Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your next sales kickoff or training event is going virtual for 2021. And as with any year, you’ll likely focus on soft skills, the sales process and using new technologies. Help Your Remote Sales Team Shine. Virtual Sales Training Resources. Sales Gravy: Virtual Selling Skills Bootcamp. Get the Kit.

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Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Today, digital platforms and data enrichment strategies are the status quo, reshaping how we identify, engage and nurture potential customers we’d like to have. Lead gen occurs within the second stage of a marketing funnel — meaning it happens after marketers have attracted an audience and are ready to hand them over to the sales team.”

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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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LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

If you’ve spent more than three months in a marketing capacity, you’ve undoubtedly encountered the mysterious, and most often problematic, phenomenon of lead leakage. For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel.

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Lattice

JULY 19, 2016

And since Q4 is historically the biggest quarter for most sales teams, now is the time for companies to identify any issues with their revenue funnel, and determine ways to fix those problems so Q4 is a runaway success, not a flop. But what happens if there are multiple issues with a company’s revenue funnel?

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Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes.

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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. Low search volumes: Relevant industry keywords may have less search traffic compared to broader consumer markets.

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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.

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Outreach

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What is B2B Sales? market research) + companies that use such services to support their business goals. market research) + companies that use such services to support their business goals. Businesses that provide digital/software services (e.g. What is a B2B sales representative? What is the B2B sales process?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 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, omnichannel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. What is Demand Generation?

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Madison Logic

MARCH 6, 2024

Wide-approach B2B marketing tactics revolve around aiming for the accounts you and your company think are a good fit. But tight budgets, limited resources, and longer, more complex sales cycles require you to work more efficiently. Here’s how. What Is a Target Account List?

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Over a long time, the sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations were thought to be discrete. At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). The Sales Funnel.

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Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

Sales Cycle 40

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Oktopost

MARCH 23, 2020

B2B marketing and sales professionals are fighting a daily battle to convert a finite number of leads. This is why automation of B2B marketing and sales activities appears inevitable. It’s clear that organizations looking to scale up embrace automation tools and solutions to boost their marketing and sales operations.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

From customer service to new client contracts, everything is going digital—even selling. But in a market that’s been heavily reliant on in-person interactions to drive new business, making connections and nurturing clients can be hard in a virtual selling world. Where to Use Video in the Sales Cycle 4.1 Post-Sale 5.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team. Intent data allows you to identify and target these specific folks, almost in real time.

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2022

” Rather than tailoring messages to individual customers, marketers in the B2B space are recognizing the need to adopt account-based strategies to resonate with groups of executive-level buying groups. .” “The other thing that you need to make ABM successful is tight marketing and sales alignment,” Britt said.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your next sales kickoff or training event is going virtual for 2021. And as with any year, you’ll likely focus on soft skills, the sales process and using new technologies. Help Your Remote Sales Team Shine An all-in-one video selling resource to support your strategic planning, SKO, and ongoing enablement.

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Training Top of Funnel Resources Work Management 74

DealSignal

MAY 30, 2023

During a recent conversation about migrating from traditional inbound marketing to an ABM campaign strategy, a colleague noted that the optimal method was a hard cutover, but that this would put a serious hole in his pipeline. Since I have also seen funnel conversion rates drop over the last five to 10 years, ABM is a natural solution.

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Rev

AUGUST 2, 2023

When it comes to sales prospecting, there is no magic formula. That said, there are certain tactics and strategies that can help you become more successful at prospecting. We’ll start by exploring the basics of prospecting, from understanding your target audience to defining a productive process. What is sales prospecting?

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Vidyard

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your next sales kickoff or training event is going virtual for 2021. And as with any year, you’ll likely focus on soft skills, the sales process and using new technologies. Help Your Remote Sales Team Shine An all-in-one video selling resource to support your strategic planning, SKO, and ongoing enablement.

Training 65

Training Top of Funnel Resources Work Management 65

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

McKinsey Institute reports that one-fifth of sales functions could be automated with artificial intelligence (AI). Sales pros spend hours a day on manual and administrative tasks. Luckily, AI is paving the way to reduce or even eliminate the time you spend on routine sales tasks. How much time?

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Pam Didner

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The biggest benefit of digital marketing is that everything is trackable. The biggest downfall of digital marketing is that everything is trackable. The difference between winning and losing is your ability to demonstrate your impact on sales using digital data. VP of Marketing or CMO. Social Media.

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Oktopost

APRIL 29, 2024

Doing this helps to drive your leads that you are in contact with further down the funnel. Many discussions take place about B2B intent data in the context of ABM (Account Based Marketing) or other strategic marketing and sales programs. How can marketers use social intent data? What is social intent data?

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Valasys

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Feel like your sales team is spinning their wheels on unqualified prospects? The Problem Traditionally, prospect filtering relied heavily on manual processes – keyword searches, generic criteria, and a whole lot of guesswork. This often led to wasted time, missed opportunities, and a frustrated sales team.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

By Sarah Threet, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketin g What is Purchase Intention and Intent Data? B2B organizations can use intent data for sales enablement, ABM, and to assist with their digital marketing strategy. Intent data can also help with shortening sales cycles, preventing churn, and assists in upselling.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Sales and PR have a lot in common—even if both sides are reluctant to agree. But there are still elements that can be borrowed from sales and repurposed for success within PR. How can you leverage the traditional sales funnel and tried-and-true sales techniques to lend powerful insight to your PR efforts?

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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.

Sales Management 62

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 62

Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Marketing is a requirement for growing organizations. And it makes sense to have a savvy individual in the driver’s seat to ensure that your marketing efforts dovetail together, connect with your KPIs and overall business goals and move the organization forward. What is a chief marketing officer (CMO)? Processing.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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. This AND A LOT MORE.

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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.

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Without benefiting from it through sales. Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. Oh, very interesting.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 1, 2022

The tenure for a sales VP is much shorter, at around 19 months. Since the beginning of COVID, sales within tech companies has experienced massive attrition with an average tenure for all sales professionals at 21 months. Think Beyond the Funnel. Funnel imagery permeates marketing.

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LeanData

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Over the past several years now, marketers and other go-to-market (GTM) professionals have suggested account-based marketing (ABM) motions will be the way of the future, simply because it makes too much sense to discount. Push the old marketing sales funnel aside. First, a step back. Image: B2B News Network.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

LinkedIn’s State of Sales Report shows that 44% of sales and marketing teams are seeing a significant drop in responsiveness to social and email messaging. So, why are sales and marketing teams challenged to build strong social relationships so they can overcome sales plateaus, sales drops, and sales troughs?

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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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