Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Billions of dollars have been invested in software promising to transform how sales and marketing teams reach new audiences. Sales and marketing tech stacks have swollen, with dozens of conflicting tools promising greater efficiency, accelerated growth, and higher revenue. We call this Go-to-Market operations, or simply, GTM Ops.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Whether you’re launching a channel to scale more efficiently, tap into new markets, or meet customer needs, this guide can help. In channel sales, companies (here we’ll call them vendors) sell through intermediaries. Distributors buy directly from the businesses, then market and sell to customers in their operating regions.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To discover the best place to launch an AI app, Prakash Kota, senior vice president and CIO at Autodesk , started by defining use cases and user personas: “We have an engineering persona, employee persona, and a sales persona, and we’re talking about the outcomes we want to achieve with those,” he said.

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Demandbase was recently named a 2023 Gartner ® Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Account-Based Marketing Platforms and I couldn’t be prouder. We’re a partner, not a vendor I know everyone says that, but without being boastful, I can honestly say we live it at Demandbase. Here’s how we do it at Demandbase, and it’s gold!

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 19, 2022

Buyers spend nearly half their time researching independently ; another 22% is spent talking to other decision makers, and only 17% of their ‘buying’ time is spent meeting with potential vendors. If you haven’t already, start by understanding the personas you target and the buying stages that each persona will move through.

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Martech

JULY 7, 2022

This 4-part series presents a framework that helps rationalize the roles and responsibilities modern marketing operations leaders are taking on. Two years ago, marketing technology pioneer and chiefmartec.com editor Scott Brinker outlined the four key responsibilities of marketing technologists, summarized here.

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Tomorrow People

JANUARY 8, 2021

I’ve no idea, but I know that I can check the football scores while I’m waiting for the train. It’s a hugely important consideration when putting together a go to market (GTM) strategy. The stages of a typical GTM plan may look a little like this: Markets: What industries and sectors are optimal for your product?

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Since it promotes an integrated approach to selling, sales enablement involves both marketing and sales teams. Here are five tactics your B2B marketing team needs to master to empower sales people to close deals faster. Sellers and marketers have to collaborate to develop this consistency in product messaging.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Despite these advancements, marketers should be aware of the risks and limitations that come with generative AI before they dive into using it for content creation. For me, this whole debate only underscores the longstanding fact that there aren’t really shortcuts to creating top-tier marketing content.

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Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Effective marketing management can help your organization achieve key objectives for your business. For example, your brand might want to gain exposure, improve revenue, or break into new markets. In a highly competitive environment, effective marketing management helps you to remain competitive.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The other day I was invited to speak on retention marketing as part of a 3-webinar series on sales enablement. Wright for help bringing me up to speed on how B2B marketers see the function today. Wright for help bringing me up to speed on how B2B marketers see the function today. I think marketing has several roles.

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Tomorrow People

JUNE 7, 2021

An examination of the key characteristics of product-led growth, and how it differs from traditional marketing or sales-led strategies. PLG is changing how organizations approach their product launches and expansion campaigns, impacting the role of marketing and sales in the process. growth for the broader SaaS market.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e.

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Content Standard

JUNE 27, 2023

That clarity should come from educational content marketing—content strategies from vendors who differentiate themselves as educators by strategically using their internal expertise and unique perspectives on industry challenges. An educational content strategy tackles these problems head-on.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Era of “Seller Beware” In modern sales, the impetus is on the salesperson and vendor to choose, or qualify , the right type of client. Because it’s the right thing to do and in the 21st century — you are only as good as your public persona. Their vertical market (i.e. industry) does not fit your target market.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 16, 2016

Can computers understand an individual human’s personality (and then, presumably, use that understanding to better target marketing messages)? People like me, who blog and Tweet incessantly, are easy enough to understand (or, at least, it’s easy to describe our carefully curated public personas). This is where Mariana comes in.

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Content4Demand

MARCH 25, 2021

At this time of year when everything is fresh and blooming, it’s good to refresh your ABM content marketing strategy. ABM remains high on the priority list of B2B marketers, according to the 2021 Demand Generation Benchmark Survey Report. ABM helps focus on lead quality versus lead quantity, another priority for marketers.

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Martech

JULY 23, 2021

I have been to countless vendor conferences,” I told the room, “at which I heard how their solutions could create seamless, delightful customer experiences. Spend time with a group of marketing operations professionals and you quickly realize that they share a common mind-set. These people aren’t marketers.

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ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Is it simple to set up for an experienced team and intuitive enough for non-technical marketers to create and monitor programs and generate reports? They have built personas and conducted market research.

