Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy 208

The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s not by pandering or pretending that the prospect is always right as many try to do. One is the notion of how they communicate with prospects. Assuming that others have the exact same preferences is limiting to your success. A key job of a salesperson is to help prospects move beyond their comfort zone. LinkedIn Poll.

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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.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Twelve years later, I came to the exact same conclusion myself. At the time, then ZoomInfo Co-Founder and CEO Yonathan Stern provided the rationale for spinning off Bizo. “We We realized our business information index allowed marketers to deliver targeted online ads at a level never before seen.”. The results?

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Data Advertising Advertising Lead Rank 246

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 23, 2021

First, remember: Most objections are smokescreens hiding the real reason a prospect isn’t moving forward. Here’s one way I have successfully dealt with this and gotten the prospect to reveal what was really holding them back. And then hit MUTE and listen to what your prospect reveals. They like a different solution.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. None of us stands out during prospecting. When they get introductions from people their prospects know and trust, they walk straight into meetings with your ideal clients. Not getting the ROI you expected from your lead-gen tactics?

Lead Gen 397

Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I’ll explain how to always respond appropriately to Your Prospect. This is exactly what salespeople go through when a prospect pushes back, objects, displays lack of interest, or attempts to end the call. You are in your head instead of focused on what your prospect is saying. Your mind is wandering.

Prospecting 177

Prospecting How To Call-back Objections 177

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. You might think you’ve been able to avoid sounding like a telemarketer, but that is exactly what you’re doing, and your prospect knows it. To gain access, sales professionals must abide by the new rules of prospecting.”. STOP Cold Calling.

Cold Calling 365

Cold Calling Social Media Telemarketing Referrals 365

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 30, 2021

Wouldn’t it be convenient to have a list of 5 questions you could use to get your prospect talking, to get them to open up about how they’re feeling and what you might need to concentrate on? You could do two: one for prospecting and one for the close. Ever feel stalled during a close? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

Closing 334

Closing Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 334

Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 12, 2020

In case you missed this, I received the following email last week: Dear Mike: The people have spoken and your article, “3 Keys to Dealing with Difficult Prospects,” has won 2nd place in our 2020 Sales Pro Central MVP Awards Social Selling category!” Here’s what I teach: Prospects have all the answers.

Decision Maker 291

Decision Maker Face-to-face Call-back Gatekeeper 291

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 6, 2021

Rookie mistake: You’ve got several products or services you can offer a prospect, and you start by offering the first, or main one, then hear an opening for another one so pivot to that one, and describe another—and then another. Not only will the prospect be confused, but you will be, too. Stalled sale. Sound familiar? Happy selling!

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Face-to-face How To Pivotal Call-back 317

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Question for you: How often do you take notes while you’re on Mute and your prospect is revealing their buying motives? Make a much better connection with your prospect or client because they will feel listened to and heard. You don’t take notes? How about using your Mute button? Are you actively doing that? (If Get Access Today.

Motivation 332

Motivation Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 332

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 11, 2021

And when your ears are closed, you learn nothing about your prospect’s buying motives, their possible objections, or whether or not they are buying into your pitch. Ask questions frequently of your prospect. Intersperse it with tons of questions and tie-downs and opportunities to engage and learn more about your prospects.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 317

The Pipeline

JUNE 11, 2019

.” Something that can also be used to describe sales and prospecting. Making any growth or development we achieve, as something to have “lived through,” nowhere more so than in prospecting. People are paralyzed by the thought of being rejected when prospecting. Rejection Hurts. It’s Not Just in Your Head.

Quota 295

Quota Prospecting Exact Study 295

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You could add people to your team to do things like: Post content for you on social media Look for content from others that you can curate on put on social media Research prospects lists Research account information for you so you can make customized approaches to prospects Update the CRM for you Help you write and edit your proposals.

Account 385

Account Scale Social Media Small Business 385

Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We’ve all been there – you call your prospect back at the appointed time for your presentation and they tell you any of the following: This isn’t a good time, OR. Rather than set another time to get back with them—thus letting the prospect off the hook—try the following: Response #1: “Sure, I can take as long or little as you need.

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Scale Call-back 320

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Author: Sean Gordon The rollercoaster of the past year has forced companies to drastically alter their operations, all with their employees, customers and prospects in mind. Personalized Video Will Replace Event Prospecting. One of these shifts is an extreme consumer focus on video. That’s where video emails come in. .

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Video Scale Marketing Face-to-face 317

Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 13, 2021

But when you’ve done a presentation and then don’t hear back from a prospect, it can often mean the kiss of death. While it seems counter intuitive, I’d rather know up front if I’m wasting my time or if this is a real prospect. Speaking about prospects hiding behind emails, etc., Ghosted—just the sound of this is chilling.

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Face-to-face Call-back Gatekeeper Licensing 317

Jill Konrath

OCTOBER 30, 2019

After spending months trying to meet with a perfect prospect, the last thing you want to do is blow the opportunity. Yet all too often, that's exactly what happens—especially when you only have a short time together.

