Seismic

MARCH 28, 2024

Sales coaching programs provide critical guidance that helps organizations maximize the potential of individual sellers, drive team performance, and meet sales goals. Behind every sales coaching program is a sales manager, and it should come as no surprise that effective coaching requires effective managers.

Peer-to-peer 52

Peer-to-peer Effectiveness Work Management Training 52

Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

So let’s dive in — here’s what’s top-of-mind for these marketing leaders, along with some sage advice for their peers. As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. Deal with the loss of third-party cookies.

Lead Ranking 130

Lead Ranking Privacy Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 130

Act-On

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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. And that brings us to strategically aligning keywords with the marketing funnel and, more specifically, lower funnel keywords.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Marketing Funnels Keywords Marketing Automation Services 130

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

During the life of your product or service, you’ll realize that simply scaling top-of-funnel inquiries (in volume) won’t generate peak conversions over the long run. Though this is normal, it leads to depreciating conversions and longer sales cycles, if not dealt with effectively. The pandemic of 2020 amplified this phenomenon.

B2B Sales 258

B2B Sales Top of Funnel Conversion Peer-to-peer 258

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

Ideal Customer Profiles 130

Ideal Customer Profiles Budget Programs Enterprise Management Tools 130

Hubspot

JANUARY 5, 2024

It’s been pretty exciting to see the creativity that people all over the world are bringing to AI to improve their processes, create new services, and make being in business more fun and profitable. I’ve been in contact with sales experts about how AI has helped them.

Peer-to-peer 61

Peer-to-peer Work Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 61

Zoominfo

MAY 17, 2018

Are your sales forecasts tied to reality? Is sales forecast accuracy more of a pipedream within your sales organization? Does the speed of your sales pipeline resemble molasses? In fact, less than half of all forecasted sales opportunities actually result in a sales win. Ditch the weighted sales pipeline.

Forecasting 232

Forecasting Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Work Management 232

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Channel sales — or selling through partners — represents 75% of the world’s commerce, according to Forrester. This approach helps companies accelerate sales and grow revenue without adding to their headcount, a move that’s increasingly important during economic uncertainty. What you’ll learn: What is channel sales?

Enterprise Management 111

Enterprise Management Work Management Advertising Channels Marketing Management 111

Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Apart from the obvious tools (like Facebook and Tweet/Analytics), here are five tools to help you come up with new social media advertising tactics: 1. ChatGPT: Fine-tune your copy and targeting ChatGPT is a tool you can use pretty much for anything, including improving your social media advertising campaigns.

Social Media 105

Social Media Advertisements Advertising Tools 105

Vidyard

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The percentage of organizations that have integrated video viewing data–and are exploiting it–with key sales and marketing systems jumped 54 percent. Is three new marketing videos every month a lot or a little? Does using video viewing data to enrich leads make you average or exceptional? You just never know. Video is exploding.

Peer-to-peer 85

Peer-to-peer Multi-Touch Attribution Video Marketing Account Based Marketing 85

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Vice President of Sales at ZoomInfo, Steve Bryerton, shares his thoughts on how to implement a Team Lead within your organization. Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of nearly 10+ sales development reps. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise.

Sales Management 169

Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 169

Hubspot

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results.

Work Management 83

Work Management Marketing Management Activities Marketing Proposals 83

Zoominfo

MARCH 19, 2018

Social selling is a sales technique that leverages social networking sites to identify prospects, build relationships, and ideally, close more deals. Social selling is more than just a hot trend, it’s an essential part of the modern sales process. Top Ten Social Selling Tools: 1. LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

Tools 227

Tools Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Zoominfo 227

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

CROs, and sales leaders alike, often walk into their new role blind. They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. The key is identifying the sales metrics that matter most and getting ahead of pitfalls with actions like managing dashboards correctly. .

Ideal Customer Profiles 156

Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 156

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Social media managers are actually (slightly) happier working in the office rather than hybrid or remote. These studies are packed with trends and insights related to content marketing, social media management, and advertising on Meta platforms. Among those, almost half plan to add staff. Budgets are growing. An eye-opening 91.6%

Social Media 306

Social Media Stats Marketing Report Paid Search Agency 306

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of about 10 sales development reps. By splitting your team, you’ve been able to deploy measurable processes to maximize strategies, as well as identify areas for iteration to improve results. Then again, nothing in sales is.

Sales Management 130

Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 130

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In modern times, B2B and B2C consumers are overwhelmed by sales, advertising and marketing teams vying for their attention. More (quality) leads = more sales = increased revenue, which makes everyone happy. Bring your top sales and product reps to nurture new connections and share how your company can solve their problems.

Lead Generation 219

Lead Generation ROI Demand Generation Agencies Lead Ranking 219

Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

In an ideal world, sales reps would spend all day sending emails, taking calls, and ultimately, doing what they do best—selling. There’s a lot more to sales than meets the eye. The best sales reps have developed an arsenal of productivity hacks to balance the administrative work with the actual sales process.

Statistics 197

Statistics Product Peer-to-peer Work Management 197

Martech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

I’ve organized these by category: Data, campaigns, sales and strategy. Prospecting data: Have a look at the integrated prospecting data platform called Anteriad Data Cloud, for self-service or managed data across B2B markets, buying groups, and intent, for content syndication, programmatic advertising and cross-channel communications.

