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.

Consultative Selling 254

Consultative Selling Prospecting Cold Calling Face-to-face 254

A Sales Guy

MARCH 30, 2021

In celebration of over 50,000 copies of Gap Selling sold, I wanted to take a moment and highlight other books that influenced my perception or help expand on concepts within Gap Selling. It’s a book on execution. How is that a book on execution has become my favorite sales book? So what makes execution a sales book?

Sales 166

Sales Intent Promotion Campaigns 166

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.

Conversion 246

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.

Small Business 260

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?

Meeting 207

Meeting Cold Calling Inbound Outbound 207

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.

Email Marketing 248

Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 248

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 11, 2019

So order the margarita, stroll down to the beach, and grab a book for a little beach reading. We assume you have an old copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People in your bookcase, and certainly Dale Carnegie’s book is a must-read for anyone in customer-facing roles. What will it be? it’s not beach reading, and b.)

Hiring 210

Hiring Outbound Top of Funnel Cold Calling 210

The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Ask salespeople what their number one issue is and you’ll probably hear, “getting good prospects.” So what does it take to successfully prospect? Have a dedicated time on your calendar to prospect. The most successful salespeople are those who commit their time to prospect and stick to it. Qualify quickly.

Prospecting 210

Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Social Media Lead Rank 210

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.

Email Marketing 265

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.

Top of Funnel 218

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!

Top of Funnel 409

Top of Funnel Positioning Scale Inbound 409

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Ryan Gould In the context of content marketing, a product-agnostic approach is one that focuses on your expertise and knowledge around a product, technology or service rather than your brand. The product-agnostic approach to content marketing has been around for a long time. 4 Examples of Product-Agnostic Content. Whitepapers.

Top of Funnel 237

Top of Funnel B2B Webinar Metrics Marketing 237

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.

Lead Rank 257

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.

Top of Funnel 255

Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

3-4 weeks go by while you’re still learning your product and your market never mind filling your sales pipeline. For tips on ramping up your sales knowledge as fast as you can grab Jill Konrath’s new book, Agile Selling. I’m reading 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall. It’s not our job to adapt the product to the market.

Scale 373

Scale Hiring Collateral Social Selling 373

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and But where to begin?

Marketing 226

Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

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. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

Examples 208

Examples B2B Marketing Inbound 208

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

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.

Ideal Customer Profile 166

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline 166

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.

Conversion 305

Conversion Face-to-face Social Media Referrals 305

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. But a lot of marketing, sales, and recruiting professionals don’t know how much data has changed over the past few years! Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts!

Ideal Customer Profile 189

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

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.

Enterprise 416

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.

Lead Rank 276

Lead Rank Inbound Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 276

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Integration : Most lead capture tools seamlessly integrate with CRM systems and other marketing automation platforms, creating a cohesive ecosystem for lead management.

Lead Capture 130

Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

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?

Account 289

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

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’ve been given the task of setting up your company’s sales and marketing database, you’re probably not overly excited … especially if it’s something you’ve got to build from scratch. How do you find prospects quickly? But setting up a sales and marketing database from scratch is not as difficult as you may think.

Top of Funnel 200

Top of Funnel Marketing How To Inbound 200

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

Outsourcing Services 78

Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Call-back Networking 78

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?

Gatekeeper 306

Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, having a 360-degree view of customers and prospects is key. Industry classification remains a foundational component to achieving ABM (account-based marketing) success. 323117 Books Printing. 424920 Book, Periodical, & Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers. 445210 Meat Markets.

Transportation 204

Transportation Chemicals Automotive Marketing 204

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

His most recent book is "Follow Up and Close the Sale.". Jeff Shore is the founder and president of Shore Consulting, Inc. , a company specializing in field-tested and proven consumer psychology-based sales training programs. Jeff hosts the sales podcast, The Buyer’s Mind.

Follow-up 207

Follow-up Prospecting Motivation Training 207

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s one thing if you’re sending a personal email to a prospect or customer — but if you’re sending mass emails, you’re not going to get very far if 90% of your messages get blocked before they ever reach their intended recipient. There are so many spam trigger words, someone could write a nice thick book about them. Days of the week.

Account Based Marketing 264

Account Based Marketing Campaigns Email Marketing Advertising 264

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. With fewer leads in the pipeline, booked meetings are even more difficult to attain, with 68% of respondents experiencing a decrease. The impact of these changes is highlighted in the marketing segment. in the next year.

Small Business 317

Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

While our sales teams at WhiteHat Security have always been distributed, communicating with customers and prospects exclusively over the phone or video is a new challenge. When presenting to a client over the phone, the prospect may not be fully focused, and there’s not a foolproof way of knowing. Shifting Messaging .

Face-to-face 302

Face-to-face Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 302

Smooth Sale

MAY 25, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Improving Your Business Prospects One Step At A Time. Our collaborative blog provides insights for ‘Improving your business’ prospects one step at a time.’. Specifically, looking at how you can hope plus take action for improving your business’ prospects one step at a time. _.

Prospecting 139

Prospecting Hiring Licensing Research 139

Smooth Sale

JANUARY 26, 2022

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Our collaborative Blog offers insights upon asking, ‘ Do You Want Key Tips for Better Business Marketing This Year? You have much to think about when you are trying to focus on making the right choices and being able to improve your company marketing this year. Find Your Marketing Niche.

Trade Show 147

Trade Show Hiring Social Media Marketing 147

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2020

It’s also a great excuse for sales follow-up—a reason to connect with clients and prospects, to stay in touch with referral sources, and to deepen relationships with your overall business network. Digital isn’t a sales strategy, hope is not a strategy, referrals are not a strategy, marketing is not a strategy.

Follow-up 344

Follow-up Referrals Up-Sell Cold Calling 344