Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The marketing function has been evolving at a breakneck pace in recent years, especially in the B2B space. What worked just a few years ago may no longer pass muster as a mix of AI disruption, increased demands from boardrooms and investors, and changing buyer behaviors scramble the conventional wisdom for marketers everywhere.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 7, 2024

I distinctly remember the day I learned about CMRs: I was using a spreadsheet for my contact management, and I felt like other people maintained their networks better by sheer luck. Today I'll walk you through the most popular SaaS CRM solutions on the market to help you find the best tool for your needs. User Experience.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2023

As marketing has gotten more complex, marketing pros have had to embrace a wide variety of sophisticated tools to remain competitive and meet customer expectations. These 10 marketing software solutions help to streamline marketing campaigns through automation and advanced functionality. Marketing 360.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The digital era has led to changes in the way brands market their products and services. You’re familiar with the B2B buyer’s journey : moving prospects through the awareness, consideration, and decision stages of the buying process. Quick Takeaways: Customer experience is a leading priority for modern businesses.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Managing customer relationships has always been super important to the success of a business. For many product and service companies, it is an evolution. It starts with defining product-market fit. Then we have to hire and scale sales and marketing pipeline to acquire new customers. We provide the roadmaps.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 3, 2025

Thats a lot of work for sales and marketing departments , which is why a customer relationship management (CRM) tool is a must-have for any company serious about building a loyal client base. With the right CRM solution, your enterprise can build and nurture customer relationships that last.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Efficiently managing leads and routing them to the right accounts is a challenge for many companies, no matter the size. Lead-to-account matching and routing software addresses this problem head-on, automating key processes to help sales teams work smarter and faster.

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Martech

AUGUST 12, 2024

This month, the big news is all about improved data management, making customer interactions smoother and cutting down the time you spend on busy work. Sales teams, get ready to level up with awesome new tools for managing leads. It is not designed for 1-to-1 sales or customer support conversations.

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Martech

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Previously, I listed six core competencies for marketers working with marketing, including: generalized system understanding , tool management , architecture vision , capability assessment and tool procurement. This article covers the last core competency, organization management and what it means.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Tweet If Sales and Marketing were a manufacturing operation starting with raw materials — leads — and ending up with 5% to 20% in deliverable product — won sales — it would soon be shut down to determine what is wrong. However, companies continue to spend untold dollars on lead generation efforts ultimately doomed to fail.

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Martech

JANUARY 7, 2025

This includes conversational headings like The best software to protect businesses from ransomware attacks. Make sure youre working with pillar pages linking to in-depth blogs like How CRM helps sales teams close deals faster. Lets use a marketing automation platform as an example.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 23, 2018

Running and managing an online business isn’t easy. You need all the help you can get to manage your documents, projects, employees, sales…the list goes on. So, many online business owners turn to business software solutions to enable them to do more and do it more efficiently. Project Management Software.

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SendX

AUGUST 13, 2020

Businesses have switched to work from home mode and are expected to maintain the same level of productivity and efficiency. Managing work remotely has its hurdles, but remote work is not without its perks. A simplified interface for users is easy to learn, use and adapt to remote working conditions.

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Leadspace

MAY 23, 2025

In B2B marketing, theres one brutal truth: if youre not the first to respond to a prospects inquiry, chances are you wont get the deal. A precise, automated inbound lead management process. The Cost of Being Second Too many B2B teams still rely on manual or lagging workflows when it comes to handling inbound leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As I discussed earlier this year in my BLOG “ Executive Insights: World-Class Demand Generation and Corporate Social Responsibility Converge at Televerde ”, I was very fortunate to work with some tremendous partners during my nearly 19 year tenure with SAP Global Marketing.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. Digital first: apps, mobile, social media , video, podcasts, ecommerce — the works. So, we marketers need to get on board. Find them wherever they are — like under a remote-work beach umbrella. What’s going on? Who knows digital best?

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Martech

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Your revenue operations team can reliably get inbound leads into the hands of your sales representatives in roughly two minutes, executing every step of your lead management process along the way. Fast and reliable lead routing is extremely important for lead management. But nobody gets off easy.

