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Research Strongly Supports Shifting to a “Converged Growth,” B2B Go-to-Market Organizational Model, Led by a Chief Growth Officer

ANNUITAS

.” Forrester : “Organisations [sic] that are pivoting and turning the focus of their operations, technology and go-to market messaging to centre [sic] on the customer are twice as successful, and they enjoy longer customer retention, higher brand recognition, and even improved employee retention.”

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CMO Perspective: Using B2B Data & Data Types for Audience Segmentation

SalesIntel

It groups customers based on data such as business size (by the number of employees or annual revenue), company location (whether it’s San Francisco or rural Kentucky), industry (by NAICS or SIC), or job title (manager, VP, CEO), etc. Targeting all B2B companies with generic messaging will not work. But still, many try.

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Is the Role of the B2B CMO Past Its Prime? Or Is It Just in Need of Some Re-positioning around Go-to-market Leadership?

ANNUITAS

Instead of rationalizing what ‘should’ be under a CMO’s purview by identifying a clear commercial objective and mapping out the team members, programs and resources required to deliver this objective, this legacy approach is just pure land grab. Defining the CMO role in this way tends to lead to the next issue.

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B2B ABM: Seven Sales & Marketing Tips for 2017 - Tip #2 Should Marketing and Sales Agree on the Definition of a Lead?

ViewPoint

While the book is over five years old, it ties right into the hottest marketing trend - Account-based Marketing or ABM (if you want to read more about ABM, check out this 142 page resource from Engagio – it is excellent.) The ten attributes of a well-qualified lead are: Targeted SIC or NAICS code.

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Customer Relationship Management: 5 steps for finding the right vendor for your data hygiene

markempa

Industry/SIC. Industry/SIC: 1. Related Resources: Do You Expect Your Inside Sales Team to Practice Alchemy? Determine what information is most important. In our case, it was: Contact name. Company name and company address. Contact phone number and company phone number. Weigh each record field by value. Contact name: 4.

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Research Maps Spending on Content Marketing

B2B Marketing Directions

This could be advertorials, native advertising, testimonials, many kinds of sponsorships, many kinds of branding, and any advertising that delivers some amount [sic] content besides a direct call to action." Other research has shown that most companies are using internal resources to produce a significant about of marketing content.

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Avoid Getting Caught in the Next B2B Marketing Crisis

Rev

Because things like SIC and NAICS codes were not actually built for the purposes they are being used for today. What I like about this detailed resource as someone coming in from the outside is that it is CLEAR without watering down what’s really going on. . But why go the “new data” route? Why not just use what’s out there?