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TrustRadius Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Marketing automation platforms—the swiss army knives of marketing—supposedly let you do it all. . They allow you to send out beautiful emails, coordinate social media campaigns, track customer behavior across all marketing channels, play nice with your CRM and give you all the reporting you need. .

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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 8, 2015

Now that you’ve selected your marketing automation platform (MAP), it is time to implement. Marketing automation is not a one size fits all approach and each implementation must be done to align with the current business systems and processes currently in place. Perhaps a webinar or data enrichment vendor? Training and Access.

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LeanData

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Your digital marketing is working as intended. Great playbooks are the foundation of an efficient sales pipeline, keeping marketing and sales aligned on converting leads into customers. You can segment sales plays by industry, company size, buyer persona, or solution — whatever makes the most sense for your business. .

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Lake One

JANUARY 4, 2021

However, when it comes to the rest of the business: sales, marketing, and operations, the manufacturing industry lags behind others in enterprise digital strategy. Challenges of outdated manufacturing sales and marketing technology. As a result, it added little value to sales and marketing. Here is their story. Our Guests.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 29, 2023

In this article, you will discover the untapped potential of this data to take your marketing game to the next level. This information can be used to create highly targeted marketing campaigns, enhancing customer engagement and boosting sales. Now that you have your data, you can learn the rope because the ball is in your court!

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Binary Demand

JUNE 29, 2023

In this article, you will discover the untapped potential of this data to take your marketing game to the next level. This information can be used to create highly targeted marketing campaigns, enhancing customer engagement and boosting sales. Now that you have your data, you can learn the rope because the ball is in your court!

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Partnering with a data provider also allows you to make the most of your dollars invested, and to leverage your marketing intelligence in a way to improve data integrity, increase targeting accuracy in marketing, and close deals faster. They fuel your lead generation endeavors by the contact data of your target persona.

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Content Standard

APRIL 29, 2021

Content marketing partners help brands expand their reach, elevate their messaging, and get in front of new audiences. Often, these partnerships begin with a brand’s willingness to share insights, aspirations, and information to help content marketing partners succeed. Who are their challengers?

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DemandBase

MARCH 30, 2020

That’s why businesses partner with agencies, vendors, consultants, etc. We consistently explain to our clients and partners that making the decision to invest in ABM as a key component of your B2B marketing means committing to it end-to-end. Trust in specialization and expertise and see it through. Remember the pin factory.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

But what in the heck does this have to do with content marketing? How can marketers use the Iceberg Theory to create higher-quality content that will attract, engage, and retain their audience? The key is to produce compelling content that will demonstrate an organization’s deeper content marketing goals and strategy.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Automation Monday is Here! It was really fun and if you are interested in learning how other marketers are tackling their marketing, CRM, and even sales challenges this is the place to go.

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Seismic

AUGUST 25, 2019

Ineffectiveness occurs when reps blindly send content to prospects and customers without knowing what works and what doesn’t or without tailoring content based on the persona or sales situation. And when 65% of B2B buyers make a purchasing decision based on vendor content (DemandGen), there are definitely missed sales opportunities.

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ANNUITAS

APRIL 10, 2014

the marketing automation space is due to grow by 60% this year and reach overall revenues of $1.2 The continued rise in revenue is indicative of the increased sophistication of the B2B market and the need for marketers to be more strategic in driving demand for their organizations. According to Raab Associates, Inc.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

To be truly effective, this process requires ownership from both the sales and marketing teams. Marketing drives content while Sales focuses on communication and engagement. But you also have to look at sales enablement beyond the impact on sales and marketing. Continuous Training: Provide training that can be measured.

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SalesIntel

JULY 8, 2021

How to fix it: Get a reliable data vendor that can provide accurate contact data. Use this detailed data purchasing guide to help you find the right vendor. If you build your database through your own marketing efforts, use an enrichment service. Build separate lists for personas, departments, and levels. Closing Rate.

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B2B Marketing Directions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

During those three years, the vineyard owner must install a trellis system to support the vines as they grow, and young vines must be regularly pruned and "trained" to grow correctly. Some of you may be wondering what this brief foray into grape horticulture and vineyard management has to do with B2B marketing.

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Kapost

JUNE 13, 2016

Multiple stakeholders are involved, various technologies must be assessed, and the list of competing requirements can throw a vendor into the middle of a long-anticipated internal brawl over priorities. However, companies that invest in and document customer success and marketing strategies are poised to win big.

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Marketing Interactions

JULY 25, 2019

Once B2B buyers figured out they could access whatever information they needed to understand a new subject, answer a question, or evaluate a product they no longer needed to talk to a vendor until they decided to invite them to the conversation. In my work building personas, I find that often to be a low-ball count.

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