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Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As we approach 2025, B2B marketers increasingly adopt data-driven strategies to refine their lead management processes and ensure they deliver sales-ready leads optimally. Lead scoring is crucial for tackling this challenge by ranking and assessing prospects’ readiness to buy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 27, 2018

When it comes to lead management, attracting potential buyers is only the beginning. Remember that for a lead to be considered successful, it must ultimately turn into a sale. To get there, you’ll need to be proactive about nurturing each step in the sales conversion process.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Theres certainly no shortage of sales tools available to help your team master every step in the modern sales process. These represent the key software platforms for your sales team to evaluate. Even the most driven sales teams require the right resources to effectively target prospects, nurture relationships, and close deals.

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ViewPoint

MAY 16, 2017

So start by engineering your processes to focus on lead quality not quantity. Then implement the workflow that encourages both sales and marketing to be acccountable for their role in revenue generation. Finally figure out how you can deliver the marketing-nurtured opportunities that sales will follow up on and close.

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The Point

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms? B2B marketers seem divided on the question. Historically, the attitude towards personal emails in B2B marketing has been that they betray a lower level of intent. solely for the purpose of diverting marketing emails.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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MarketJoy

MAY 16, 2025

There are various tools to help all aspects of the lead generation process, from customer relationship management (CRM) systems to lead-nurturing software, making your work easy and growing your leads as uncomplicated as possible. Apollo.io Best for: AI-driven lead scoring and outreach Apollo.io

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Marketing automation is the use of software and web-based services to execute, manage and automate repetitive marketing tasks and processes to more effectively market through multiple channels (i.e., What do marketing automation tools do? email, mobile, social media, and websites).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

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. But in between, marketing needs to nurture and qualify leads by encouraging them to engage with content until they’re sales-ready.

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markempa

AUGUST 12, 2021

Marketing can take you on a long hike. The one thing I can guarantee you about the journey is that getting more leads is not better if you don’t know how to nurture them. The goal of lead nurturing is to help potential customers on their buying journey. That means 98% of leads fail. Marketing can take you on a long hike.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Linking your CRM with LinkedIn is a powerful way for sales and marketing teams to get more out of both platforms. The reason businesses turn to marketing technology in the first place is because it helps you do things like reach the right people faster, centralize information and automate key processes. Processing.

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The Point

JUNE 25, 2019

[Thanks to Anne Angele, Spear’s esteemed Director of Marketing Technology, for this month’s guest post.]. Marketing attribution is a hot topic these days in B2B circles. Yet, for all the interest, precious few B2B companies achieve the holy grail of knowing exactly how – and where – their marketing investment impacts revenue.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

We sat down with William Wright, Senior Account Manager, SMACT Works to talk through his experience with ZoomInfo Engage. . SMACT Works provides strategy, management, consulting and managed services for digital, data & analytics, Cloud and Enterprise Technologies. Where Are They Now?

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Content marketing is fantastic for pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and financial services, as long as you play the game of differentiation. Some industries have it tougher than others when it comes to creating a quality content marketing strategy. So how do we create a great content marketing strategy in regulated industries?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A martech center of excellence (COE) bridges strategy and execution, turning marketing ideas into powerful customer experiences. Central to this is the execution team — a skilled group that includes UX designers, web experts, email marketers, social media strategists, CRM managers, campaign analysts and operational strategists.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Change in the working environment, change in the tools companies are using, and change in how buyers seek information and make purchases. Now more than ever, trust is important in the buying process as prospects continue to carefully consider purchases. It was a stop gap, not a long term solution. Everyone was against it.

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Martech

MAY 6, 2025

In large B2B companies, marketing and sales teams continue to operate in silos, resulting in wasted resources and missed opportunities. Marketing complains that sales ignores their hard-earned leads. Sales complains that marketing leads are garbage. AI fundamentally reshapes how marketing and sales work together.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2018

. Demand generation is the process marketers employ to make clients want to buy their product or service. This differs from lead generation, which is intended to make people want information about your offering. It not only tells visitors about your product or service but helps you get found in search.

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The Point

JUNE 5, 2018

Earlier this year, Forrester Research conducted a detailed survey of more than 150 B2B marketing decision-makers with the intent of benchmarking the maturity of B2B marketing best practices, focused on revenue marketing and marketing automation. for lead management to 3.35 for organization.

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2022

The faster you can connect with a lead the greater your chance of success. This makes routing marketing leads to your sales team a critical step for driving revenue growth. Without proper attention to your lead routing system, you’ll spend resources to generate leads that may not go anywhere. They become reality.

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