PROGRAMMATIC ABM
6sense | April 21, 2022
6sense, with the widest application of AI at every stage of revenue creation, today announced 6sense Revenue AI™ and previewed product innovations that solidify its leadership position. The platform applies the power of AI across the entire buyers' journey, removing the guesswork that plagues revenue teams, providing a better customer experience, and producing high-quality pipeline that is ultimately more likely to convert to revenue.
Today's announcement at the company's The Future is Now event demonstrates its commitment to execute against its aggressive roadmap, as well as integrate newly acquired companies to accelerate customer value. With 6sense Revenue AI, B2B revenue teams are able to better capture anonymous buying signals, target the right accounts at precisely the right time, and boost revenue performance with recommendations for the channels and messages most likely to convert. 6sense customers report a 100% increase in average deal size, 20% better conversions and 30% faster deal cycles, and 120% improvement in revenue effectiveness.
"Every business wants to generate revenue with greater predictability. But every day, their people work in silos and make numerous guesses about which accounts to prioritize, what to send them, or whether they have quality data to orchestrate a winning campaign," said Jason Zintak, CEO of 6sense. "6sense Revenue AI is the only platform to put the power of AI into the hands of every member of the revenue team to make insight-driven decisions, prioritize time and resources with greater accuracy, and realize better outcomes. Our customers report unbelievable success."
With three acquisitions within six months, more than 50 new product features released in 2021, and recognition from customers and industry analysts for unparalleled product innovation, 6sense has demonstrated its ability to execute against a bold vision for the future of predictable revenue growth.
The Future of B2B Email Marketing is Here
6sense, along with recently acquired Saleswhale, announced its AI-driven email marketing platform beta program for customers to create demand and new opportunities. This brings AI to help with hyper-personalization at scale, creating relevant 1:1 emails and email responses using all insights including technographic, intent, and engagement data.
"There is massive potential to apply the power of AI across every stage of the funnel to accelerate conversion and velocity," said Viral Bajaria, CTO and Co-Founder of 6sense. "We are reimagining email, focused on different outcomes: to start a conversation, instantly provide relevant information and connect with humans when needed. We want to help marketers realize the dream of no spam. By applying business-focused insights into the buying team, AI can draft a hyper-relevant email that goes miles beyond current personalization to actually deliver value to the prospect and initiate a conversation."
6sense Pipeline Intelligence Takes Aim with Precision
New 6sense Pipeline Intelligence capabilities are the first and only AI-driven solution for B2B marketers to plan, track and forecast pipeline with accuracy. 6sense Pipeline Intelligence predicts how much and what quality pipeline is needed to hit revenue targets, tracks segment and campaign performance in real-time, and makes AI-based recommendations to pivot as necessary to meet or exceed forecast goals.
Deeper Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and HubSpot CRM Integrations
6sense has enhanced CRM integrations for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and HubSpot CRM to align revenue teams around a comprehensive, actionable data set within the 6sense Sales Intelligence Dashboard or right inside HubSpot CRM or Microsoft Dynamics 365. Bringing the most advanced insights and actions to where marketers and sellers work:
Marketers can leverage 6sense-enriched lead, contact, and account data to segment and analyze audiences while working natively within these CRMs
Sellers can access 6sense insights, alerts, and dashboards directly from within HubSpot CRM or Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling sellers to proactively prospect and personalize outreach
Revenue operations teams can better create a unified source of truth across 6sense and their CRM with data, audience, and AI-driven orchestrations
Additional Product Improvements
Market-leading technographic and contact data from Slintel, a 6sense company, has been added to 6sense Revenue AI to give sellers even greater access to the most up-to-date insights on an account's tech stack within the Sales Intelligence experience. With enhanced visibility into the target buying group, their intent signals, and the technologies they use, sellers know when and how to best engage prospects, resulting in high-quality pipeline and a customer-first experience.
6sense Qualified Accounts (6QAs) are now completely customizable, giving customers the choice of using only AI-driven recommendations for qualified accounts or custom tailoring buying stages and weighted activities based on criteria that best fit an organization's specific needs. The defined metric qualifies accounts based on their likelihood of being in-market to buy as indicated by their behaviors and their propensity to buy based on fit.
6sense Orchestration subscribers can now sync contact information from emails and calendars and add them directly to their CRM to better understand individuals within the buying group and engage accounts more effectively.
About 6sense
6sense reinvents the way organizations create, manage, and convert pipeline to revenue. 6sense Revenue AI captures anonymous buying signals, targets the right accounts at the ideal time, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Removing guesswork, friction, and wasted sales effort, 6sense empowers sales, marketing, and customer success teams to significantly improve pipeline quality, accelerate sales velocity, increase conversion rates, and grow revenue predictably. 6sense has been recognized for its market-defining technology by Forbes Cloud 100, G2, TrustRadius, Gartner, and Forrester, and for its strong culture by Glassdoor, Inc. Magazine, and Comparably. For more information, visit 6sense or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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ACCOUNT BASED DATA
Folloze, Hunter & Bard | June 27, 2022
Folloze and Hunter & Bard, a leading account-based marketing (ABM) agency, announced a partnership today that will bundle the Folloze B2B Buyer Experience Platform with Hunter & Bard’s extensive ABM services. Hunter & Bard will join the Folloze as a Service Technology (FaaST) program, bringing data-driven marketing engagement, personalization and turnkey campaign activation to the agency’s clients that need ABM expertise and deployment.
