Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels. Integration : Most lead capture tools seamlessly integrate with CRM systems and other marketing automation platforms, creating a cohesive ecosystem for lead management.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

As sales forces have been sent home and told their clients won’t meet them with them in-person, they have had to use new digital tools just to keep doing their job. Prospecting. There are some great digital listening tools out there. What clues can you find about what the prospect’s company is doing about these changes?

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Commission LinkedIn Webinar Metrics Up-Sell 511

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? Who do you think knows when your prospect is going to buy? The answer, of course, is your prospect! The problem for many sales reps, is that they prefer to pitch and talk at prospects more than they actually ask questions and listen. Or who they like to buy from?

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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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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. Lead mining is becoming increasingly commonplace among companies seeking to expand into new markets and territories, as well as those hoping to increase profitability. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Intent Signal Prospecting Intent Decision Maker 130

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? Of all the B2B lead generation tools at your disposal, referral selling is the most effective and least expensive.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Despite YoY plummeting win rates, based on my feeds, the biggest challenge facing sellers is not winning, but seems to be prospecting, engaging customers in conversations, hopefully finding and qualifying new opportunities. ” AI and other tools enable us to ramp up the volume of outreach endlessly. Why is this?

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Prospecting Face-to-face Conversion Opportunity 139

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving. In short, ABM treats individual high-value accounts or collections of good-fit prospect accounts as mini-campaigns, surrounding their buying committees and key influencers with targeted, value-driven marketing assets.

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Account Based Marketing Account Software Software 130

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

By optimizing messaging, collateral and communication through effective sales enablement, sellers can better communicate the differentiating value of your new solution, showcase marketplace positioning and properly advise prospects. To help alleviate this overload, companies can leverage a sales enablement platform.

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Campaigns Sales Enablement Education Collateral 326

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. If you’re looking to assemble a new sales operations tech stack — or simply want to upgrade your existing tools — this comprehensive guide to the key categories can help. What Are Sales Operations Tools?

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Sales Operations Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. For every action a prospect takes, they create a trail of intent data across the internet.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AI tools are reshaping the way salespeople tackle their day-to-day work, automating many of the core business development tasks that have eaten away at the average sellers’ day. Predictive Insights: Let AI Identify High-Value Prospects AI’s predictive capabilities are perhaps its most exciting feature for sales teams.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 11, 2021

And when your ears are closed, you learn nothing about your prospect’s buying motives, their possible objections, or whether or not they are buying into your pitch. Ask questions frequently of your prospect. A good script—and script playbook—changes companies and careers. Learn to use current, non-salesy tie downs. Rewrite it.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You can take that even one step further by involving the prospect in handling their own objection. This is The One: Pipeline = Ability X Execution X Leadership: The Complete Prospecting System. Long-term measurable success in telephone prospecting requires a dynamic process, skill set, and active leadership from the front-line manager.

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Objections Forecasting Webinar Metrics Pipeline 276

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These are useful tools, but we’re long past the era where companies can rely solely on them to drive business. When others are not being innovative with the video phenomenon occurring in communications, it’s your chance to stand out by sending personalized video emails to your prospects. Video is an incredibly powerful format.

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Quota Channels Decision Maker Cold Calling 296

Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Managers tell reps to stress the quality, the warranty, the features and benefits, but your prospects have heard all that before, haven’t they? Often times, services and products are roughly the same, and prospects will buy from the people they like, know or trust. Want a better way? But there isn’t.

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Objections Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 285

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If you only attend one webinar this month – This is The One: Pipeline = Ability X Execution X Leadership: The Complete Prospecting System. Learn how some companies are able to align skills, efficiency, and discipline leveraging a metrics-driven process for consistent prospecting and pipeline results.

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Forecasting Webinar Metrics Pipeline System 307

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

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? Sales reps spend a lot of time looking for content to share with prospects, or sorting through leads that don’t necessarily meet the mark.

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Funnel 301

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Today’s most effective go-to-market teams are increasingly embracing signal-based selling , a strategy that leverages real-time data and unique insights about promising prospects to gain a crucial edge in intensely competitive markets. Most go-to-market teams understandably focus on new funding rounds as a signal when prospecting.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 6, 2020

As you continually work on fine-tuning your sales organization, how can you best ensure that every prospect interaction contributes to a cohesive customer narrative that, ultimately, maximizes your sales? Through our work helping leading companies grow their revenue year after.

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Data Maximizer How To Revenue 386

Steven Rosen

APRIL 18, 2022

Do your sales managers have the tools and processes to systematically identify top sales performers from those who are pretenders? Success in attracting, selecting, and hiring top performers depends more on a company’s process than the manager’s ability to hire. Assesses prospecting potential and closing style.

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Hiring Lead Rank Retention Face-to-face 367

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2020

With a focus on getting ahead of competitors, reps are assigned target prospects without overlapping each other. Greater adaptability: One of the main reasons territory maps are built is to maximize company visibility to sales prospects. What is Sales Territory Mapping? Sales Territory Mapping Software and Solutions.

Territories 264

Territories Outside Sales Field Sales Segment 264

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. All of us perform our best when we are accountable and have the tools to succeed. Create company metrics. Yep, most of us are lazy and lack discipline. Sound familiar?

Referrals 328

Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In fact, new research from the Sandler Center shows that while most companies still focus on cold calling and emailing, referrals are far more effective at generating qualified leads. It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects. Read “ Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof) ”).

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Companies are betting on quantity. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. What tech tools will help me generate hot leads and land new clients? Yes, you are the very best tool in your sales toolkit. , a phone message, or a video.

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Referrals Decision Maker Cold Calling Social Media 316

Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Collective[i] provides the most comprehensive solution on the market for companies seeking to optimize revenue using AI, connections, and collaboration. Heidi has seen the same thing and thinks that AI tools will help by taking data entry off salespeople’s plates. This interview is with Heidi Messer Co-Founder of Collective[i].

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Face-to-face CRM Forecasting Cold Calling 312

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Many companies survived and others thrived during the pandemic, but they forgot to enable their sellers to build relationships via video. Sadly, it hasn’t happened in most companies. Without it, your prospects figure you’re not interested, and they tune out. Managing tools is not the same as managing relationships.

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Video Cold Calling Exercises Conference 289

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause. Let's see what they had to say!

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Demand Generation Agencies Prospecting Strategy Follow-up 115

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2023

To follow up on the blog post from two weeks ago (about the one quick fix to get your VMs returned ), here is the second quick fix: Stop trying to trick your prospect! So do your prospects. Your prospects can see through you and your message will be deleted quickly. I ALWAYS delete these messages the moment I hear them.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 254

Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2023

“Best in Breed” vs “all in one” The sales tool market will likely follow the same pattern that has played out in the marketing tech market. The key problem with the “best of breed” approach is integrating all the tools, so they communicate to each other. However, it’s the non-tech companies that may have the biggest opportunity here.

Scale 221

Scale Top of Funnel Territories Sales 221

Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

Instead of manually targeting prospects, lookalike modeling automatically produces ideal prospects based on the collective traits of converting customers. A lookalike audience is a kind of ideal representation of your best prospects and ideal customers. What is a Lookalike Audience? Facebook Lookalike Audiences.

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B2C Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 264

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 22, 2021

We all know the importance of asking questions of our prospects and clients, yet how many do you ask? And: Your prospects have all the answers about whether they’ll buy from you or not, and what you need to say to sell them. Here’s a list to get you started: For prospects: #1: “What motivated you to reach out to us today?”. [If

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