Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights? What are prospecting insights? It turns out they’re pretty important.

Data 246

Data Prospecting Strategy Cold Calling 246

The Pipeline

JANUARY 4, 2022

Changes As A Competitive Advantage – Omicron Edition. Differentiation is something many companies and sellers seek as a competitive advantage. They also mistakenly focus on differentiation, rather than change as a competitive advantage. Make sales a competitive advantage in the changing environment.

Competition 188

Competition Intent Video Buyer 188

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2024

Virtual prospecting unlocks a world of potential customers eager to connect online, but with so much competition, it poses a question: How do you make your message stand out? Let’s dive into five powerful virtual prospecting strategies to transform your outreach and propel you ahead of the competition.

Prospecting 177

Prospecting Strategy Cold Calling Competition 177

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? During these pandemic times, there are fewer opportunities and more competition going after the same exact business. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

Lead Generation 409

Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. None of us stands out during prospecting. When they get introductions from people their prospects know and trust, they walk straight into meetings with your ideal clients. Not getting the ROI you expected from your lead-gen tactics?

Lead Gen 397

Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

No More Cold Calling

JULY 12, 2024

Sales leaders complain that reps don’t get enough qualified leads, their pipelines are fluff, and it takes them way too long to reach their prospects. A disciplined referral system can help your company scale by increasing deal size, converting prospects to clients, and penetrating prime accounts. Big problem!

Scale 317

Scale Referrals Penetration Sales Qualified Lead 317

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

Closing 409

Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every time we onboard a new client, we have a kickoff event where we lay the foundation of the sales process we teach at Anthony Cole Training Group.Inevitably, at some point during that kickoff event we talk about dealing with the competition, specifically how to differentiate yourself from the competition you will face.

Prospecting 173

Prospecting Face-to-face Competition Training 173

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!

Demand Generation Agencies 115

Demand Generation Agencies Prospecting Strategy Follow-up 115

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Second, we’ve architected our company data to let you identify companies with a level of granularity that significantly eclipses the competition. First, we’ve amassed a treasure trove of emails, phone numbers, and titles. Was this always intentional? Of course not.

Data 246

Data Advertising Advertising Lead Rank 246

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. You might think you’ve been able to avoid sounding like a telemarketer, but that is exactly what you’re doing, and your prospect knows it. To gain access, sales professionals must abide by the new rules of prospecting.”. STOP Cold Calling.

Cold Calling 365

Cold Calling Social Media Telemarketing Referrals 365

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.

Intent Signal 130

Intent Signal Prospecting Intent Decision Maker 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the key promises of generative AI for business is the ability to eliminate time-consuming, manual research and prospecting tasks for frontline go-to-market professionals. This indicates upcoming investments in software development, data science, and marketing — along with competitive intelligence for competing providers.

Prospecting 130

Prospecting Insurance Insurance Scale 130

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Layered on top of these activities are a myriad of sales enablement and social selling tools—all of which are intended to help salespeople with effective prospecting and, in turn, generating qualified sales leads. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess? Shorten the sales process because prospecting time collapses.

Gatekeeper 306

Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qualifying Skills - Caliper looks at a willingness to ask questions in general while OMG looks at the specific information which a salesperson must identify in order to qualify a prospect. Trust - Caliper looks at general skepticism (an outlook on life) while OMG looks specifically at whether the candidate trusts prospects.

Comparison 319

Comparison Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 319

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 19, 2024

From prospecting to closing, today’s mobile, social, big data, and cloud technologies are revamping the sales process in ways that would have been inconceivable a few decades ago.

Sales Technology 267

Sales Technology Competition Industry Sales 267

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

The stats, competitiveness, playbooks, execution, individual contribution to the team effort, and more. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. In fact, I recommend you share the definition with your prospects as a means of creating a clear path forward.

Lead Rank 352

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

SalesFuel

MAY 6, 2024

Developing Human Capital Delivers A Competitive Edge To Your Team The booming AI field will transform work in a number of professions. Not long ago, they may have been reading traditional newspapers and reports to learn the details of prospects’ operations. This is defined as “the skills, knowledge and qualifications of a… workforce.”

Competition 111

Competition Face-to-face Hiring Decision Maker 111

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.

Hiring 130

Hiring Data Prospecting Lead Rank 130

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 18, 2018

priority in your sales prospecting techniques. You’re measuring them on the same old ineffective sales prospecting techniques, like cold calling , cold emailing, and inappropriate social media activities. That kind of prospecting activity doesn’t drive revenue. Give your team the inside scoop (so you ace out your competition).

