Martech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Clearly, there’s no shortage of vendors with proposed solutions to the marketing problem du jour. A robust plan requires you to document and align your short- and long-term business, marketing, customer experience and technology goals. dollars in 2021. Dig deeper: Three ways to organize your martech stack. Get MarTech!

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2023

Staff should be sourced and evaluated on the ability to act as editors and supervisors for machine-generated marketing copy and proposals, such as agency creative briefs. Still, tools like ChatGPT have raised the bar by creating draft copy and briefs on par with interns or entry-level employees — potentially making their skills redundant.

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Marketing AI Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency Work Management 133

SmartBug Media

JANUARY 4, 2021

Benefit #1: Sales Engagement and Documentation Tools. Sales documents. HubSpot’s Sales Hub Enterprise platform offers the ability to create up to 1,000 playbooks within the CRM to document and guide the sales process. Benefit #4: Product Library and Proposals. Call transcripts. Email templates. 1:1 video creation.

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Enterprise Management Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Marketing Proposals 96

Hubspot

MARCH 5, 2021

In the business world, the process includes having vendors or companies submit RFPs (request for proposal) or RFQs (request for quote) so you can compare their products and services. These documents help businesses decide which vendor they want to buy from. Then, you need to create the RFQ document (see template below).

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Martech

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If those objectives and success metrics don’t exist, propose them. Tap whatever collaboration tools are available: Slack, a shared Command Center for documents, scheduled non-meeting work time, and brief update videos for executives. Be ready for someone to tell you, “No, that cannot be done cost-effectively.”

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Work Management Brand Identity Branding Marketing Management 101

ClearVoice

JUNE 30, 2020

Tracking admin hours will unveil the true cost of doing business. Don’t make proposals an afterthought. Proposals are still a key transactional document. They want you to whip up that proposal and send it over. If creating proposals is manual and difficult, you’re making life harder than it needs to be.

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Hubspot

APRIL 13, 2021

However, a Request for Proposal (RFP) is different from a Request for Information (RFI) in a few ways, including the timing and the type of information required. A Request for Proposal is a formal request for the selected vendors or suppliers to respond to a specific contract opportunity. Best Practices for RFI Documentation.

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Schubert B2B

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes the cost of software, the salaries of the experts, and the cost of content creation and advertising. Create a Brief with Scope-of-Work Requirements Make sure that you have a documented brief in the form of a Request for Proposal or a Request for Information.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For example, a B2B software company might have personas like Tech-Savvy Startup Owner or Cost-Conscious SME Manager. Document the sales process with reps Collaborate with sales representatives to outline each stage of the sales cycle. This could include handling objections or unique selling propositions for different products.

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Martech

APRIL 17, 2023

COVID-19 spurred companies’ dissatisfaction with martech Migrations are on my mind because more companies are now moving through the request-for-proposal process (RFPs) or migrating between platforms. Pre-pandemic, companies switched martech platforms mainly because they were unhappy with the cost, features or support.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2022

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health proposes this 5C’s model: Conciliation Remote working and flexibility became recognized as an important factor in allowing people to reconcile work and home life.

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Work Management Peer-to-peer Lead Ranking Word of Mouth 130

SmartBrief - Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2023

“Technology is a top priority in everything I do, helping me streamline operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. But as all leaders know, there’s an important cost and benefit scenario to consider. For example, take the documents process. Those hours add up.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

MARCH 4, 2022

The teams gathered data on how proposed changes would drive revenue increases or cost reductions. This data informed an investment plan that linked proposed digital experience enhancements to benefits for the company and their clients. Shideman’s team started by documenting the mundane tasks that drained advisor time.

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Marketing Proposals Work Management Multi-Channel Customer Satisfaction 98

Navigate the Channel

OCTOBER 12, 2022

(A recurring theme, as if you don’t document things, they slip through the cracks.) As a side note: Document sales leads after the trade show and note if those sales came from those who were customers before the show, or if they bought for the first time after the show, and if they purchased multiple times after the show.

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Kevin Indig

JULY 3, 2023

Google’s documentation is clunky. Even SEO just has a very low marginal cost but still takes resources. If you’re like me and millions of other marketers out there, you probably don’t fully get GA4 yet. Because how could you? It’s complex! This problem is not exclusive to SEO. You need to make pitches count.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring SEO FAQ 119

B2B Marketing Traction

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

By writing a plan, marketing has a document that the user community has to approve and sign off on before any programming starts. The programmer has a document that outlines the vision for the website, and, if done right, much more detail that eliminates the guesswork and bridges the gap between owner expectations and programmer assumptions.

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Kevin Indig

MAY 29, 2023

Their forecasting tool translates your ranking goals into sessions and conversions, making it easier for you to show the value of your proposal. How Google might make SGE cost-efficient The first realization is that Google doesn’t show AI results by default , at least in the SGE beta. That's where SEOmonitor comes in.

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Lead Ranking Generation Lead Scoring Forecasting 139

Optinmonster

JULY 26, 2021

Cost: The HubSpot integration is available with OptinMonster Pro and Growth plans that start at $29 per month (billed annually). Cost: Starts at $16 per month. Cost: Starts at $19 per month. Cost: Start for free. Cost: Starts at $29.99 Cost: Free. It makes it easy to e-sign documents and close deals.

