Lead Liaison

JUNE 6, 2019

A successful sale is but the last piece of the puzzle that is the sales process. To achieve this crucial goal, you need to ensure that the various steps leading up to it are completed in an efficient and effective manner. Sales prospecting is key among these steps and this article will tell you how you can nail it. Sales prospecting is, quite simply, the process of searching for potential customers in order to grow your business.

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Rev

JUNE 1, 2019

Remember all of the books and articles that tell you how the Marketing Executive’s relationship with the CFO shouldn’t be contentious? Remember how they tell you that telling a story about marketing strategy and painting a clear picture will help the CFO be patient and understanding? Remember how you followed that advice and got the hairs singed off of your ears when he bellowed his fiery disapproval at your ROI calculations and demanded more, now?

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Content4Demand

JUNE 4, 2019

Every B2B brand wants to be viewed as a leader on the trending topics affecting its industry. But does it really make a difference? What exactly is thought leadership? And can you be a leader when you’re simply following the crowd? Thought leadership content has more of an influence on your content marketing success — and sales — than you might think.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2019

This scenario is a familiar, and probably a daily, occurrence if you live in a big city: You’re walking down the block, headed to work or out to lunch, or maybe zig-zagging your way through a two-way crowd, and you see someone standing smack dab in the middle of it all, and they happen to […]. The post Using Content Lead Scoring to Link Content Marketing and Sales appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2019

The goal of every marketing department is to get more work done faster. Yet, you may not realize that many of your habits and workflows actually hurt your overall productivity. Today we ask you to take a step back to reevaluate your day-to-day work activities. You’ll be surprised to find how much more efficient you become when you drop the habits that make you less productive.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2019

Guest post by Natasha Ponomaroff. A lot of B2B marketers make the mistake of thinking their brand has no place on Instagram. They dismiss this photo-sharing platform as a tool to engage with their market simply because they believe their consumers, who all happen to be companies, corporations, and other businesses, aren’t on this particular social medium.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2019

There are many aspects to building a successful agency. Juggling different projects and deadlines, managing multiple teams, and being pro-active with your own marketing efforts are all essential to success. While the work itself is important, it’s also vital to establish strong, positive agency-client relationships You could be the best agency in the world in […].

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Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

Trust is the foundation of any successful deal. Think about it: you wouldn’t buy a car from a sketchy salesman or a house from a realtor you don’t trust. Why would your B2B sales prospects be any different? In B2B sales, the quicker you build trust with your prospect, the more likely it is that you will close a deal. Yet, it’s easier said than done.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 1, 2019

Customer success platform Gainsight recently released a Customer Data Platform module for its system. This followed Freshworks’ acquisition of Natero , another customer success platform that builds a unified customer database. Totango, another customer success platform, also positions itself as CDP. There's nothing questionable about these claims. Customer success platforms were among the earliest classes of systems identified as CDPs.

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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 5, 2019

Sponsored post. There lots of SEO tool suites available to help marketing and SEO pros more effectively manage their search optimization efforts and analyze competitors. But two of the most popular SEO tools are Serpstat and SEMRush. Although at first glance the tools offer similar features, on closer inspection it’s clear there are crucial differences which could impact both your search campaign and your wallet.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2019

Employee activation may be the secret ingredient that’s missing from your organization. To run a successful business you need more from your employees than the bare minimum. And yet the majority of people working in the US don’t fully commit their time, energy, and talent to the organization they’re working for. Gallup research shows that […].

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. So, whether you’re brand new to sales or just looking for a refresher, today’s post will take you back to the basics of B2B sales prospecting.

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Vision Edge Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

In today’s environment, your prospective and existing customers typically have multiple choices to meet their needs. Therefore, business success often boils down to effective market segmentation, identification, and sizing. Segmentation is a process designed to cluster prospective and current customers into different groups so that each group comprises individuals that share a similar level of interest in the same or comparable set of needs.

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The rise of AI and the fall of the cookie are profoundly changing programmatic advertising. With Chrome’s third-party cookie deprecation looming, the industry must adapt. With an overwhelming array of new and old technologies, many advertisers feel uncertain about how to proceed. Dstillery CEO, Michael Beebe, outlines a straightforward 4-step approach to streamline and enhance your post-cookie targeting strategy: Leverage first-party data.

