Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 22, 2019

Whether it’s nervousness, fear, inexperience, or just the conviction that if they stop talking the prospect will say “Not interested” and hang up, it doesn’t matter. They talk over their prospects. They talk after they ask a question (and don’t even let their prospect answer). And then they talk some more….

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

There are still some things that differentiate a B2B (business-to-business) transaction from B2C (business to consumer). B2C has been much more adopted and understood – we are learning more about B2B and know at least this: Buyers need a level of trust before buying. Finally, start measuring this information (see tools above).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

If only you could clone the best customers produced from your account-based marketing campaigns… Well, you basically can, using a well-known and effective trick in the B2C toolbox that B2B types should be eager to adopt: lookalike audience targeting. Along with targeted ads , B2C marketers utilize Facebook for lookalike modeling.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 19, 2014

Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people these executives know and trust, your prospects (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. Read “ Forget B2C or B2B—Focus on H2H Instead.”). Think again.

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Appbuddy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

That’s why some B2B email marketers are searching for inspiration in unlikely places: their B2C counterparts. To maximize your email performance during Q4 and beyond, consider these lessons from B2C brands: 1. You’d be hard-pressed to find a leading B2C brand sending plain text emails. Forget B2B or B2C. Tokenization ?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2019

A majority of modern businesses fall into one of two categories: B2C (business-to-consumer) or B2B (business-to-business). The terms B2B and B2C are so ingrained in our vernacular that only seasoned vets will recall a time when such terms weren’t the status quo. For decades, such denominations have ruled the business world.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How good are you at requalify existing accounts, or prospects you haven’t spoken with in a while? And that means that just because a prospect or client was in charge of a certain function last month or 6 months ago, it doesn’t mean they are in charge of it today. And why would you even want to do this? How about timeline? And so on….

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 13, 2023

85% of salespeople using AI/automation agree it makes their prospecting efforts more effective. As prospecting is an extremely critical step in the sales process , adopting AI to help with your processes is worth considering. Read on to learn more about using AI for sales prospecting and specific use cases for generative AI.

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Prospecting Lead Scoring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 130

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 23, 2019

The answer is simple: Prospects now have more ways of identifying sales reps they don’t want to speak with, and now have more ways of evading them. It’s the same for your prospects. While it seems counter intuitive, I’d rather know up front if I’m wasting my time or if this is a real prospect. What do you do? That’s right.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Decision Maker Call-back 147

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. Their main pain point that needed to be addressed was prospecting. Maybe there’s a product out there that can automate most of the work you spend half your day working on.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 3, 2021

B2B vs B2C CRMs — let’s break it down. Because I had found success with the CRM I was using, I decided to use the same software I had built the landing page with as a CRM for my sales efforts since it collected all the basic prospect information I sought. Can you use the same CRM software for B2C and B2B purposes?

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B2C CRM B2B Ideal Customer Profile 82

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? They are a component of campaigns where individual readers (who could be possible prospects) are sent crafted messages after they set off a configured trigger. ZoomInfo offers a powerful tool for this messaging: Engage.

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Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

In comparison, 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing ( source ). 45% of content marketers say they have the right tools to manage content marketing efforts, but aren’t using them to their potential ( source ). B2B marketers are more likely (64%) to use social media to gain thought leadership than B2C marketers (54%) ( source ).

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 31, 2020

If a prospect is looking to move forward “as soon as possible,” for example, it means that budget is in place. In addition, what is also important about timeline is that if the prospect you’re speaking to isn’t in the market at this moment, it means you can relax behind your pitch. Everybody is onboard. Is there urgency or not?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

You've spent hours prospecting : researching, making warm calls , reaching out via email and on social media. If you have prospects who are dragging their feet or slowing a deal down, you might be working with a tire kicker. So, how can separate these tire kickers from well-qualified prospects? Sound familiar?

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Prospecting Strategy Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 138

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. Their main pain point that needed to be addressed was prospecting. Maybe there’s a product out there that can automate most of the work you spend half your day working on.

