Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 8, 2025

Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. In this blog post, Ill break down what gap selling is, why its the secret sauce for successful sales, and how you can use it to connect with prospects on a deeper level. Know your prospects intrinsic motivation. Youre left wondering where it all went wrong.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It allows salespeople to approach prospects at the perfect time, with messaging that resonates with their current needs,” ZoomInfo Enterprise Account Manager Will Frattini says. Predictive Insights: Let AI Identify High-Value Prospects AI’s predictive capabilities are perhaps its most exciting feature for sales teams. Sell Smarter.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2025

The traditional go-to-market playbook is dead. Sales and marketing teams that once relied on high-volume outreach to hit their numbers are seeing diminishing returns. Heres how to leverage a GTM Intelligence Platform to set your marketing team up for sustained success. Were they increasing job postings in key departments?

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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. For example, video streaming subscriptions hit over 769 million in Q3 2020, up from around 552 million a year earlier, and TikTok surpassed 2 billion downloads in 2020.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The sales and marketing go-to-market frameworks weve relied on for decades staples like the funnel, the flywheel, and the buyers journey are fast becoming obsolete or are out the door already. Buyers Demand Relevance and Timing Prospecting thats irrelevant or poorly timed can harm deals more than help them. Sell Smarter.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

We launched Workflows to activate market insights, buyer intent, and website activity. But there are only a few milestones in ZoomInfo’s history that have had a game-changing impact on our trajectory and transformed how businesses everywhere go to market. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? How did you find those prospects?

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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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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In this blog, we’ll dive into how you can craft opt-in email marketing forms that people actually want to sign up for. Table of Contents What is opt-in email marketing? Opt-in email marketing refers to sending emails to individuals who have explicitly consented, or “opted in,” to receive communications from you.

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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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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2021

We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. The sales and marketing technology landscape has grown from just a few hundred applications to thousands—each one promising to streamline go-to-market operations, accelerate pipeline and generate revenue at scale. Insight-Driven Engagement for Sales AND Marketing.

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Read on to learn more about sales reports, templates, and how to create them, including helpful sales report template examples to get you started. Steps to creating a sales report template Effective sales report template examples Level up sales reporting with Nutshell What is a sales report? Table of Contents What is a sales report?

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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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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. You can throw in tactical skills like effective messaging, multi-threading, persuasive cold-calling, and much more.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 29, 2025

In a recent episode of the expert insight interview series, John Golden delves into the transformative world of geofencing advertising with marketing professionals Barbara Wardell and Ernest Kulhari. For example, an HVAC company targeting building managers secured a $30,000 job from a $1,000 geofencing campaign.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 2, 2025

Implementing an automated follow up sequence is crucial for ensuring consistent communication with prospects, as it automates the process and reduces the need for manual effort. Email marketing strategies and best practices can give further insights into optimizing these interactions. Show your commitment through your words.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Website popups have become a staple for B2B digital marketing teams, delivering opportunities for businesses to capture visitor attention, generate leads, and drive audience engagement. They have proven to be an effective marketing tool in the B2B environment. Table of Contents What is a website popup for B2B businesses?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2023

Using “you” puts the focus right where it needs to be: on the prospect’s own needs. It’s an incredibly effective example of tapping into how we think – and how our brains function – to optimize prospect engagement.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

This includes your prospects. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Your prospecting numbers may drop too.

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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? Yet, most companies miss the mark on referrals and instead make these common sales prospecting mistakes. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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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. What are examples of data-based buying signals.

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SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. Keeping Up with Industry Trends The sales and marketing sector is continuously evolving, with new tools, strategies, and market dynamics emerging regularly.

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Pipeline

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This blog will delve into the evolution of Kanban, explore how Kanban-based sales systems can boost team efficiency, and provide a practical example of implementing Kanban within a sales pipeline. It was initially used to describe the distinctive signboards that shops in bustling Japanese markets displayed to attract customers.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 8, 2023

If you’re taking a new job in sales or marketing, read this book first. I love the “bullseye framework” developed by Louis Gudema and explained in his book Bullseye Marketing —just out this week in its second (updated) edition. But so many marketers and salespeople don’t do this and do not do it in the right order.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

How to Build a Lead List My Tips for Building a Sales Lead List A prospect may have shown interest in a product or service by responding to an online offer, visiting your company’s booth at a conference, or engaging with social media posts. Enhanced Prospect Profiles The better your prospect profile, the better your call outcomes.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

Sellers across every industry are under intense pressure to deliver ambitious results in tightly competitive markets, and it’s much more than a passing trend. Salesforce, for example, now requires 3X pipeline coverage for its sales teams — an increase of 50%. In today’s markets, that’s often a luxury reps can simply no longer afford.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

By optimizing messaging, collateral and communication through effective sales enablement, sellers can better communicate the differentiating value of your new solution, showcase marketplace positioning and properly advise prospects. 1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch.

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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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SalesFuel

DECEMBER 20, 2024

One way to improve this situation is to use the best B2B market intelligence. The B2B Marketing Outlook Surveyed business leaders also have downgraded their performance scores on customer acquisition and brand value in the past six months. Market Intelligence This is great news. But there's always room for improvement.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 10, 2020

While our sales teams at WhiteHat Security have always been distributed, communicating with customers and prospects exclusively over the phone or video is a new challenge. When presenting to a client over the phone, the prospect may not be fully focused, and there’s not a foolproof way of knowing. Shifting Messaging .

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

I'm always saying, “Sound, well-structured business email templates are central to effective sales communication, initiating productive sales conversations, and sustaining relationships with prospects and customers.” Here's an example of what that might look like: 3. Table of Contents What is a business email?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2024

That said, ZoomInfo’s data indicates many salespeople are indeed doing everything they can to gain an advantage in a tough market, with demo completion rates of 45% observed between 6-8 p.m., ZoomInfo SVP of Sales Development Brian Vital says sellers should always ask for the soonest meeting possible while respecting the prospect’s time.

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