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Rev

JUNE 3, 2019

There is one inescapable reality for the modern B2B marketer: overwhelm. In part, it’s because every executive under the sun now understands that attribution modeling (the ability to tell which ad campaigns result in how much revenue) is theoretically possible, but almost none of them understand how difficult it is to actually achieve. There are other issues that contribute to the issue as well.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 5, 2019

by David Fortino, SVP of Product & Audience at Netline Optimize buyer engagement with 1st party content consumption data Every year, we dig into our vast repository of content consumption data. A product of billions of buyer-oriented content recommendations, across 300+ industries, we analyzed four million downloads and consolidated that data in a way that […].

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Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show. A recent survey done by the Content Marketing Institute shows 75% of respondents believe in-person events are an effective marketing tactic. In fact, in-person events ranked highest on the list, above tactics such as webinars/webcasts (66%), case studies (66%) and white papers (63%) ( source ).

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InsightSquared

JUNE 5, 2019

Earn Certification (IS2 ’19) Badge for InsightSquared’s Revenue Intelligence Software – Wednesday, June 12, 2019 – Boston. BOSTON – June 5, 2019 – InsightSquared , the leading provider of revenue intelligence solutions, is offering its InsightSquared ‘19 Certification on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, prior to the opening of its annual revenue operations conference, Ramp , taking place on Thursday, June 13 – Friday, June 14, 2019 in Boston.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Companies are allocating large sums of their marketing budgets for technology investments that promise to make their teams more productive and the business more profitable. Furthermore, the greatest benefits that business leaders expect to see from digital adoption include saving time and money by automating tasks and reducing the need for human involvement.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 4, 2019

In a previous article on understanding search intent, we explored search engine optimization and keywords. At the early stages of search engine optimization, the focus was on researching keywords that are the most competitive and drawing traffic to our sites. Today, keywords are still important, but there are so many more factors that come into […].

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Zoominfo

JUNE 5, 2019

In a recent blog post we declared that strategic candidate sourcing was not, in fact, dead. Instead, we proposed that technological advances have simply changed the way recruiters do it. This concept applies to passive candidates too! Hiding behind office doors and computer screens, the passive candidate is hard to find and tougher to catch. Yet with the right tools and mindset, it’s possible to track down this elusive prospect.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 4, 2019

Proposal writing is the bane of every consultant, sales rep, freelancer, and account manager who has to produce them. It’s tedious, takes time away from billable activities or prospecting, and offers no guarantee of any return on the effort. Cutting corners saves time but may reduce the quality and thoroughness of the proposal, and so reduce the odds of winning the business.

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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

In our previous posts about demand generation , we explored some of the ways to drive an effective demand gen campaign. For our final blog in this series, let’s talk about KPIs—because the cold, hard truth is without metrics, no other aspects of your campaign matter. Let us know when this scenario starts to sound uncomfortably familiar: You tell your boss you think spending money in a new marketing channel will produce a strong return.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 4, 2019

As any content marketer knows, creating high-quality, engaging content is actually only one part of the puzzle. To achieve success with content marketing, you also need to master content promotion. Remember – if nobody sees your content, it doesn’t matter how good it is. In 2019 there are many content promotion tools available that systematize […].

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2019

I recently caught up with Dan McDade , longtime B2B practitioner in lead qualification and nurturing. I’ve been a fan of Dan’s for years. Having sold his call center business to a colleague and started a new venture, Dan offered me some fresh ways of thinking about how to treat top prospects. His new business is called Prospect Experience. You’ve been involved in the lead generation world for a long time.

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KoMarketing Associates

JUNE 4, 2019

When it comes to social media advertising, Facebook is currently the top platform. With a 26% YoY Q1 growth in revenue last year, Facebook Advertising is more popular than it has ever been. Companies looking to advertise on social media, however, should not just look at platform growth as the only determining factor of where to spend advertising dollars.

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

Any sales leader will agree that data and insights are key if you want your reps to crush their targets and drive productivity through the roof. One of the best ways to gather these insights in one place is by creating a sales dashboard. A sales dashboard collects key metrics and KPIs from several sources (including your CRM ) and displays it in a single, visual hub.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2019

Few things are more important to an effective Agile marketing team than a functioning marketing backlog, yet this particular practice is hard to get right. Many teams struggle with prioritization, scope, and sizing the work in backlog. These difficulties often lead to frustration and considerable lag time in updating the team’s to-do list. The marketing […].

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Circle Studio

JUNE 6, 2019

If you’ve been involved in a website project before, you know how nerve-racking it can be to finally give the go-ahead to “flip the switch” from the old website to the new one. There are a lot of things that need to be tested, double-checked and implemented before launch to ensure a smooth transition. Your web development partner will have a pre-launch and a post-launch website checklist of their own, but you and your team have an important to-do list, too.

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