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Expedia CEO Defends B2B Partnerships as ‘Incremental’ to Consumer Businesses

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Skift Take: Expedia's B2B business has penetrated international markets through partnerships that its consumer businesses have been unable to reach. Competitors are watching and are trying a similar tack. Dennis Schaal Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Travel’s Power Players, Hotel Growth Race and Expedia’s B2B Business

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Skift Take: Today's podcast looks at the most influential people in the travel industry, who comes out on top of Marriott and Hilton's portfolio growth battle, and Expedia Group's defense of B2B. Rashaad Jorden Read the Complete Story On Skift

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New Report: How Hoteliers Can Navigate the Complex B2B Tech Ecosystem

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Skift Take: How can hoteliers choose the right tech partnerships amid a plethora of options? A new study from ZS and the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) provides insights on how to select partnerships strategically and make informed tech investments that achieve results. — ZS Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Trip.com Boosts Travel Experiences with Prioticket Deal

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Its partnership with Prioticket highlights the increasing trend of B2B partnerships in the experiences category. Skift Take: Trip.com recently added attractions as a bookable category for travelers worldwide. Jesse Chase-Lubitz Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Sales Effectiveness: The B2B Sales Leaders Guide

This guide is designed to help today’s B2B sales leaders ramp up their effectiveness in any economic environment. You’ll get a deep dive on: Proven methods for warming up cold calls Coaching points for responding to price pressure early and often Front-line examples of how to win the battle for customer retention

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Despegar Gets Freedom to Expand Independently of Expedia’s Hotels in New 10-Year Partnership

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Skift Take: With two partners having big B2B ambitions, something had to give. Dennis Schaal Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Marketing Wars: Booking vs. Expedia – Who Spends Smarter?

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While both still invest heavily in Google, they're shifting towards alternative marketing strategies like price discounting and B2B channels. Skift Take: In 2023, Booking and Expedia spent a combined $13 billion on marketing, with Booking demonstrating better efficiency and global reach.

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4 Data-Driven Steps To Drive Successful B2B Demand Generation

Download ZoomInfo’s eBook to follow four data-driven steps to drive successful B2B demand generation, including how to: Nail down your ideal customer profile (ICP) Leverage intent data Personalize messages to your priority accounts Review, report, and iterate That’s where your data comes in.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. Get started today.

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Buyer’s Checklist: How to Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

Key tactics for assessing the completeness, coverage, and consistency of B2B data. After reading, you’ll gain insight into the following components: How to develop a framework for analyzing a vendor’s contact and account data. Critical integrations that fit directly into your sales processes and workflows.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations. However, investing in new technology isn’t always easy, and commonly, it’s difficult to show the ROI of data quality efforts.

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

Data normalization. It’s not a far stretch to suggest that the topic isn’t exactly what gets marketers excited in their day-to-day workflow. However, if lead generation, reporting, and measuring ROI is important to your marketing team, then data normalization matters - a lot.

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The 2019 Technographic Data Report for B2B Sales Organizations

In this report, ZoomInfo substantiates the assertion that technographic data is a vital resource for sales teams. In fact, the majority of respondents agree—with 72.3% reporting that technographic data is either somewhat important or very important to their organization.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. Those implementing a B2B sales and marketing intelligence solution reported that they have realized 35% more leads in their pipeline and 45% higher-quality leads leading to higher revenue and growth.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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Best Practices for Marketing Database Cleanse

ZoomInfo has produced this eBook to help marketing leaders understand best practices around cost and value when it comes to choosing a B2B contact data provider. Download the eBook to get the most out of your database cleanse and find an appropriate vendor for your B2B marketing objectives. Database Audits.

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

The benefits of Account-Based Marketing are clear, so what’s holding B2B professionals back? While B2B research suggests organizations are thriving through successful ABM programs, getting just one campaign off the ground is more difficult than it seems.

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5 Essential Pieces of a Prospecting Solution

As organizations chase new revenue targets, B2B sales leaders must examine cutting edge prospecting solutions that proactively help reps identify, connect with, and close qualified buyers faster. Is your team focused on building a reliable tech stack for 2020?

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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

According to Bold 360, “81 percent of B2B buyers have left a page because they didn’t want to fill out a form.”. This guide will examine the market forces at play, shifting buyer trends, what conversational marketing is, how to leverage it, and the tactics involved in adopting conversational marketing for a B2B demand generation strategy.

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Marketing Ops: The New Revenue Hero

As data continues to play a starring role in today’s B2B organizations, both marketing and sales operations professionals are poised to solidify their place as critical revenue drivers.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Download ZoomInfo’s latest data-driven eBook aimed to help marketing leaders understand the best practices around choosing a B2B contact data provider. How to assess the current health of your database while working with a B2B contact data provider. What to look for before entering a buyer’s agreement with a vendor.

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How ZoomInfo Helps Overcome the Top Pain Points of Inside Sales

Recent digital transformation has shifted the B2B landscape by ushering in the era of buyer empowerment. With more access to user reviews, analyst opinion, and industry research, decision-makers are more informed than ever while navigating what is now known as the “buyer’s journey.”.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros and packaged them here for you. But personalized prospecting is possible at scale with the right resources in place. At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key.

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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales. Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. But getting a program off the ground successfully doesn’t have to be a daunting task.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control. Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

Download this free eBook to find out how your GTM team can leverage high-value buying signals to sell smarter and win faster, including: Key definitions and best practices for signal-based selling Actionable tips based on real-world experience for four specific buying signals How to leverage high-quality B2B data to level up your signal-based selling (..)

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

ZoomInfo has created the following eBook to help other B2B organizations gain insights on how to launch their own data-driven ABM strategy. In just 90 days, we were able to increase our pipeline by 114% and the customer base for this particular product by 30%.

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.