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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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. Let’s take a look at what should go into cold calling guidelines, what regulations to follow, and how to create a cold call script. Guidelines for cold outreach may vary by company and department, but every organization must follow SEC regulations.

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Cold Calling Guidelines Prospecting Face-to-face 264

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 12, 2024

Who do you think knows why your prospect buys? Who do you think knows when your prospect is going to buy? The answer, of course, is your prospect! The problem for many sales reps, is that they prefer to pitch and talk at prospects more than they actually ask questions and listen. Or who they like to buy from?

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Prospecting Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 212

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Twenty videos later you look up to see that hours have passed you by? Prospecting can feel pretty similar. What is a prospecting workflow? Prospecting workflows are established so that sales reps don’t spend their whole day looking for prospects. Sales reps often juggle multiple prospects at one time.

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 264

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? They are a component of campaigns where individual readers (who could be possible prospects) are sent crafted messages after they set off a configured trigger. How Do You Set up Email Automation? Technical Steps.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Jack’s eyes lit up. When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. Whether you call it cold-calling, prospecting, outbound, or hunting, the name doesn’t change what it is or how difficult it is. He was all in! Things didn’t go the same way with Kyle.

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Prospecting Incentives Incentive Cold Calling 177

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights? What are prospecting insights? It turns out they’re pretty important.

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Data Prospecting Strategy Cold Calling 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Thank you page – While it’s not part of the actual landing page, a follow-up thank you message is crucial for a lasting impression. It serves as a validator for offering up contact information and a promotional space for other content, such as relevant articles, newsletters, and social media channels.

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Prospecting Marketing Top of Funnel Segment 246

No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Other reasons why salespeople fail to close sales include: The initial prospects were unqualified. This is not how you wow buyers, build relationships, and convert prospects into clients.

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Closing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

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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Top of Funnel Pipeline Follow-up Proposal 378

The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2021

Don’t roll your eyes, not another piece about remembering to reach out to a prospect or a client. I am speaking more of the follow-through in execution, completing the action that you initiate. The problem in most instances the fault is not with the rep, but the people who put them up to it. Deliver The Whole Experience.

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Face-to-face Objections Follow-up Course 329

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ironically, instead of replacing salespeople they said would become obsolete, they created a need for a whole new breed of salespeople - BDRs - to follow up on all of the crappy leads generated by their inbound marketing platforms. Fifteen years later, their products have a place at the very top of the sales funnel.

Top of Funnel 409

Top of Funnel Positioning Scale Inbound 409

The Pipeline

JULY 20, 2021

I’ll follow up by asking “for prospecting and selling?” The majority will tell you they do most, if not all their “research” before even prospecting someone. It is clear that many salespeople use the “activity” as busy work and a means of avoiding actual prospecting. Research Or Recreation?

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Research Call-back Lead Rank Lead Scoring 386

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., What to do? That’s right. Relentlessly.

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Face-to-face Call-back Gatekeeper Licensing 317

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. Cold callers tell you to just pick up the damn phone. Consider the following situations: You call someone because you got their name came from a colleague or friend. You call someone and then follow up with a letter. STOP Cold Calling.

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Cold Calling Social Media Telemarketing Referrals 365

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. 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. They ended up having 50 agents make 6,264 cold calls.

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Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Call-back Networking 78

Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If you want more “treats” than “tricks” when dealing with prospects, then be bold and call back sooner than you are now. I don’t know why sales reps always default to: “I’ll call you again in a month…” Or 60 days or 90 days, etc, but why would you want to miss all the sales this prospect will place in the meantime?

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Call-back Face-to-face Follow-up Gatekeeper 240

The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2021

One way to stand out is to demonstrate to prospects that you not only bring different habits but are willing to change. If you want to lead your prospects to change their buying habits, be a role model. Change needs to be led, and how you prospect, sell, and manage discovery is the first step. You Only Have to Change Once.

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Lead Rank Vendor Buyer Prospecting 367

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Even if you use social selling techniques that get you a referral or help you connect to a potential buyer using your mutual background, it is still likely to take some follow up before you confirm a meeting time (or virtual meeting time these days). Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies.

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Direct Mail Outbound Referrals Social Selling 370

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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Intent Signal Prospecting Intent Decision Maker 130

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. And, since many sales reps don’t qualify thoroughly enough, most of the leads they stuff into their pipeline are made up of 6’s and 7’s. How long will this take?”

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

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? They don’t know either, but they have a following, your target market. By Tibor Shanto. There will new turns with each aftershock to come. Trust In You.

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Sage Airlines Enterprise Enterprise 361

The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2021

Closing business and prospecting to ensure you avoid the January lull with a pipeline that propel you to success. What follows are five things you can do any time in any year, but given the opportunities, they are crucial this year. Take time to catch up with your inbox. Catch Up With Your Inbox. Harvest referrals.

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Harvest Referrals Call-back Video 360

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?

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Closing Gatekeeper Face-to-face Licensing 334

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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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 31, 2024

One thing I have excelled at in my hole digging responsibilities is cutting into the coaxial cable that makes up Dinger’s invisible fence, rendering it useless. I set it up on my phone in around the same amount of time it takes to splice a broken cable and I love the app.

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Cold Calling Call-back Follow-up Proposal 316

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

However, many sales reps may find themselves unsure of how to best lead a meeting with prospects over video. Consider holding a Q&A session to get to know prospects better and for them to know you and the company better. But if you’re looking for safer topics to discuss, consider the following: Weekend plans.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Nonprofit Face-to-face 317

Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Be honest: Do you dutifully send an email and then ask when you can follow up when you get this blow off objection? Script #1: Make sure and have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. Script #1: Make sure and have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. Right then! And begin qualifying!

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 284

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. In fact, I recommend you share the definition with your prospects as a means of creating a clear path forward. Smart sellers are similar, value for their prospects, employers and themselves is developed over time.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

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.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

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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Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

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. You can use the intel you got from your initial pitch to open up the upsell. At that time, load them up!

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

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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Demand Generation Agencies Prospecting Strategy Follow-up 115

Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Not being one to pass up opportunities like this, I conducted the following comparison: First, it's important to know that OMG's assessment is sales specific - built for sales. Trust - Caliper looks at general skepticism (an outlook on life) while OMG looks specifically at whether the candidate trusts prospects.

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Comparison Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 319

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

With ZoomInfo, your go-to-market team can easily identify website visitors , engage prospects with website chat , and optimize web forms to transform anonymous visitors into actionable prospects. ZoomInfo automates lead routing based on criteria like location and company size, directing leads to the right representatives quickly.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

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.

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

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Great exercise, more companies should follow their lead. Specifically, how we use positive data in prospecting and Discovery, in this case the latter. Most use data/stats as an object to be thrown, with the hope the prospect becomes sufficiently impressed to move forward. The above approach lacks context for the prospect.

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Data Objections ACT Lead Rank 368