Marketing Automation Services 86

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs B2B Marketing Enterprise Management 86

Seismic

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Great sellers aren’t born; they’re made — and they’re made with the help of sales coaching. For more than 12 years, we’ve had a front-row seat to what great sales coaching can do for sellers, sales culture, and the bottom line. So, decide which outcomes you’re after, and work backward.

Tips 59

Tips Peer-to-peer Work Management Training 59

Televerde

AUGUST 23, 2021

Lead generation tools can help companies streamline the often-complex process of converting web visitors into viable leads. The truth is, without martech tools to help, it’s nearly impossible for companies to fully understand how visitors are interacting with their websites or even know who those people are. Quick Takeaways.

Sales Management 86

Sales Management Lead Generation Generation Tools 86

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2019

This year, the ZoomInfo team published nearly 250 blog posts related to sales, marketing, recruiting, and business growth. It is our hope that our content helped spark your creativity, allowed you to discover something new, or made your life as a sales professional easier in some way. 20 Motivating Sales Quotes to Empower Your Team.

Peer-to-peer 185

Peer-to-peer Cold Calling Zoominfo B2B Sales 185

SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The efficiency and effectiveness of your sales team directly reflect on the success of your company. To counteract this problem, sales leaders need to find ways to identify possible sales challenges and their solutions quickly before your next sales meeting. Long sales cycles. Disagreement about new processes.

Sales Management 98

Sales Management Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking 98

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories.

Marketing Budget 104

Marketing Budget Examples Practices Best Practices 104

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Read on to find out how Teamwork.com increased sales efficiency by 50% when they ditched "more is better" in favor of "better is better." Teamwork.com's Sales Story Who are you and what is Teamwork.com all about? My name is Beau Brooks and I’m the Global VP of Sales at Teamwork.com, a project management tool for client work.

Effectiveness 72

Effectiveness Enterprise Management Peer-to-peer Work Management 72

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As adoption rates in Customer Relationship Management Software (CRMs) continue to rise, a (data-driven) gap in usefulness and effectiveness is very clear. Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management. Think about it.

Zoominfo 219

Zoominfo Marketing Management Peer-to-peer Opt-out 219

Only B2B

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

However, getting MQL marketing leads, the ones that are most likely to convert, are far more difficult since it requires you to put in a lot of research and develop a complex funnel. To overcome these difficulties we have rounded about 5 most important MQL marketing tactics that can be helpful for your business. What is MQL Marketing?

Lead Ranking 115

Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Tactics 115

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes.

Sales Management 69

Sales Management Top of Funnel Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles 69

Heinz Marketing

MAY 13, 2023

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. Here, we’ll go over what that means, how to measure it and provide steps you can take to improve your sales process. Great Sellers are Great Researchers.

B2B Sales 102

B2B Sales Peer-to-peer B2B Advertising Benchmark 102

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sales development representatives tend to think of the job as an important stepping stone in our careers , with challenges and opportunities that will shape the rest of our working lives. Find Your Groove Your workflow is the foundation of your day-to-day sales process that determines your productivity and future success.

Peer-to-peer 130

Peer-to-peer Tips Zoominfo Cold Calling 130

ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The scope of the CMO’s role across different B2B organizations is highly variable, the skills necessary to be a ‘successful’ CMO are often misunderstood by those hiring for this role and the maturity of the KPIs used to measure a CMO’s success remain at a very nascent stage. Maybe that’s the point. Some of this is on them.

CMO 147

CMO Positioning Marketing Analytics Tools Peer-to-peer 147

Strategic-IC

APRIL 6, 2022

This is the challenge of Dark Social and the Dark Funnel [more on which is which later]. But, just because Dark Social and the Dark Funnel exist in the shadows, you simply cannot ignore it. What is the ‘Dark Funnel’? They travel through the sales funnel, untracked. What do you mean - I can’t see its real impact?

Top of Funnel 62

Top of Funnel Peer-to-peer Account Based Marketing Paid Search Agency 62

SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sales prospecting on LinkedIn is preferred by most salespeople. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria.

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel 52

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. In fact, 49% of B2B marketers rank social media marketing as the most difficult lead generation tactic to execute ( source ). Social media accelerates the sales pipeline.

Demand Generation Agencies 204

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Social Media Demand 204

SmartBrief - Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Compelling numbers Email marketing continues to prove itself as an effective sales and marketing tool. OptinMonster ) Define your goals, objectives and audience The first step in the development of an effective email newsletter is to map the program to existing sales and marketing goals. That is a 40x ROI.

Top of Funnel 110

Top of Funnel Newsletter Planning Peer-to-peer 110

Sword and the Script | B2B

MAY 9, 2023

Your sales team is more likely to use the content B2B marketing products when it is presented by a high-performing peer in sales – rather than a sales leader or a product marketer. If you’ve worked in B2B marketing for a minute, you already know the sales team doesn’t like to use marketing content.

B2B Sales 54

B2B Sales Peer-to-peer B2B Marketing Work Management 54

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Align and Build Ongoing Partnerships with Sales.

Resource Management 360

Resource Management Demand Generation Agencies CMS Development Work Management 360