Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 4, 2020

All versions of the cycle of experimentation and improvement are based on a scientific method that was first introduced in the work of Francis Bacon, which he explained as “hypothesis–experiment–evaluation” or, in simpler terms, “plan–do–check.”. It’s also an integral part of effective project management, Agile or not.

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Martech

APRIL 9, 2025

AI proficiency is becoming a critical differentiator for marketers. HubSpots co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah says were at an inflection point where AI skills are essential for marketing career growth and acceleration. But why is AI proficiency so critical for marketers and why is this happening now? Processing.

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Martech

MARCH 18, 2025

By 2028, traditional B2B marketing and sales tactics from demand generation to outbound prospecting will be nearly unrecognizable or extinct. Buyers are rapidly adopting AI to bypass vendor-led processes, making GTM teams shift from persuasion-based strategies to proof-driven models. The time to adapt is now. The reason?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Whether you’re pursuing an inbound or outbound marketing strategy, lead generation is a constant struggle. In fact, 37% of B2B marketers rank it as their number one challenge. Nestled within that challenge is an even more daunting task: finding enough qualified leads. What is the lead qualification process?

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

Email is an essential tool for marketing teams across sectors and industries. Most of these teams rely on email delivery or marketing automation platforms (MAP) to send emails. Processing. Marketing automation is often a solution for rapidly growing companies that need to scale their efforts.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 19, 2018

When we were still a small, scrappy team, we took a piecemeal approach to developing our sales process and didn’t involve anyone who actually worked exclusively in sales. The first thing we tackled was the initial messaging we sent out to leads when they converted on our homepage. What is this lead’s monthly revenue? (0–3

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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

JULY 25, 2024

The IOC’s AI hype was a good effort, but it’s far behind current leaders, “destroying humanity” and “putting everyone out of work.” Fibr , an AI personalization company, launched a hub for B2C marketers with a pay-as-you-go model. It’s available as self-service or with full creative support. Processing.

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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? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Every company has their own definition of a “good lead.”

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markempa

APRIL 14, 2014

We did a lot of work to look at that one-off strategy. There really was no strategy,” Shelby Britton, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Adobe, explained. The results of this transformation in webinar marketing led to a 75% increase in open rate and 120% clickthrough rate increase in emails promoting the webinars.

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Only B2B

AUGUST 7, 2024

45% of marketers say that attracting quality leads with content remains their top challenge, with 38% of businesses struggling to find the resources to produce more. If you don’t want to fall into this bracket, you need more sales-qualified leads. That’s why we have set the lead qualification criteria for you.

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Webbiquity

MAY 9, 2017

It’s hardly news that B2B sales and marketing teams aren’t always on the same page. And it’s not just arguments over lead quality. According to research from IDC , over 40% of all marketing materials aren’t used by sales teams. But in top-performing organizations, sales and marketing are closely aligned.

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Act-On

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Marketers are creative, constantly looking for new ways to reach their target market and get results. But we’d argue that small marketing teams like yours must be even more creative … because you don’t have a huge internal team to back you up. But hey, every challenge also has a solution, right?

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InsightSquared

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Sales operations managers play a crucial role in making sure sales teams are firing on all cylinders. They tackle much of the heavy lifting in Salesforce.com (or other CRM systems) and continuously optimize processes to make lives easier for sales reps and managers, giving them more time to focus on what they do best – sell.

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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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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

B2B marketers understand the importance of qualifying a lead before it goes to a sales person, but sometimes the qualification process can get tricky. Today, most established companies assign the qualification role to an SDR, or sales development rep, a dedicated function that has one foot in sales and one in marketing.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers. This is a perfect analogy to what actually occurs in the sales process, where information starts out broad in the beginning and gets incredibly granular towards the end. Enter, data.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. Well, for starters, inbound prospects, by definition, choose themselves as leads. What is Inbound Lead Generation? Inbound vs. Outbound Lead Generation.

