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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

They allow you to kick off your marketing or your sales motions across the relevant channels you’re going to use to capture demand for your products or services,”​ says Millie Beetham , ZoomInfo’s senior director of GTM strategy & ZoomInfo Labs. “Think about signals as triggers.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With social media, you can prospect at your fingertips — and sidestep the awkwardness of a traditional cold call. Of course, you can't afford to spend hours on social media each day, so which channels are worth your time? The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the best social media channels for prospecting.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This blog post will break down the key insights and actionable advice shared by Wes, focusing on his five proven steps to making every sale. Direct Mail: Send personalized mail to capture the attention of prospects. The goal is to make prospects aware of your existence and offerings.

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Video Strategy Top of Funnel Direct Mail 116

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. We know prospecting is important, but we don’t do it on a regular basis.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In a prospect’s path to become a customer, they often engage in a number of digital touchpoints—social media posts, paid advertisements, email promotions, blog posts, webinars, and eBooks to name a few. As marketers continue to rely on a wider variety of channels, attribution becomes that much more important. Let’s get into it!

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Online reviews and company websites are the two primary platforms for research, but other channels such as social media can provide valuable information, too. Because marketers live on the very channels the customers are engaging with, clever marketers harness these channels to reach potential and loyal customers.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Customers do their research, ask questions, and even address customer service issues on social channels. B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. B2B social selling is the process where salespeople use social media to connect with prospects. What is B2B Social Selling?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you’ve worked in sales for any length of time, you know your success is dependent on the quality of your prospect lists. Instead, modern sales professionals find success by creating and reaching out to hyper-targeted lists made up of only the most qualified prospects. Let’s get into it! Step One: Understand Your Offering.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. A lead is defined as any prospect who indicates interest in a company’s product or service. What is a Lead?

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2021

They recognized that asking clients for referrals was the way to gain access to prime prospects. Or are you taking a new, fresh, and measurable approach to prospecting? Get over your sales slump with referral selling insights in my 2021 blog posts: The Phrase of the Year Is Seller Access. They were smart. How do I know this?

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A 2024 HubSpot Blog Survey of 422 B2B professionals in the U.S. While the pandemic normalized remote work, I still find in-person meetings at conferences and tradeshows crucial to building real relationships with your prospects and gaining their trust. The largest age group (38%) of B2B buyers is 35-44.

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Zoominfo

JULY 4, 2018

62% of employees at large companies say social selling enables them to build stronger, more authentic relationships with customers and prospects. Today’s blog post breaks down some of these social selling mistakes and provides alternatives for sales reps who want to improve their social selling efforts. Keep reading!

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Anne Miller

OCTOBER 23, 2020

What can you do to get a rapid response from prospects? Check out LinkedIn and your internal company contacts to see who might know your prospect and request to be introduced to that person. Relate that to specific changes in your prospect’s industry and, then, why it is worth having a conversation with you. Get a Referral.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

95% of our prospecting is just wasted time, so just stop it! “Dave, I’d like to tell you about our products……” And you know that multi-channel is important, so you have automated tools to help you reach out to 100’s of unsuspecting people on LinkedIn. But they approach prospecting differently.

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 145

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Every day, I spend at least 15-20 minutes cleaning my inbox, mobile, and InMail from prospecting messages. Mind you, these are not spam, but legitimate prospecting messages from people trying to catch my attention. Prospecting has always been a challenge, but these days, it is even more challenging. How Do You Want To Be Sold?

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 16, 2025

This blog post will break down the key themes discussed in the episode, offering actionable advice and thorough explanations to help organizations enhance their sales hiring processes and overall team effectiveness. This includes adopting a more skeptical approach during interviews, akin to how salespeople qualify prospects.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

Kill lead generation channels that don’t convert. Is someone who has read one of your blogs a “qualified lead”? How about if they read 10 blogs? What if they read one blog and attended a webinar? What about one blog, one webinar, and one ebook download? To maximize results prospects should both 1.)