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Salesmate

APRIL 7, 2020

I am listing down some of the coolest and useful SaaS tools that will come in handy during the work-from-home regime. The other half of the battle will be won with proper planning and with SaaS tools that will help businesses with their productivity in this work-from-home regime. Accounting tools. Analysis and reporting tools.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2020

Once your company spends money to find a prospect, the clock starts ticking. Far too many companies experience sales lead asset losses because their sales and marketing people do not follow up and contact prospects. In B2C and B2B, the best salespeople understand that faster is better and slower is also-ran. Why It Matters.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 177

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. While B2C brands have embraced VR/AR on a large scale, B2B marketers have been slower to adopt this new technology. Unlike their B2C counterparts, B2B marketers often fail to appeal to buyer emotions.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2022

We’ll also dive into a few guided selling examples, cover some software tools that can help, and finish off with guided selling best practices to get this most from this approach. Looking for guided selling software tools to make your life easier? How Does Guided Selling Work? Guided Selling Examples. Here are three examples.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Company hierarchy data is more than just a family tree that offers context about your customers and prospects. For example, are many of your customers and prospects subsidiaries of larger parent companies? Identify new prospects. If you’re like most reps, sales prospecting can be one of the most annoying parts of your job.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you're in sales, you know that finding prospects isn't easy. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the top social selling trends to reach more prospects and close more deals — all at your fingertips. Using DMs (Direct Messages) to answer questions and engage prospects. The same can be true online.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

February 14 is typically a holiday for B2C marketers -- not salespeople. But that’s to your advantage: A Valentine’s Day-themed email will stand out in your prospects’ work inboxes, make them curious, and ultimately, earn you the opens and replies you’re looking for. Prospecting emails. Prospect], you’re probably wondering why.

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 22, 2019

They get the prospect on the phone, go through a PowerPoint slide presentation, drone on and on for a half hour or more, rarely checking in their prospect—and if they do, it’s a weak, “does that make sense?”–and In an earlier blog , I introduced the term, “Spray and Pray” as way to describe how many sales rep’s presentations go.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

B2B Buyers vs. B2C Buyers Who Are Your B2B Buyers? B2B Buyers vs. B2C Buyers While B2C buyers tend to make smaller, transactional purchases to meet their immediate needs, B2B buyers are often making significant investments that demand complex decision-making processes. Also, they overwhelmingly prefer to do independent research.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Given the complex nature of the modern buyer’s journey, it should come as no surprise that the typical B2B sales cycle is longer than the typical B2C sales cycle. While social media doesn’t replace traditional sales tactics, online networking sites have proven to be a valuable tool for modern sales professionals. Let’s get into it!

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 22, 2019

If not, then you’ll spend your time between calls researching, reading blog posts, looking at websites, taking lunch, and then not calling enough prospects to make a difference. If you’d like to learn even more strategies or get the tools and skills you need to get better selling over the phone, then see our new online training program.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Just use the coupon code: “Black” during checkout and you’ll be on your way to prospecting better, overcoming objections easier, and making more money than anyone in your office. . How’s that for a Black Friday sale? Order Now . Note: This sale begins now through Sunday, December 1st, Midnight. . Upcoming Schedule.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

What’s the number one blow off/stall prospects use these days? And unfortunately, chasing down busy professionals—especially people who don’t want to be followed up with—will make reaching these prospects very frustrating… The solution? And then when a prospect blows you off with, “Can you email that to me?”

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Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 1, 2019

You and your team will explode their confidence and crush their revenue goals as they learn to: Eliminate call reluctance Glide past gatekeepers Prospect more effectively Qualify prospects more easily Deliver killer presentations that lead to more closed sales Overcome objections And much, much more! Upcoming Schedule.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

A first-touch attribution model assigns all credit to the first touchpoint that leads a prospect to an eventual conversion. Example: A prospect sees a paid Facebook advertisement for a recent blog post about essential tools for modern sales reps. They click the ad and ultimately read the blog post.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I was listening to a client’s closing call last week, and when the prospect asked a buying question, the rep answered it and then just remained quiet. What should she have done? What would you have done? Upcoming Schedule. The post Buying Questions? Here’s What to Do appeared first on Mr.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I first began selling, nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about sales prospecting. Picking up the phone to call leads that didn’t know who I was, to pitch them on why they should hand over their hard-earned money in exchange for my product, was enough to make my stomach turn in my early days of sales prospecting.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Prospecting 131

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sometimes, prospects will give me their personal email address, after a good phone call, because it will get lost if I email their business account!”. For example, we sell to sales and marketing, so the fiscal calendar year drives decisions for our prospects. For our prospects, an example might be ‘summer slump.’ Seasonality.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Join Our Next Training: If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then this live, interactive online B2B & B2C inside sales training is exactly what they need to get excited & confident about selling again! Upcoming Schedule. The post Happy Holidays! appeared first on Mr.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 24, 2020

We know, according to ZoomInfo data, as of the end of March, most small businesses still lacked critical tools to enable team collaboration and web conferencing in remote working conditions. Its purpose is to help customers identify prospects interested in specific subject matter and topics related to a customer’s value propositions.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 21, 2019

What do you say when you get this objection while prospecting ? Let’s face it: This blow off is just a variation that prospects have been using for years. All you have to do is have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. And you know how frustrating that is. It used to be: “Can you send me something in the mail?”

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