Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Digital tactics are effective, but too much can create noise, drowning out your brand message and leaving consumers with the negative side effects of digital overload. Keep reading for tactical integrated campaign ideas that generate seamless online-to-offline experiences. . Engage Leads That Demonstrate Intent .

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Inbox Insight

APRIL 14, 2023

Building an effective Target Account List (TAL) sets the solid foundations required for a successful Account-Based Marketing process. It’s therefore vital to apply a structured process to your TAL to get it right first time. Get this wrong, and you risk setting yourself up for failure from the word go.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 28, 2016

The scenario is similar for any quota-driven B2B sales team. To keep their jobs, reps need to close as many deals as they can. They’re not interested in engaging with prospects who are not ready to buy. Unfortunately—and this is where it gets tricky—interest does not necessarily equate to sales readiness.

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DealSignal

APRIL 10, 2024

Due to the volume of content and online resources in nearly every industry, most people on your buying committees can perform their own research on their own time and are likely to make a decision before ever talking to your sales team. Here, we review everything a successful revenue team should know and do with B2B intent data.

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SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Your sales and marketing teams spent a lot of time and effort answering this question. But even if your sales staff calls someone who precisely fits your buyer persona, they fail to close the deal. But even if your sales staff calls someone who precisely fits your buyer persona, they fail to close the deal. They know your brand.

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Hubspot

MARCH 1, 2019

The term, "sales", encompasses all activities involved in selling a product or service to a consumer or business. But "sales" means so much more for businesses. Companies have entire sales organizations comprised of employees that are dedicated to selling their products and services. What is sales? The target customer.

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SalesIntel

AUGUST 14, 2023

In this blog, we’ll delve into five powerful paid ad tactics that not only align with your CFO’s financial mindset but also help you unleash the full potential of your marketing campaigns. It is a powerful tool at the bottom of the funnel when potential customers are interested and looking for solutions to their needs.

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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

However, as much as it has a reputation as a way to generate “guaranteed” leads, content syndication is not a cure-all, and indeed, more than most demand generation channels, is likely to generate sales leads that gravitate towards the early stages of the buying cycle. Set appropriate thresholds for sales follow-up.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 30, 2016

One of the biggest failure points in content marketing is not actually in marketing—It’s the handoff from marketing to sales. That’s because most sales and marketing organizations are not properly aligned. If someone has downloaded your white paper, that simply means that they are interested in that topic.

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Outreach

JUNE 4, 2019

Like its best practitioners, outbound sales is just too persistent to be ignored. It’s been more than a decade since many experts predicted that outbound would become irrelevant amid the growing preference for inbound sales, and the rise in growth marketing. What Is Outbound Sales? How To Do Outbound Sales.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Buyer-level intent data, specifically, is sourced from dozens of intent signals that are gathered from multiple touch points throughout the customer journey, from the content prospects consume to the conferences they attend. This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy.

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Hubspot

MARCH 14, 2021

It's become a fact of professional life as well — particularly in the sales world. Solid social selling skills are transitioning from a nice-to-have to a need-to-have for sales professionals, but developing that kind of expertise is much easier said than done. Connect with and follow prospects on Twitter to demonstrate interest.

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BOP Design

JULY 15, 2022

Whether you are looking to overhaul your lead generation and nurturing or just looking to ensure your these processes are optimized, there are several steps you can take to get a better look at what is working and what needs to change. In this article, we take a look at tips to freshen up or revive your B2B lead gen and nurturing process.

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Choozle

APRIL 12, 2022

The major problem is that most visitors will never come back to your website to complete the sale. So how do you follow up and make the six to eight contacts required to build trust and earn attention throughout the marketing funnel? Context in the marketing funnel. The solution is digital ad retargeting. What is Retargeting?

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DealSignal

AUGUST 30, 2021

. #1 Create alignment across key departments Any effective account based marketing strategy starts with creating a framework that consists of sales and marketing alignment. But to truly rise to excellence, you’ll want to connect the dots across your organization — so, more than just sales and marketing.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

This focuses on targeting top potential customers and uses both marketing and sales initiatives to capture the prospect’s interest and nurture them through the buying journey. 74% of B2B marketers say they are seeing customers taking more control over the buying process. Here’s a guide on how to do that.

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Unbounce

JUNE 1, 2021

Experiences like this can make you think that retargeting ads—those ads that resurface products and services you looked at but didn’t take action on—are too pushy and sales-y to be worth including in your marketing strategy. Sales teams not only count on us to create demand but to sustain it. Nobody wants to be that type of marketer.).

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Outreach

JUNE 4, 2019

Like its best practitioners, outbound sales is just too persistent to be ignored. It’s been more than a decade since many experts predicted that outbound would become irrelevant amid the growing preference for inbound sales, and the rise in growth marketing. What Is Outbound Sales? How To Do Outbound Sales.

