Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

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Marketing Interactions

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Links to the next part of the story, process, or thinking about how to solve the problem or, in the case of customers, what to do now that they’ve solved the original problem. The Job of Sales Content. For this post, let’s focus on content’s job for sales.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

So something that worked a year ago (*cough* your current sales process *cough*), probably isn’t as effective presently. Sales process optimization isn’t a one and done activity. Even the most evergreen processes need some upkeep once in a while. What Is A Sales Process? It’s time to optimize.

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SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

From VPs and CMOs to entry-level reps and account managers, everyone is inundated by data. Gaining greater insights into sales and marketing data has been a consistent theme in many recent conversations with our customers, and it’s a topic that ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck believes in passionately.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. These tidbits can be the difference between an average sale and a humongous deal.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. What Is a B2B Sales Funnel?

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Sales Ad Building 130

Oktopost

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s business environment, the ability to discern and act upon a potential customer’s needs and desires can be transformative, enabling businesses to engage with prospects more effectively and convert them into loyal customers. Recent findings indicate that leveraging intent data yields promising results.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

That’s the power of intent data.” ” – Mary Meeker, Partner at Kleiner Perkins With the ocean of customer data at your fingertips, identifying the right buying intent aligning your business offerings is critical to driving sales. This is where the intent data comes into the picture.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 10, 2023

digital retail sales. And sellers using Fulfillment by Amazon logistics services sacrifice nearly half the revenue from each sale. Even if you do use Amazon as a sales channel, it’s probably not your only one (or even the most important). Query efficiency” is a high-level measure of search intent. ecommerce market.

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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. Table of Contents [Open] [Close] What is B2B intent data?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

The middle of the demand generation funnel receives way less attention than it deserves. At the top of the funnel, marketing increases traffic and fills the database with new leads through paid ads, social media, search, referral programs, and a variety of other channels. What exactly is the middle of the funnel?

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Only B2B

JANUARY 18, 2024

The reason why marketers look for account based marketing tactics is the fact that they have risked losing some valuable clients in the rush to connect with everyone. ABM outperforms all other marketing tactics when it comes to ROI when you do ABM well. Account Based Marketing Tactics For Better ROI 1. Try not to waste that.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2023

Many go-to-market professionals already use intent data to spot prospects that are interested in their products or services. Let’s break down a few examples to show how intent can be your crystal ball. ZoomInfo covers over 4,500 topics, ranging from sales enablement tools to M&A to private equity.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So, what is the first thing that occurs to you when you start brainstorming about your B2B sales strategy? What are the latest challenges in B2B sales strategies ? The latest B2B sales challenges include: Difficulty in reaching decision makers and engaging with them effectively. Target Audience? Investment?

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Martech

MARCH 18, 2024

Intent data has become a big category with various sources, all of which promise visibility and focus that can change everything. These days, a marketing program that isn’t leveraging intent data of some description is seen as flying blind and hoping to hit the target with luck and timing on its side. Only it won’t be able to save it.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Intent is the lifeblood of sales. Intent data paints a panoramic picture of the B2B arena -revealing current interests, challenges, and needs of target audiences, resulting in increased conversions and accelerated pipeline. Must Read: What are the Benefits of B2B Intent Data? Wondering why people buy?

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Tony Zambito

MAY 10, 2021

That they, in effect, lose their intended purpose after a while. For instance, you most likely have heard or read something about the buyer-aligned sales process within the past few years. And let us not forget – new processes. What is striking is the funnel view has changed very little during the past twenty years.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Too often, companies focus SEO efforts on driving traffic with top-of-the-funnel content and keywords. While this approach can generate traffic, it often fails to convert them into leads and sales. In B2B, the opportunity is in optimizing for bottom-of-the-funnel queries and conversions. So, why start from the bottom in B2B?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

And while their intentions are probably good, their behavior reads more as desperate and invasive than noble and constructive. The same principle applies to B2B sales. Sometimes, reps can be exceedingly helpful and friendly, and while that might be perfectly pleasant in theory, it can undermine their sales in practice.

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NetLine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In a previous post, we covered how to get the sales handoff right and why first-party and validated buyer data is essential in this process. It’s important to realize that although intent data has played a major role in discovering and nurturing leads before being handed over to sales, its job isn’t finished at that handover.

