The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There is a lot of folk myth b t out there about the telephone and its value in today’s B2B selling. 31 seconds that make a prospecting call. The post 31 Seconds That Make a Prospecting Call appeared first on TiborShanto.com. By Tibor Shanto. The view that modern selling is different, the phone is a relic. By The Numbers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When your sales agents don’t have to spend hours creating proposals or prospecting, they can do more in less time. The post 5 Ways Sales Automation Will Help Your B2B Company Thrive appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Automating sales and marketing activities lets you focus your human resources elsewhere.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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The Pipeline

MARCH 16, 2021

But if you must prospect to succeed, you will need to focus and practice the fundamentals. Here are 5 prospecting mistakes you can avoid. In the video below I look at five common mistakes makes salespeople make while they are prospecting. The 5 Prospecting Mistakes. Which I understand is easier said than done.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. As mentioned there five common ones you’ll get 80% of the time on a B2B prospecting call.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. Lead Scoring and Intent Analysis: AI ranks leads and identifies intent signals to prioritize the prospects most likely to convert. Take email prospecting, for instance.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Their main pain point that needed to be addressed was prospecting.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

To succeed, B2B leaders must flip the power dynamic back, reclaiming control through smarter strategies driven by data, signals, and their own use of AI. Buyers Demand Relevance and Timing Prospecting thats irrelevant or poorly timed can harm deals more than help them. They make decisions faster than sellers can react.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 25, 2025

Wes from Flower Mound, Texas, has a familiar challenge: how to attract more qualified B2B leads and convert them before they slip away. In B2B lead gen often requires multiple touch points before prospects even see why they need to talk to you. In B2B sales randomness is the enemy of effectiveness.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 24, 2024

Today, a multi-channel approach is essential to engaging prospects effectively. This blog will explore how prospecting has changed and provide best practices for creating successful B2B prospecting sequences. As technology evolves, so do the strategies used by sales professionals to reach potential clients.

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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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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After 18 years in B2B marketing, Ive seen this song and dance before. And lets face it, most B2B marketing teams didnt exactly have a foolproof plan to ensure ROI. If youre not actively working to move those prospects through the pipeline, you might as well not have bothered. Early in my career, events terrified me.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It allows salespeople to approach prospects at the perfect time, with messaging that resonates with their current needs,” ZoomInfo Enterprise Account Manager Will Frattini says. Predictive Insights: Let AI Identify High-Value Prospects AI’s predictive capabilities are perhaps its most exciting feature for sales teams. Sell Smarter.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Reaching the right prospects at the right moment is often the difference between closing a deal and coming in second. Copilot’s insights are fueled by first-party customer and prospect data, ZoomInfo’s unparalleled business data, and the industry’s most extensive collection of buying signals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2023

With prospects now driving their own problem-solving journeys, sellers must design their entire go-to-market strategies around enabling and facilitating the buyer-led process. The post With Buyers’ and Sellers’ Roles Upended, B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment Is Critical appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 22, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Avoid the Invisible Bottlenecks of B2B Sales Success in B2B sales depends on more than just a strong product and a well-trained sales team. Our guest blog offers insights on how to avoid the invisible bottlenecks of B2B sales. What Slows the Sales Process?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

This not only maximizes ROI, but also minimizes wasted time and resources on low-potential prospects. These products and platforms are designed to help you identify, engage, and convert your most valuable prospects, ultimately driving growth and success for your organization.

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MarketJoy

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A good sales strategy is an important part of any B2B business. A sales strategy should have a concrete lead-generation process set up that can drive a consistent flow of interested prospects who can become loyal customers. B2B lead generation services are your solution to creating a solid lead-generation process for your business.

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MarketJoy

MARCH 24, 2025

This is a classic pain point for all B2B companies: how to populate their sales pipeline with leads that are actually qualified and do convert. This is where B2B lead generation services and Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) come into play. What Are B2B Lead Generation Services? Sound familiar?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 14, 2025

Cause like Monday, most like on the prospect side, like everyone’s in like internal operating rhythm meetings. And, you know, I think of a company called Memo who hosts 10 to 15 prospective buyers at each dinner event. Um, you know, being a student of your prospect or customer can actually go like a really long way.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. Streamlining the sales process by providing sales teams with high-quality leads, allowing them to focus on closing deals rather than prospecting. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. ZoomInfo processes over 1.5

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Lead411

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How to Use Predictive Analytics to Improve Your B2B Lead Scoring and Prospecting Stop chasing dead-end leads! Predictive analytics can help you focus on the prospects most likely to convert. Learn how to supercharge your B2B lead scoring and sales strategy today. What Is B2B Lead Scoring?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. Salespeople continually struggle with reaching B2B decision makers. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 29, 2024

The marketing engine is a crucial part of a B2B organization’s branding and pipeline. While CMOs invest heavily into enhancing the customer experience and moving prospects down the funnel, their spending is often scrutinized by other functions, questioning marketing’s contribution to the company’s revenue.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. When B2B buyers need to solve a problem, they start researching online. Let’s break that down.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. You might think you’ve been able to avoid sounding like a telemarketer, but that is exactly what you’re doing, and your prospect knows it. 50 percent of B2B buyers use LinkedIn as a source for making purchase decisions. STOP Cold Calling.

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SalesFuel

JANUARY 16, 2025

Similarly, it takes a cohesive team effort to efficiently move product and service for a B2B sales organization. By integrating PR and marketing activities into B2B sales techniques you can reach a wider audience and enhance your credibility. The article defines public relations with core objectives specific to B2B efforts.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 3, 2020

More than ever to succeed we need to think Human-to-Human is you are in B2B. I’ll be hosting the REAL Prospecting and Sales Masterclass. Grab your seat now, bring a coffee, and get ready for a masterclass on REAL sales and prospecting. By Tibor Shanto. This requires you to rethink your message as much as the delivery.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. In short, ABM treats individual high-value accounts or collections of good-fit prospect accounts as mini-campaigns, surrounding their buying committees and key influencers with targeted, value-driven marketing assets.

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