Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Instead of waiting until buyers are clearly in-market, sales teams now can rely on a layered, AI-fueled analysis of multiple high-value signals to zero in on prospects who are strong fits for their product or service but not yet showing classic signs of interest. They can’t get the sales, the pipeline isn’t moving.

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Hiring Data Prospecting Lead Scoring 214

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. Organizations of all sizes must begin planning now for jump-starting their revenue engines when we emerge from this crisis. That’s the bad news.

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Engineering Revenue Incentive Incentives 207

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

By integrating with other account-based marketing tools, CRM systems, and customer data platforms, marketing account intelligence software creates a unified and comprehensive view of each customer. With Pocus, sales and marketing teams can confidently build pipeline and consistently close more revenue.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Account Lead Rank 130

Partners in Excellence

MAY 28, 2024

The term, “prompt engineering,” is relatively new to most of us. But as the LLMs have emerged and grown, the concepts of prompt engineering are starting to fill our feeds. The deeper one drills, the better the quality the answers these tools provide. Prompt engineering is one of the hottest jobs in the market.

Engineering 142

Engineering Conversion Objections Tools 142

Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2025

ZoomInfos State of AI in Sales and Marketing survey, which gathered insights from more than 1,000 GTM professionals, reveals just how quickly AI is transforming sales teams and the roadblocks for further AI innovation. Power users on sales teams are saving time, closing deals faster, and seeing real, measurable business results.

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Survey Forecasting Lead Scoring Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2025

The rapid adoption of GPT-based AI tools isnt simply a technological evolution in sales; its a fundamental restructuring of how teams work. And theyre moving the needle: According to McKinsey , sales orgs that use AI see revenue uplifts of up to 15% and sales ROI uplifts of up to 20%. Whats a GPT-Native Sales Team?

Hiring 130

Hiring Lead Rank Intent Data Territories 130

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As the co-founder and CEO of Intellimize (acquired by Webflow), Guy brings a unique perspective from his journey through iconic companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter, as well as his background in aerospace engineering. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups.

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Scale Paid Content Twitter Engineering 103

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 2, 2023

He said something to the effect, “I just saw something new, people are hiring “prompt engineers” to help refine how they are using these AI tools. That’s been a thing for at least 3 months, probably longer… ” Prompt engineering is something we are learning about.

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Engineering Face-to-face Hiring Licensing 127

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Sales Enablement Strategy Scale Hiring 130

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2025

Top sales teams win with referrals. Without a referral-first mindset, pipeline uncertainty loomsleading to missed targets, longer sales cycles, missed quotas, and end-of-year panic. Without a referral-first mindset, pipeline uncertainty loomsleading to missed targets, longer sales cycles, missed quotas, and end-of-year panic.

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Referrals Pipeline Face-to-face GoldMine 177

Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

Introduction In todays hypercompetitive market, having a fantastic product is no longer enough to guarantee sales success. The difference between a sales team that hits targets and one that consistently exceeds them often lies in the support structure around itsales enablement. What is Sales Enablement?

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Tools Strategy 48

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Author: Staff One of the surest ways to advertise your business online is through search engine optimization (SEO). Simply put, your site needs to rank among the top websites that Google or other search engines list on the search engine result pages (SERPs) for the keywords you’ve optimized in your web content. You name it.

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Analysis Tools Google Social Media 194

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

If you have one or more global accounts—large companies with a global footprint—it’s important to approach them globally – but this is a tall order for a busy sales department, especially among newer companies where any account-based approach has a learning curve. What is global account-based sales development?

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Account Campaigns Engineering Harvest 289

SBI Growth

APRIL 28, 2020

The modern engineering organization is tooled, skilled, and increasingly experienced in delivering products using Agile methodology. This hard-won transformation required fundamental shifts in the processes by which product is designed, developed, and maintained. Yet the business impact of all this.

Engineering 292

Engineering Tools Consumer Software 292

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I’m a long-time fan of video tools for selling. Among Tools for Selling, Video Rules According to Google, 70% of B2B buyers and researchers incorporate video content into their decision-making journey. Understanding the power of video tools for selling will help you compete better and achieve your marketing goals.

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Video Tools Advertising Advertising 59

Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2025

The world of B2B sales and marketing is at an inflection point. And when outdated, incomplete, and unreliable data meets the rising complexity of modern buyer behaviors, the result is chaos bad data erodes the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, derails sales efforts, and creates inefficiencies across revenue operations.

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B2B Intent Signal Scale Marketing 130

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

Revenue 370

Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, businesses are increasingly turning to innovative strategies to enhance sales and build deeper relationships with their audience. One such strategy is leveraging AI in podcasting , creating a powerful synergy that transforms sales teams’ approaches.

Top of Funnel 105

Top of Funnel Strategy Lead Scoring Lead Rank 105

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2025

” This was a brilliant observation by James Pursey in an outstanding seminar on AI in sales. Many are doing mediocre to bad research and call prep using these tools. These tools take away all the work we don’t want to do, all the tedious work, all the work we struggle most with. The tool was pretty easy to use.