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Seismic

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The B2B sales landscape has dramatically changed over the last few years. Sales cycles include more stakeholders and touchpoints. Amid these changes, go-to-market teams need to collaborate on initiatives, optimize processes, and work together to remain successful. But all of this takes time, intentionality, and dedication.

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Only B2B

APRIL 10, 2024

MQL sits at the intersection of marketing and sales. These are leads that have been validated and are ready to be handed over to the sales team. Many marketers view MQL as flawed because less than 1% of these leads typically reach the final stage of the buying process, and even then, there’s no guarantee they’ll convert.

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NetLine

JUNE 22, 2023

The pain B2B demand gen marketing pros experience whenever sales fails to act on leads or dismiss them prematurely can be quite painful. Sales, conversely, pulls its collective hair out whenever marketing overpromises and underdelivers on quality buyer-level information. That handover process between marketing and sales is crucial.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 17, 2022

Sales, by all accounts, is a perfect blend of art and science. A sales rep prospecting clients on the phone is pure art (that’s why some are good at it while others not so much) but deciding who to call is pure science (think CRMs and sales automation tools). What is a Sales Funnel? The Groundwork.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The B2B buyer journey has shifted, with sales reps now only having roughly 5% of a customer’s time. Since B2B buyers primarily research solutions on their own, effective marketing is crucial. Intent data is your key to simplified B2B marketing lead generation. Jump to Section: What is Intent Data?

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Biznology

JULY 11, 2019

Effective sales funnels are the most engaging—and effective—ways to increase your business. Many businesses struggle with lead generation, qualifying leads and converting them to sales. About 73% of a business’s potential leads aren’t sales-ready. Allowing sales and marketing to work together effectively.

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Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In B2B sales and marketing, intent has become an essential ingredient as salt and pepper are in cooking. With our increasing reliance on intent data and its broadening definition, now is a good time to assess the state of intent and plan on what might be ahead.

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SalesIntel

MARCH 14, 2024

Amidst the vast sea of data available, three key sets—technographics, firmographics, and buyer intent—have emerged as indispensable tools for driving sales success. This guide delves into the strategic integration of technographics, firmographics, and buyer intent into sales processes. What is Buyer Intent Data?

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Anteriad

MAY 31, 2023

Whether you’re launching a program for the first time of reevaluating your current campaigns, there are core account-based marketing tactics to set yourself up for success. Tactic 1: Start with strategic ABM alignment This account-based marketing tactic focuses on strategic ABM alignment.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 18, 2023

B2B companies have greatly succeeded in enhancing the effectiveness of their ABM campaigns through careful content planning, creation, and distribution. This goes beyond understanding content topics and the search intent behind each keyword. Engagement and Conversion Issues Don’t rely on generic conversion funnels.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Intent data is a collection of behavioral data points that help identify prospects at the account- or buyer-level with a high propensity to convert based on their level of interest in a product or service. This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy.

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DealSignal

MARCH 2, 2024

These insights are shaped by prescient, effective data, such as audience demographics, traffic sources, engagement rates, and attitudinal information, among others. With an ocean of possible data points from which actionable insights can be extracted, the importance of buyer intent data is becoming clear. Intent Data Use Cases 1.

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Martech

MARCH 2, 2022

No sitting around waiting for intent signals. Well, it’s here – and not only is it the future of selling in saas, but sales teams are using it today to engage with prospects in the earliest stages of the dark funnel. Okay… but what is the dark funnel exactly? So, why isn’t intent data enough? Additionally, 4.3

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Inbox Insight

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Effective lead generation comes down to both B2B lead quality and quantity. For example, leads matching your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) demonstrating a high propensity to purchase will not only accelerate your sales cycle and win more revenue. Reading time: 4 minutes Why is Lead Quality the key area of focus for Demand Generation?

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Outreach

APRIL 20, 2020

Our advice (detailed by Brooke Simmons here ) is for sales reps to acknowledge the situation and become a trusted advisor that collaborates with the buyer - and doesn’t pitch. But Bombora isn’t only the leader in providing intent data, they’re also a thought leader. Collaboration with Bombora.

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