The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Each year I do a survey asking salespeople for their input for the coming year. Would you kindly take just a few brief moments to complete the survey? I will take the 2012 Sales Survey. Thank you again for taking the survey !

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Motivation Hiring Survey Ideal Customer Profile 168

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Unfortunately, many businesses are working with an outdated or surface-level view of their customers. But, we have a simple fix—surveys! Whether you realize it or not, marketers can use surveys to reach important business goals. How Can Surveys Help A B2B Business? Ready to learn more? Let’s get started! What is your age?

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Survey B2B Webinar Metrics Buyer Persona 100

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Personalization allows you to make stronger bonds with customers, create more targeted and useful content, and ultimately boost sales. When you address a customer by their name, you make them feel good, and thus more likely to buy your product or service. Then, use their responses to tailor the customer experience.

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B2B Marketing Segment Scale 246

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Customers do their research, ask questions, and even address customer service issues on social channels. B2B social selling is the process where salespeople use social media to connect with prospects. B2B social selling helps you establish your expertise so you don’t need to demonstrate it whenever you meet new prospects.

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Social Selling B2B Social Media Top of Funnel 263

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

The organizations that have adopted early have seen 3 main benefits: They’re engaging with customers and prospects earlier in their buying process. A customer survey was launched and aggregated. Each of his 80 sales reps ‘listened’ to their customers through LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Tools Sales Tools Collateral Vendor 300

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Have you taken our quick sales survey yet?! customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. FREE Resources.

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Motivation Training Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 275

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

customer. “Of The Indian’s assumption is that good customer service requires an unqualified yes. That kind of connection requires that salespeople stand in the shoes of their foreign prospects. asks the U.S. Of course,” answers the Indian systems integrator. How to do this? Nothing is written down. Remember the group.

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Closing Face-to-face Workbooks Conference 198

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2019

The sales funnel represents the theoretical customer’s journey to making a purchase. Marketers structure their entire strategy around moving prospects through the funnel, towards the ultimate goal of winning a new customer. Prospects enter the funnel at the top, and exit at the bottom as paying customers.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 228

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Bob shared his perspective on how inside sales strategies have grown in popularity as companies strive to improve customer service and boost sales as efficiently as possible. My guest today is Bob Perkins, Founder of AA-ISP and Vice President of Inside Sales at Merrill Datasite.

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Inside Sales Skype Face-to-face Field Sales 240

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Forensic Prospecting—I wish I could claim inventing this term, but the words popped out of the mouth of a client as we were discussing prospecting approaches. There’s an untapped gold mine of prospects that sales people overlook or take for granted. This is where Forensic Prospecting comes in.

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Prospecting Call-back Retention Analysis 92

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Prospecting. Are they encouraging the customer to share inside information about their needs? Or, are the questions nothing more than statements you’re asking the customer to confirm. customer service. prospecting.

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Selling Skills Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Facebook 186

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2018

List segmentation is exactly what it sounds like – the process of breaking up a marketing list into several smaller, more targeted lists, utilizing key customer data points. Through list segmentation, marketers are able to deliver the most relevant content to prospects and customers.

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Marketing Scale Segment Channels 194

The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. And don’t forget to cast your opinion in our quick and easy annual sales survey. customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING.

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Negotiation Motivation Strategy Ideal Customer Profile 200

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

According to HubSpot research, 93% of consumers will be repeat buyers at companies with excellent customer service. With stakes that high, it is perhaps ironic that the early steps of building customer loyalty start with the figurative eyes and ears of a company. Build Loyalty. Company Transformation.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? The Benefits of Sales Prospecting Tools.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 128

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet the people who actually might be interested in buying your product or service also play a big role in your target market. Although each prospect is unique, your target audience will have some traits in common, based on industry, location, company size, etc. 5 Steps to the Customer Profiling Process.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel 162

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Haven’t taken our quick sales survey yet?! customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. FREE Resources.

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Motivation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation 183

Zoominfo

AUGUST 29, 2018

Social listening is the process of listening to conversations between customers and prospects on social media platforms in order to gain insights about your brand and industry. One of the easiest methods to gauge customer sentiment is to survey or poll your customers. Rather, use them to fill in the gaps.

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Analysis B2B Airlines Marketing 176

Bernadette McClelland

MARCH 11, 2018

We are missing something… ‘Experiences’ aren’t just game-changing for an existing customer. What about the prospect who has never dealt with us, experienced us or had any reason to be loyal toward us? It can’t just be up to the girls in customer service. What about the buyer?

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Lead Rank Loyalty Lead Scoring Face-to-face 294

Hubspot Sales

MAY 10, 2018

In fact, a 2018 HubSpot survey showed 77% of respondents research brands before they engage with them. In a similar survey, 90% of respondents said they were more likely to purchase more if a company provided excellent customer service. To do this, it’s important to understand how much customer service affects your quota.

