Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2C selling has dominated social media for the last 10+ years. B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. In today’s post we’re diving into what social selling is, why it’s important to B2B sellers, and how to use it in your sales strategies.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 29, 2025

In a recent episode of the expert insight interview series, John Golden delves into the transformative world of geofencing advertising with marketing professionals Barbara Wardell and Ernest Kulhari. Barbara and Ernest agree, noting that the messaging in advertisements must align with the actual customer experience in-store.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If one of your goals in 2021 is to grow your online sales, you’re not alone. Use the hard data to come up with a buyer persona that informs your marketing strategy going forward. Turn Your Website into an Interactive Selling Solution. Content marketing generates more than 3x the leads as advertising and costs 62% less.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 21, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are hungry for high quality B2B leads. B2B Marketers have tested many forms of social advertising. Marketing leaders must challenge past assumptions of how to leverage social advertising opportunities. These ads show up on the top or right hand column on LinkedIn’s website.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

There are two parts to the sales process: Part One: Getting meetings with decision makers. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two. The biggest challenge for sales teams is seller access , according to Gartner’s recent report, The Chief Sales Officer’s Leadership Vision for 2021.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It can make it hard to predict what B2B marketing and sales will look like when we enter the post-COVID-19 era. . Research by Influencer Marketing Hub indicates 69% of brands expect to spend less on marketing and advertising in 2020, through the COVID-19 phase and the weeks and months immediately afterward. That makes sense.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 25, 2019

Author: Brad Soper, Andree Radloff and Mark-Daniel Rentschler What will sales divisions look like in the future? There are five developments that companies should pay attention to if they want to be competitive: Traditional sales forces will be cut in half. Sales will become too complex to stay a one-man show.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2017

In this month’s guest post, Tim Hughes discusses social media offenses and how account-based selling teams can avoid them. Account-based sales reps know better than to treat people that way in real life, so why treat people that way on social media? Here’s his take: Social Selling Is About Relationships, Not Broadcasting.

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SMEI

JANUARY 24, 2023

Are you a marketer looking for a quick and dirty way to boost sales? If so, then shame marketing may be right up your alley. Shame marketing is a cynical form of advertising that involves exploiting the insecurities of young people in order to sell them products. It’s an effective technique, but it comes at a cost.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 30, 2014

But tomorrow will not be a happy day for many businesses, sales people and sales organizations. But the reality is that those Nigerian princes will still be hitting your inbox, of course given that it is 2014 most now end up directly in the junk box. Sales Success sell better Tibor Shanto'

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Car buyers 30 years ago might have shown up at the dealership wanting a truck, a sedan, or something as vague as a “good family car,” and the salesperson’s job was to help steer them in the right direction based on their needs. That process has changed dramatically. A 2024 HubSpot Blog Survey of 422 B2B professionals in the U.S.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

As a Sales & Marketing Leader, you are responsible for driving lead generation. In 2013, leveraging social selling & prospecting has become mission critical. Your business development teams are using LinkedIn and you’ve equipped them with the best social selling tools. You can’t make this one up.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 7, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan N ot too long ago, before the advent of Social Selling, if a salesperson needed to add new opportunities to the pipeline there were basically two options: Make Cold Calls; or. But because a small percentage of them turn out to be really good ones, all of them must be followed up.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No need to go to the gutter right away, there is a lot to be said for words in sales before we have to go blue. As long as companies fill their sales people’s heads with more “Product Knowledge” than business skills, the challenge will persist. By Tibor Shanto.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Haley Johnson, an account executive at Fox21, has only been selling media for a little over a year, and in that time she has closed around $300,000 in sales with the help of AdMall. For her latest sale, she leaned heavily on AdMalls AudienceSCAN data when she approached a local construction company.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A media kit is a promotional tool that contains useful information about your product or service, website, current partners, advertising, or marketing opportunities. As a result, it paves the way for more sales. A good way to step up your game in terms of credibility is to have testimonials. How to sell your media kit.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Regardless of how they acquire it, potential buyers step onto the sales floor (in-person or virtually) armed with information about their options; to remain effective, salespeople will need to adapt to the methods of the modern buyer. More than ever before, the new reality of sales must rely on marketing to a higher extent.

