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. Its about knowing exactly who you want to talk to and pre-booking those meetings. Early in my career, events terrified me.

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B2B Marketing Strategy Lead Rank 130

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. The second book I’m covering is No Forms. As you can probably guess from the title of the book, Latané is very much in the “no gating” camp.

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Intent Data Marketing Qualified Lead 195

The Pipeline

MAY 16, 2019

Prospecting is never easy, but there are steps you can take to lighten the load. One thing that has made prospecting a bit easy-er for me is eliminating the worry of sourcing leads. It was a habit I picked up on one of my first sales jobs, where we used old book version to prospect. How to “Always be ready” to prospect.

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Prospecting Webinar Metrics Segment Up-Sell 46

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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Prospecting Case Study Industry Study 105

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I must admit to being a bit partial to the sales approaches laid out in Jamie Shanks’s book SPEAR Selling. Many of my thoughts on how to sell to major accounts show up on the pages of this book. Here’s a quick run through on a couple of the major elements of the book. Account Selection. Competitive Intelligence.

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Referrals Account Demographics Competition 195

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2019

He told me that he was reaching and having brief conversations with some prospects but those conversations went nowhere. He said he was trying to be consultative, to elicit details and to drill down on prospect objections. But no matter what he said or did, he would hear, “I’m not interested,” and a click as the prospect hung up.

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Consultative Selling Prospecting Cold Calling Face-to-face 254

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Conversion Marketing Lead Capture Face-to-face 246

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Author: Andrew Frazier You need to market your small business like a drug dealer. It does until you take a closer look at their marketing and sales strategy. Small business owners can learn a lot from analyzing what drug dealers do in terms of defining their target market, performing marketing activities, and building relationships.

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Small Business Small Business Marketing Social Media 260

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Using email to book new meetings sounds awesome. After I moved all of the legitimate and very illegitimate emails into trash, I identified 26 emails – all from yesterday – that were cold solicitations from BDRs, account managers, customer service reps, marketing reps, and even CEOs. What will you do?

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Meeting Cold Calling Inbound Outbound 201

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 248

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

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. That question kicks off the new book “Pivot to the Future” by three thought leaders from the consulting giant Accenture.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Back then, new digital marketing companies were telling everyone that salespeople would be replaced by inbound marketing. And the very same companies who were claiming that their SaaS marketing platforms would replace salespeople actually required salespeople - lots of them - to sell their applications. meetings booked per week!

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Top of Funnel Positioning Scale Inbound 408

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

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

Smooth Sale

APRIL 2, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Know Your Prospects Well for Sales and Business Growth Many approaches and specific strategies exist for most endeavors, including attempting to sell. Our blog offers insights on how to ‘Know your prospects well for sales and business growth.’

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Prospecting Hiring Lead Rank Decision Maker 78

Anne Miller

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

You present your service to a qualified prospect. Bogdan helps service businesses sell more in less time with “done-for-you storytelling” webinar presentations that your prospects access online. His is a unique, impressive, and very much needed service that covers the many steps required for building a successful marketing funnel.

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Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Funnel Benefit 133

SMEI

MARCH 10, 2022

Learn To Create A Marketing Strategy That Gets Your Products And Services In Front Of Motivated Buyer With This 13 Step Guide. A marketing strategy is a plan of action that will help you achieve your business goals. A great marketing plan will give you a sustainable competitive advantage. Determine Your Marketing Objectives.

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Paid Content Strategy Marketing Buyer Persona 194

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For frontline go-to-market (GTM) professionals, the struggle is real: Too much administrative work, too little selling time, and too many missed opportunities. We surveyed over 11,000 revenue professionals to uncover exactly how GTM teams use ZoomInfo to expand markets, accelerate sales cycles, and drive revenue. The results?

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Report Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Customer 130

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Put people before technology in your prospecting. Digital isn’t a sales strategy, hope is not a strategy, referrals are not a strategy, marketing is not a strategy. An executive reads the latest book and declares the precepts in the book are the company’s new strategy. Sales strategy isn’t yours or mine. Register anyway.

