Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Before you can go setting up meetings, you need to figure out who you need to meet. Avoid banging your head up against the same wall over and over again. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Integration : Most lead capture tools seamlessly integrate with CRM systems and other marketing automation platforms, creating a cohesive ecosystem for lead management.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. Take email prospecting, for instance. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2025

Winning in today’s markets takes more than just raw effort. Thats where Go-to-Market Intelligence enters the picture. The result: a 360-degree view of your customers and markets, no matter how quickly they change. Comprehensive, high-quality data to set sellers up for success.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On-Demand Webinar “Think of the 70% of tasks that don’t directly contribute to closing deals — updating CRM records, scheduling follow-ups, sorting through data,” Blount says. That’s why it’s critical to ensure that your data is clean, up-to-date, and reliable,” Iannarino says. This shift is already underway.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After 18 years in B2B marketing, Ive seen this song and dance before. And lets face it, most B2B marketing teams didnt exactly have a foolproof plan to ensure ROI. Some are ramping up investments in large-scale user conferences. 40% on Post-Event Follow-Up: This is the part where most people drop the ball.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Reaching the right prospects at the right moment is often the difference between closing a deal and coming in second. Improved Forecasting : AI-powered algorithms analyze historical data and market trends to deliver more accurate sales forecasts, enabling better strategic planning.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 2, 2025

The art of crafting the perfect follow up email can make all the difference in achieving your professional goals. Whether youre seeking a new job, nurturing sales leads, or simply maintaining business relationships, a well-structured follow up email template can enhance your chances of success.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 17, 2025

I accompany salespeople to meetings where the prospect has an interest in these types of services. Many of these prospects have very little technical background. Prospects eyes glazed over rapidly as these executives spoke to them about their amazing products. And up to this point, I thought I was 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. Conventional GTM tools cant keep up, providing information that is outdated, static, and frustratingly out of sync with reality.

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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

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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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

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. Marketing teams pour budget into new accounts that arent really new. Its hard to stomach, but scenarios like this play out every single day.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Back then, new digital marketing companies were telling everyone that salespeople would be replaced by inbound marketing. And the very same companies who were claiming that their SaaS marketing platforms would replace salespeople actually required salespeople - lots of them - to sell their applications. They average only 1.5

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

When he got older, we watched Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Elf, School of Rock, and Grown Ups every year. Until there is an agreed upon compelling to buy, the prospect has no incentive to enter into any qualification conversation. We watched The Lion King with him around one hundred times and Brother Bear another fifty times.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

Big events are happening so quickly it’s hard to keep up. The global crisis is taking up everyone’s mindshare. 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. Your prospecting numbers may drop too. Hopefully not.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 27, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Prospects Can Direct Us to A Better Path for Sales Long ago, salespeople were advised to generate many cold calls daily to find one or two interested parties. Its critical to realize that we are each unique individuals, prospects included, with varying thinking and abilities.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

The lyrics perfectly sum up the most common B2B lead generation mistakes: “I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places, Lookin’ for love in too many faces, Searchin’ their eyes and lookin’ for traces, Of what I’m dreaming of.”. How do most companies ramp up their B2B lead generation strategies?

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Sales 2.0

JULY 17, 2019

If you run a small company, you usually end up being one of your company’s early sales people. Getting in the door and getting in front of a human in your target market is a huge problem for most startups and small businesses. They ended up having 50 agents make 6,264 cold calls. Baylor University. Making a social call.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2020

As people ascend from their quarantine, fix up their hair, and realize their sales, or specifically quota retirement, needs attention. Who To Follow? What are the thought leaders in your target market talking about? They don’t know either, but they have a following, your target market. By Tibor Shanto.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 2, 2025

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job or Clientele: Know Your Prospects Well for Sales and Business Growth Many approaches and specific strategies exist for most endeavors, including attempting to sell. Our blog offers insights on how to ‘Know your prospects well for sales and business growth.’

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list. Wondering how to achieve this lofty goal? AI can help.

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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. But it’s backing up those higher targets with support investments, a strong signal that executives view higher coverage figures as a new normal.

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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. MQLs that your sales team has vetted and identified as worthy of direct follow-up.

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Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Direct Mail: Send personalized mail to capture the attention of prospects. The goal is to make prospects aware of your existence and offerings. Wes stresses the importance of standing out in a crowded market by being creative and authentic in your approach. This inconsistency undermines trust and authenticity.

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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. Let’s break that down. How to spot buying signals.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company. Sales time sucks.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Lead-to-account matching and routing solutions connect new leads with existing account records in your go-to-market data systems, automatically directing them to the right salesperson saving time, reducing errors, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of your sales efforts.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The project has already thrown up a few reminders I see time-and-time-again in the sales world. Little left behind My journey through the old dusty files did not turn up much. Placing bets Since the salespersons account list might turn up some short-term deals, it is one potential source of the quick wins I seek.

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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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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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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 19, 2024

Today, we will help you overcome that fear of rejection by following a process. The Art of the Introduction: Mastering the Pattern Interrupt The first few seconds of your cold call are crucial — yet most people wing their intros, and you can completely lose your prospect if you don't prepare what to say. Value proposition 3.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nearly a quarter of sellers say prospecting is a top challenge. Yet prospecting is vital to the sales process. A sales lead list is a collection of potential customers' contact information and details that sellers use to target prospects. And by tracking engagement, you can determine the best time for follow-up.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. Aggressive, generic offers were just as fruitless, especially when the prospect hadn’t already confirmed their interest in what I was offering. (In

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