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Eric Mower + Associates

MAY 2, 2019

If you’re on the “now make it happen” team, proposing a well-constructed plan that involves thinking big, starting small and scaling smartly can help to set your program and organization up for success. Keep these critical factors documented and connected to the remainder of the plan. Much of this step has been done.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Not only because his proposed methodology mirrors almost perfectly our approach at Velocity when crafting digital marketing audits and blueprints (more on this later) but also because it echoed a feeling we’ve had for a while with our own clients. Getting your cost per lead under control. John’s views struck a chord with me.

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Lead Ranking Planning 79

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Or if sales had fully understood the needs of procurement prior to sending a proposal? Produce documentation and educate your revenue teams. Produce the documentation that covers the concerns, makes them clear to sales folks, and enables them to pre-emptively deal with procurement concerns. Perhaps not! Faster cycle times.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 102

The Effective Marketer

MAY 27, 2015

This is a lengthier document that analyses the competitor’s company, value proposition, marketing communications, technical aspects of the product, etc. Add different search criteria like <competitor name> proposal filetype:pdf to find documents in PDF with ‘proposal’ in them. You get the idea.

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Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Proposals Paid Search Agency 100

Hubspot

AUGUST 31, 2018

Have you been tasked with the job of creating a request for proposal, or an RFP? Before potential bidders can submit their proposals, an RFP must be drafted by the company requesting the work. In these proposals, vendors generally include the following items: An action plan of how they’re going to solve the issue.

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Work Management RFP Marketing Management Marketing Proposals 93

Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

The biggest productivity initiatives are taking place in proposal and pitch tracking (78%), better training and onboarding (40%), improving content access and utilization (35%), mobility (34%) ( source ). Over half of employees say they have issues with documents being misfiled or lost ( source ).

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Statistics Product Peer-to-peer Work Management 197

SalesIntel

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Along with the cost-cutting benefits, video conferencing also helps to reduce communication hiccups with remote teams, clients, or other stakeholders. E-signature and Document Tracking For those who are not aware of this type of tool, e-signature and document tracking tools are replacing the putting pen to paper method.

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Marketing Automation Services B2B Sales Enterprise Management Work Management 97

SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These factors have cost the global economy $450 billion. At proposal and pitching. Finding documents. Sharing documents with legal. Editing proposals. Distraction is a problem, and it’s impacting sales. The current state of sales: 73 percent of salespeoples’ time goes to non-selling activities. At closing.

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AccuData

JUNE 14, 2021

Individuals who commit plagiarized documents tend to have poor researching skills and a poorly conceptualization ability. When it comes to determining the structure of the document and the citation style to follow, most students make the mistakes of simply tacking notes. s contribution to the original publication.

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Copyright Marketing Proposals Paper Guidelines 40

Webbiquity

APRIL 21, 2020

It replaces manual paper workflows for tracking subsystem installation progress, enabling construction companies and contractors to reduce overall project time and costs. Outsourcing development had its benefits, such as controlling costs and finding expertise. The Entrepreneur Interview Series #15: Adam Hempenstall, Better Proposals.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Budget Programs 172

Hinge Marketing

JUNE 24, 2019

Increased competition and commoditization of services put downward price pressure on services even as talent shortages drive up costs. The second key observation is that the cost of providing a service is only partially related to its perceived value. This increases their cost by about $200 per month. How long will it take?

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Pricing Price Lead Ranking Work Management 92

Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2022

It also has major economic benefits from a cost of sales perspective — for instance, rather than paying for each sales rep to travel to meet in-person with buyers, plenty of selling can now be done virtually. There are a few major benefits of hybrid selling. Additionally, hybrid selling enables you to build a stronger team.

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Marketing & Strategy Peer-to-peer Transparency Lead Ranking 74

The ROI Guy

MAY 29, 2018

They need help understanding how much the legacy is costing, and how your solution can help them save money and improve their business. Your prospects need assistance in tallying Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI), which is why most vendors work hard to develop calculators for their websites and sales teams.

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DiscoverOrg

JUNE 29, 2017

Operational cost and reliability. Therefore, you can edit your content to remove mentions of compliance and accessibility and add quick hits about cost of ownership and solution up-time. By the time the proposal reaches the CEO’s desk, the CIO and COO have already bought in. Well, what does the COO care about?

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Martech

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Despite advertising costs rocketing from $21 million in 2015 to $290 million in 2019, Expedia’s traffic from Google did not increase. However, Google rejected this proposal with the statement “No default placement, no revenue share,” as stated in an email. Google ‘hid and destroyed evidence’ (Sept.

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Google Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Paid Search Agency 88

Velocity Partners

JULY 5, 2023

And ironically they’re the ones that come at the lowest cost-per-lead. Develop more best practices on sales and marketing alignment You can help clients see how Sales & Marketing alignment is an ongoing process that requires work across multiple areas (technical, process, documentation and content). It comes back to context.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Campaigns 82

Seismic

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of those barriers is preparing the variety of sales and marketing collateral such as the presentations, pitchbooks, and proposals they need to personalize interactions and maximize the outcome of their meetings. While these and other materials are essential, creating them manually is a timely and inefficient process. Make no mistake.

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Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Proposals Barriers 41

Hubspot

JULY 19, 2016

And some simply get comfortable after the third or fourth project, and they think a legal document is no longer necessary: The client has paid up before with no problems. So you just say "yes" instead and hope that you can find a freelancer who can do the work within the budget you proposed. What could happen to make that change?

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Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Ad Agencies Cost 28

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 17, 2018

For example, Okta sales reps and specialists are using an Alinean developed Business Value Assessment (BVA) on most customer engagements, aligning each proposal with specific buyer challenges, benchmarking the current issues and comparing these to leaders, laggards and peers, quantifying the “cost of do nothing” and the value of the proposed change.

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