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Churn Hubspot Top of Funnel Customer Service 111

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2018

Regardless of how much a company might try to step away from email in favor of project-based communication or real-time customer service platforms, email continues to be the most reliable option given its widespread use. Emails give prospects enough space to be straightforward, which can be a surprisingly big deal in the modern world.

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Decision Maker How To Cold Calling Transportation 180

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It's hard to overstate the importance of B2B prospecting in the context of most B2B sales processes. But what is B2B prospecting? What is B2B prospecting? B2B Prospecting Methods. What is B2B prospecting? B2B prospecting is one of the earlier stages in most B2B sales processes.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Prospecting Gatekeeper 111

LeadFuze

OCTOBER 1, 2021

What Does Prospecting Mean? Sales prospecting techniques are important matters in sales but before we dive directly into them, let’s get to know what prospecting means first. Historically, prospecting refers to the hunt for resources such as gold. 25 Prospecting Techniques In Sales . Likewise, for prospecting.

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Prospecting Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 95

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 9, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Although the fear of speaking in public ranks ahead of death, flying, heights, and snakes in surveys, this fear can be controlled. customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION.

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Motivation Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Hiring 167

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

From a higher level, how do prospect profiles and sales collateral make their way to the sales team, and do those tools help drive sales? Customer service : If the sales process goes smoothly, but the postsale process and onboarding are disastrous, the number of deals closed might not tell the whole story.

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Analysis Ideal Customer Profile Discount Collateral 198

PandaDoc

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whatever sector you’re in, in order to succeed you need to offer a combination of excellent customer service , high-quality products, and genuine value for money. It goes without saying, then, that customer service in the SaaS sector comes with its own distinctive set of challenges. Why customer service matters.

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Churn Customer Service Loyalty Customer 59

Zoominfo

MARCH 28, 2018

For this reason, you must be transparent, both in your brand messaging and your interactions with prospects and customers—even when it’s difficult. Here are a few good places to start: Develop a customer communication strategy. Don’t just reach out when you have a new product or service. Open your doors to the public.

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Face-to-face B2B Loyalty Consumer 178

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Have you taken our quick sales survey yet?! customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. FREE Resources.

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Ideal Customer Profile Negotiation Hiring Cancellation 200

Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2018

It’s just as important to show customer appreciation as it is to acknowledge customer complaints. Use surveys to get honest feedback: Surveys help build trust with clients by demonstrating a company’s active engagement in the satisfaction of their customers. 78 Customer Engagement Statistics.

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Customer Social Media Discount Knowledge Base 133

Zoominfo

JULY 10, 2019

Better insights can not only help determine what topics your prospects care about most, but can effectively uncover significant buying motivators you may not have previously recognized, including any pain points, concerns and questions they share. Customer service. Lead generation. Reputation & crisis management.

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Social Media Media Ideal Customer Profile Lead Generation 180

SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For the last decade, surveys have been one of the essential tools to measure customer satisfaction. But times are changing, people get busier, and they are less inclined to spend their time filling in surveys. Plus, you have no information about the prospects who weren’t interested in taking your survey.

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Analysis Customer Service Customer Survey 46

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 25, 2015

“Turn 70 percent of your prospects into customers.” I dug a little deeper and learned the statistic referred to the Net Promoter Score (NPS)—a tool many companies use to survey clients about their willingness to recommend these businesses to others. Because we are not top of mind for our customers.

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Referrals Lead Scoring Lead Rank Leads 120

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 20, 2020

A survey of 330 U.S. For your sales function to operate at a high level, every sales-related role should be supported with coaching – this extends to customer service reps, external/field sales reps, business development personnel, and internal/digital sales reps. Are Internal or External Sales Coaches Best?

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Sales Coaching Research Coaching Sales Methodology 133

Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

More importantly, they may be losing top-of-the-funnel prospects due to impersonal chat experiences. And in the Ada survey, 90% of customer service leaders agree that personalization is essential to the future of automation. Build automated conversations for prospects The ZoomInfo Chatbot is interactive and dynamic.

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Ideal Customer Profile Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing 130

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2023

Social Commerce Will Give Prospects New Shopping Options Take one scroll through Instagram and TikTok and you're guaranteed to come across one item you can buy. More than 50% of consumers we surveyed said they'd purchased a product directly from a social media platform. are social buyers, which is approximately 90.2 million people.

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Trends B2B B2C Social Media 130

The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. As I survey some of the forces flowing through our economy, and witness the way in which they impact my clients, I have to agree. customer service. prospecting. Client List. Testimonials. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION.

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Small Business Small Business Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 166

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Product reviews provide an effective way for prospective customers to understand real experiences with products and/or services. Although for some, great products and services are enough to build a brand, reviews will also help spread the word faster. Top priorities include: Increasing focus on customer satisfaction.

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Scale Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 177