A Driving Force Behind Every Successful Demand Generation Initiative

whitePaper | December 14, 2019

Account-based selling focuses on quality over quantity. Sales teams prioritize their prospecting efforts based on the companies they should be contacting rather than the individuals. They use data to find specific accounts that would benefit from their product and then devise customized, high-touch prospecting approaches for those target accounts. By employing account-based selling, you ensure that your sales teams are focusing on highpotential, high-value accounts, making them more likely to close deals, hit their quotas, and grow your business.

whitePaper | July 13, 2021

Insight is the difference between what makes ABM truly distinct from just ‘marketing to accounts.’ In truth, it can make or break the success of ABM in even the most mature of programs. But knowing how to extract the right insight at the right time from the sea of data available can often leave marketers feeling overwhelmed. Supported by ITSMA thinking throughout, our practical guide, "Making Insight Intelligent", offers best practice advice helping you demystify the effective gathering and use of insight across some of the most common use cases within ABM. Inside we'll cover: The need, the landscape and the opportunity for insight in 2021 How to build an insight-first program How to create the right structure and processes for success, and establish robust measurement The insight you should leverage to drive business outcomes Five typical use cases: examples of the types of insight used to drive tangible outcomes in ABM

whitePaper | December 10, 2019

The “wealth effect” the idea that consumer and business spending goes up with increases in stock prices, could taper with a downturn in the stock market. With the upcoming political year, it is highly likely that investors will cash out of some of their returns in early 2020, which could result in slower consumer and business spending in the early part of the year. Both B2B and B2C buyers might focus on “must haves” and delay the purchase of “nice to haves” until mid-year.

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Conceived in the early 2000s as a way to bring marketing and sales organizations together around a teambased approach to nurturing their most important accounts, ABM is now used by 70% of marketers, up from just 15% a year ago, according to HubSpot. Technology marketers have taken a particular interest in ABM, given the complex factors that influence IT purchases. Foundry’s second global survey of 500 B2B technology marketers found that satisfaction with ABM continues to be high, particularly at the largest companies. While most organizations are still early in their adoption journey, the results to date indicate that ABM is on track to not only become a mainstream marketing discipline but even displace more traditional methods.

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.

whitePaper | January 27, 2023

97% of sales leaders and sales operations pros already believe that AI gives reps more time to sell.1 However, giving reps more time back through automation is just the beginning. AI also provides a means of augmenting human intelligence, so salespeople can finally exceed the expectations of today’s most demanding buyers. This report provides a window into how the right AI-powered sales solutions will empower companies to, at last, fix a broken B2B sales process.