Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. Our research suggests that the events of 2020 have made SaaS customers more demanding than ever. It’s about helping your sales organization do what they do best.

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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.

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Only B2B

MARCH 6, 2024

But there are a lot of factors littering the path of lead conversion [time, sales, team, and more]. And what creates the curves and turns in the journey is- marketers and salespeople focusing on the vanity metrics like: Impressions and clicks. So, drawing the straight line between the new lead to revenue is the uphill task.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2019

B2B lead generation tools help marketers more effectively develop new prospective sales opportunities. Here’s why and how, as a marketer, you may want to integrate new lead generation tools and processes into your B2B lead generation strategy and campaigns. HubSpot helps in this realm with HubSpot sales.

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Only B2B

MARCH 27, 2024

Do all those website visitors and content downloads translate into sales conversations? Understanding the Stages: MQLs, SALs, and SQLs Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) and Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) might sound similar , understanding the distinctions between these lead types is crucial to boosting up your marketing funnel.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

That is why organizations need an effective go-to-market strategy. From defining the target market to outlining marketing and sales tactics to reach the audience and more, a go-to-market strategy has it all. Here are four tactics for developing an effective SaaS go-to-market strategy.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The digital-first strategies many companies are adopting have removed countless in-person interactions and sped up sales cycles. Marketers have their work cut out for them in terms of making an impact on buyers well before the sales stage. Focus on audience engagement. This is where webinar engagement tactics shine. “It

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Webbiquity

MARCH 17, 2017

What is a Sales Funnel? Sales funnels are everywhere. Prospective purchasers don’t see the funnel, but rather an interactive brand, an awesome product, or the long awaited solution they need. This is the power of a sales funnel that’s ultimately designed to get sales.

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Only B2B

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s the perpetual challenge in every sales funnel? You got it—Generating sales-qualified leads. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion. This emphasizes the critical need to identify sales-qualified leads primed for conversion.

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BOP Design

JANUARY 4, 2022

As an experienced B2B marketing agency , we thrive on innovative ideas and are always on the lookout for new trends, strategies, and approaches to help our clients better connect with their target audience. Sales Pitches Disguised as Blogs. Sponsored White Papers Without Substance. Has this ever happened to you?

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We’ve shared our favorite five lead nurturing examples and strategies. Audit existing email nurture campaigns for performance Do you have engagement programs scheduled to kick off after a prospect attends a webinar, downloads content, or takes other actions with your brand? Of course, this is a quick summary of the process.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tech companies don’t need a “video strategy.” They need tactical videos that support their sales and marketing content strategy. Tactical videos have specific objectives: establish a value proposition in the prospect’s mind, put across a memorable product differentiator, describe a new use case.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Your content marketing — think blog posts, email sequences, and whitepapers — nurtures the target lead, getting them interested in your product or service. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? Read several blog posts?

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FunnelEnvy

MARCH 18, 2024

Studies prove that B2B prospects now prefer a digital buying journey over sales calls. Understanding your target audience is more important than ever for lead generation and improving the ROI of marketing and sales. You might assume they are only active on LinkedIn, but they’re actually building a large audience on TikTok.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2018

“ Tech Providers Will Pay Far More Attention to Sales Enablement” was one of “ 10 Fearless Predictions for B2B Tech Sales and Marketing in 2017 ” from Gartner technology marketing analyst Todd Berkowitz. The need for mid- and late-funnel video for sales enablement.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Require an email address or contact information for big pieces of content, like ebooks and white papers. That way you are collecting leads and email subscribers with their permission, and they are in turn getting a high-quality piece of content. Gathering Leads for Sales. Ebooks & White Papers.

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NuSpark Consulting

MARCH 3, 2016

You’ve written, designed and produced a white paper. If you subscribe to the theory of “if you build it they will come,” your white paper is dead in the water. There is a myriad of methods to promote your white paper, generate interest, and help it climb Google’s search engine rankings. Now you can relax.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 11, 2023

Sure, it’s all important for your sales pipeline, but the truth is, your customers might not care. Because let’s face it, the shorter the buyer’s journey and sales process, the better for everyone involved. What if they had access to better content earlier in their decision-making process?

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Launch Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Research has shown that up to 50% of leads are qualified but not yet ready to buy and only 3% of those in the market are in an active buying process. This represents a large audience of potential buyers that is important and should not be ignored. The process of nurturing leads is important in continuing to build relationships.

