DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 13, 2018

Schedule same-day or next-day demos (much higher chance of them showing up). 35% conversion rate of lead to good fit completed demo. Align sales and marketing to boost lead quality. Aligning Sales and Marketing is extremely important for inbound sales , since 100% of the leads my team works are passed over from marketing.

Lead Rank 276

Lead Rank Inbound Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 276

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 29, 2019

So why doesn’t anyone want a demo? A lot of companies struggle to get prospects to show up to sales demos. It’s time to ditch the product demo. Effective salespeople are focused instead on solution sales : A thoughtful sales demo process that addresses issues specific to the customer. They reached out to you for a reason.

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Software Software Decision Maker Lead Rank 198

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For today’s marketers, data is more than just numbers on a dashboard — it’s the key to unlocking new opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. But here’s the catch: many marketing teams are flooded with disconnected data points and siloed insights, struggling to understand what truly drives customer behavior.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Scenario Run targeted display ads at the people you’ve scheduled for upcoming demos. Trigger • You’ve scheduled a demo Actions • Before your upcoming meeting, run targeted ads at the attendees • Make the ads a constant presence when they’re searching the web When they’re surfing around the web, they’ll see your ads everywhere.

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Meeting Marketing 100

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Author: Annie Reiss, Chief Marketing Officer, CloudShare While businesses determine how to safely return to something resembling a pre-COVID world, software sales teams are still racing to meet their quotas and keep business moving. Virtual Demos and PoCs. Today, the stakes are higher than ever for them to make a good impression. .

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Software Software Skype Transportation 177

Product Management University

AUGUST 6, 2024

When it comes to presales demos, the endgame is to advance the sales process to the next stage. But there’s a common gap that exists in most presales demos, and it not only takes the impact out of your value story, it also erodes your differentiation. The flow of your demo narrative (the top-down version) would go something like this.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Small Business Small Business 52

eGrabber

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In fact, many sales and marketing professionals consider it the most challenging stage of the sales process. 1 Sales Prospecting Tool to Book More Demos & Increase Sales Get your Free Trial Today! 1 Sales Prospecting Tool to Book More Demos & Increase Sales Get your Free Trial Today!

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Tools Prospecting Decision Maker B2B 52

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. That gives you the perfect opening to attack their strengths when you’re doing highly competitive demos, especially when their weaknesses aren’t show-stoppers. There’s no answer for that!

Competition 52

Competition How To Positioning Exact 52

Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s a simple three-step approach for your product demos that will help you sell solutions versus products. It’s things like combatting price erosion for core products, being first to market instead of last, stemming declining market share, etc. Talk about them as if they’re components of a total solution.

How To 52

How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“If people want to demo… give them a demo. Interestingly, both views can be summarized into two schools of thought: Your demo is only as good as your discovery. Get your product demo into the buyer’s hands faster. Limit the number of discovery calls and give the demo when the client wants it. Lead requests a demo.

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B2B Buyer Scale Sales Qualified Lead 83

SBI

JUNE 21, 2018

As a Senior Director of Sales Consulting at Oracle, Tod and his team of Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants support the sales team in their division and are responsible for onsite and remote demos. At the same time, he was seeing a jump in requests for demos as his qualified prospect pool was increasing. What is Demo Automation?

Account Based Marketing 139

Account Based Marketing B2B Oracle Sales Cycle 139

Product Management University

MAY 15, 2024

There are countless tips and tricks that make for great presales demos. But there’s one foundational tactic that’ll set you up to crush your demos and further amplify the finer tips or tricks you wrap around it. Typical Presales Demo Formats Most presales demos fall into one of two formats. Here’s how to do it.

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Benefit Banking Buyer Examples 45

Zoominfo

MAY 1, 2020

So why doesn’t anyone want a software demo? A lot of companies struggle to get prospects to show up to sales demos. It’s time to ditch the product demo. Effective salespeople focus on solution sales instead, which includes a thoughtful demo process that addresses issues specific to the customer.

Software 100

Software Software Lead Rank Top of Funnel 100

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 16, 2017

I’m Steve Bryerton, Vice President of sales here at DiscoverOrg, to talk about how to bookend your demo in order to create a sense of urgency and commitment from your prospects. From beginning of your demo , let’s create an upfront contract. Get our free Outbound Sales and Marketing Strategy ebook. Request a Demo.

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Video Decision Maker Outbound eBook 154

Product Management University

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sales demos are one of the easiest ways to boost your credibility with prospects and customers. A good sales demo creates that critical moment of differentiation that makes your product the obvious choice in a sea of competitors. What is a B2B Sales Demo Script? How to Create a Sales Demo Script. Create Scenarios.

