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Media 7 | April 8, 2022

Assaf Eisenstein, Co-Founder & President at Lusha elaborates on their simple yet powerful self-service products curated for B2B salespeople. Read on to know more about his thoughts on the impact of automation on the B2B landscape and the challenges he sees on the horizon for the industry.

Despite the explosion in new technologies, many salespeople are still relying on outdated, untargeted methods of reaching potential clients.

MEDIA 7: Could you give our readers a sense of the demographic of Lusha and tell us a little about your culture?
ASSAF EISENSTEIN
: Lusha was founded by Assaf Eisenstein and Yoni Tserruya in 2016 with the aim of creating the world’s largest crowdsourced data community for B2B salespeople or a “Waze for salespeople.”
Before Lusha, Yoni worked as an iOS Developer and created mobile applications focusing on the user experience, while Assaf created technology solutions for HR specialists. In 2016, Yoni and Assaf met and recognized that the process for salespeople to find accurate B2B data was laborious and time-intensive. Salespeople spend approximately 65% of their time on non-sales activities, rather than on the phone pitching prospects. Salespeople often have to search multiple online sources just to get the information they need. Lusha was created as a salesperson’s personal helper, allowing salespeople to easily identify their target audience, find their future customers, and create a personal connection.

M7: Since its inception, Lusha has been helping B2B salespeople through its simple yet powerful self-service products. Could you please give us an insight into some of these products and services?
AE:
Until recently, B2B sales and marketers were using a “spray and pray” approach, reaching a high volume of potential customers with low relevance. As a result, salespeople spend around 65% of their time on non-sales and administrative activities, rather than engaging potential customers. This costs time and money that could be otherwise spent on growing businesses. Lusha’s cloud-based platform provides sales professionals and teams easy access to enterprise-grade solutions, to identify their ideal target buyer, and gain data-driven insights on who they approach as a potential customer, when, and why. The community members enable Lusha to provide the most accurate data through constant validation and enrichment of its database. Lusha’s community enables salespeople to validate contact information (that you’d normally find on a business card), and company insights, which validates Lusha’s data and ensures high accuracy. The company's community approach and affordability also ensure that salespeople from organizations of all sizes have access to the data they need to optimize their sales outreach. Since February, the Lusha community has expanded from over 520,000 sales professionals and 167,000 sales organizations to 800,000 and 273,000 respectively with little signs of slowing. We have also been hard at work developing and improving our product offerings and usability, while maintaining affordability, to provide organizations of all sizes access to the top-quality data and company insights they need in order to optimize their sales outreach. We continue to prioritize data quality and accuracy, ensuring our data remains consistently of the highest quality as well as fully compliant with world-class privacy standards and requirements.

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A major issue with the current privacy regulations is that they paint all data with the same brush and don’t discriminate protection based on risk factors or exploitability.


M7: What are the top challenges you see for the industry in general and Lusha this year?
AE:
The most overarching challenge I see for the industry is the broken state of affairs for B2B sales. Despite the explosion in new technologies, many salespeople are still relying on outdated, untargeted methods of reaching potential clients. These tactics are a lose-lose as they waste everyone’s time and can even damage a brand’s reputation. Many services claim to give salespeople the data they need, but they can often be partial and cumbersome solutions.
Another challenge for companies like Lusha seeking to leverage data and change the ecosystem is privacy. There is an understandable concern for data protection and strict regulations (like the GDPR and CCPA) have passed as a result. Lusha is proud to be a leader in this field, having recently received the highly valued ISO 27701 certification for processing personal identifiable information. Furthermore, Lusha is one of the only SaaS companies whose entire legal, compliance, and privacy teams are IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) certified. We understand the value of data to make buyers and sellers happier while taking all the steps necessary to ensure privacy.

M7: How do you see automation and artificial intelligence impacting the B2B landscape in the near future?
AE:
With the rise of the digital era, the business has become increasingly data-reliant and -driven. Having grown to recognize that a timely and accurate understanding of data can drive unprecedented productivity and results at every level of their operations, businesses have placed data at the heart of their operations. And, with consumers having grown accustomed to highly personalized customer experiences – with many even willing to provide their personal data, such as age, gender, contact information, and more, to receive it – consumer data is more easily attainable than ever before.