Webinar Metrics 339

Webinar Metrics Strategy Cold Calling Customer 339

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2024

When your solution can literally change the trajectory of an entire business, seeing is most definitely believing — if you can seize that chance and actually book a demo. Early Mornings Weakest for Demos While not terribly surprising, we found strong confirmation that demos are typically not how prospects want to start their days.

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Software Software Scale Cancellation 130

Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Its critical to realize that we are each unique individuals, prospects included, with varying thinking and abilities.

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Prospecting Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 78

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Lead-to-account matching and routing solutions connect new leads with existing account records in your go-to-market data systems, automatically directing them to the right salesperson saving time, reducing errors, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of your sales efforts. Key Features Qualifies, routes, and books meetings from web forms.

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Account Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Account Based Marketing 130

Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Three months into my new role as a sales development representative (SDR), I hit a milestone: 10 booked sales meetings in a single month. Ive been in sales development for over a year and a half, working at companies that ranged from AI-powered revenue tools to go-to-market strategy firms. Make 15 cold calls instead of Call prospects.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Cold Calling Case Study 62

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2020

You’re the ultimate sales technology—and this is the ultimate sales conversations book. So, pick up the damn phone and have conversations with your clients and prospects—not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. I wrote my second book— Pick Up the Damn Phone!: The phone works.

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Conversion Face-to-face Social Media Referrals 305

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Direct Mail: Send personalized mail to capture the attention of prospects. The goal is to make prospects aware of your existence and offerings. Wes stresses the importance of standing out in a crowded market by being creative and authentic in your approach. This inconsistency undermines trust and authenticity.

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Video Strategy Top of Funnel Direct Mail 116

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services. With ZoomInfo, exporting enriched data into Salesforce is quick and easy.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I read the majority of the reports, studies, white papers, and books related to sales development because others in the field might stumble onto a trend, an insight or a statistic of which I was not aware. That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey. The next finding explains the previous finding.

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Data Hiring Compensation Quota 220

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2025

Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. In this blog post, Ill break down what gap selling is, why its the secret sauce for successful sales, and how you can use it to connect with prospects on a deeper level. Know your prospects intrinsic motivation. Youre left wondering where it all went wrong.

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Examples Strategy Hubspot How To 113

Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2020

Take a look at Stu Heinecke’s books on this. He is cartoonist and sends cartoons to his prospects but our mutual friend Dan Waldschmidt sends swords! Going retro and sending people old-fashioned “boring” letters without any marketing glitz has worked well. Who gets these anymore? People notice them and they are so human.

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Enterprise Enterprise Social Media Referrals 416

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 13, 2018

Align sales and marketing to boost lead quality. Aligning Sales and Marketing is extremely important for inbound sales , since 100% of the leads my team works are passed over from marketing. Try one: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. It’s a bad day when half of the demos we book are 3+ days out.

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Lead Rank Inbound Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 276

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

As described in my new book, Whale Hunting with Global Accounts , global account-based sales development (ABSD) requires a smart, comprehensive development plan. It could be a target prospect account you’re already researching, or a current client you’d like to expand. Define parameters for sales prospecting. View a video?

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Account Campaigns Engineering Harvest 289

Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories.

Hubspot 195

Hubspot Conversion Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 195

Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

Along the way I read every sales book I could find and then over time became friendly with many of the authors. Getting in the door and getting in front of a human in your target market is a huge problem for most startups and small businesses. Let’s do some averaging that means across that data it takes an average of 11.3

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Call-back Networking 78

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A few weeks back, I was delivering a Fanatical Prospecting Bootcamp to a group of sales reps - all in their twenties. They had been assigned to me because their boss was tired of listening to their excuses about why they werent consistently picking up the phone and prospecting. What do you think has changed since I wrote the book?

Cold Calling 90

Cold Calling Call-back Outbound Decision Maker 90

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. These dutiful gatekeepers are not only used to salespeople trying to get past them; they know every trick in the book. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess?

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

MarketJoy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In today’s competitive B2B landscape, the divide between sales and marketing teams drains revenue potential. Research shows that companies lose more than 10% of their annual revenue due to misaligned sales and marketing efforts, yet this challenge persists industry-wide. Creating a Unified Revenue Engine The solution?

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Closing Marketing Qualified Lead 52