The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. Landing pages serve as a litmus test to digital marketing campaign success — you get to see who is interested in your content and how many. What is the Landing Page’s Importance in Digital Marketing? They both need this engagement!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Author: Sean Gordon The rollercoaster of the past year has forced companies to drastically alter their operations, all with their employees, customers and prospects in mind. So, how will we see video continue to evolve in 2021, and how can marketing and sales teams best use it to their advantage?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. Prospects are entirely different than buyers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Sean Crowley, Dun & Bradstreet VP of Portfolio Marketing, explains Rev.Up ABX, a RevTech platform that culls the most important customer data to help companies better understand prospects.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important?

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

We launched Workflows to activate market insights, buyer intent, and website activity. But there are only a few milestones in ZoomInfo’s history that have had a game-changing impact on our trajectory and transformed how businesses everywhere go to market. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Guidelines for cold outreach may vary by company and department, but every organization must follow SEC regulations. Although B2C companies get almost all attention for unwanted cold outreach, for B2B companies, the following is what the SEC lays out: Times of Day. Be upfront and transparent with your prospects.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients.

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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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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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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? But consider this: HubSpot Research found that 72% of companies with less than 50 new opps per month didn’t achieve their revenue goals, compared to 15% with 51 to 100 new opps and just 4% for companies with 101 to 200 new opps.”. What are prospecting insights?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

ZoomInfo and Insent combine to deliver intelligent chat experiences enriched by deep company and professional insights. We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. Most of these systems also come with the promise of automating mundane, repetitive tasks that make go-to-market teams more productive.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. People want personalization — in fact, in a recent survey, 97% of professionals said it was important to them that vendor websites have relevant content that spoke directly to their company. And How Can They Help Marketers?

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Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2020

So why is it that so many companies shop for new customers as if they are combing every inch of the grocery store – hoping things will magically jump off the shelf and into their carts? Total addressable market (TAM) is the total available opportunity for your product or services. What is Total Addressable Market?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Data quality is important to every company. Yet for the last two decades, efforts to automate sales and marketing motions at B2B companies have stalled, often because of bad data. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems, marketing automation platforms, and data warehouses are critical tools for go-to-market teams.

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Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

In 12 years, half the companies on the S&P 500 may fall off that list, according to industry research. Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. Company transformation. Market expansion.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The same thing has happened with email prospecting. Since then, marketers and BDRs have been sending dreadful emails to drum up interest and I believe it has been an utter failure. Not with just my name, but it included information about my company, where I attended college and more. Here's what it said:

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. You’re better off getting your advertisement in front of 100 people in a single row of that stadium—as long as they’re good-fit prospects.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? How do most companies ramp up their B2B lead generation strategies? Yet, most companies miss the mark on referrals and instead make these common sales prospecting mistakes.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As the person responsible for Innovation at ZoomInfo, a core part of my job is understanding markets where we do not currently offer a solution — but might want to in the future. My research landed me squarely on Bizo, a company that once aspired marketers to “precisely target business people by specific business demographic criteria.”

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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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.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your prospects sure don’t! Oh ya, the marketing team that “developed” the “value prop” does. What really counts in the real world (you know where sales are made), is the prospects’ and clients’ perception and definition of value. Prospecting consists of regaling anyone who’ll listen with that value prop. By Tibor Shanto.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. By leveraging the power of data and advanced analytics, marketers are able to develop targeted lists of accounts that perfectly align with their ideal customer profiles. This not only maximizes ROI, but also minimizes wasted time and resources on low-potential prospects.

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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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve witnessed sellers become their best, most efficient selves and seen marketers fully realize their TAM and identify messaging that really drives leads. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals. Real-time signals are the secret sauce.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The audience for a new product launch is not just prospective customers, but media, analysts, potential investors, partners, employees and the talent you hope will want to come work for you later. Here are the elements that matter most when it comes to a public launch for a startup or smaller software company.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sales processes have room for improvement in nearly all companies. Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. Sales process efficiency. as this channel has become saturated.

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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 2.0

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re taking a new job in sales or marketing, read this book first. I love the “bullseye framework” developed by Louis Gudema and explained in his book Bullseye Marketing —just out this week in its second (updated) edition. But so many marketers and salespeople don’t do this and do not do it in the right order.

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