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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Specifically, both B2C and B2B companies who view branding and advertising as a top two growth strategy are twice as likely to see revenue growth of 5% or more than those that don’t (67% to 33%).

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Here’s The Way Experts Avoid B2B Digital Marketing Blunders

Henry DeVries

Learn the biggest digital marketing blunders B2B organizations make, and tips on what to do instead.

B2B 96
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The Top 3 Essential B2B Sales Skill Sets for Success

LSA Global

Why B2B Sales Skill Sets Matter The overall commoditization of products combined with the added pressure of shrinking margins and increased customer demands are heightening the need for the right B2B sales skill sets to meet grow targets. This is both a B2B sales skill and a sales mindset.

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B2B Sales Hunters vs Sales Farmers

LSA Global

The B2B Sales Hunters vs Farmers Sales Model The role of B2B sales hunter vs sales farmer has been discussed in business sales training workshops for decades. Typically, B2B sales hunters focus on new customer acquisition while B2B sales farmers are responsible for nurturing and growing current accounts.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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How Top B2B Sellers Win Bigger Deals

LSA Global

Top B2B Sellers How do top B2B sellers do it? Winning Bigger Deals The fundamental answer to the success of top B2B sellers is not that they work harder; it’s that they work smarter. In a nutshell, they make it easier for customers to make complex B2B buying decisions. Is there a secret sauce?

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity

Harvard Business

A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy.

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

However, ABM practitioners have evolved the strategy from development to implementation. Instead of wading through a series of vague “how-to kick-start your ABM strategy!” ZoomInfo has created the following eBook to help other B2B organizations gain insights on how to launch their own data-driven ABM strategy.

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

In this eBook, we’ll break down the ins and outs of data normalization and review why it’s so critical for your marketing strategies and goals! Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals.

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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

According to Bold 360, “81 percent of B2B buyers have left a page because they didn’t want to fill out a form.”. This guide will examine the market forces at play, shifting buyer trends, what conversational marketing is, how to leverage it, and the tactics involved in adopting conversational marketing for a B2B demand generation strategy.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control. Efficient outreach strategy.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros and packaged them here for you. Try them in your next salesflow or use them as inspiration to formulate your own winning sales engagement strategy. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.