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The Marketing Book Podcast: “Forget the Funnel” by Georgiana Laudi

The Forward Observer

Forget the Funnel: A Customer-Led Approach for Driving Predictable, Recurring Revenue by Georgiana Laudi and Claire Suellentrop About the Book Your product is great. So why is marketing it so hard? Many SaaS companies struggle with marketing. Teams try everything they can to drive more traffic, leads, and signups.

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How to build an email marketing funnel? [With 8 examples of emails in a Sales Funnel]

SendX

The visual representation of this process is an email marketing funnel. Lesser and lesser leads move from one stage to the other, making it look like a funnel. Hence, the name email marketing funnel. Why do you need an email marketing funnel? CTA should go straight to the sales page.

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Chief Revenue Regrets – The Sales Leader Blindspot: Early Stage Funnel

InsightSquared

ABM is transforming marketing. Yet, we are still running forecast and funnel reviews just as we did decades ago … interrogating and inspecting deals to assess the quality of the funnel to meet the number. Forecast vs Funnel Review. It is a tactical inspection to determine confidence and identify risk in the forecast.

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Survey: How sales reps adapted to the pandemic

Zoominfo

The pandemic changed the day-to-day processes of the B2B sales organization practically overnight when the world went 100% digital. A recent ZoomInfo survey of about 600 sales and marketing professionals found that most sales reps said they relied on in-person events for prospecting before 2020.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. Apply tested plays to your funnel - Use real-world scenarios, triggers, actions and expected results to improve your entire funnel. Close more deals with these winning plays!

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How Sales Funnel Management Is Changing

Lead Forensics

So how is the sales funnel – and the way it is formed, used, and managed – changing? And what are the most effective sales and marketing teams doing to optimize their chance of achieving success? Then during the final decision-making stage the sales pipeline will kick in.

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Why Marketers Should Prioritize Lower Funnel Keywords to Get Better Results

Act-On

With higher traffic and more page views, it’s only reasonable to expect a bump in conversions and sales. Lower funnel keywords are an often neglected SEO strategy for marketers. One thing is for sure, though: search intent isn’t aligned with marketing automation, which is what we do here at Act-On.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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Creating B2B Engagement, Not Just B2B Content

Speaker: Kate Jacobsen, Marketing Programs Manager, BrightTALK

Marketers are generating more and more content to educate and nurture prospects through the sales pipeline. Join us as we break down underutilized tactics marketers can use to improve engagement at all stages of the funnel. The solution isn't creating more content—it’s getting the most out of what you have on hand.

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Your Recipe for Inbound Success

Speaker: Jen Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, SmartBug Media

Recent studies have shown what a lot of B2B marketers already know - it’s hard to build a successful inbound marketing program. And the best part is, it can apply to content for all stages of your funnel! In this webinar, we’ll cover: How to establish an inbound program that will attract leads.

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The Revenue Leader's Guide to Prospecting

Speaker: Christopher Ryan, Founder and CEO of Fusion Marketing Partners

Chances are that if you ask your sales and marketing teams this question, you may open up a can of worms. When these two vital parts of your company’s generating program are at odds, it guarantees only one thing at the end of the day: fewer prospects, fewer qualified leads, and fewer sales.

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How to Use Video Throughout the Buyer's Journey

Speaker: Zach Basner, Director of Video Training and Strategy, IMPACT

Forrester Research Group reports that on average 70% of a buyer’s purchasing decision is made before engaging with a sales team. You’ll learn: How to get started with your video marketing strategy. Why top-of-funnel "explainer-style" videos aren't enough. That’s staggering, but what does that mean for us as organizations?

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New Rules of Demand Gen for Mid-Market B2Bs

Speaker: Paul Slack - Vende Digital CEO

If you've got holes in your funnel that need filling. If there's more about digital marketing you don't know than you do know. If you want to generate revenue as a marketer and not just leads. Producing leads your sales team will love to work with. Keys to executing campaigns that will put wins on the board.