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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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause. Let's see what they had to say!

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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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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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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 28, 2025

to prospect consistently, these tips are for you. In this episode, I answer a question from Paul in Rancho Cucamonga, California, whos building and leading a remote sales team in the logistics industry and needs to find a way to get his salespeople to prospect consistently. Be like teflon: no excuses stick. Dont hide in your office.

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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.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2024

Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Ingram's Tested, 10-Step Process for Nailing Prospecting on LinkedIn Your LinkedIn profile is your first digital impression, and you don‘t want to waste your shot with a lackluster profile. Unpack your ICP's pain points.

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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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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. Template Example: Begin with a polite greeting addressed to the hiring manager by name. Their adaptability makes them a cornerstone of effective communication.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The prospect seemed interested, nodding along as she explained the value of her solution. She had rehearsed her sales pitch a hundred times and put so much time into pursuing this prospective buyer. Objection handling is responding to and resolving a prospect’s objections during the sales process. Sound familiar?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In sales, everything that occurs PRIOR to a sale is a potential KPI but the challenge continues to be identifying those which: Can be measured (example: conversions) Drive revenue (example: new meetings with new prospects) Are key milestones (example: qualified opportunities) Incentivize desirable behaviors (example: call attempts) Tell an important (..)

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Well explore various types of popups, their benefits, best practices, and examples to ensure that your popup strategy enhances visitor engagement and contributes to your overall marketing goals. A common example is the 10% and 15% off offers you receive for a newsletter signup when first visiting an online store.

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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. One prominent example is its influence on Scrum, a popular agile development framework. What is Kanban?

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Nutshell

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Importance of opt-in email marketing Different types of opt-in email marketing Ideal placement for your opt-in email marketing form Examples of successful opt-in email marketing methods What is opt-in email marketing? Example from Grass Roots: Source: Landing page examples Solve a problem Provide a solution to a challenge your audience faces.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

While the single most important thing for salespeople to achieve in a discovery call is urgency, you can’t tell a prospect that they have urgency, you can’t manufacture urgency, and you can’t fake urgency. I would be devastated) When these four factors are in place you have a scenario where your prospect must buy. .:

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Unfortunately, Pharaoh lied about letting the Israelites go free each time, much as prospects often lie to salespeople. God coached Moses repeatedly to return to Pharaoh, a sales scenario that could only happen if you build space ships and NASA is your only prospect.

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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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Combining first-party customer and prospect data with trusted, high-quality B2B data partners — especially providers who can incorporate an additional layer of advanced signals — takes the effectiveness of signal-based marketing to another level. Let’s consider a company that sells a SaaS platform for project management as an example.

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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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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many people stress toward year-end, knowing that most prospects said ‘no,’ and fear losing their jobs by year-end. My example is to ask, ‘Are you looking forward to the holidays, followed by, ‘Do you have special plans?’ It doesn’t have to be about business; it could be, for example, planting gardens or helping in a food kitchen.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 5, 2021

BuyCycle TM represents how salespeople go about the process of making a major purchase and there is a 100% correlation between how they buy and the behavior they accept from their prospects. For example:

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The Pipeline

MAY 11, 2021

But given the example set by political, religious, and corporate leaders these days, it is easy to see why sellers feel it’s OK to follow. As bad as misrepresenting things to prospects is, the worst white or gray lies we tell, are the ones we tell ourselves. One you make to prospects, and one unfortunately, sellers keep telling buyers.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 10, 2025

Sellers need to spend the time they do have with qualified prospects. But first, these sellers must be able to determine whether or not a prospect is the right fit and fast. The BANT framework is a simple yet effective tool for quickly determining whether a prospect is worth pursuing. However, that could change.

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 23, 2024

They have also introduced a number of innovative features that can be leveraged to increase your prospecting effectiveness and this includes on LinkedIn and other social networks. You define the trigger, for example moving to the 3rd stage, and then you create an action. For example, copy and paste their “About” info into a note.

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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. For every action a prospect takes, they create a trail of intent data across the internet. Consider this.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2024

Closing The aim is to provide actionable strategies, real-world examples, and frameworks to help you transform your cold-calling fears into confidence. For example, “Hi, Sally. The key here is to use “moments” instead of a specific time frame, as it feels less demanding and gives the prospect more control over the interaction.

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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2024

Cold Call Script Examples How to Create a Cold Call Script The Best Cold Calling Script Ever Cold Calling Script Variation Cold Calling Script Templates Cold Calling Tips What is the purpose of cold calling? 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.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Prospects don’t care about your facts. Prospects don’t care about you … or me, for that matter. When someone asks what you do, frame your response like this: “The best way to explain what I do is to give you an example.” For example, I might start my business storytelling like this: “A sales VP came to me with a big problem.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Early Mornings Weakest for Demos While not terribly surprising, we found strong confirmation that demos are typically not how prospects want to start their days. 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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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 28, 2024

And having a third party vouch that you have those qualities can really boost your credibility to prospects. And case studies can show you have the experience needed to help a prospect with specific issues. But don’t forget: Make sure case studies you share are relevant to the prospect.

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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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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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