Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Conversion Marketing Lead Capture Face-to-face 246

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2018

B2B marketers beware: Marketing vanity metrics are easy on the eyes but only skim the surface when it comes to actual value. Although vanity metrics make you feel good about your marketing efforts, these surface-level metrics only reveal part of the story. But, fear not dear marketer! Facebook likes. Twitter followers.

Social Media 234

Social Media Marketing How To Campaigns 234

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

Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. You’re better off getting your advertisement in front of 100 people in a single row of that stadium—as long as they’re good-fit prospects.

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Segment Lead Rank Trends Marketing Qualified Lead 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You can track their buying signals.

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 246

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

Marketing 246

Marketing Webinar Metrics Reachforce Top of Funnel 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. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Let’s break that down. How to spot buying signals.

Lead Rank 309

Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. 2: New sales or marketing leader play. Filtering criteria stays the same. 4: Customer technology play.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 8, 2018

So put the phone down and listen up, because we’ve got the inside scoop for how to approach your prospects with a cold call , using the right message at the right time – without sounding like a cold-call creeper. For an individual prospect, this Fit data refers to demographic data: Name. Sales intelligence vs. lead lists.

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Cold Calling Prospecting Intent Data Intent 241

Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement. Read on to discover the latest CRM trends for sales and marketers to use in 2021—and beyond. Share the same goals and tools between sales and marketing teams. Future Trends in CRM.

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Trends CRM Top of Funnel Marketing 246

Zoominfo

MAY 14, 2018

In marketing, it’s common knowledge that lead quality is generally more important than lead quantity. And yet, marketing lead qualification remains a sticking point for many organizations. In fact, 61% of B2B marketers send all leads directly to sales, but only 27% are sales qualified ( source ).

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Lead Rank Lead Qualification Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 214

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2019

All sales and marketing tools make big promises—more leads, more engagement, higher click-through rate, better sales—but none more so than marketing automation. For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices.

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Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing 197

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. But, that’s only if you do it correctly.

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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

SMEI

JANUARY 23, 2023

ChatGPT is quickly becoming a must-have tool for marketers who want to maximize their audience engagement and effectiveness. With its ability to provide personalized AI conversations, marketers can easily create an engaging dialogue with customers, prospects and even leads in order to nurture relationships and drive conversions.

Marketing 43

Marketing Loyalty Segment Ideal Customer Profile 43

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

That’s why I downloaded Xactly’s 2025 Sales Compensation Survey. “53% of respondents said that factors, including inflation, market volatility, and sector growth, create a complex environment for sales teams to meet their quotas.” The next finding explains the previous finding.

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Data Hiring Compensation Quota 220

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. Marketers can expand their reach by buying leads from some content publishers or advertising on some third-party sites, but budget and accessibility to third-party sites can limit reach. But they’re not asking for help from your sales team.

Intent Data 313

Intent Data Intent Data Lead Rank 313

SMEI

MARCH 10, 2022

Learn To Create A Marketing Strategy That Gets Your Products And Services In Front Of Motivated Buyer With This 13 Step Guide. A marketing strategy is a plan of action that will help you achieve your business goals. A great marketing plan will give you a sustainable competitive advantage. Determine Your Marketing Objectives.

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Paid Content Strategy Marketing Buyer Persona 194

Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. For B2B companies, bad data and data decay weaken CRM and sales and marketing automation tools. Wait, are they working with bad data?

Data 251

Data B2B Churn Buyer Persona 251

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

JANUARY 16, 2025

In B2B marketing, context is king. Without the right context, marketers risk burning time, budget, and internal goodwill on campaigns that just dont drive results. Understanding Intent Data: From Noise to Opportunity Intent data is a familiar concept to marketers, but it has evolved significantly in the past several years.

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Intent Intent Data Intent Signal Account Based Marketing 130

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You are already doing Market Segmentation, which is a great start, but how do you rank accounts within your segments to find the best opportunities? Arriving at a list of target accounts is a multi-step process based on ideal fit,

Intent Signal 259

Intent Signal Intent Resources Segment 259

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

It could be a target prospect account you’re already researching, or a current client you’d like to expand. A sales rep or account manager “owns” the Novartis whale account on the sales side, and Marketing “owns” anything defined as a campaign. Define parameters for sales prospecting. Download a white paper? View a video?

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Account Campaigns Engineering Harvest 289

The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outbound sales prospecting insights that will assist any salesperson to connect and engage with target prospects in their sales activity. Our outbound sales prospecting course isn’t a mere refresh of past strategies; it’s a modern take on what it takes to win new customers. What Is Outbound Sales Prospecting?

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Outbound Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. But a lot of marketing, sales, and recruiting professionals don’t know how much data has changed over the past few years! Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts!

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

Allego

JANUARY 21, 2025

Sales prospecting has transformed from its traditional roots of cold calls and door-to-door pitches into a dynamic discipline that blends strategy, psychology, and technology. This shift has turned prospecting into a strategic effort. What Is Sales Prospecting? Successful prospecting goes beyond cold calls and generic emails.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Handbook Decision Maker 62

The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

There are many reasons people do not like to prospect. No matter how right and tight, your buyer persona is, how much of your drips they have downloaded, or any other factor. That is the words you use with yourself before during and after you make a prospecting call. Stop talking about solutions on prospecting calls.

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Cold Calling Buyer Persona Decision Maker ACT 344

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2018

May 25, 2018 is a date on the minds of many sales and marketing professionals: the day the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. Download a PDF of this document. So, if you are simply processing business contact data and using it to reach out to prospects, that would not appear to constitute monitoring.

Data 215

Data Marketing Ideal Customer Profile B2B 215

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

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 13, 2018

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. Try one: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. What if they attended a webinar, or download an ebook?

Lead Rank 276

Lead Rank Inbound Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 276

Allego

JANUARY 9, 2025

A robust certification process empowers reps to embrace new technologies, connect with informed buyers, and exceed expectations in a competitive market. Download our Blueprint for Medical Device Sales Certification to learn how to accelerate onboarding, enhance sales performance, and drive measurable results. The result?

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Hiring Marketing Exercises Scale 62

Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

If you're in a hurry, skip to the script or download free sales call templates.) I’ve found that cold calling is an excellent way to engage prospects one-on-one and move them to the next step in the buying process. Cold calling is most effective when paired with strategies such as prospecting and sales qualification.

Cold Calling 111

Cold Calling Top of Funnel Inbound Call-back 111

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

B2B sales pros and marketers swim in an ocean of information. We asked over 200 sales and marketing professionals about 78 data points (and “secret sauce” combinations of data points) in a comprehensive survey, Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: Which Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Sales?

Ideal Customer Profile 238

Ideal Customer Profile Data Intent Data Lead Scoring 238

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. “Changing the perspective within your organization is key … it’s not about aligning sales and marketing to each other, but aligning and integrating them both with the customer’s journey.”

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295