B2B 52

B2B How To Lead Rank Follow-up 52

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

Product Management University

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Product demos are one of the most critical components of strong product marketing and sales for SaaS organizations. A great product demo creates an urgency to buy, while a bad product demo sends prospects running. What is a Product Demo? A product demo is a verbal value story. Product Demo vs. Free Trial.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Engineering 52

SBI

JUNE 22, 2021

Q: What metrics should customers of Demo Automation solutions use to measure the impact or progress of their activities? Garin : Two key metrics our customers are finding success within their demo automation strategies are Stakeholders Discovered and Demo Qualified Leads (DQLs). Unqualified demos is a huge problem.

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Engineering Buyer 92

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ask any go-to-market leader about the obstacles they’re facing, and the chances are pretty good they’ll mention sales and marketing alignment. Research from LinkedIn reveals that, for the vast majority of sales and marketing professionals, better alignment is their single largest area of opportunity. It’s easy to see why.

Lead Rank 130

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 130

Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) is now table stakes for B2B marketers and salespeople looking to hit — and exceed — their goals. In fact, a recent survey of marketing leaders found broad agreement that ABM programs produce better pipeline growth, revenue growth, and return on investment than competing approaches.

Account Based Marketing 130

Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Account Marketing 130

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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Email Marketing Benefit Webinar Metrics Marketing 264

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? Direct mail marketing makes direct contact with individual consumers, as opposed to reaching a large audience with mass media, such as advertising.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Want to get more of your marketing team on your CRM and email marketing platform so they can send email campaigns, but don’t want to pay for an entire seat? Introducing three free marketing seats for Nutshell Pro customers and above! Nutshell is here to help sales and marketing teams work better together.

Marketing 71

Marketing CRM Campaigns Email Marketing 71

Zoominfo

JULY 14, 2023

For B2B marketers, that means the challenge of effectively reaching, engaging, and converting their target audience is more complex than ever. As competition intensifies and buyer expectations evolve, the need for a well-defined and comprehensive B2B marketing strategy becomes paramount. What is B2B Marketing?

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Paid Content Report B2B Top of Funnel 130

Connect2Sell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

With more than 10 years of experience in marketing, Mike is now the marketing manager at Retalo.io. Mike has been involved in creating content for the website blog and planning marketing strategy for the company. ( Editor’s Note: This article about the lead to sales path for B2Bs is guest written by Mike Mai.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead B2B Sales 240

Gong.io

MAY 20, 2021

When you conduct a demo, you want the same thing to happen. Your goal is for the demo to be short, controlled, and concise. (No Let’s take a look at how this played out in the more than 3 million recorded product demos we analyzed using anonymized data from our Gong platform. When you’re ready to demo, that’s where you begin.

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Data Infusion Call-back Exact 83

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. They’re essential for preparing your team for every situation that may arise during a demo, sales call, or in-person event.

Marketing 130

Marketing Scale Call-back Decision Maker 130

MarketJoy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In today’s competitive B2B landscape, the divide between sales and marketing teams drains revenue potential. Research shows that companies lose more than 10% of their annual revenue due to misaligned sales and marketing efforts, yet this challenge persists industry-wide. Creating a Unified Revenue Engine The solution?

Sales Qualified Lead 52

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Closing Marketing Qualified Lead 52

Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Example 4 – Cold LinkedIn Message : Hi Dave, My name is [withheld by me], I am with a pay-per-performance marketing company. I’m one of those AI SDRs – how’s that for a demo? He doesn’t even tell us what is on that channel, what he does, or why we should care!

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LinkedIn Channels Hiring B2C 332

Sales Hacker

MARCH 26, 2024

By focusing on human first community building, content marketing, live events and creative activations, they developed a new playbook for B2B marketing that built the Gainsight brand and fueled the company’s growth from $0 to $100M+ ARR, and eventual acquisition by Vista Equity at a $1.1B Brought to you by Synch.

Media 93

Media Intent Signal Marketing Distribution 93

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Gil Miner’s 20+ years of marketing experience span prominent names like American Express, Digitas, and Weber Shandwick. The importance of post-sale marketing and customer lifecycle management. Applying B2C marketing strategies to enhance B2B customer engagement and retention.

Marketing 96

Marketing Scale Outbound B2C 96

Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples? What is CRM?

Marketing 171

Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Rank 171

Zoominfo

MAY 22, 2024

But in today’s go-to-market environment, data isn’t enough. It’s not enough to know who your buyer is — you need to know what they care about, exactly when they are in the market, and what problems they’re facing right now. Modern sales is becoming a science. Sell Smarter. Win Faster.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Scale Marketing 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

Account Based Marketing 130

Account Based Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The Right Way to Use Demos in Technology Sales. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Demos , Listening , Planning , Presentation , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , audio , execution. Happy demoing, better selling! Use the demo to “Close” not to open.

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Pipeline Hiring Cold Calling Top of Funnel 212