Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 12, 2019

While companies have traditionally considered CRM programs as sales tools , the CRM program and the customer experience today is one and the same. CRM programs go above and beyond marketing and sales. Every industry has different models, thus different CRM programming needs. Beyond Sales and Marketing.

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Lead Rank CRM Lead Scoring Automotive 258

Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems function as the heart of customer engagement. And if CRMs aren’t already a core part of the customer lifecycle, now is the time to switch. It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement. Future Trends in CRM.

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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

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

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. All measurable, all quantifiable and can be improved with skills and the right tools. Productivity.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

This includes your prospects. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Your prospecting numbers may drop too.

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Top of Funnel Pipeline Follow-up Proposal 378

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. To avoid these pitfalls, experts recommend rigorous data hygiene practices such as: Routine enrichment of CRM records for deeper customer insights.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company. Where does this time go?

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. Streamlining the sales process by providing sales teams with high-quality leads, allowing them to focus on closing deals rather than prospecting. The result?

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Sales Qualified Lead Software Software Lead Rank 130

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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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli “A trend gains power over time, because it’s not merely part of a moment, it’s a tool, a connector that will become more valuable as other people commit to engaging in it.". — Seth Godin. Automated sales prospecting. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Sales 2.0

MAY 30, 2023

Once AI is implemented, she says, “The question then becomes, ‘do sales organizations that use technologies like this shift their time to higher value activities, like training, researching prospects and strategy, so that when they do get face-to-face time to sell, they show up prepared and better trained?’” Sign up for the Sales 2.0

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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

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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Sales 2.0

MAY 6, 2020

Prospecting : How well does your prospecting process work? Do you manage the development of proposals as a joint process with your prospect, leading to a high close rate? Do they have time blocks for key activities, like prospecting? Data quality: What’s the data like in your CRM? Do you provide product training?

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Hiring Proposal Sales Qualified Lead System 269

Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2024

Beyond improving data accuracy and fueling better decision-making, removing bad data from your CRM also increases trust among your sales reps. As a team, they want to know they can trust the data given to them by their CRM to score the sale. It frees up bandwidth and creates a solid foundation for the next phases of growth.

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CRM Data 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

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The sales function is uniquely well-suited to be transformed by AI tools. CRM data is typically underused, but now it’s possible to integrate CRM data with other internal data sources and even unstructured data for analysis. Using AI and CRM can also cut costs by up to 60 percent. And some are now under development.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2021

Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success. The best way to approach is to take your cues from your prospects, buyers and clients. So, as you talk to your prospects and clients, don’t forget referrals. Catch Up With Your Inbox. Try Something New.

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Harvest Referrals Call-back Video 360

Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. 30-50% of CRM and ERP data is inaccurate,” says Henry Schuck, Founder, and CEO of ZoomInfo. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools.

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Nutshell

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A good marketing technology (martech) stack has many important components, but one of the most valuable may be your customer relationship management (CRM) platform. CRMs offer a central location for storing customer data, enabling you to personalize how you nurture leads based on their information and where they are in the customer journey.

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Paid Content CRM Ideal Customer Profile Campaigns 113

Nutshell

MAY 11, 2023

To succeed, you need the tools to help you increase efficiency and stay on top of your leads so you can close more deals. One of your best options for managing your client relationships is customer relationship management software, called a CRM. A full-featured CRM for real estate is essential.

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Real Estate CRM Ideal Customer Profile How To 135

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

To serve your customers without dropping the ball, you need a tool to help you track and manage all of your relationships. What you need is customer relationship management (CRM) software. If you think a CRM is an expensive tool only for large businesses, think again.

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Small Business Small Business Software Software 122

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. However, Optimizing your chat tool to maximize your team’s efficiency and generate leads requires finding the balance between automated and human touchpoints in your chat platform’s programming.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 246

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

It could be a target prospect account you’re already researching, or a current client you’d like to expand. Define parameters for sales prospecting. Of those, you’ve chosen Biologics as a target prospect because you have engineering expertise there. What is global account-based sales development? Who owns the global campaign?

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Account Campaigns Engineering Harvest 289

Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2024

Before solving their biggest CRM cleansing challenges, go-to-market teams need to define the rules of engagement for their data. The idea is to keep a living, breathing CRM that’s constantly being updated with customized rule-based workflows — a CRM that’s always “on.”

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Ideal Customer Profile CRM Strategy Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. These tools are now essential for companies looking to maintain a competitive edge in a demanding market. Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2023

With hundreds of AI sales tools in the market, picking the right ones for your tech stack can be confusing and daunting. To help you out, we’ve handpicked the top 10 AI tools for sales teams. We’ve also listed the top use cases of AI sales tools, along with a few best practices to help you get the most out of them.

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Tools Lead Rank Sales Goal Lead Scoring 119

Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2024

For most companies, the first step in building that advanced data foundation is to cleanse the trove of business data already on hand in their customer relationship management (CRM) system. The CRM Hygiene Series This blog is part of a comprehensive series of guides that dive deeper into each of the five steps in the CRM data hygiene process.

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CRM Data Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services. Integration: Tools that integrate smoothly with existing Salesforce workflows, minimizing disruption.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

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. It’s been my opinion for years that CRM was built backwards.

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Scale Top of Funnel Territories Sales 221

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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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2023

Since December 2022, interest in the search term “AI tools” has skyrocketed by 292% in the U.S. Now Google, HubSpot , and Microsoft are racing to develop their own versions of AI chat tools to compete with ChatGPT. Identify who your target prospect is and ask ChatGPT what's most important to them. Mendes says.

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Tools Sales Tools Scale Lead Rank 122

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2020

So, pick up the damn phone and have conversations with your clients and prospects—not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. In fact, they didn’t even need to talk to prospects, because they had great tech tools. But the most powerful tool in your sales toolbox is still you!

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Conversion Face-to-face Social Media Referrals 305

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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Hiring Data Prospecting Lead Scoring 130

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When it comes to sales, there's a lot of innovation happening — and therefore, a litany of new tools. But only one type of tool is considered "effective" by 78% of global sales professionals. What's this magic tool? It's a CRM (or Customer Relationship Management Platform). It's not that new or hard to access.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It ultimately comes down to an updated CRM database that manages accurate customer data. Before you even think about picking up that phone to contact a prospect, you should already know a good deal about them. When it comes to prospecting, research will only get you so far. How to Personalize Your Sales Strategy.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know about AI email assistants, from what they are to when to use one and all the tools we love. When to Use an AI Email Assistant AI Email Assistant Tools What is an AI email assistant? An AI email assistant is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help you manage emails.

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Tools Scale Hubspot Ideal Customer Profile 122