The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In the past I, have highlighted how many sellers are limiting if not sabotaging their opportunities while telephone prospecting. This would work great if a large segment of the market had needs they were willing to act on, but the reality is that most potential prospects do not. So now we are down to message.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. Prospects are entirely different than buyers.

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Buyer Prospecting Travel Call-back 272

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The sales and marketing go-to-market frameworks weve relied on for decades staples like the funnel, the flywheel, and the buyers journey are fast becoming obsolete or are out the door already. Buyers Demand Relevance and Timing Prospecting thats irrelevant or poorly timed can harm deals more than help them. Sell Smarter.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The challenge with prospecting is that it takes place between two human beings, and as with anything human, subjectivity instantly and permanently plagues it. A typical problem many had faced when they sought stats to validate their preconceptions, rather than acting on what the stats highlight. By Tibor Shanto.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? In fact, over 20% of marketers in a HubSpot survey say that personalization improves their engagement.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Reaching the right prospects at the right moment is often the difference between closing a deal and coming in second. Improved Forecasting : AI-powered algorithms analyze historical data and market trends to deliver more accurate sales forecasts, enabling better strategic planning.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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Zoominfo

MAY 19, 2020

There is a lot to unpack here, but let me start by making clear that if all cold emails were illegal, we wouldn’t be driving successful email marketing campaigns for thousands of companies worldwide. It is clear from this definition that if you are doing your job as an email marketer, you should NEVER be sending spam. The CAN-SPAM Act.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Much like the ponies, timing in prospecting is a mug’s game. I remember watching a group of investors who seemed comfortable discussing their view of prospecting success. Couple that with the obsession on quarterly results leads to the short-sightedness of many sales organizations’ approaches to prospecting and pipeline management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 265

Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

There’s no denying it — sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. The two departments may see eye-to-eye and share unified goals, but it’s less common for sales to proactively help marketing perform better, or vice versa. But in today’s digital world, the line between sales and marketing is increasingly blurred.

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing Case Study 241

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Author: Carmen Simon People act on what they remember, not what they forget. So, if you want to persuade your buyers to act in your favor, you need your content to stick in their minds?—?you Thankfully, there’s a framework backed by brain science for getting people to act on the 10% you want them to remember.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement. Read on to discover the latest CRM trends for sales and marketers to use in 2021—and beyond. Share the same goals and tools between sales and marketing teams. Future Trends in CRM.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

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MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. You’re better off getting your advertisement in front of 100 people in a single row of that stadium—as long as they’re good-fit prospects.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting? Let’s start at the beginning.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Balancing Act. Just as a deadpan delivery will not engage or excite a buyer, competing with Bill Burr in front of prospects, will cost you sales. If they don’t connect with you on that level, even the best product will not entice them to act. As with anything moderation and timing is key. Sugar Coating. The Sales Scrum Podcast.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectible.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

What we call something will determine how we look at it, act, and react as a result. According to WiKiDiff: “As nouns the difference between disruption and interruption is that disruption is an interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something while interruption is the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.”

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Cold Calling Buyer Persona Decision Maker ACT 344

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 15, 2020

While making sales is, of course, the cornerstone of our profession, making purchases during this time is far from a priority – or even a possibility – for many of our prospects. Acting with thoughtfulness and a relaxed expectation of when the sale needs to be closed will mitigate the risk of you turning prospects off to your business.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. In many mid-market organizations, sales teams find themselves in a balancing act.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

In B2B marketing, context is king. Without the right context, marketers risk burning time, budget, and internal goodwill on campaigns that just dont drive results. Understanding Intent Data: From Noise to Opportunity Intent data is a familiar concept to marketers, but it has evolved significantly in the past several years.

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Intent Intent Data Intent Signal Account Based Marketing 130

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2019

All sales and marketing tools make big promises—more leads, more engagement, higher click-through rate, better sales—but none more so than marketing automation. For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices.

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Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing 197

Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. Aggressive, generic offers were just as fruitless, especially when the prospect hadn’t already confirmed their interest in what I was offering. (In

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. But with hundreds of sales intelligence tools on the market, which ones are right for your teams? With D&B Hoovers, customers can use its data for more efficient prospecting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. Marketers can expand their reach by buying leads from some content publishers or advertising on some third-party sites, but budget and accessibility to third-party sites can limit reach. But they’re not asking for help from your sales team.

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Intent Data Intent Data Lead Rank 313

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

At most companies, the sales process is a balancing act that doesn’t always work so well. It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess? The dreaded gatekeeper.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. Smart sellers are similar, value for their prospects, employers and themselves is developed over time.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 9, 2018

So when what one says is in direct contrast to their action, how they execute, it is a concern, but also an explanation as to why despite all the advice available, many in sales are stuck in a rut, sustained only by a healthy market. Change is a big opportunity but a more significant barrier to acting. Seeing Not Digging.

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Sales Qualified Lead ACT Hiring Lead Rank 279

Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2024

Revenue operations (RevOps) professionals are an increasingly important voice on go-to-market teams, with analysts predicting 75% of the highest-growth companies will soon employ a RevOps strategy. And one of the clearest ways to deliver that value is through evaluation of a company’s go-to-market technology stack. .”

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What is referral marketing?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2019

How to do that continues to be a real challenge, especially with the nervous markets. Others questioned the need for the exercise, saying more prospects relieves the tension. Their marketing group has already laid that out for them, who needs the client’s input. Improved profiling and targeting were standard.

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