Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Remember that until we had dependable mail, companies could not mass market. Years ago, much of the mass marketing that didn''t appear in newspapers and magazines was in the form of direct mail campaigns. Then, in the mid 1980''s, the invention that would bring prospecting to the next level came along.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Direct Mail Travel 275

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

When most marketers think outbound marketing, they think emails, paid advertising, and other digital campaigns aimed at engaging their target audience. We’ve written at length about how effective those tactics can be — but today, we’re talking about a different type of marketing campaign. Keep reading! We have it!”

Direct Mail 100

Direct Mail Paid Content Campaigns Examples 100

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Think direct mail is an outdated sales tactic? While prospect’s email inboxes are becoming increasingly crowded ( 78% of consumers opt out of company emails due to sheer volume), their physical mailboxes get emptier. How to Write a Direct Mail Letter. Think again. How to Write a Sales Letter. Use One CTA.

Direct Mail 111

Direct Mail Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Education 111

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. If you don’t get the meeting, Part Two doesn’t matter.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2019

In 2017, email marketing turned half a century old. Yet, B2B marketing professionals continue to rank the channel high on their list of preferred marketing tactics. Email marketing is an inexpensive way to promote products, increase sales, and retain customers. Email marketing isn’t going anywhere.

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Email Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 231

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

Lead Rank 257

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Increase Sales

DECEMBER 5, 2015

In the past 48 hours, I received two direct mail marketing pieces from local real estate agents here in Northwest IN. 1 Reason Why I Have Not Responded to Your Direct Mail Marketing. The only problem was I did call this realtor when I received his first direct mail marketing piece.

Direct Mail 70

Direct Mail Real Estate Marketing Commission 70

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

No matter our company or our role, I think I can safely say we ALL receive numerous prospecting emails and calls every day. Have you ever noticed that there are spikes in the number of prospecting emails you receive when: You change jobs? The Most Prospected To Companies” By State During the 2nd Half of 2016. Not at all.

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Company Prospecting Direct Mail Hiring 161

Zoominfo

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know the standard sales process looks something like this: You identify a prospect and conduct research, you figure out what pain point or challenge they’re trying to solve, and then you offer your product or services as the solution. Why don’t some buyers admit they need help?

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Prospecting Case Study Sales Cycle Direct Mail 235

Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Now social marketing specific to B2B is a subset of marketing just as direct mail, advertising, business to business networking and promotional items all are. For some social marketing is considered inbound marketing activities where the more traditional marketing of advertising, direct mail, B2B networking, etc.

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Social Selling B2B Direct Mail Marketing 153

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). Recently, we brought a new HR dataset to market.

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Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

Pointclear

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In this three-part series, the first article on marketing analytics looked at predictive targeting best practices, and the second article cited two sales lead generation programs to show how these processes actually drive improved results. At that point, a prospect has received an average of 41 different touches over a period of 15 months.

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Lead Generation Analytics Sales Qualified Lead PointClear 182

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2012

Shift the focus of your emails to your prospect (it’s not about you) and watch your sales take off! In keeping with my theme of “Get Personal,” I’m sharing with you a blog by email marketing and copywriting guru, Ivan Levison. It’s all about “I,” “us,” “we,” “our,” and only incidentally about solving the prospect’s problem.

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ACT Advertising Advertising Direct Mail 275

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It’s been dubbed ‘junk mail’ or ‘spam mail’ for years, and we thought that everyone had abandoned the practice. However, direct mail has been making a huge come-back as an effective sales tactic. I don’t discount its powerful ability to drive business; however, email is not the only way to enchant your prospects.

Direct Mail 77

Direct Mail Channels Outbound Banking 77

SBI Growth

AUGUST 26, 2012

I hear from sales and marketing leaders on a regular basis that they need more leads. The most common marketing efforts to drive leads include paid search, SEO, social media, outbound email, teleprospecting and trade shows. In other words, content marketing is communicating with your customers and prospects without selling.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 306

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Direct mail gifting is a demand generation tactic that assists other channels by cleaning up after them,” says Mitchell Hanson, director of demand generation at ZoomInfo. “It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Direct Mail 130

SBI Growth

JANUARY 26, 2014

Sales or marketing challenges exist in every organization. Or Marketing isn''t connecting with the market. The acute issues of 5-10 years back (sales process, CRMs, dialing or direct mail leads, etc.) aren''t the same today (social prospecting, content marketing, buying process maps, etc.).

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Hiring Direct Mail Buyer Persona Salary 292

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2017

Author: Senraj Soundar, ConnectLeader Founder and CEO ABM – account based marketing – is the most-talked-about strategy right now in the B2B world. According to Forbes: 80% of marketers measuring ROI say that ABM outperforms other marketing investments. Yet, ABM has been around forever. “I So, what changed?

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Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Account 176

Sales Evangelist

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Using Direct Mail To Move Prospects Through Your Funnel Salespeople use direct mail to move their prospects through their sales funnel but how does that impact the business? Nick Runyon loves everything about marketing. These can be personalized for marketing messages and are called tactile marketing.

