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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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India’s EaseMyTrip Invests in B2B Travel Portal ETrav Tech

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Skift Take: Having diversified into hotels and insurance, EaseMyTrip now ventures into the B2B travel market with its latest investment. Peden Doma Bhutia Read the Complete Story On Skift

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

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

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Creador Acquires Indonesia’s MG Group: Targets Big Moves in Europe, Middle East

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Skift Take: Creador is banking on MGs low-cost platform to shake up key markets like North Asia and Europe. The challenge? Scaling globally while keeping MGs lean and efficient DNA intact. Peden Doma Bhutia Read the Complete Story On Skift

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ABCs of Data Normalization for B2B Marketers

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. Well, marketers rely on this grouping to reach their goals.

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Best Practices for Marketing Database Cleanse

Finding a vendor to cleanse and optimize your marketing database can be difficult if you don’t know what to look for. 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. Database Audits. Database Audits.

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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. This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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

Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. B2B organizations struggle with bad data. The primary takeaway? Forrester found “only 1.2%

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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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Your Guide to Using Conversational Marketing to Drive Demand Generation

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. Studies show the return on investment (ROI) of conversational marketing helps your marketing team drive revenue.

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4 Data-Driven Steps To Drive Successful B2B Demand Generation

Entering a new demand gen position in a volatile market is nerve-wracking. 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

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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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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

Multiple industry studies confirm that regardless of industry, revenue, or company size, poor data quality is an epidemic for marketing teams. Download ZoomInfo’s latest data-driven eBook aimed to help marketing leaders understand the best practices around choosing a B2B contact data provider.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. 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. The bad news?

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

64% of successful data-driven marketers say improving data quality is the most challenging obstacle to achieving success. 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.

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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

At ZoomInfo, we’ve found that a rock-solid go-to-market playbook is key. 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.

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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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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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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

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

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

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play.

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

Analysts and professionals alike tend to argue that account based marketing (ABM) is not new. ZoomInfo has created the following eBook to help other B2B organizations gain insights on how to launch their own data-driven ABM strategy. On the surface, this is an accurate statement. So, what does ABM look like in 2022?

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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.