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Zoominfo

JUNE 13, 2018

Social media has completely transformed the way people interact with each other—including the way sales professionals interact with customers and prospects. Sellers who’ve embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels. Keep reading! Click to Tweet! Click to Tweet! Click to Tweet!

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Your digital content marketing strategy encompasses everything from producing high-quality lead magnets such as e-books, whitepapers, blogs, and optimized landing pages. To be actionable, your content must make tactical use of calls to action, offers, promotions, demos, and free trials that move prospects along the buyer’s journey.

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2019

In an ideal world, marketing automation can help you engage with your prospects and customers efficiently and effectively. If timed and executed effectively, content can push your prospects through your sales funnel until they become a customer. Ask them the kinds of content they use most often during their interactions with prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Activities like prospect outreach, cultivating brand awareness, and online relationship building are all enhanced by social media — so having a solid presence on these platforms can really help your case. Social selling isn‘t about bombarding prospects with generic sales pitches; it’s about building relationships. Let's take a look!

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Social Selling Social Media Media Networking 108

Nutshell

AUGUST 20, 2024

Prospecting is an essential part of the sales process, but if you want to strike gold, you need to have a well-thought-out strategy in place. In this guide to sales prospecting, you’ll get everything you need to know. Table of Contents What is sales prospecting? Table of Contents What is sales prospecting?

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2018

So, in today’s blog post, we break down the basics for you. Records of consent received from prospects. The first step is to understand which third-party channels you use are impacted by the GDPR. Create a list of all channels capturing leads or prospect data on behalf of your company outside your owned media.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2018

Today’s blog post will tell you everything you need to know. Here’s how it works: A user creates content featuring your company or products and shares that content on their personal channels, review websites, and social media platforms. So, how can marketers deliver the content buyers crave? We say, embrace user-generated content.

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Social Media Survey Media Channels 221

Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

This format allows companies to engage with prospects and customers and receive feedback in real-time. Today’s blog post looks at some of the most important webinar metrics used to measure webinar success. Most businesses promote their webinars across several different marketing channels, from social media to email to paid search ads.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You are already doing Market Segmentation, which is a great start, but how do you rank accounts within your segments to find the best opportunities? Arriving at a list of target accounts is a multi-step process based on ideal fit,

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Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. The goal is to target the right prospects, as well as bring them along the buyer’s journey. Demand generation is programmatic.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers. This goes for everything from tactical approaches to business development research to the underlying characteristics that make said prospects qualified enough to engage in the first place. What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Gatekeeper Died: Why That’s a Good Thing” is the topic for my new, monthly, live Sales TV Show on the Sales Experts Channel. So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. Actually, it’s more like Talk Radio, but on video. Always free.

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Zoominfo

MAY 2, 2018

For the purpose of this blog post, we’re defining a lead as any person who has expressed interest in your company, product, or service. It’s not enough to generate an interest in your company, lead generation hinges on getting prospects to take action and indicate their interest. Which channels are producing the best leads?

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Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 203

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Focus your efforts on the appropriate channels. Focus your time and budget on the channels that will best help you meet your goals. There’s nothing worse than following a company across multiple social media platforms only to see the same exact message posted at the same exact time, on each and every channel, every single day.

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Social Media Lead Generation Media Lead Scoring 214

Vengreso

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you’re feeling frustrated by the lack of engagement and response from your prospecting efforts, then you are not alone! In this episode, you will be able to: Boost Email Engagement: Learn how to skyrocket your email engagement rates and stand out in your prospects’ inboxes.

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Tools Social Media Channels Sales Methodology 71

Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. As with other companies of their size, Philips found that traditional marketing channels were no longer an effective way to market to their B2B audience. The solution?

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This blog post delves into the key themes discussed during the interview, offering actionable advice and detailed explanations to help sales and marketing professionals leverage gifting and direct mail effectively. online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP!

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

I’ve found that cold calling is an excellent way to engage prospects one-on-one and move them to the next step in the buying process. Cold calling is most effective when paired with strategies such as prospecting and sales qualification. Cold Call Script Examples **The prospect's phone rings** Prospect: Hello?

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