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Direct Mail Top of Funnel Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 59

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our latest eBook shows you how to navigate your book of business, craft a well-calculated marketing plan, add more places of interest on the map, and direct potential customers to inroads back to your company. The marketing plan lays the groundwork for your team to go forth and execute. Get started with our free eBook !

Account Based Marketing 181

Account Based Marketing Data Ideal Customer Profile eBook 181

Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2018

How can you dramatically improve ROI on marketing automation investments? Read these top three tips for when and how to use marketing automation—and when not to. times more likely to respond to a quality multi-touch campaign (calls, voicemails, emails, and in some cases direct mail) than are their direct reports.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Direct Mail Marketing 140

Pointclear

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Successfully engaging prospects depends on a mix of tactics to maintain positive awareness of your offering until it’s time to buy. Our clients’ prospects need an average of 12 contacts to engage, and lead nurturing can take even more touchpoints. Results multiply when lead nurturing strategies multiply.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Media Lead Rank 170

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As with most business functions, technology is drastically changing the way we market our products and services. We’ve long since understood the power of one-to-one marketing, but without modern technology, it wasn’t always feasible, scalable, or affordable. So, how can we market to customers who are sick and tired of marketing?

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Conversion Marketing Consumer Social Media 174

The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2014

Here is just one example of what I received recently: “Our markets are promising. After sending out the emails, the person probably congratulated themselves for doing such a great job of prospecting and how they will be closing sales quickly as a result. This is worse than direct mail!

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Direct Mail Selling Skills Software Software 201

Increase Sales

JANUARY 6, 2014

The New Year has many small business owners to sales professionals listing all their New Year’s marketing resolutions or goals including: Blog postings from consistency to quality. Email marketing. Direct mail marketing. Consider making only 3 marketing resolutions for the first quarter only.

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Marketing Direct Mail Social Media Networking 133

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As bleak as this sounds for marketers, we remain hopeful. We’ll go out on a limb and say that, as a marketing practice, lead generation will never go extinct. There will always be prospects who need B2B products or services. 85% of B2B marketers say lead generation is their most important content marketing goal ( source ).

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Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 243

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

According to recent research, B2B companies are using multiple lead generation tactics including, email marketing, search engine optimization, teleprospecting, inbound marketing, direct mail and trade shows. The same inbound marketing experts will tell you that it might take 50 blogs to impact your website visits.

Lead Generation 225

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Nutshell

AUGUST 27, 2018

There are hundreds of different sales tactics that you can use to find prospects, qualify leads, and make a sale. To point you in the right direction, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best and most popular B2B sales tactics from general practices to specific sales techniques you can use to close more of your deals. Prospecting.

Sales Qualified Lead 126

Sales Qualified Lead Closing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 126

MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Having been in the sales and marketing industry for 28 years, Peter has helped thousands of SME’s increase their presence through exhibitions and display solutions – which makes him somewhat of an authority figure on the subject of exhibiting at key events. . Tell them something “interesting” and give them a reason or incentive for visiting.

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ROI Maximizer How To Face-to-face 290

Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

There are many things we can look forward to with direct mail. In this episode, Chelsea Martin, the co-owner of Nom’s Bake Shop, talks about how direct mail is the new email. This shift moved them into direct mailing at the same time. They also make case studies to present to their clients/prospects.

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Direct Mail Case Study Survey LinkedIn 59

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.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead 130

Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

In real estate, you have to understand that prospects aren't going to appear out of thin air. This is a concept known as real estate prospecting. And in the highly competitive world of real estate, prospecting can be challenging. Prospecting should be a fundamental part of your business strategy as a real estate professional.

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Real Estate Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Social Media 105

Increase Sales

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Ever listen to local marketing firms stand up and cheer when they receive some national award for their brochures, direct mail pieces or even website designs? My internal response is this one: How many of your clients have asked you how many marketing awards have you received? And I am not a marketing firm!).

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Coaching Marketing Small Business Small Business 139

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s an ineffective prospecting strategy and a nuisance to buyers, most of whom ignore cold calls. Current clients at a prospect company are the best source of new business within their organizations. Stop Fooling Yourself—Your Prospecting Is Cold. No salesperson should ever have to cold call to generate sales leads.

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Cold Calling Account Decision Maker Referrals 222

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

My definition of a cold call is any attempt to reach a prospect who doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. Regardless of the way you reach out—via email, social media, text, direct mail, or even a knock on the door—prospects are cold as ice unless they know who you are and expect to hear from you.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2012

” One of the key themes in these discussions is prospecting, with people taking all sorts of positions, and lot of discussion about the “C” word–yes, Cold Calling. Let’s face it, most of us don’t like prospecting. Prospecting is critical! But it’s still prospecting.

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Prospecting Top of Funnel Direct Mail Lead Rank 117

Increase Sales

JULY 31, 2015

Somewhere along the annals of history salespeople also became mesmerized by this number especially when it came to marketing or prospecting. Send 3 direct mail pieces. After three attempts to contact the sales lead (prospect) all activity stops and the salesperson looks to the next “hot” sales lead.

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Ideal Customer Profile Direct Mail Real Estate Prospecting 70