DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

As DiscoverOrg’s Manager of Strategic Accounts, I’m always looking for ways to use personal touchpoints to engage prospects via email. Events like these often trigger a purchase, and being the first salesperson in the door wins the deal, 87% of the time. Referencing a relevant event – along with a personal touch – is key.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Data 258

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2018

Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, and it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income. Fact: Most sales professionals are not too keen on prospecting. But great reps suck it up and prospect, prospect, prospect; crushing their numbers as a result. No surprise there. Don’t misunderstand, though.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Channels 198

Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2021

A recent ZoomInfo survey of about 600 sales and marketing professionals found that most sales reps said they relied on in-person events for prospecting before 2020. Last year, however, many stopped using events for prospecting, instead adopting old-fashioned methods like (gasp!) Prospecting in the event-less landscape.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 30, 2021

“In March 2020, live events were canceled overnight. Like everyone else, we had to pivot, and fast.” — Danny Daly, manager, marketing events at ZoomInfo. Since the start of Covid-19, in-person events, conferences, and tradeshows have come to a halt. Lessons learned from virtual events.

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Trade Show Top of Funnel Funnel Conference 264

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? The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. They were smart. How do I know this? How about you?

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Referrals Cold Calling Call-back Sales Qualified Lead 371

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

They bring buyer insights to the sales team that can be easily leveraged in sales campaigns and prospecting. Interview prospects, customers and lost/no decision opportunities. Ask the reps to provide prospects and customers to interview. Know the trigger events – Buyers move from one BPM stage to another after trigger events.

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Buyer Persona Marketing How To Lead Rank 310

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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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Hiring How To 182

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

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. Get Comfortable With Virtual Events. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many businesses to shift their tradeshow and events strategy. Get Your Lead Magnets Out There.

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2018

You rely on the information you get through these channels, but you also know they are fraught with uncertainty. . How can you avoid wasting both your and your prospects’ time and taking the risk of being permanently shut out? . Is the information you’re hearing consistent with what you already know about your prospect?

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Prospecting Decision Maker How To Social Media 185

Sales Hacker

APRIL 13, 2020

The cancellation of industry events from the COVID-19 crisis poses a real problem to salespeople who rely on events-based marketing. In the tech sector alone, the direct losses from the cancellation of just 10 events are more than $1.1 Many companies are canceling events or postponing them until after the crisis is over.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 135

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

The average marketing department spends a LOT of money on trade shows and events – to the tune of 32% ?f Even so, trade-show events are still one of the best ways to get your solution in front of a crowd of likely prospects: 41% of companies consider event marketing to be their top channel for lead generation.

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Trade Show Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 227

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The key area to track in my view is prospecting. When I look at most company’s prospecting numbers a big red light starts flashing in my head with words “bottleneck” written on it. Improving your prospecting numbers is very likely to directly boost your sales. If you want prospecting to improve, you need to measure it.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead How To Referrals 240

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. That’s still true, but cold calling has evolved as sales channels have evolved.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

Kill lead generation channels that don’t convert. Tag-team at events. To maximize results prospects should both 1.) 4: Kill lead channels with low conversion. Because often Marketing KPIs are centered around volume of leads revolve around views and clicks, a channel that delivers a lot of leads is usually a good thing.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. percent of salespeople said that 50 percent or fewer of their initial prospects were a good fit. For more on referral selling, tune into my new sales TV show— Back in the Black on The Sales Experts Channel. Problem solved.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 323

Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

CRM systems wear many hats, including channel management, customer insights, communications, engagement, and more. CRM systems help gain insights by gathering and analyzing behavioral data, which can come from: Customer support tickets Event registrations Meetings attended Product demos received Email open rates Content downloads.

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Trends CRM Top of Funnel Marketing 246

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Subscribe to our YouTube channel. We’ll be pulling a subset of accounts out of this orchestration as an A/B test, so we can tell what impact ABE really has, compared to a traditional outbound prospecting method. So, how are we approaching this account-based everything plan? We’re using a simple framework.