“Most of our clients want to scale their ABM efforts quickly, but lack the time or internal resources to do so. They want to hit the ground running with an expert ABM team,” said Shira Abel, founder and CEO of Hunter & Bard.
“Most of our clients want to scale their ABM efforts quickly, but lack the time or internal resources to do so. They want to hit the ground running with an expert ABM team,” said Shira Abel, founder and CEO of Hunter & Bard. “With Folloze as our backbone, we’re able to deliver great sales and marketing results by building out the right target lists, rolling out strategic content on Folloze Boards, and orchestrating account engagement and reporting. We make it fast and easy, and Folloze helps us get it done.”
Going to Market ‘FaaST’ with Folloze-powered Buyer Experiences
The FaaST program was created to help marketing agencies spin up Folloze Buyer Experience instances with a turnkey ABM package that agencies can fully manage themselves on behalf of their clients.
“Our FaaST capabilities give agencies like Hunter & Bard the opportunity to scale their services and give them control over how they build Folloze Boards with their clients,” said Randy Brasche, vice president of marketing with Folloze. “And we bring our expertise with B2B buyer engagement to the table to help agencies grow their ABM businesses.”
For Hunter & Bard, it’s all about helping their clients get better close rates for their marketing and sales opportunities. “Folloze is a great facilitator on multiple levels of engagement,” Abel said. “From building lists and segmenting the right content, to targeting messaging and sending out compelling, personalized campaigns, our clients are getting significantly higher open rates than on typical, broad-based campaigns — and much higher closed-win rates. One of our clients has seen close rates go from 39 percent with general marketing to 90 percent with the better-targeted programs we produced for them through Folloze.”
Hunter & Bard clients can also create online ad programs that link directly to their Folloze Boards and drive campaign rollout. “Once those opportunities come in, we can quickly put together targeted outbound campaigns based on where the opportunity came from, which have produced some very nice results. Nothing is better for the outbound list build and directing emails to content than Folloze.”
Improving Sales Team Orchestration and Optimization
Another key area for Hunter & Bard’s clients is optimizing and orchestrating sales team activity. “No sales rep wants to waste time with bad leads that come from a poorly-targeted ABM program,” Shira said. “We’re out to help change sales team behavior and help them prioritize their time.”
With Folloze, sales reps can not only see who's active, but also see intent signals related to what they're searching for, which prospects clicked through on an email and when, what content they clicked on, and how long they engaged.
Building a Foundation for Better ABM Consulting and Programs
“At Hunter & Bard, we’re getting more and more creative with enablement and engagement,” Abel said. “We’re optimizing our targeting with curated content, and our Folloze Boards are beautiful. But for our clients, it means they get the results they’re looking for; they get the wins, and they get the promotion.”
“I do a lot of teaching and mentoring on the ABM front, and Folloze is an invaluable tool for doing ABM the right way,” concludes Abel. “And I can’t say enough about the team support at Folloze. We love working with them.”
About Folloze
Folloze, the easiest and most powerful B2B Buyer Experience Platform, is used by B2B marketing, sales, and revenue teams. Requiring no code, Folloze empowers any marketer to easily build data-driven, highly engaging, personalized content destinations across the entire B2B buyer journey to drive deeper account engagement and revenue growth. Top B2B brands, including Oracle, Google Cloud, Cisco, Autodesk, MetLife, and UL trust Folloze to boost customer engagement, revenue growth, and expansion across their target accounts. To learn more, visit https://www.folloze.com/.
About Hunter & Bard
Hunter & Bard is an award-winning agency of enterprise marketers and designers who focus on high-ACV Account-Based Marketing (ABM). The agency works between product marketing and sales to analyze competitors, create strategic messaging, build sales-enablement materials, and design and orchestrate successful ABM programs. Hunter & Bard is a WBENC-certified Woman-Owned Small Business and was named Siemens’ Small and Diverse Supplier of the Year for 2021. To learn more, visit https://hunterandbard.com/.
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ABM ACCOUNTS
Demandbase | February 18, 2022
Demandbase, the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands, today reports record international growth. With locations in the U.S., United Kingdom, and India, the company is expanding its hiring to support substantial growth in customer acquisition and revenue outside the U.S. Regions that are seeing especially heightened growth include the UK, Nordics, Germany, India, and Japan, with many others in hot pursuit. In the last 12 months, Demandbase's UK office brought in more than 35 new mid-market and enterprise customers and has plans to make imminent strategic hires across sales, account management, and customer success.
"We already have an established presence in the UK and are growing fast and furious in new regions all the time," says Paul Gibson, vice president, international at Demandbase.
