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Mind the Gap: The Startup’s Transition from Go to Grow
By: Per Pettersen, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder, Impact Introduction – “The Chasm” Many new businesses are created to fill a need or service that the market is not providing. For a long time, industry giants provided services or products dominated, which kept the market rigid and slow to evolve. But today’s technology enables startups […]
The Issue of Mental Health in the Prison Population
Mental health disorders occur at high rates all over the world with an estimated 450 million people suffering from a mental or behavioral disorder at the global level. With that being said, numerous surveys show that there’s a disproportionately high prevalence of psychiatric conditions in the prison population. Many of these conditions are present before […]
Keys to Sales Success: Tips to Take Your Content to the Next Level
In recent years, content campaigns have emerged as essential components of marketing strategies that support B2B sales. Indeed, CMI and MarketingProf’s North American benchmark report for 2019 cited content creation as a growing concern for marketers, with a full 56% of surveyed marketing professionals reporting major content creation budget hikes over the last year. Similarly, […]
Public Relations is for Everyone!
No money? No problem. PR can help your B2B succeed! With huge agency retainers, press-release distribution costs, printing fees, and more, you may think public relations is only for big businesses with big budgets. Well, if you haven’t thought about using public relations (PR) for your B2B, think again. Public relations is simply a way […]
The top B2B Marketing objectives for 2020 are sales objectives
Each fall, B2B marketers assess the performance of their prior year’s marketing program and plan for the year ahead. They look at past performance metrics, business goals, competitor initiatives, industry trends, and areas of improvement. The 2020 B2B Marketing Mix Report, published annually by Sagefrog Marketing Group, surveys B2B marketing professionals to uncover the top […]
Press coverage: Your B2B sales team’s secret weapon
Over the past five years, CSO Insights says the percentage of salespeople making quota has dropped from 63% to 53%. In today’s Third Industrial Revolution, nearly every industry is becoming increasingly competitive, entirely new categories are being created to solve emerging problems, and the marketplace is getting more cluttered with promotional materials. Simply put, the […]
TrustRadius study shows spike in Millennial buyers and a lot of single decision-maker purchasing
The majority of B2B buying committees are now made up of Millennials, and 49 per cent of buyers never actually talk to a vendor’s sales rep, according to a research report from TrustRadius released this week. In its 2020 version of its B2B Buyer Disconnect study, which is based on a survey of more than […]
How to write job postings that will attract the B2B talent you need
Would you buy this car? The Jeep Wrangler is a series of compact and mid-size (Wrangler Unlimited and Wrangler 2-door JL) four-wheel drive off-road SUVs, manufactured by Jeep since 1986, and currently in its fourth generation. The Wrangler JL, the most recent generation, was unveiled in late 2017 and is produced at Jeep’s Toledo Complex.The Wrangler is arguably an indirect progression from the World […]
ZoomInfo CRO: How we hit more than 600 demos in one day
You might expect a company that specializes in business contact details to be pretty good at reaching prospective customers, but ZoomInfo’s chief revenue officer says it has managed to reach a new personal best as a company by booking more than 600 demos of its software in a single day. The company, which is headquartered […]
InsideSales rebrands as Xant to demonstrate focus on transformative AI
InsideSales.com on Monday announced it was changing its name to Xant as part of a marketing campaign that will include a webinar this Thursday to discuss what it calls ‘the new face of sales engagement.” Based in Utah, InsideSales is best known for offering cloud-based tools that assist with sales, marketing and account management. The […]
COOs – Are you missing the communications factor for success?
As the Chief Operating Officer, your top priority is to ensure that all operations run smoothly for the best results, and a key part of this falls under the area of communications. After all, if processes, guidelines, rules, deadlines, etc. are not communicated correctly, your B2B can waste thousands of dollars in resources and lose […]
LeadMD develops Sales and Marketing Alignment Index based on first-party research
Performance marketing consultancy LeadMD is using data it collected as part of a survey conducted in partnership with Drift to create what it calls a Sales and Marketing Alignment Index that will benchmark how well B2B teams are working together and offer ideas for improvement. The report, which was released on Monday, is based on […]
If you want the best talent, why is your candidate experience so terrible?
Hands up if you have had a terrible experience as a candidate for a job. I thought so. I recently heard from a friend that she had endured seven rounds of interviews for a role and then learned, on LinkedIn of all places, that someone else had landed the job. Sure, employers used to get […]
An experienced B2B leader eyes 20/20 predictions for 2020 sales
For 2020, most companies have their eye on sales. After all, this is the time that businesses and salespeople alike evaluate the past year and look ahead to the next, anticipating industry changes, determining where they can improve, and understanding how they need to evolve to continue meeting the needs of customers. While none of […]
CCO group Page studies the evolution of ‘commtech’ and the quest to shape corporate culture
After undertaking the deepest and most global research into the perspectives and actions of the world’s leading chief communications officers, an association known as Page is preparing to build upon its findings with a microsite, case studies and courses to learn how to act on them. Originally known as the Arthur W. Page Society, New […]
Chief communications officers vs. ‘the dinosaurs’
This article originally appeared in our newsletter, the B2B Briefing, which comes out every two weeks and focuses on a specific monthly theme. Sign up to get more of this kind of content before anyone else. A lot of PR people I know tend to have impeccable manners and can deal diplomatically with the most […]
Nintex research shows Gen Z have influenced purchases in 80% of businesses
Seventy-two per cent of managers believe their Gen Z employees are more tech-savvy than they are, which may explain why the vast majority of them are weighing on the kind of buying decisions that preoccupy those in B2B sales and marketing, a recent study from Nintex suggests. In its report, The Gen Z Effect On […]
Why traditional public relations still reigns supreme
Social media, text messaging, blogs, podcasts, videos… the list of digital communication tools for Chief Communications Officers (CCOs) is constantly growing. It can be overwhelming to ensure you are taking advantage of all the possibilities available to bolster a positive image for your company. But, before you start using a particular medium just because it’s […]
Chief product officers from Box, Zoom, Slack and PagerDuty share their ‘best of breed’ best practices
There are some people who don’t really understand the term “best of breed,” but in the case of one customer, all it took was a botched video call for Jeetu Patel to educate them. The chief product officer at Box recalled the incident during a panel discussion with his peers ahead of BoxWorks, the company’s […]
