The Point

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If you ask most B2B marketers how they use chat platforms like Drift , the immediate answer would most likely be: converting Web visitors. And now that chat is becoming a staple of the B2B tech stack, creative marketers are finding ever more innovative ways for leveraging their investment to drive engagement throughout the lead lifecycle.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. What you’ll learn: What is a sales cycle?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Bombora, 6sense, and other “intent data” platforms are helping marketing teams evolve ABM where there are less forms, less spam, and less cold calls. Unnecessary calls to prospects that haven’t shown that they are “in-market.”. The Need for More Personal Account-Based Marketing.

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SendX

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Besides marketing, email can be an amazing sales tool if you devote enough time to crafting the ideal email and sending it to the right target audience. Here are some ideas for great email marketing types, coming from our own experience and the experience of our customers. The latter is where sales prospecting emails come in.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? Automated emails encourage leads to move from the product research phase into the buying cycle.

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DiscoverOrg

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. But they’re not asking for help from your sales team. Marketers can expand their reach by buying leads from some content publishers or advertising on some third-party sites, but budget and accessibility to third-party sites can limit reach.

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Webbiquity

JULY 21, 2020

There’s a lot of excitement and new technology developing around artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing. Here’s what you need to know, along with several tools that can help you enhance your marketing efforts with AI today. Myth #1: AI is going to take my marketing job. 10 AI-Based Marketing and Sales Tools.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The concept of sales velocity measures how fast a prospect gets through a pipeline and starts generating revenue. It’s a reflection of how productive and functional a sales team is, but it also might illustrate areas of potential improvement. Your sales cycle length. Accelerating Your SaaS Sales Velocity.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Let’s break that down. How to spot buying signals.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The right content nurtures prospects throughout your customer journey and ultimately turns them into loyal brand advocates that keep coming back for more. However, brands that take time to nurture leads effectively have the potential to see a 450% increase in qualified prospects and 50% more sales. Increase engagement.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 1, 2022

But fascinating new research quantifies those changes, and points the way forward for B2B content marketers. Faced with marketing budgets cuts, CMOs planned to spend less on live events (obviously) and online advertising, and relatively more on content marketing and online self-service. No surprise there.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Choosing the right stack of MarTech solutions can be a difficult task for B2B marketers, especially for those working in cybersecurity, who may have a more complicated sales cycle, changing regulations, and other obstacles. Lauren Patrick, VP of Marketing at Curricula. How can that be accomplished?

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

If you wanna be the best marketer with the greatest content marketing strategy in town, you should get a load of this. What’s this content marketing strategy thing all about? The missing element is a clear content marketing strategy. But what exactly is content marketing? Reduce your marketing budget.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? It’s not the biggest issue, right?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

Given the uncertain times we’re living in, ineffective sales pipeline management can easily grow from being something that holds your business back to actively endangering it. COVID-19 has affected best practices for lead generation, follow-up, sales quotas, and sales cycle length. Qualification (or The Discovery Call).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

Building out ideal client profiles is the same idea — creating something in the short term that will help you market and sell to your audience in the long term. Ideal client profiles are crucial for any account based marketing (ABM) strategy, and are important for understanding your customers better. What does that even mean?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 27, 2024

This guide will explore seven powerful sales closing techniques that can transform your approach and boost your confidence in any sales scenario. Quick Takeaways Learning and utilizing various sales techniques can assist as you turn prospects into loyal customers. Cha-ching!

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 11, 2021

To be successful in any business, it’s vital that your sales and marketing teams work together effectively. Your marketing ideas , for example, should always be informed by what is going on in sales, and vice versa. Invest in the Right Sales and Marketing Technology. Guest post by Payman Taei.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Though this is normal, it leads to depreciating conversions and longer sales cycles, if not dealt with effectively. This leaves the businesses that are opening back up with a smaller top-funnel, without much to invest in terms of marketing and growth to recover in 2021. The pandemic of 2020 amplified this phenomenon.

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markempa

JANUARY 23, 2018

How often do you spend weeks or even months putting blood, sweat, and tears into a new marketing campaign, only to have it fall flat? It’s a marketer’s worst nightmare. Think about it, your buyer personas are the building blocks of your marketing campaigns. Why are buyer personas critical to modern marketing?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. It also helps assess prospect interest in messages sent by your team.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

Creating B2B marketing content is a significant investment of time and money. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. What Is a Content Marketing Strategy? A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content.

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The Point

APRIL 16, 2019

Because costs per click in B2B search campaigns can often be extremely high when companies compete the for same keywords, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for B2B advertisers offers its own very unique challenges. Not Doing Everything Possible to Pre-Qualify Prospects. Is the offer appropriate for the likely sales stage of the prospect?

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 17, 2021

An effective marketing strategy and sales business plan are essential to drive growth. Revenue marketing tries to close the gaps between sales and marketing by combining closed-loop data feedback and automation to ensure no money is wasted. Here are six ways revenue marketing can positively impact your business.

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Vision Edge Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. A Hubspot study found that only 3% of people consider salespeople and marketers as trustworthy. ? Is it a content writer in Marketing?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories.

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Without benefiting from it through sales. That’d be something.

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Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing leaders are facing an unprecedented time with unprecedented demands: Wring every drop of value from generative AI. So let’s dive in — here’s what’s top-of-mind for these marketing leaders, along with some sage advice for their peers. Marketing — in this economy? Navigate ever-changing email privacy regulations.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Popular to contrary belief, sales teams can not only survive in the age of buyer empowerment, but use buying behavior to their advantage — so long as processes and prospecting tools that help engage the right buyer, at the right time, with the right message. Inside Sales or Field Sales? (or Today, we review.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Be upfront and transparent with your prospects. There are plenty of reasons why 1 out of 2 B2B sales reps fear making cold calls, but preparation can boost their confidence. Consider these following tips to get more success in your cold calls — before, during, and afterward: Do: Research your prospect (Who are they? Conclusion.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On average, an SDR takes about 42 hours to get in touch with their prospect — but that doesn’t have to be you. Automation is a great way to speed up your marketing operations. The email should acknowledge your prospect’s interest and offer them an opportunity to take the next step. Automate Email Follow Up and Scheduling.

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Act-On

APRIL 10, 2024

Luckily for marketers, lead scoring exists. Lead scoring helps organizations move prospects along their buying journey in a structured, strategic way — which is especially helpful considering how complex buying journeys have become. For marketing and sales teams, that handoff is a potential minefield.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 16, 2020

If you ask most sales and marketing teams what their ultimate goal is, you can pretty much guarantee that they will say it is generating more leads and conversions. And many of them make the mistake of keeping their primary focus on the top of the sales funnel. Align your scoring and marketing strategies.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

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