The Blame Game: Whose Responsibility is Demand Generation?

When the flow of wins coming out of your sales department begins to slow down, the natural thing to do is to reexamine your sales strategy—and even your sales personnel. But before you dive into more sales training, more sales hiring, or new sales leadership, stop and consider whether you’re taking the right approach. It’s likely that your sales department isn’t the root of your demand generation problem at all...

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Media Storm has deep roots in the entertainment industry, having helped 60 + network, cable and theatrical companies achieve unprecedented ratings, box office and brand awareness successes throughout our 15-year history. As entertainment media specialists we understand the environmental and cultural factors that drive awareness, develop preference and create action and apply the expertise to help iconic brands in hospitality, tourism, packaged goods, beverage, fashion retail, healthcare and the non-profit sector exceed sales, bookings and awareness goals everyday.

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Sales Pipeline Readiness: The Predictable Pipeline Strategy for Marketing and Sales Teams

whitePaper | December 5, 2022

Efficiency and productivity are what will lead to efficient growth. Still, to achieve this, you must have the correct data and tools to project pipeline and align GTM teams around a strategy guaranteed to hit pipeline and revenue targets. That’s why we wrote this guide to help you develop a Sales Pipeline Readiness strategy that allows you to not only predict but also generate pipeline efficiently and effectively.

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Top Five Trends Revenue.io Sales Engagement Predictions for 2023 and Beyond

whitePaper | January 30, 2023

Since the beginning of the Pandemic in 2019 through the end of 2021, 75% of all sales roles that were terminated have been re-hired. At the current trend, we will be at or above 98% recovery by the end of 2022 even in a recessionary market. To offset these results, the best sales leaders are focused on using AI-assisted real-time rep support and are increasing their automation of digital channel engagement. Our review of 11.5M sales engagements and conversation outcomes from Sales Development Reps (SDRs) underscores the need for automated conversation guidance to improve seller performance.

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Intent-driven Advertising: How to Lower Your CAC on LinkedIn

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

Launching social ads can sometimes feel like taking a shot in the dark. But what if you were given a light that instantly illuminated every prospective buyer who is actively researching your product? Suddenly, the world of social advertising would seem a little less precarious. If social ads are the depths of a cave, then the G2 Buyer Intent + LinkedIn Matched Audiences Integration is your flashlight.

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Quick Start Guide to Intent-Based Marketing

whitePaper | January 6, 2023

Since the beginning of B2B marketing as we know it, marketers have struggled with the question of how to get in front of the right prospects at the precise moment they’re ready to buy. For decades, the only solution was to use firmographic data (company size, industry, geographic footprint, etc.) which unfortunately offered no insights into whether the target would be ready to buy today, next quarter, next year, or ever. Things improved somewhat when technographic data came on the scene. By finding out which tools, technologies, and applications a company used, marketers could gain deeper insights into what they buy, how they operate, and what they might be looking to do next.

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The Actionable Guide to Account-Based Sales Activation

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

In the midst of the growing level of data sources and external competition, one of the greatest threats to your success is internal. Mistrust, miscommunication, and misinformation between sales, marketing, and customer success can cause frustration, turnover, lost deals, and missed growth opportunities. Marketing doesn’t trust that sales reps are reaching out to the right accounts, while Sales feels overwhelmed by a never-ending list of what seem like low quality leads.

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How Marketing Operations Can Make the Most of a Multi-Channel MarTech Stack

whitePaper | September 27, 2022

Marketing Operation Professionals (MOps) are often the unsung hero overseeing the function of your MarTech stack ( marketing technology). Chances are, you already have invested in the tools necessary to ABMify it. But the real challenge is how your MarTech stack comes together to create one killer marketing operations strategy. In this guide we'll show you: Real customer examples and insights into how others approach MarTech in a way that works for them Examples of plays you can orchestrate when your multi-channel ABM stack is at its best Frameworks to design a stack that stacks up and simplifies Marketing Operations Why you need a way to integrate it all (and how to do it quickly)

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Media Storm

Media Storm has deep roots in the entertainment industry, having helped 60 + network, cable and theatrical companies achieve unprecedented ratings, box office and brand awareness successes throughout our 15-year history. As entertainment media specialists we understand the environmental and cultural factors that drive awareness, develop preference and create action and apply the expertise to help iconic brands in hospitality, tourism, packaged goods, beverage, fashion retail, healthcare and the non-profit sector exceed sales, bookings and awareness goals everyday.

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