"We already have an established presence in the UK and are growing fast and furious in new regions all the time," says Paul Gibson, vice president, international at Demandbase. "Our growth is driven by the fact that B2B sales and marketing teams are realizing they need a clear way to remove the guesswork from their go-to-market strategies. Demandbase provides that in spades, helping organizations prioritize accounts that are primed for sales and avoid wasting budget on those that aren't. Our market-leading technology just keeps getting better, giving our customers the top go-to-market suite available to power their success."
Despite other providers attempting to offer similar functionality, Demandbase continues proving to be head and shoulders above the rest. In early January, Demandbase was named a Leader in the inaugural 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Account-Based Marketing Platforms. Demandbase is the only vendor to receive the highest scores for all three Use Cases in the 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Account-Based Marketing Platforms.
About Demandbase
Demandbase is Smarter GTMTM for B2B brands. We help marketing and sales teams spot the juiciest opportunities earlier and progress them faster by injecting Account Intelligence into every step of the buyer journey and orchestrating every action. For more information about Demandbase, visit www.demandbase.com.
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ACCOUNT BASED DATA
Digital Media Solutions | January 03, 2022
Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: DMS), a leading provider of technology-enabled digital performance advertising solutions connecting consumers and advertisers, announced a premier lineup of seasoned industry leaders to speak at this year’s Lead Generation World conference. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jason Rudolph, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Kathy Bryan and Director of Social Media Lauren Konopelski of DMS will provide actionable strategies and expert insights during two impactful thought leadership sessions.
Combining their decades of experience and deep industry insights, Rudolph, Bryan and Konopelski are uniquely positioned to identify and share current industry trends, provide actionable strategies to win in the new year and inspire marketers to uncover the best ways to harness the power of data and elevate their advertising strategies.
As a panelist of the “The Marriage Between Data and Consumer Experience: How The Industry Continues To Evolve In 2022” session, Rudolph will share his direct experience on how companies can successfully use data to improve consumer experiences and increase conversions and sales for their organizations. Rudolph will be speaking alongside fellow seasoned industry leaders, including Matt Tillman of RateMarketplace, Zora Senat of Infutor, Dee Anna Mcpherson of Invoca and Ross Shanken, former CEO of Jornaya.
“The consumer experience cannot be timely and relevant without real-time data,” commented Rudolph
“The consumer experience cannot be timely and relevant without real-time data,” commented Rudolph. “Advertising interactions in 2022 and beyond will be shaped by re-activation, re-engagement and retention through the deployment of data signals. The more brands and advertisers know about the best practices of using real-time data strategies across media channels, the more money-making opportunities they can create and sustain.”
As CTO for DMS, Rudolph leads the development of the Company’s industry-leading proprietary, end-to-end advertising technology. He is responsible for continuously advancing DMS tech capabilities to meet the targeting, tracking and optimization needs of the Company, its advertiser clients and publisher partners.
During the “Mastering The Pace Of Change: Tomorrow's Digital Media Environment Won't Be The Same As Today's” session, Bryan and Konopelski, alongside fellow industry leaders Amanda Farris of Phonexa and Tracy Laney of Active Prospect, will predict future best practices of performance advertising. From the power of AI to leveraging data to target key audiences on social media, attendees will hear expert thoughts on emerging best practices for 2022 and beyond.
“Digital advertising changes as often as digital media evolves – which means it’s always changing,” noted Bryan. “To foster a forward-thinking mindset, performance marketing professionals must keep up with the rapidly changing digital media landscape and invest in the strategies that will continue to deliver results.”
Bryan is an expert at identifying innovative and engaging marketing strategies that engage audiences and get them to take action, leveraging her strong B2C and B2B expertise, including multi-channel marketing campaign management, brand management, demand generation, content marketing and marketing research. As CMO for DMS, Bryan leads all aspects of corporate marketing and communications for the Company and its brands, successfully reducing marketing expenses while scaling results. In 2020, Bryan co-founded Women of Martech, a professional organization dedicated to increasing the recognition of the power of women in the martech industry. In 2021, Bryan was awarded the second-annual Tim Burke Pioneer Award by the Consumer Consent Council and recognized as an exceptional professional creating significant impact within the performance marketing space.
Konopelski has a proven track record of pairing strong creative strategy with data-driven insights to produce consistent and strong ROI. Her diverse skill set allows her to play a key role in driving new product innovation and strategic positioning across all media channels. As Director of Social Media, Konopelski is responsible for creating the overall strategy to produce successful data-driven paid social media campaigns for DMS clients and proprietary sites.
Lead Generation World brings together professionals in the performance marketing industry, representing lead buyers, lead sellers and service providers and those that want to improve their lead generation campaigns from creation to close. LGW creates an important forum for industry experts to network, share knowledge, discuss industry trends and learn strategies for growth.
About Digital Media Solutions
Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: DMS) is a leading provider of technology-enabled digital performance advertising solutions connecting consumers and advertisers within insurance plus a long list of top consumer verticals. The DMS first-party data asset, proprietary advertising technology, expansive media distribution and data-driven processes help digital advertising clients de-risk their advertising spend while scaling their customer bases. Learn more at https://digitalmediasolutions.com.
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