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Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

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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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re asking strangers on social media for referrals, you’re like the guy at a networking event who shoves his card in people’s face and asks for theirs in return. Selling by referral is the most personal prospecting strategy that exists. People only refer people they know and trust. That''s my. Begin a Conversation.

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Referrals Webinar Metrics Social Media Face-to-face 292

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

Webinars are live or prerecorded online events, used to teach attendees about a specific topic or service. This format allows companies to engage with prospects and customers and receive feedback in real-time. To determine the effectiveness of each channel, track the number of registrants each specific promotion brings to your site.

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Promotion 255

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

That is why recognizing trigger events is key to being successful. In this article, we’ll cover what a trigger event is, why they’re important and provide examples you can apply to your own sales strategy. These could be industry changes, a new funding round announcement, a merger, or a prospect getting a new role.

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Social Media Google Hiring How To 105

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This is in spite of the fact that most of it is created for sales and channel enablement purposes. Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. Another important aspect of making your enablement strategy more focused and simple involves streamlining your sales content.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

The more marketing can deliver information that prospective clients actually want and need for making purchase decisions, the better the sales team’s close rate will be — and the better customers’ lifetime values will be. Overcoming pain points: Sales also has data about what went wrong during a sale: the pain points, objections, and stalls.

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring Data 289

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

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Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

The Pipeline

MAY 8, 2018

I do a lot of work with organizations trying to improve their prospecting, and the piece they look to from me is the telephone component of a robust prospecting routine. Prospects use voice-mail the same way we do, to triage and dismiss calls they don’t feel have merit. By Tibor Shanto. Counter-Intuitive. Real Inbound.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

In episode 3 of INSIDE LOOK, key players from the sales and marketing teams – share their strategy and key takeaways following a series of multi-channel, cross-functional plays for our HR dataset. Prospects really respond to that! The event was a dinner and a panel discussion with enterprise execs in HR roles.

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Account Based Marketing Account Video Decision Maker 46

Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2021

Successful Firms Diversified Their Channels. CrewHu started by recreating their best channel, trade shows, virtually. But recognizing virtual events were not enough to sustain growth, they eventually launched their appointment setting program. Firms Found More Successes Than Failures WIth All Their Investments.

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Trade Show Lead Generation Outsourcing Services Sales Qualified Lead 195

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. Prospecting Is Not An Event!

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Prospecting Objections Research Channels 141

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Build a Multi-Channel Traffic Plan to Drive Inbound Candidates. We had a to build a multi-channel candidate attraction plan to drive candidate traffic. That plan included online job boards, social recruiting, job fairs, networking events, referrals, and a great careers website. could get us the volume of candidates we needed.

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Hiring Marketing Top of Funnel Cold Calling 222

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

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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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 197

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The goal is to attract prospects to your brand and convert them to customers — by hosting a webinar. Read on to get the ins and outs of attracting prospects (and converting them into customers) with a step-by-step webinar formula. Dig into your buyer personas to discover what prospects want from you. What Is a Webinar Funnel?

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Funnel Social Media 208

Zoominfo

JULY 16, 2018

Channels used to promote the webinar. What date/time you hold the live event. Product demos: Later-stage prospects want more in-depth information about your product. Focus your efforts on the channels most commonly used by your ideal buyers—for a B2B company LinkedIn or Twitter might make the most sense. Topic selection.

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Lead Rank Webinar Metrics Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 209

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 31, 2017

Outside of your business, the same strong vision inspires confidence in your prospects while providing clear insight for why your business exists, and why they should work with you. A clear vision helps the right prospects to see why they should work with you. Different salespeople have different interpretations of your vision.

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Top of Funnel Oracle Scale Small Business 246

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. That’s still true, but cold calling has evolved as sales channels have evolved.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209