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. Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

These upgrades focus on three areas: Easier access to Chorus’ Momentum Insights feature Automatic transcription of calls from ZoomInfo Engage More accurate data feeding into Chorus. The integrations help revenue teams develop stronger prospect and customer relationships, make better decisions, and win more business.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 24, 2022

Like I said, this is not a COVID article because if it was, I could write a book about the data, science, policies and hypocrisies. Have you or your salespeople ever been told by a prospect that they can't:

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Prospecting can feel pretty similar. What is a prospecting workflow? Prospecting workflows are established so that sales reps don’t spend their whole day looking for prospects. Typical prospecting workflows involve researching and then connecting to prospects via cold calls, cold emails, and beyond.

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Zoominfo

JULY 8, 2021

This integration allows customers to accelerate their sales and marketing efforts by using ZoomInfo’s best-in-class data while never leaving Dynamics 365. Previously, these same sales reps needed to leave their home base to search for prospects and build opportunity pipelines. Features of the Dynamics Integration with ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. These data points flesh out ideal prospects that you can target. Don’t rely on just one type of data for modern outreach efforts.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Unlike meteorologists or economists, their industry doesn’t use data as the bedrock of forming their forecasts. That means more than half of your reps are putting themselves in a position where they have an inadequate view of the prospects in their pipeline. To succeed, you must teach your sales reps how to build forecasts with data.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. You’ll also want to invest in a platform to centralize and cleanse all the contact and company data your teams will use to track progress.

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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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Data quality is important to every company. Businesses need a clean, complete, and actionable data asset to inform engagement and drive intelligent automated workflows that increase sales efficiencies and close more deals. ZoomInfo changed that by creating access to more data than most organizations could have ever imagined.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 13, 2024

But salespeople who have never attempted option 2, and whose experience is limited to option 1, are unable to play the part of the prospect in an option 2 role play because they can’t wrap their heads around the possibility that option 2 is possible.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I’ve spent many years selling in startups and small businesses and every time the biggest issue cratering the sales pipeline is getting enough meetings with appropriate prospects. My background before business school was in engineering so I love data. Here’s some cold calling data boiled down into time units. Sales 2.0:

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Here’s why businesses are increasingly turning to lead capture software: Efficiency : Automated lead capture processes save time and resources, allowing sales teams to focus on nurturing qualified leads rather than manually entering lead data. Seamless CRM integration ensures real-time lead syncing, minimizing manual data entry.

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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On-Demand Webinar “Think of the 70% of tasks that don’t directly contribute to closing deals — updating CRM records, scheduling follow-ups, sorting through data,” Blount says. AI can generate insights and predictions at lightning speed, but if your data is flawed, you’re essentially weaponizing those errors.

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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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Zoominfo

APRIL 9, 2024

Many marketers and frontline salespeople are turning to real-time intent data as a competitive edge in their pursuit of strong leads and motivated buyers. Having a sophisticated range of intent data available from a single source of truth can be a powerful advantage.

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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. So what do win rates have to do with prospecting? It is completely independent of our prospecting!”

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I’ll explain how to always respond appropriately to Your Prospect. This is exactly what salespeople go through when a prospect pushes back, objects, displays lack of interest, or attempts to end the call. You are in your head instead of focused on what your prospect is saying. According to data from the assessments of 2.4

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 24, 2020

I have a lot of empathy for pundits in a subjective undefined area of practice, like prospecting for example. Making proclamations, spinning data, presenting speculation as fact , only to be undercut by facts. A great example of this Greek-like tragedy, is the never-ending debate about the best day to make prospecting calls?

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Research from XANT looked at the optimal “cadence” for prospecting based on the masses of data available to them through companies’ usage of their software. After 12 days XANT found that it is optimal to take a break for four to five days then start another sequence of eight attempts to reach your prospect.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company that provides us with cyber-insurance required that our entire team watch a series of 21 training videos to make us more aware of how hackers operate, how easy it is to be hacked, and what we must do differently in order to protect our data, privacy and accounts.

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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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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. If you and your prospects can shift time in your favor, you’ll both have an advantage over your competitors.

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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.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2024

The most important growth drivers for any business simply can’t succeed without a core infrastructure of high-quality, trustworthy data. 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.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Reaching the right prospects at the right moment is often the difference between closing a deal and coming in second. But today’s top AI sales assistants don’t just help sales teams work faster — with the right data, AI helps sellers make smarter decisions.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 13, 2024

For nearly 20 years, ZoomInfo has been fueled by an unwavering belief in the power of data to transform markets, companies, and careers. Today, ZoomInfo has been named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™ : Marketing And Sales Data Providers for B2B, Q1 2024.

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