WHY MICROSOFT DYNAMICS REPORTING DOESN’T WORK FOR B2B MARKETERS

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a tool that was developed with sales teams in mind. The CRM was never meant to help marketers do their jobs better or accurately report on their program successes. Yes, you can do some reporting in Microsoft Dynamics, but certainly not the type of reporting that marketers need to tie their efforts to revenue.

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The Rise of Account Based Marketing: Essentials to Success

whitePaper | January 20, 2020

Aligning sales and marketing is one of the most common problems companies face. Managers find that often, sales and marketing have differentiating solutions when it comes to developing strategies; which can affect company revenue and lead generation efforts. With marketing known for its spending habits, company executives demand a good ROI. As a result of significant revenue gain more than 60% of companies plan to launch an account-based marketing (ABM) campaign in the following year. Why is ABM becoming so popular? This marketing tactic allows marketers to create targeted campaigns for specific high-value accounts. In order to have an effective Account Based Marketing strategy it is important for your sales and marketing team to be aligned. But what is account based marketing, and how can you integrate it in your company to make sure your team will deliver the ROI that your company needs?

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The Marketer’s Roadmap To Mature Omnichannel Account-Based Experiences

whitePaper | June 10, 2022

Responsive buyer experiences and relevant content across channels have always been the top criteria for mature, highperforming, omnichannel account-based orchestrations. But much of today’s conversation revolves around linear, top-down campaigns, where the target account is placed in a marketing or sales play, operating within a siloed platform throughout the buyer’s journey. The result is often antithetical to the desired buyer “experience.” Operating without the necessary data management, intent, prediction, and consistent personalization, these platforms cannot deliver high-performing orchestration simply by slapping a new name on the same old ABM technology. In a rush to accelerate the delivery of “account-based experiences” (ABX), the platforms that support it have become a critical bottleneck, creating yet another siloed system that adds to the complexity and undermines the outcomes it is intended to improve.

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The Beginner’s Guide to: Account-based Selling

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.

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Create Demand Through Video Marketing

whitePaper | January 19, 2022

Any seasoned marketer will tell you that a successful content strategy goes far beyond catching prospects’ eyes. Making a splash in today's digital marketplace requires content that fits into every channel, draws audiences in and keeps them engaged, and guides potential customers to find their perfect solution. No other type of content drives successful multi-channel engagement like video. It's captivating, easily digestible, and, more importantly, it gets its point across more quickly and clearly than any other medium. But don't just take our word for it. Over the past decade, the demand for video marketing for enterprises, both big and small, has increased dramatically

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Increase Demand Gen Results With These 5 Tactics

whitePaper | January 5, 2023

Demand Generation within B2B organisations has progressed in recent years, both innovatively and intuitively. Whether it’s embracing and adopting maturing predictive technologies and ABM methodologies or macro factors, including Covid, that forced a complete focus on digital engagement, marketers have had to respond instantaneously, researching, and activating digital approaches that ensure demand generation continuity and growth.

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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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SmartSearch Marketing is a full-service digital marketing agency focused on B2B companies and organizations with complex sales. Comprehensive solutions include: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising, Website Usability, Conversion Improvement, Web Analytics, Lead Nurturing, Marketing Automation, Account-Based Marketing and more. Contact us today to learn how we can help increase quality leads for your business.

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