Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? How did you find those prospects?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. None of us stands out during prospecting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Also, data from channels such as chat, social media, phone, web and more must come together into a single view of the customer. Automated sales prospecting. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io Social selling. Social selling, unlike social media marketing, is a one-to-one methodology.

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

No More Cold Calling

MAY 28, 2020

I wrote that book because I was horrified when reps started telling me they didn’t need to talk to prospects and clients anymore. Conversations have become less frequent, email spam has skyrocketed, and social media is the new breeding ground for sales pitches. That’s not how social selling works.

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Referrals Cold Calling Social Media Social Selling 391

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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Education Buyer Buyer Persona Social Media 330

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2C selling has dominated social media for the last 10+ years. 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. What is B2B Social Selling?

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Social Selling B2B Social Media Top of Funnel 263

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Even if you use social selling techniques that get you a referral or help you connect to a potential buyer using your mutual background, it is still likely to take some follow up before you confirm a meeting time (or virtual meeting time these days). Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies.

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Direct Mail Outbound Referrals Social Selling 370

Sales 2.0

JULY 28, 2020

We asked respondents how the sales process itself has been transformed by this experience, particularly with regard to sales channels. We asked our respondents which sales channel , prior to the crisis, had been their most effective. We asked our respondents which sales channel , prior to the crisis, had been their most effective.

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Zoominfo

JULY 4, 2018

Social selling has quickly become one of the most popular and effective selling tactics. As social media platforms grew in popularity, businesses began to recognize how essential social media is to the sales process. Social sellers generate 38% more new opportunities than traditional sellers. Keep reading!

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

You don’t have to be a part of an eCommerce organization to build an effective lead capture system on your digital channels. It serves as a validator for offering up contact information and a promotional space for other content, such as relevant articles, newsletters, and social media channels.

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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. Social selling is one of the hottest trends in the business world, yet many sales professionals remain skeptical of its effectiveness. Keep reading! Click to Tweet!

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SocialSellinator

AUGUST 24, 2022

A social media marketing funnel is an essential process that you can use to optimize your marketing efforts. It allows you to trace the stages your leads go through as they transition from being unfamiliar with your brand to becoming a prospect and eventually converting into a devoted customer. Engagement.

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Paid Content Social Media Top of Funnel Funnel 122

Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

CRM systems wear many hats, including channel management, customer insights, communications, engagement, and more. With these insights, you get a full 360 view of current, prospecting, and available customers. Integrate self-servicing into existing channels. Embrace social CRMs with your social media channels.

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Trends CRM Top of Funnel Marketing 246

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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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Author: Warren Fowler Sales teams and marketers focus on digital communication so much that they seem to forget the power of offline promotion channels. But what is it that makes this marketing channel so great? Set the goals of your social media marketing campaign. Direct mail is a genuine conversion driver.

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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. Now, you don’t have to call cold prospects to bug them.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2018

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. Social media platforms are particularly popular channels for UGC, as they allow users to share quick content to large audiences.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Sales has always gotten a bad rap, but it’s gotten much worse as sales channels have evolved. Now they have a wide-open platform on social media and email. Until something changes, salespeople will continue to cold call , harass strangers on social media, and (in the process) erode trust in our profession.

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Referrals System Cold Calling Social Media 289

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

In fact, 91% of marketers named engagement metrics, such as social media interactions, time on site, and bounce rate, as the number one way to measure success ( source ). Social media followers. Many marketers rely too heavily on their social media followers to measure their social media success—and we get it!

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Social media is the future of consumer shopping , so it’s no surprise that 59% of social sellers say they’ve made more sales through social media this year compared to last. More yet, 87% of social sellers say social selling has been effective for their business this year.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

They may even extend to your social media and email strategy. 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. Additionally, your lead magnets should be promoted on your company’s social media channels.

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Regardless of the way you reach out—via email, social media, text, direct mail, or even a knock on the door—prospects are cold as ice unless they know who you are and expect to hear from you.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients. Also, the CPM or cost per impression of digital campaigns coupled with stringent global compliance laws and email regulations has made targeted marketing solutions an irresistible avenue to reach prospects. Utilize Intent Data. This is a no-brainer.

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Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

This format allows companies to engage with prospects and customers and receive feedback in real-time. Most businesses promote their webinars across several different marketing channels, from social media to email to paid search ads. Conversely, your social media channels generate a higher percentage of registrants.

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Promotion 255

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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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Paid Content 225

Smooth Sale

JANUARY 29, 2024

Nowadays, it can be easier to market on social media than via email, and we may think that social media has a far better reach. Meanwhile, social media focuses on the top of the funnel, building brand awareness and starting relationships with people.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services. 22% of B2B businesses reach out to prospects with lead nurturing on a weekly basis ( source ). By spending as little as six hours per week, 66% of marketers see lead generation benefits with social media ( source ). That won’t change.

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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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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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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

Zoominfo

MAY 2, 2018

Think of it this way, someone who visits your website downloads your content, or engages with you on social media is more likely to do business with your company than someone picked at random. It’s not enough to generate an interest in your company, lead generation hinges on getting prospects to take action and indicate their interest.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 203

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.

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Lead Rank B2B Top of Funnel Marketing 236

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It must be an active strategy where the size is based on the amount of time, money, and resources that can be invested for marketing to prospects. By doing this, Tina not only reduces the scope of her marketing effort, she is also able to reach her prospects more effectively. Drug dealers don't pay for marketing.

Small Business 260

Small Business Small Business Marketing Social Media 260

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Invest in multi-channel customer service. Today’s customers interact with brands through a variety of channels, and they expect high-quality service on each one. In order to maintain consistent customer service and avoid errors, brands must invest in a comprehensive, multi-channel customer service strategy.

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Loyalty Customer Incentives Incentive 206

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. Now, you don’t have to call cold prospects to bug them.

Sales Qualified Lead 209

Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209