Referrals 325

Referrals Cold Calling Quota Sales Qualified Lead 325

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.

Sales Qualified Lead 269

Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

I wrote that 15 years ago in my first book, NO MORE COLD CALLING: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust. Poor leadership will cost you $3.5 million per sales manager. Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!”.

Sales Management 390

Sales Management Hiring Quota Cold Calling 390

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

In a world inundated with data and the solutions that promise you the ability to achieve a competitive edge , we’re often left thinking: “How?”. Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. That’d be something. The Basics: What Exactly is ZoomInfo Intent? Oh, very interesting. Pretty cool, right?

Intent Data 246

Intent Data Intent Data Top of Funnel 246

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects. The #1 challenge salespeople face is reaching decision-makers quickly, but getting prospects to call you back is deceptively simple with a referral program. Yes, your most predictable and measurable prospecting tool is your very own sales team, asking for referrals.

Referrals 373

Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373

Zoominfo

APRIL 1, 2020

Intent data predicts purchase intent by analyzing a prospect's behavior across the web. Learn how it can help you beat the competition to a deal. So how do you intercept buyers in the early part of their journey? You use intent data.

Intent Data 267

Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Buyer 267

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

Outwit the competition. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. My first book— No More Cold Calling: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dus t —was published in 2006 by Warner Books. Decrease the cost of sales.

Referrals 385

Referrals Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Inbound 385

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

Nearly every business function can benefit from the insights surfaced during front line conversations with prospects and customers. Chorus is also the technology leader in the category, with seven times more patents than the nearest competition. It’s not just go-to-market teams that benefit from Conversation Intelligence.

Conversion 70

Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. Your competition is probably still fooling around with technology.”. For sellers, this makes access to prospective buyers the first chokepoint. How do you get access to your prime prospects?

Sales Meeting 287

Sales Meeting Meeting Referrals Face-to-face 287

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If you’re part of the 95 percent who rate referrals as their best sales leads but don’t have a referral sales plan, you’re leaving money on the table every day and allowing your competition to outmaneuver you. With a proven, disciplined referral system, your team will: Get meetings with qualified prospects with one call.

Scale 313

Scale Referrals Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 313

The Pipeline

MAY 18, 2021

As a person obsessed with prospecting, I am always on the look out for things that will give me and you a competitive advantage. No surprise, I discovered that our Friend Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling® and who is the founder of the Salesology Prospecting Method , is up to some interesting things. SALESOLOGY.

Hiring 305

Hiring Cold Calling Enterprise Enterprise 305

MTD Sales Training

JUNE 4, 2019

Many salespeople tell us that the way they differentiate themselves from their competition is by adding value to their products, in order for the customer to see why they are charging the price they are. How many times do you ‘hold something back’ so you can surprise the prospect with that little extra to encourage them to buy?

Case Study 255

Case Study How To Discount Decision Maker 255

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

According to CSO Insights’ 2018/2019 “Sales Performance Report,” sales leaders say the “most impactful barriers to achieving sales success this year” include: difficult competitive differentiation (39.4%) and inability to generate enough qualified leads (37.8%). Prospecting is either HOT or cold … period. What Is Cold Calling?

Cold Calling 269

Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

To stay ahead of the competition and thrive, it’s essential to identify and adopt sales techniques that can boost your productivity and results. Automated sales prospecting. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io For instance, AI now customizes emails to prospects and addresses their problems.

Trends 297

Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The whole point of personalization in sales is standing out among the competition. The goal of a personalized sales strategy is to leave the customer with an incredibly positive experience that distinguishes you from your competition. When it comes to prospecting, research will only get you so far. Do Your Research.

Top of Funnel 246

Top of Funnel Segment Intent Data Funnel 246

No More Cold Calling

MAY 17, 2019

A referral introduction means prospects have agreed to talk to salespeople, unlike cold calling victims who never asked to be interrupted. Referred prospects trust salespeople, because they trust the referrer, and that trust gets transferred. The prospect doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. What’s her style?

Referrals 327

Referrals Scale How To Cold Calling 327

No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2023

The problem is, there’s too much competition and not enough competitive differentiation. You ensure they receive referral introductions to their prime prospects—from people those prospects know and trust. The trust the prospect has for the referral source is transferred to the salesperson. You’re different.

B2B 177

B2B Buyer Referrals Sales Qualified Lead 177