Strategy 264

Strategy Exact Meeting Opportunity 264

No More Cold Calling

MAY 17, 2019

A referral introduction means prospects have agreed to talk to salespeople, unlike cold calling victims who never asked to be interrupted. Referred prospects trust salespeople, because they trust the referrer, and that trust gets transferred. The prospect doesn’t know you and doesn’t expect to hear from you. What’s her style?

Referrals 327

Referrals Scale How To Cold Calling 327

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? During these pandemic times, there are fewer opportunities and more competition going after the same exact business. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

Lead Generation 409

Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 19, 2024

Now ask questions, try to engage, and take your prospect as far as they’ll let you! You see, the value of having a proven response in your back pocket is that it allows you to move past a prospect’s initial resistance. [Now take it down, and then move into qualifying!] That’s what most blow offs are! appeared first on Mr.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We provide the exact talk tracks, templates, and proven tools your team will be motivated to apply, all structured around an award winning comprehensive inside sales approach that gives your team the confidence to succeed in every selling situation they face today. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! Get Access Today.

Influencer 288

Influencer Decision Maker Face-to-face Gatekeeper 288

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 25, 2021

Yesterday I watched a toad walk across the outdoor side of our kitchen window. Picture it! I wish I had video but it ran so counter to what I have observed toads doing over the past 65 years that I froze. I performed a google search and found exactly one image of a toad on a window.

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Meeting Google Exact Data 390

Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 20, 2021

Qualify prospects better and learn their buying motives. We provide the exact talk tracks, templates, and proven tools your team will be motivated to apply, all structured around an award winning comprehensive inside sales approach that gives your team the confidence to succeed in every selling situation they face today.

Gatekeeper 315

Gatekeeper Decision Maker Face-to-face Licensing 315

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 30, 2024

Imagine: for less than $18 you can suddenly fly past gatekeepers, overcome initial resistance statements from prospects, and qualify leads so you’ll know exactly how to close them! And all it takes is a little bit of effort, time, and a tiny amount of money. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

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Gatekeeper Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Licensing 255

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects. The #1 challenge salespeople face is reaching decision-makers quickly, but getting prospects to call you back is deceptively simple with a referral program. Yes, your most predictable and measurable prospecting tool is your very own sales team, asking for referrals.

Referrals 373

Referrals Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead Call-back 373

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 8, 2021

Two weeks into the New Year, and are you already stressed about picking up the phone and making prospecting calls? Think about it: Not everyone you speak with is going to be a prospect or a deal, are they? And regarding fumbling a good lead—my experience is that if a prospect is interested, then they’ll speak with you.

Face-to-face 313

Face-to-face Cold Calling Gatekeeper Licensing 313

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 14, 2023

To follow up on the blog post from two weeks ago (about the one quick fix to get your VMs returned ), here is the second quick fix: Stop trying to trick your prospect! So do your prospects. Your prospects can see through you and your message will be deleted quickly. I ALWAYS delete these messages the moment I hear them.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 254

Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Script #1: Make sure and have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. The point here is whether or not your prospect will: Give you the time to speak further with them. This tells you how cooperative your prospect is, and so how cooperative they will be throughout the sales cycle. Right then! Get Access Today.

Sales Qualified Lead 284

Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 284

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 22, 2021

We all know the importance of asking questions of our prospects and clients, yet how many do you ask? And: Your prospects have all the answers about whether they’ll buy from you or not, and what you need to say to sell them. Here’s a list to get you started: For prospects: #1: “What motivated you to reach out to us today?”. [If

Face-to-face 287

Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 287

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 17, 2023

So many sales reps are anxious when they speak with a prospect. Plus, they know that most of the “prospects” they speak with don’t turn into a deal anyway, so, why not learn who is a real prospect right from the get go? It seems they are afraid and think things like: “Will they like my product or service?” “Am

Decision Maker 261

Decision Maker Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 261

Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Managers tell reps to stress the quality, the warranty, the features and benefits, but your prospects have heard all that before, haven’t they? Often times, services and products are roughly the same, and prospects will buy from the people they like, know or trust. Want a better way? ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS!

Objections 285

Objections Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 285

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 22, 2024

Once I get my prospect on the phone for our chosen closing time, I open with: “Before I get started, I’m sure you’ve looked over things, so, what questions do you have for me?” The important thing is that knowing where my prospect is in the beginning not only tells me which direction to go, but it also saves me a ton of time!

Closing 255

Closing Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 255

Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

We all know the importance of listening to our prospects and clients, so why are we doing so little of it? Simple—salespeople love to pitch, to tell prospects of all the features and benefits, and to find the one selling point that might make the difference. 2) Write down key words or phrases your prospect uses.

Face-to-face 248

Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing Decision Maker 248

Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

I’ve spent many years selling in startups and small businesses and every time the biggest issue cratering the sales pipeline is getting enough meetings with appropriate prospects. There’s an alternative way to get meetings with prospective clients, but sales people don’t generally use it. Closing is easy. Making a social call.

Outsourcing Services 78

Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Call-back Networking 78

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. For sellers, this makes access to prospective buyers the first chokepoint. How do you get access to your prime prospects? Referrals can transfer earned trust from a customer to a prospect.

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