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ATAK Interactive

JULY 21, 2020

This is where sales enablement comes in. In fact, 74% of buyers choose to move forward with the sales rep that was the first to share value and insight. So with sales enablement, the marketing and sales teams are able to work together to deliver this value and convert their prospects into actual buyers.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 1, 2023

But how can you make the most of it, quickly driving traffic and building an audience? Here are nine helpful strategies. But organizations typically seek to accelerate this process as much as possible. Affiliate sales support independent publishing One of the largest and most effective syndicators is Aggregage.

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The Point

JULY 1, 2019

For the last decade or more, it’s been an accepted principle – almost a key tenet – of B2B demand generation that business buyers don’t want to talk to a sales rep until the last possible moment. It’s why, for example, we marketers have assumed control for more and more of the lead funnel. Sales Alerts.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing are two distinct types of marketing strategies with different focuses. For any marketing professionals to maximize the impact of their efforts, they must understand the differences between these two marketing strategies, and when to apply practices from each.

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Only B2B

MARCH 20, 2024

This statistic, highlighted in a Forrester Research report, underscores the crucial role of lead qualification in B2B marketing. But how do you identify leads ready to be handed off to your sales team? Optimizing your funnel based on this difference maximizes your ROI. Attending webinars or events.

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ATAK Interactive

JULY 21, 2020

This is where sales enablement comes in. In fact, 74% of buyers choose to move forward with the sales rep that was the first to share value and insight. So with sales enablement, the marketing and sales teams are able to work together to deliver this value and convert their prospects into actual buyers.

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seo.co

MARCH 28, 2021

Typically, you have to let them gently slide down the funnel. And though a bottom-of-the-funnel (BOFL) lead is the most fun kind of lead, every BOFL starts as a TOFL, or top-of-the-funnel lead. By learning how to generate and manage these leads, you can accelerate your results. Quick Funnel Primer.

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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. Sales Funnel.

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Brandpoint

MAY 18, 2020

In today’s digitally focused business environment, it’s more important than ever for sales and marketing departments to work together to create content and collateral that’s effective in driving sales. The new reality is that sales and marketing are continuously and increasingly integrated.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Today's buyer is more informed than ever, and as sales and marketing professionals, it’s our responsibility to educate and provide relevant information at each step of the buyer’s journey. While the idea of a sales funnel isn’t new, the way we approach it has changed significantly over the years. Research reports.

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Biznology

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s now common wisdom that the big shift from in-person to on-screen sales engagement is here to stay. As to virtual events strategy , the Forrester study suggests that marketers should revise their thinking to “focus on creating reusable marketing assets and a personalized, educational CX.”. Much lower production costs.

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Content Standard

MARCH 28, 2019

Recently, a project sent me looking for mid-funnel content examples for a financial services content marketing strategy I was working on. The client—an investment brand—had a well-established content plan with plenty of individual articles, pithy blogs, and top-of-the-funnel awareness content. Enter the mid-funnel asset.

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Full Circle Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The growing popularity of account-based marketing among B2B marketers is well established — most B2B marketing teams have adopted an ABM strategy, though the maturity of the ABM model they use varies across marketing teams. A mature ABM marketing strategy requires well-defined marketing goals and metrics.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We love webinars. But while we love webinars, we need to acknowledge something about the format. If you’re expecting your webinars (specifically Live Webinars) to be your volume workhorse, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Webinars Are Bottom of Funnel Content Format. The Live Webinar Paradox.

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FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They are part of strategic SaaS marketing campaigns that understand the different stages of the sales funnel. This post explores landing pages in the context of the SaaS funnel buyer stages: Awareness, Activation/Purchase, and Expansion/Upsell. At Funnel Envy, we’re used to dealing with that complexity.

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BenchmarkONE

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A marketing funnel is a visual representation of your customer’s journey from the moment they come in contact with your brand till they become a paying customer. Other marketers also refer to marketing funnels as purchase, conversion, and lead funnels, among others. Why Do You Need A Marketing Funnel? Email Funnel.

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Martech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“The buyer process is changing a lot and it’s not going back to the way it was. With the buying process not heavily digitized and with people working remotely on a range of devices, lines are blurring between B2C and B2B buying behaviors. We have to meet them where they are and how they want to show up in the buying process.”

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