When we ask salespeople what marketing can do to enable sales, 10 out of 10 salespeople will say, “more high-quality marketing leads (MQLs).” Although lead generation may be the only element that the sales teams care about, marketing can do so much more than just generate leads. In my book, Effective Sales Enablement, I discuss […]
Tag: ABM
Intelligent Demand partners with Uberflip to drive client revenue through ABM
Intelligent Demand on Thursday announced a joint go-to-market partnership with Uberflip that will see the agency bring the latter’s content experience software to clients focused on improving their results with account-based marketing. Based in Denver, Intelligent Demand (ID) describes itself as an agency focused on helping companies grow revenue by helping build relationships with their […]
Terminus exec knows you won’t like his answer to ‘What defines the value of B2B marketing?’
Sangram Vajre wants you to fill in this sentence: “In B2B marketing, the value of marketing is defined by _______.” The chief evangelist and co-founder of Terminus got a number of responses from the audience at CONEX on Wednesday, which ranged from “leads” and “engagement” to customer success. His answer? “Sales.” “It took me a […]
Drift Intel promises to help marketers generate sales leads from anonymous web visitors
Drift has launched a feature in its marketing software called Drift Intel that it says will allow companies to develop profiles from anonymous web site visitors that can turn into leads which are routed in real time to sales teams. The company said Drift Intel would help firms trying to build more effective account-based marketing (ABM) […]
The flip side of ABM: Why behavioral IP is the future of B2B prospecting
It’s not easy finding B2B prospects, much less those you know are interested in your product or service. There’s shows, but so much of the research is now begun online. There’s cold calling, but millennial don’t use the phone to talk.. Everyone is on their mobile devices, but how do you connect with them? Think about how […]
The Future of ABM
For the most part, marketers have bought into account-based marketing and see the value of the investment. In fact, 91 percent of marketers say that they see higher average deal sizes with Account-Based Marketing (ABM). Now, marketers need to focus on staying ahead of the curve. ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts to deepen engagements […]
Influ2 takes ad-based approach to overcoming ABM challenges via ‘person-based marketing’
Marketers may still be getting used to the concept of account-based marketing (ABM) but a B2B advertising startup called Influ2 is suggesting they begin thinking about person-based marketing, with an approach based on a “segment of one.” Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., Influ2 formally launched earlier this week with a platform that draws data from customer […]
Bizible Discover promises to bring greater context to the way marketers measure activities and campaigns
Bizible this week said marketers will be able to track their results across several channels simultaneously and evaluate account-based marketing campaign performance through a specific dashboard in a product it is calling Bizible Discover. Scheduled for release early next month, Bizible Discover will add data on sales funnels, velocity and what Bizible calls the “golden […]
Demandbase lets marketers compare campaigns and other vendors with ABM Analytics
DemandBase is introducing an ABM Analytics functionality into its account-based marketing application, which the company says can allow marketers to compare how audiences react in response to different campaigns and even other martech tools. The firm will be announcing the launch at its 5th annual ABM Innovation Summit in San Francisco Thursday along with an […]
The right way to personalize demand generation activities
In today’s increasingly noisy marketing environment, the idea of trying to personalize demand generation strategies is everywhere. Every marketer, at one point or another in the course of their busy day, is actively engaged in testing and constructing ideas to increase awareness and interest in their company’s products and services. But just like with all things marketing, […]
CA Technologies moves from ‘margarita glass to champagne glass’ of target accounts in ABM strategy
CA Technologies may be best known for providing the tools to help enterprise organizations develop faster, better-performing applications, but an executive says its account-based marketing efforts are achieving a similar effect in the way its sales team is connecting with interested customers. In a presentation at the recent SiriusDecisions Summit in Toronto, CA Technologies global […]
Chief Nation brings in Bombora intent data to boost ABM in enterprise IT sector
An enterprise IT marketing consulting company called Chief Nation whose customers include Microsoft, IBM and Intel says it will be able to boost account-based marketing results and generate more sales leads by integrating B2B intent data from Bombora. Chief Nation, which is based in the U.K., said the partnership will involving layering Bombora’s intent data […]
SiriusDecisions: Only 9% of sales and marketing execs say the way they work is aligned with buyer needs
Less than 10 per cent of Canadian sales and marketing organizations say their functions are completely aligned to buyer needs, according to research released by SiriusDecisions as part of its first-ever Canadian Summit on Thursday. While 69 per cent of organizations said their functions are at least partially aligned to buyer needs, 22 per cent […]
B2B Marketing Exchange 2018 showcases ABM best practices from Windstream and Quarry
Account-based marketing was an obvious area of focus for those attending the 2018 B2B Marketing Exchange conference (B2BMX) this week, and a case study from Windstream and Quarry offered a glimpse at how best practices in the use of technology and creativity are shaping up. Executives from Windstream, a Little Rock, Ark.-based provider of networking […]
Exclusive: The missing link between ABM and sales planning challenges
Marketers need to choose the right account-based marketing strategy and sales teams need to improve the accuracy of their sales planning processes, according to an eBook from SiriusDecisions that continues to make the case for closer collaboration across the enterprise functions. The SiriusDecisions 2018 Planning Guide (registration required), which also covers issues for those working […]
Twitter Chat Recap: Thoughts on ABM and SDSummit with SiriusDecisions
Ally Motz, President of Sirius Decisions Canada, joined our very own Jen Evans, CEO of B2B News Network for a Twitter Chat yesterday on all things B2B in Canada. If you missed it, we’ve got you covered. He has been leading Sirius Decisions in Canada since inception, and led Gartner Canada before that. Congratulations to […]
Groove.co CEO says the long-sought alignment between sales and marketing teams is finally here
It has taken years, but all the same shifts that have happened in marketing — from one-way messaging to personalized, data-driven campaigns and account-based approaches — are finally hitting sales teams, according to the CEO of Groove.co. The San Francisco-based firm, which makes applications to assist with sales enablement within companies, recently launched an integration […]
DemandBase connects Conversion Solution with Salesforce, Slack and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
DemandBase on Thursday will announce a move to further assist marketers and sales teams to keep up with buyers’ plans via an update to its Conversion Solution tool, allowing customers to link it with major third-party applications including Salesforce, Slack and LinkedIn Sales Navigator,. The company said Conversion Solution will directly integrate the Real-Time Intent features — […]
Terminus talks about its BrightFunnel acquisition and the marrying of ABM with measurement
The executive leadership team of account-based marketing software firm Terminus says its acquisition of BrightFunnel will bring deeper analytics and multi-touch attribution to its combined base of B2B customers. Terminus, based in Atlanta, announced its purchase of San Francisco-based BrightFunnel — which makes a revenue intelligence suite among other offerings — on Wednesday. Financial terms of […]
Best of B2BNN 2017: Why these 10 stories resonated with senior business leaders
Assessing the performance of stories on B2B News Network is probably a little different than most other online publications. First, there’s the nature of the audience, which spans everyone from CMOs and CIOs to heads of sales and even company owners or CEOs. Although some of what we publish would be of interest to all of them, there are […]