Engineering 123

Engineering Decision Maker Tools Face-to-face 123

Sales Hacker

APRIL 4, 2025

This goes beyond tools though and refers to the shift behind them. Were calling this the rise of the GTM AI OS a coordinated, AI-driven backbone that connects marketing, sales, CS, and product into a single motion. Its not about adding more tools. The shift to a new operating model: the GTM AI Operating System.

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System Scale Outsourcing Services Lead Rank 108

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”. Specific technology in place that your tool complements or replaces. That’s frustrating.

Pipeline 270

Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets 270

Sales Hacker Training

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Sales Leadership Framework Behind Multiple $100MM ARR Orgs Whether on the podcast, a one-to-one conversation, in GTMfund’s Slack, in a digital live event… the same pattern surfaces: the best leaders develop and leverage systems. But when done right, it can transform your sales organization into a high-performing revenue machine.

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Sales Leadership Lead Rank Scale Marketing Qualified Lead 119

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We surveyed over 11,000 revenue professionals to uncover exactly how GTM teams use ZoomInfo to expand markets, accelerate sales cycles, and drive revenue. By using real-time data and signals, sales teams are identifying high-potential accounts they would have otherwise missed. The results? Real-time insights power precision targeting.

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Report Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Customer 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2025

Imagine that one of your top sales reps spends weeks courting a promising prospect, only to discover at the 11th hour that its actually a subsidiary of your largest customer. But corporate hierarchy errors are much more serious than your garden-variety duplicate CRM record because they undermine core sales and marketing strategy.

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Data Revenue Scale Territories 130

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Very rarely did a sale require just a single signature, which meant the sales process and accompanying assets needed to be built around a variety of personas. B2B Buyer Stats First and foremost, B2B buyers are users of the tools they buy. And finally, the 2024 B2B Buyer survey paints a picture of buyers as company leaders.

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Hubspot B2B Buyer Data 116

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The success of any account-based marketing (ABM) or account-based experience (ABX) depends on the efficient flow of accurate account data across sales and marketing teams. Integration with external partners and cloud solutions further enhances data accessibility, making ZoomInfo a critical tool for modern revenue operations.

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Software Software Account Data 130

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 7, 2024

After some initial discovery, the capable sales rep dove into the platform to give me a look at one of the functionalities I was most interested in. Table of Contents What Is a Sales Demo Environment? You can think of a sales demo environment in the same way. But during the live demo, disaster struck.

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Closing How To Call-back Software 104

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. But first, we’ll dive into the benefits sales prospecting tools have for your organization.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 128

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2024

In the competitive arena of B2B sales, mastering the art of prospecting is key to ensuring a healthy sales pipeline, daily demos booked, and hitting your sales quota. Fortunately for you, we’ve sifted through the clutter and done all the legwork to bring you the top 10 sales prospecting tools. 5 on G2 4.6/5

Ideal Customer Profile 125

Ideal Customer Profile B2B Tools Prospecting 125

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Unlike basic analytics, this software bridges the gap between raw traffic data and actionable sales intelligence. Informed Sales Strategies : Sales teams gain insights into visitor behavior, enabling more effective outreach. Faster Sales Cycles : Access to detailed visitor data shortens the sales process.

Sales Qualified Lead 130

Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software 130

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2020

These conditions can present challenges for sales organizations, where in-person meetings and events are typically part of “business as usual.” With internal meetings (training bootcamps, sales kick-offs, role play sessions, etc.), It’s important to have a system or “engine” for rapid content creation?

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Sales Enablement Scale Policies Distribution 227

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a recent episode of the expert interview series hosted by John Golden, Kris Rudeegraap , co-founder and co-CEO of Sendoso, shared invaluable insights into the evolution and impact of personalized gifting in sales outreach. Enhancing Customer Engagement Gifting can be used throughout the sales funnel to enhance customer engagement.

Top of Funnel 84

Top of Funnel Direct Mail Video Lead Scoring 84

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

Elizabeth Pemmerl currently serves as GitHub’s Chief Revenue Officer, where she oversees all facets of the company’s go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, including sales, support, and operations. Highlights: (9:13) Transitioning from IC to sales leadership and driving a forecast cadence. (18:20) Brought to you by Orum.

Engineering 125

Engineering Revenue Buyer Persona Account Based Marketing 125

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 16, 2025

Introduction Sales configurator software, and more specifically, product configuration software, comes in a wide range of varieties, formats and sophistication. For the sake of simplicity, Im going to toss them all into one of three bags: tools, solutions and systems. Here are some examples. What is a Product Configurator?

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System Tools Software Software 48

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I used to think it was just sales newbies who struggled with referral reluctance. I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Sales Leadership Is Missing It Big (and Here’s the Proof).

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Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373