As a result, issues around data privacy have also come into the spotlight, becoming a growing concern, of regulators and lawmakers are clamping down on – evidenced by the introduction of GDPR and CCPA standards. While this drive to protect the privacy of consumers is well-intentioned, the implications to businesses have been significant, as limiting their access to data means limiting the services they can provide and the level of efficiency and accuracy with which they can function. A major issue with the current privacy regulations is that they paint all data with the same brush and don’t discriminate protection based on risk factors or exploitability. This means much of the ‘shallow’, publicly available data businesses use to thrive, such as job title, work email, etc, is often subjected to the same privacy standards as sensitive personal medical or financial information. In order to for these regulations to be effective without hindering business, regulators need to aim to balance consumers’ rights to data privacy with business needs. By reassessing the handling of data to differentiate what is and is not publicly available, sensitive, or potentially exploitable, we can move away from ‘blanket protection’ to redefine privacy standards that are beneficial to consumers and businesses alike.

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The exceptional quality of products released into the market at record speed is brought on by a hyper-adoption of new technologies.

M7: What do you see as the most noticeable change right now happening in the workforce, encouraged by the rise of digital technologies?
AE:
The most noticeable change, I would say, is the pace. The pace at which development, production, and delivery is happening. SaaS today is characterized by speed and quality. The exceptional quality of products released into the market at record speed is brought on by a hyper-adoption of new technologies.

M7: According to you, how should start-ups approach their branding that establishes credibility, expertise, and experience?
AE:
The most important things B2B brands can do to establish themselves is to know their customer and to match their strengths to the buyers they can best serve. Lusha for example always tries to establish a direct relationship with its customers, to understand how to best suit our services to their needs. We understand what we are good at, and we understand what B2B businesses want, and the best way up is to connect the two in the most streamlined way possible. Another key concept here is improvisation. The world has been changing at a dizzyingly rapid pace over the last few years, and this means unexpected shocks are becoming increasingly the norm. Those brands that can roll with the punches, adapt, and continue to meet changing consumer expectations – are the brands that will thrive.

ABOUT LUSHA

Lusha is a crowdsourced data community and sales intelligence platform which empowers B2B sales professionals to identify, engage and close qualified prospects thanks to accurate and accessible data. Lusha recommends relevant prospects and organizations, eliminating cumbersome research and allowing salespeople to focus on selling. Lusha’s community approach ensures that salespeople from organizations of all sizes have access to accurate sales data. Lusha was founded in 2016 by Assaf Eisenstein and Yoni Tserruya and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lusha’s community has expanded to nearly 800,000 sales professionals and 273,000 sales organizations including Google, Microsoft, Dropbox and Uber.

