Vidyard

MARCH 9, 2017

Today we’re excited to announce that, in partnership with SalesLoft, the platform for modern day sales engagement, we’re launching a new integration that will help sales teams supercharge sales emails with personalized, custom videos boosting response rates by 8x! 2017 could be the hardest year for sales reps.

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Video Marketing Personalization Terms and Conditions Response Rate 51

Vidyard

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? They are overwhelmed and busy and sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. Watch and Learn Want to learn about using video in sales emails via video?

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 65

Cintell

MARCH 10, 2016

Benefits of personas across the business: Persona-based marketing messaging : Best practice demand creation strategy that includes more personalized and customized messaging built on personas yields two times the average sales pipeline. Instills shared understanding between marketing, sales and product. Improves sales productivity.

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Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 100

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? They are overwhelmed and busy and sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. What is Video for Sales? Benefits of Video for Sales Emails 2.1

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 65

Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The first ever banner ad earned a 44% click-through rate —that’s a story almost every marketer knows, but few are aware that the first marketing email makes that look like a vanity metric. 86 percent of marketers rate their nurture efforts as “average or worse” according to a Demand Gen Report.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Banner Ads Sales Cycle 79

KEO Marketing

JUNE 28, 2016

The sales funnel is the process that a prospect goes through from initial contact to final conversion. The “location” in the funnel corresponds to the stage of the sales process of the prospect. As a sales opportunity moves down the funnel, time to close decreases and the probability of the sale occurring increases.

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Top of Funnel Analysis Stats Landing Pages 48

Digital B2B Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

However, sales cycles are long. Here we will look at how to measure and optimize your program effectively in the face of long sales cycles. Pipeline and Sales. Depending on your sales cycle and process, that may be the number of sales qualified leads or value of pipeline opportunities.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some incredible results. Synthio is using in-house created videos to fuel the success of everything from inbound marketing to outbound sales to customer communications. No problem!

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Video Marketing Generation B2B Thought Leadership Marketing Management 139

Vidyard

MARCH 11, 2019

Right now, less than 10% of sales teams are using video as a part of their sales strategy and connecting to prospects by spamming impersonal and irrelevant spray-and-pray messages just isn’t working anymore. “You don’t have to be great on camera, you just have to be helpful.”

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Video Marketing Personalization Ad Exchange Barriers 75

Hubspot

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. Truth is, sales is changing -- quickly. As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process.

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Budget Programs Top of Funnel Tools Work Management 101

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Lead nurturing is a crucial part of your marketing and sales success. With lead nurturing , however, you can bring those leads through your sales funnel and garner 4-10 times the response rate compared to a regular email blast while doing it [Source: SilverPop/DemandGen Report]. Understanding the Buying Cycle.

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Sales Cycle Lead Nurturing Top of Funnel Buying Cycle 28

Kapost

APRIL 18, 2016

Likes, shares, and impressions help pave the way to a sale, but there’s no second act if marketing efforts don’t translate into a positive customer experience. This goal is the basis for setting up important milestones related to sales and revenue and how they are measured. Simplify the Marketing ROI Playing Field by Setting Goals.

ROI 48

ROI Top of Funnel Planning Enterprise Management 48

Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

These solutions are designed to help sales and service agents communicate with customers more effectively. How a CRM platform helps sales and marketing teams collaborate effectively. At their core, CRM systems are designed to facilitate customer and sales relationships. How to choose a CRM system. The benefits of CRM.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 95

SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For marketers—especially those in B2B and/or who have a long sales cycle— campaign attribution is critical to understanding which channels are winners and which are dead weight. Without knowing which of your campaigns are driving sales, you don’t know which marketing channels you should be adding budget to or subtracting budget from.

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Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Ranking Marketing Attribution Full Circle Insights 105

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some incredible results. Synthio is using in-house created videos to fuel the success of everything from inbound marketing to outbound sales to customer communications. No problem!

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Enterprise Management Generation Marketing Management 65

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some incredible results. Synthio is using in-house created videos to fuel the success of everything from inbound marketing to outbound sales to customer communications. No problem!

Video Marketing 57

Video Marketing Enterprise Management Generation Marketing Management 57

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This year’s edition of the Video in Business Awards recognizes 12 marketing and sales teams using video in creative ways to deliver some incredible results. Synthio is using in-house created videos to fuel the success of everything from inbound marketing to outbound sales to customer communications. No problem!

Video Marketing 50

Video Marketing Enterprise Management Generation Marketing Management 50

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2015

You thought the sale was in the bag, but it’s becoming more and more clear that perhaps that wasn’t the case after all. Meme selling is the rip cord of sales strategies; when all other options have been exhausted, one of the tools at your disposal is to insert a funny meme or image and click send. But nothing is happening.

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Sales Cycle Thought Leadership Marketo Telemarketing 48

Vidyard

DECEMBER 28, 2017

We’ve been talking a lot about using video during the inbound/outbound sales process. But it’s time to dive a little deeper into how you can strategically use video to tighten up your sales cycle and maintain control of the buying process – at the same time, providing a seamless experience for your customers and prospects.

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Sales Cycle Video Marketing Lead Ranking Marketing Proposals 109

GreenRope

MARCH 8, 2016

Sales people have to constantly follow up with their leads, engage in conversation, show them the benefits of their product/service, and try to close deal after deal. Now, with automation and the amount of data we have at our fingertips, marketers are able to map content to fit every buyer’s needs at any point in the sales cycle.

Lead Nurturing 40

Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Services Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 40

GreenRope

MARCH 8, 2016

Sales people have to constantly follow up with their leads, engage in conversation, show them the benefits of their product/service, and try to close deal after deal. Now, with automation and the amount of data we have at our fingertips, marketers are able to map content to fit every buyer’s needs at any point in the sales cycle.

Lead Nurturing 40

Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Services Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 40

GreenRope

MARCH 8, 2016

Sales people have to constantly follow up with their leads, engage in conversation, show them the benefits of their product/service, and try to close deal after deal. Now, with automation and the amount of data we have at our fingertips, marketers are able to map content to fit every buyer’s needs at any point in the sales cycle.

Lead Nurturing 40

Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Services Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 40