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SalesFuel

JANUARY 29, 2025

Bradley Prier, of OnMedia , had only been selling media for five months when he approached a local agricultural manufacturer, looking for a way to help them with their advertising. "[The They prefer their advertising to be hyper-focused, but have been trying to do that with mostly traditional media." They were sold.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”. That’s frustrating. The availability of data is truly democratizing growth. It’s about being growthbound.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 23, 2025

Challenge: Creating a home remodeler SEM campaign with a client new to online advertising Tristan Gomes, an advertising solutions representative for the Better Business Bureau , had only been on the job as a sales rep for three months when he turned to AdMalls research to help craft a home remodeler SEM campaign.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Even the most driven sales teams require the right resources to effectively target prospects, nurture relationships, and close deals. Theres certainly no shortage of sales tools available to help your team master every step in the modern sales process. These represent the key software platforms for your sales team to evaluate.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

It’s no overstatement to suggest that a unique selling proposition (USP) is the very soul of any marketing strategy. The notion dates back to the 1940s when advertisers started to explore the ways in which their marketing propositions influenced customers to buy from one company over another. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Author: Jeff Kalter When it comes to building a winning B2B sales strategy, forget about business as usual. Whether you’re managing inside or field sales, gut instinct needs to take a back seat to data-driven insights. Maybe they all found you in a similar way – social media, a trade show or sales outreach, for example.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Author: Staff "It will sell itself.". Unfortunately, almost nothing sells itself , no matter how great that product or service may be. From the very beginning – before the product is even developed – startups as well as mature organizations rolling out new product lines need to ask the question, “How will we sell this?”

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 8, 2019

In honor of International Women’s Day, how can your sales team attract more female rainmakers? There’s always been bias against women in sales, and anyone with different color skin, ethnicity, or beliefs than decision-makers and hiring managers. Whatever the reason for the change, the rallying cry is to attract women in sales.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One of the areas of complex sales that I have seen soak up tons of time from entrepreneurs and senior salespeople over my years is writing proposals. And sad to say, not all these beautiful proposal documents ended up closing big deals. I’ve seen final sales proposals for big deals that did not have as good a structure.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 30, 2020

I recounted that story in my recent presentation—“ Sales Experts Channel: How to Recession Proof Your Sales in 9 Killer Steps ”—because it perfectly illustrates a key business insight. Plus, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

Unclear sales goals are costly. These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

There are a lot of blurred lines in business and sales, leading to blurred conversations, and longer sales cycles. Sales organizations do ok with BUYERS, but are struggling to engage prospects. Unless the person is a self-declared buyer, sales organizations struggle to engage and sell. By Tibor Shanto.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 1, 2018

What pain points keep CMOs up at night? Whether you sell into the Marketing Department or you are marketer, check out our predictions for marketing spend in 2018, based on trends from year-over-year survey results. Difficulty tracking digital marketing/advertising efforts. Anticipated spend #1: Digital advertising.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Hosted by marketing strategist, New York Times best-selling publicist and influencer Julie Solomon, Julie and guests join in the conversation to share how they engage, persuade and grow their unique influence, and how their work impacts the influencer industry. Sell more and grow faster? Listen here. 4. Search Talk Live.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Old Sales Funnels Are Drying Up. A SalesHacker survey of a variety of sales professionals highlights the depth of the issue. B2B Sales Operations Are Changing for Good. This proactive mentality is essential going forward.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These “gatekeeper” tactics are insincere, duplicitous, unprofessional, offensive, and a waste of sales time. Dump the Script We’ve all had to make calls from a script at some point in our sales career. How can you stay fresh and upbeat leaving voicemail messages all day long and hoping a live person will actually pick up?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I’m a long-time fan of video tools for selling. I spent years touting the sight, sound, motion, and emotion of television advertising in a local, traditional media environment. Specifically, I was selling to advertisers the viewers of programs adjacent to these television commercials. Increased conversion rates.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 24, 2025

He notes that successful e-commerce businesses often have a dedicated community that nurtures relationships and drives sales. Implement Feedback Mechanisms: Use pop-up windows on the thank-you page or follow-up emails to gather this feedback. This hands-on approach can lead to significant sales increases.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s easy to give up after a few tries. You run ads, bring in leads, and then follow up. But if the person doesn’t seem interested, many sales and marketers turn their attention toward existing customers. Here are seven tricks you can use to follow up with leads and, eventually, turn them into customers.

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