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"The ability to automatically identify and engage with accurate buying groups, understanding their personas and roles, will revolutionize our sales and marketing efforts. This tool truly understands the complex dynamics of B2B decision-making processes, cutting through the noise to reach the right people at the right time. We can't wait to get our hands on it." "B2B GTM teams have known for a long time that the traditional lead-based approach really misses the mark, because individuals don't buy solutions in the enterprise — that focus is too narrow," says Brewster Stanislaw, chief product officer, at Demandbase. "That's why account-based marketing came into existence… but the reality is an account-based approach has its drawbacks as well. It's too broad because it's not every person at an account that participates in a buying decision. The sweet spot is in between; it's the buying committee, made of influencers, champions, blockers, etc., that actually determines where and when an enterprise will invest in a given solution." Stanislaw continues, "Until now, it's been too hard to implement buying groups because companies had to rely on manual guesswork and faulty data. Our AI-powered buying groups solve this once and for all by delivering on the audience that is 'just right.' We're using artificial intelligence to analyze massive behavioral data sets to generate accurate buying groups and automatically assign roles and personas to each of their constituent members. This empowers our customers to be optimally efficient across their entire GTM motion. By focusing on the buying group as their core GTM object, they can generate more demand with greater velocity through the customer journey, while minimizing waste by investing resources where they are most impactful. This is a revolution for B2B GTM teams that will unlock efficient growth, and those that adopt will be the CMOs and CROs of the future." The industry has recognized the need to target and reach buying groups, with Forrester Research saying that the goal of this approach is to "better align with the true buyer in virtually all B2B buying decisions — a group of people (the buying group) all working together to solve a business issue." "Identifying and engaging with the buying committee is the key to winning deals but it's really hard," commented Craig Rosenberg, chief platform officer at Scale Venture Partners. "That's why the introduction of AI-powered buying groups is so powerful for GTM teams. It eliminates the manual guesswork for B2B GTM teams thus allowing these teams to focus on driving increased demand." Historically, teams have relied on guesswork, manual processes, and missing and inaccurate data, resulting in systematic under-estimation of all personas that make up the full committee. With Demandbase Buying Group AI, this will all change. For the first time, companies will be able to use AI to automatically generate their ideal buying groups, create different buying groups for different products and journey stages, find the right contacts for each persona — adding them to their CRM, if not already there — and engage them with accurate contact information. The result will be fewer missed, lost, or delayed deals and vastly superior go-to-market execution. Demandbase pioneered the ABM movement and is now leading the way in this latest evolution of B2B go-to-market. The company is uniquely positioned to deliver on AI-generated buying groups with its massive data set that combines the customer's engagement data with Demandbase's B2B data — including AI-validated contact data on more than 150M buyers plus expansive advertising and behavioral data — to see how individuals interact across products and with each other. Demandbase Buying Group AI will launch out of beta in Q3 of 2023. See how it works to learn more and discover why buying groups are the foundation of a modern, Smarter GTM™ platform. About Demandbase Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. How? By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase, powered by combining your sales and marketing data with our validated B2B data — what we call Account Intelligence. Better data makes better AI, that's Smarter GTM™.

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Anteriad Named a Strong Performer in B2B Intent Data Provider Research

GlobeNewswire | May 31, 2023

Global B2B marketing solution provider Anteriad today announced that they have been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: B2B Intent Data Providers, Q2 2023. In the report, Forrester notes that Intent Data Providers included “must demonstrate their proprietary means of collecting either second- or third-party intent signals. Forrester did not include pure data aggregators or resellers that don’t offer proprietary data.” Forrester notes that companies should look for providers that meet the distinct needs of their marketing and sales use cases, offer incremental insights with unique collection methodologies and align with their geographic coverage requirements. Anteriad earned a 5, the highest possible score, in seven criteria including: Innovation Data security and compliance Accuracy and noise filtering Data delivery The Forrester report evaluated the 14 most significant Intent Data providers against current offering, strategy and market presence criteria to help marketers to identify the companies most aligned with their needs. Forrester notes that, “Anteriad is a full-service marketing execution partner leveraging diverse intent signals.” The Forrester report also states that Anteriad’s “diverse set of captured intent signal types, advanced noise filtering, strong options for data delivery, and outstanding achievement in data security and privacy certifications strengthen its current offering.” Forrester also writes, “Innovation is a strength, including advancements in future-proofed, compliant capture of their proprietary signals, a strong B2B identity graph, and a clear strategy for enabling customers to leverage intent in increasingly mature ways.” The report continues, “Reference customers highlighted its service and support, data accuracy, and level of granular detail available in its campaign targeting.” “We believe that being named a Strong Performer validates our diverse intent signals, data quality and accuracy. This Forrester Wave for Intent Data Providers highlights for us our focus on bringing innovative and effective solutions to our customers. We continue to add breadth and depth, as well as global coverage, to our offering while maintaining our focus on quality and accuracy, giving B2B marketers more opportunities to get in front of their next customers faster,” said Rob Sanchez, CEO at Anteriad. About Anteriad Anteriad puts B2B marketers in front of their next customer and ahead of their competition. Companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Forbes, SHRM, and Lenovo have benefited from our high-fidelity B2B buyer data, full and self-service multichannel execution, tele-based conversion services, analytics, and expert advisory to generate impactful ROI multiples. Our award-winning Anteriad Marketing Cloud platform tracks more than 500 billion buyer-related signals each month. BNZSA, our international division, delivers GDPR-compliant data and qualified prospects directly to sales teams with BDRs that offer local expertise in 26 languages. Start creating your future today – get to know us at https://anteriad.com/.

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