Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In the world of B2B, intent data is like gold. Well, maybe not actual gold and that’s because the benefits of B2B intent data go much further than a one-time increase in revenue. . The point, though, is that intent data is an incredibly valuable resource to marketers, salespeople, and recruiters alike.

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Intent Data Intent Data Intent Signal 244

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.

Data 52

Data Scale SalesForce Forecasting 52

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. Accuracy : By reducing human error in data collection, lead capture software ensures that contact information and other details are recorded correctly.

Lead Capture 130

Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2020

Many B2B data providers claim to have the “best” data. But have you ever stopped to think about where these companies get their data and what makes it better than the rest? Data is a big investment – and as a buyer, you should never trust a data provider without first understanding where that information comes from.

B2B 245

B2B Data Vendor Intent Data 245

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.

Data 386

Data Maximizer How To Revenue 386

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In the world of B2B, intent data is like gold. Well, maybe not actual gold and that’s because the benefits of B2B intent data go much further than a one-time increase in revenue. The point, though, is that intent data is an incredibly valuable resource to marketers, salespeople, and recruiters alike.

Intent Data 230

Intent Data Intent Data Intent Signal 230

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?

Ideal Customer Profile 264

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2019

The common goal in sales is winning your prospect’s prospect. Again, this makes the people your prospect is trying to win, your responsibility as well. So while we are thinking about how we can sell our product to this prospect, they are asking about how this will help them sell to their customers. Who’s Paying For This?

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Prospecting Trade Show Objections Buyer 284

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Learn data-driven strategies that support each stage of the sales funnel, along with key performance indicators (KPIs). What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers. Prospects have access to more information than ever.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 246

Zoominfo

JULY 9, 2020

Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well.

Data 244

Data Top of Funnel Social Media Buyer Persona 244

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.

Data 246

Data Intent Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

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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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Data Decision Maker 242

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.

Account Based Marketing 246

Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

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.

Lead Rank 309

Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

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 Scoring 130

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.

Data 52

Data Company Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

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. That means personalization has become critical for effective sales outreach — and AI used properly, with the right data to back it up, plays a pivotal role.

Scale 235

Scale Sales Qualified Lead Intent Data CRM 235

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.

Lead Scoring 352

Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

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. Lead mining software is designed to unearth valuable business opportunities from vast pools of data. What is Lead Mining Software?

Sales Qualified Lead 130

Sales Qualified Lead Software Software Lead Rank 130

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.

Intent Signal 130

Intent Signal Prospecting Intent Decision Maker 130

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. Data matters more than ever. Today, the comprehensiveness of customer data separates winners from losers.

Trends 297

Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

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.

Account Based Marketing 130

Account Based Marketing Account Software Software 130

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

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 9, 2020

All of us perform our best when we are held accountable and have the tools to succeed. The job of a sales manager is to provide reps with the tools to succeed. It’s to give them the tools to do their jobs and then get out of their way. I blame the sales manager for having the wrong priorities.

Sales Management 390

Sales Management Hiring Quota Cold Calling 390

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.

B2C 264

B2C Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 264

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As leaders across all sectors push to adopt generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s also becoming clear that most generative AI (GenAI) initiatives for business will quickly fall apart without a foundation of accurate, timely, and comprehensive data. The same surveys show that 55% of corporate leaders distrust their own data assets.

Data 147

Data Scale Lead Rank Hiring 147

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? Is the data up-to-date?

Hiring 269

Hiring Proposal Sales Qualified Lead System 269

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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Face-to-face CRM Forecasting Cold Calling 312

Steven Rosen

MAY 24, 2024

He also explores the practical applications of AI in sales, including prospecting, customer retention, and pre-call planning. ” – Rob Ulsh Key Takeaways: AI is not a threat to sales professionals but a powerful tool that can enhance their effectiveness. He also emphasized the time-saving aspect of AI in prospecting.

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Company Sales Leadership Retention Loyalty 296

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?

Prospecting 139

Prospecting Face-to-face Conversion Opportunity 139

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.

Objections 276

Objections Forecasting Webinar Metrics Pipeline 276

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.

Forecasting 307

Forecasting Webinar Metrics Pipeline System 307

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. For example, a playbook could be based on industries, roles and stages of the prospect.

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Campaigns Sales Enablement Education Collateral 326

Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

Without tightly integrated, highly accurate data and timely insights, these systems are merely empty repositories that lack the intelligence to surface, prioritize, and trigger effective, personalized engagement at scale. Without the right tools, you simply can’t expect sales reps to know every detail about your prospects and customers.

Ideal Customer Profile 58

Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Scale Marketing 58

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.

CRM 130

CRM Data Scale Lead Rank 130