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The Continuing Misalignment of Sales and Marketing Strategy

Iannarino

The legacy approach to sales and marketing strategy continues to harm sales organizations and salespeople. These sales and marketing strategies worked well for a long time, but they eventually lost their effectiveness.

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The Difference Between Marketing and Sales

David Meerman Scott

As a unit, the combined sales and marketing team is charged with leading buyers along the sequence of interactions that lead to business success. But marketers and salespeople have different roles. By making certain we understand the difference, we can close the gap between marketing and sales and grow business faster.

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The Impact of Marketing and Sales Alignment on Go-To-Market Success

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing It’s no secret marketing and sales are equally critical to your go-to-market success. But sometimes, things go off track, and marketing and sales operate in their own silos causing them to be misaligned in the way they attract and acquire new customers.

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Elevating Corporate Sales Dynamics: A New Strategy for Team Development and Market Achievement

Iannarino

One reason sales leaders complain about sales training is because they believe that the training will cure their sales force of whatever challenges they have. Most sales organizations don’t have a competency model that would permit them to see each salesperson’s strengths and areas of improvement.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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The Growth Power Trio: Aligning Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success for Maximum Impact

Heinz Marketing

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing B2B purchases are complex, involving multiple decision-makers, each with specific needs. The key to unlocking value lies in alignment between your sales, marketing, and customer success teams—an alignment that comes from a singular, unifying force: customer understanding.

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Navigating Client Rejections and Building Effective Sales Strategies in B2B Markets

Iannarino

Master the art of turning client rejections into successful engagement opportunities in the B2B sales landscape. The following list describes common negative situations and how you can turn them around.

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

Nurturing leads through your sales funnel is a daunting task for many business development teams, especially at the scale required to achieve lofty growth goals. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. These 16 plays are aligned to different stages of the sales funnel.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

Businesses are tasked with beating pre-pandemic numbers, making marketing more essential than ever before. This is your chance to create unprecedented brand awareness, bring in the best leads sales has ever seen, and play an instrumental role in generating new and existing business revenue. Level up your marketing automation.

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Marketing Ops: The New Revenue Hero

As data continues to play a starring role in today’s B2B organizations, both marketing and sales operations professionals are poised to solidify their place as critical revenue drivers.

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

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. Get started today.

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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. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. But none of this is possible without the most important element of a successful ABM program: good data.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up?

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

The benefits of Account-Based Marketing are clear, so what’s holding B2B professionals back? From building an account universe to understanding to orchestrating sales and marketing alignment around touchpoint and messaging, there are a number of variables to consider before launching a program.