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Anteriad

JANUARY 3, 2023

Predictive analytics promised that the innovative marketer would be able to “guess” which leads would be most valuable in filling even the most ambitious sales funnel. The cynic among us may be tempted to ask, “Is intent data a marketing fad?” What makes intent data different?

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Leadspace

APRIL 5, 2023

However, it’s easy to over-index on intent and just end up with more noise than results, because not every company that expresses interest is the right company for your business. The best intent signals are targeted at specific market segments. The highest intent signal can be the name of your own company or product.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2019

Unfortunately, rejection is a normal part of the sales process. For many, the solution here is to implement social listening , or the process of listening to the online conversations being had by your customers and potential buyers. 1. Re-evaluate last year’s lost pitches. But don’t throw in the towel just yet.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 3, 2023

MQLs represent more than just prospects; they embody potential customers who have ventured deeper into your sales funnel, demonstrating a keen interest in your products or services. Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) are the essential bridge connecting marketing efforts with sales endeavors.

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Vision Edge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2023

These two concepts came into play in a recent conversation with a CGO of a B2B Identity and Access Management company who asked : “ What are the pros and cons of using the waterfall versus the intent approach for developing a new opportunity scoring model and which approach would I recommend.

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Sprout Social

MAY 19, 2021

And great conversations can have a positive impact on sales. Double-taps are a no-cost way for consumers to demonstrate interest in a product or service, but the data they provide is invaluable. Tracking which posts generate the most Likes helps you understand what your fans are most interested in. They Like posts.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It's hard to overstate the importance of B2B prospecting in the context of most B2B sales processes. It's the jumping-off point for every closable deal — and doing it effectively can be the difference between maintaining a steady stream of productive opportunities and your sales process never getting off the ground.

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Content4Demand

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Intent data also reveals differences in topical interest by account, segment or location to enhance a content strategy, improve overall SEO/SEM techniques and drive more effective campaigns at the bottom of the sales funnel. Do you have tips for B2B brands that are just starting to apply intent data?

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Terminus

JULY 25, 2018

At the heart of any successful ABM program is alignment between sales and marketing, which is where sales development comes into play. Sales development serves as a bridge between marketing and sales, effectively making a sales development representative the glue that holds ABM intact.

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ABM in Action

MAY 18, 2023

I also noticed that a lot of folks who focus on the metrics of the funnel started to do the math. Cerrentani: The “big picture” of a signal-based approach is when you’re able to combine data sources in a meaningful way and include some combination of fit and intent, or fit and engagement — any sort of fit and activity.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2019

Unfortunately, rejection is a normal part of the sales process. For many, the solution here is to implement social listening, or the process of listening to the online conversations being had by your customers and potential buyers. 5 High-Quality Lead Sources 1. Re-evaluate last year’s lost pitches. Utilize personal networks.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 21, 2023

As businesses strive to stay ahead in a highly competitive market, harnessing the power of B2B intent data has become increasingly crucial. Let’s explore what it is and why it has emerged as a game-changer for sales and marketing strategies. In this article What is B2B Intent Data? How is B2B Intent Data Collected?

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ViewPoint

APRIL 10, 2014

If your sales are down, perhaps you should reconsider your timing and preparation for making contacts. Calling prospects within half an hour of demonstrated interest in your business is the optimum time for you to close sales. Why Cold Calling Still Works. Success Metrics. It’s all a matter of research and timing.

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Content Standard

AUGUST 31, 2021

An expertly crafted CTA reaches audiences when they are most likely to convert and guides them further into the funnel. Read More / Learn More A Read More / Learn More CTA encourages your audience to engage with deeper funnel assets or solutions pages.

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Madison Logic

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Without a TAL, you risk wasting resources and time, low conversion rates from your campaigns, and decreased ROI. Building a target account list is an involved process that combines both art and science. We’ve simplified the process for you with three key steps. Your sales and customer success teams. This brings us to Step 3.

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TrustRadius Marketing

APRIL 23, 2021

Inbound and Outbound marketing offer different approaches to achieving the same goals of generating leads, driving sales, and improving customer relations. Outbound marketing involves many of the classic sales strategies from before the turn of the century. This type focuses on organically attracting genuinely interested customers.

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Terminus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Supporting Sales Pipeline with Account-Based Marketing. Gone are the days of the sales handoff. With account-based marketing (ABM) , your marketing team should be actively involved in the sales process from first touch until the deal closes and beyond. 3 Account-Based Approaches to Pipeline Velocity Campaigns.

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Engagio

MAY 22, 2017

Inbound marketing was just taking off, and SiriusDecisions was among the first to recognize that sales can also generate leads, and first to stress the importance of teleprospecting. Lead-to-Account Matching also gets both sales and marketing speaking and thinking the same language – the language of accounts. Measure engagement.

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Launch Marketing

JULY 11, 2017

Targeting smaller-sized companies will typically require less time to close in the sales cycle, but may result in lower revenue opportunities. Do you want to focus on local businesses in your sales team’s territories or perhaps you have a cloud-based solution that can be utilized anywhere globally? Set Goals & Monitor Engagement.

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