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Lusha

JULY 22, 2024

Closing deals is challenging, but a well-defined sales process simplifies it. In this guide, we break down the sales process into 8 easy steps , each backed by research and real-world examples. Understanding the Sales Process What is the Sales Process? Why is a Well-Defined Process Crucial?

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markempa

JANUARY 17, 2019

“Why You Need to Align Your Marketing and Sales Team for 2019.” ” Another year, another article for why it is important for organizations to align their marketing and sales teams – as if organizations do not know this given the hundreds of thousands of articles and blog posts that have been written about the topic. .”

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). The entire revenue team is working to determine if this is a good fit. What is Automated Lead Qualification? Lead qualification is definitely one of those things.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 10, 2021

In this episode we’re using a fishing story to illustrate how to ensure Marketing and Sales work together when it comes to customer acquisition. At the end of a recent Sales and Marketing gathering where a Chief Growth Officer asked me to retell the story, he asked me if I would record it for his team. What a wonderful request.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Opportunity.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 20, 2025

By Win Dean-Salyards , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing When we enter a new client company, we establish our baseline using the Predictable Pipeline Maturity Model. It measures companies across five stages (scored on a range of 1-5): Initial(1), Ad-Hoc, Defined, Managed, and Optimized(5). The reality?

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

Research shows that 99% of B2B buyers would both make a new purchase and complete a renewal in an end-to-end digital service model. Additionally, a majority of respondents are very comfortable spending $50k or more entirely through self-service channels. It’s clear: Buyers want a self-service purchasing option.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

If you want your sales reps to work smarter, not harder, look no further than HubSpot Sales Hub. Sales Hub is the enterprise-grade customer relationship management (CRM) system that provides a complete revenue picture, featuring everything from top-of-funnel leads to closed-won deals. Expand reach with UI extensions.

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Single Grain

APRIL 29, 2025

The difference between thriving companies and those merely surviving often comes down to how they made their lead-to-sale process not only effective but also efficient and adaptable. A data-informed, technology-enhanced lead-to-sale process is essential for sustainable growth.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In the words of Viviana Fargo, Operating Partner at venture capital firm Emcap, “ one of the biggest reasons that many startups fail: Founders launch companies with great ideas, but with no go-to-market expertise.” ” Insufficient go-to-market (GTM) expertise has a crippling effect on growth. They are different.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Agentforce represents a quantum leap in AI automation for customer service, sales, marketing, commerce, and more. Imagine a workforce with no limits Transform the way work gets done across every role, workflow, and industry with autonomous AI agents. Proactive action. User inputs are one way to trigger agents.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Many B2B marketers use the terms interchangeably. A broken marketing funnel, wasted budgets, and frustrated sales teams. Demand generation and lead generation are not the same. But they work hand in hand. Demand generation focuses on creating interest in your brand, product, or service. What is Lead Generation?

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Orange Owl Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

B2B Marketing Chatbots in B2B Marketing: How They Are Transforming Business Strategies Vivek Goel March 6, 2025 Share : Table of Contents Introduction In today’s digital-first business landscape, companies are constantly seeking innovative ways to engage prospects, streamline processes, and improve customer experience.

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Unbound B2B

JUNE 12, 2025

Channel marketing plays a critical role in driving growth for modern B2B organizations. It involves working with external partners to promote and sell products or services. These partners often include distributors, resellers, and managed service providers (MSPs). What is Channel Marketing and Why Does It Matter?

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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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markempa

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tweet Customer relationship management (CRM) is defined a number of different ways. With a complex sale, many personal touch points in customer relationship management are present – such as directly answering a question posted on social media or an online forum. Marketing, Sales (and IT) alignment.

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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? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Every company has their own definition of a “good lead.”

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Biznology

JULY 31, 2015

Lead qualification is one of the primary jobs for B2B marketers, and a great deal of time and money is spent on this step of the sales cycle. Now that I’ve stated the obvious, I see both good and bad lead qualification processes in the market. Don’t ditch old lead lists. Do: follow-up promptly.

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