Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. And How Can They Help Marketers? Marketers can use buyer personas to build content strategies that speak directly to their targeted audience, and therefore build trust and reliability with customers. Analyze Prospect And Customer Data.

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Buyer Persona Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Top of Funnel 264

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. Spend more time with customers and less time prospecting. Save you money (There are no expensive marketing costs—just your own sales team out there selling for you.). What does it take to guarantee referral prospecting success?

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Guarantee Referrals Prospecting Lead Generation 233

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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Segment Lead Rank Trends Marketing Qualified Lead 246

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 248

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This multitouch buying experience poses a difficult question for marketers: Which channels actually contribute to an eventual conversion—and how much did each channel contribute? Enter: Marketing attribution. We explain the basics of marketing attribution and explore several popular marketing attribution models.

Lead Rank 236

Lead Rank B2B Top of Funnel Marketing 236

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 8, 2018

So put the phone down and listen up, because we’ve got the inside scoop for how to approach your prospects with a cold call , using the right message at the right time – without sounding like a cold-call creeper. For an individual prospect, this Fit data refers to demographic data: Name. Sales intelligence vs. lead lists.

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Cold Calling Prospecting Intent Data Intent 241

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Author: Andrew Frazier You need to market your small business like a drug dealer. It does until you take a closer look at their marketing and sales strategy. Small business owners can learn a lot from analyzing what drug dealers do in terms of defining their target market, performing marketing activities, and building relationships.

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Small Business Small Business Marketing Social Media 260

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 4, 2020

Author: Nick Lisette Email remains one of the best marketing tools at our fingertips, and yet it’s also one of the most underutilized. If you’ve been dabbling in email marketing or using email for sales purposes, it’s no surprise you’re ending up disappointed by the results. It’s annoying your intended audience.

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Email Marketing Marketing Follow-up Data 265

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

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Setting targeted Google Alerts for sales can give you invaluable insights into your niche. These sales alerts also give you a relatively low-effort way to keep tabs on your main competitors and ideal prospects. These sales alerts also give you a relatively low-effort way to keep tabs on your main competitors and ideal prospects.

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Google Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead 110

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

As DiscoverOrg’s Manager of Strategic Accounts, I’m always looking for ways to use personal touchpoints to engage prospects via email. I start with a thoughtful, well-researched cold email that shows just how well I knows my prospect – both the pain points they experience in their job, as well as their personal interests.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Data 258

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

When executed correctly, content marketing can attract, engage, and retain new customers– Yet, despite the various benefits of content marketing, many B2B organizations have miles to go before they can build a successful content marketing program. The Importance of Content Marketing. B2B Content Marketing Strategy.

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Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255

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. Where does this time go?

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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Buyer Persona Marketing Collateral Scale 214

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2019

If you’ve worked in sales for any length of time, you know your success is dependent on the quality of your prospect lists. Instead, modern sales professionals find success by creating and reaching out to hyper-targeted lists made up of only the most qualified prospects. Let’s get into it! Step One: Understand Your Offering.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Hiring How To 182

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2019

It was actually a recruitment ad for Google, and they were invited to submit their resumes. As Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, once put it, “We run this company on questions, not answers.” Google was looking for the trait of curiosity. Top salespeople ask prospective clients lots of questions to get to the real problem.

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Google Face-to-face Cold Calling Survey 299

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As the person responsible for Innovation at ZoomInfo, a core part of my job is understanding markets where we do not currently offer a solution — but might want to in the future. My research landed me squarely on Bizo, a company that once aspired marketers to “precisely target business people by specific business demographic criteria.”

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Data Advertising Advertising Lead Rank 246

Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

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Examples B2B Marketing Inbound 208

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2024

Launched in 2022, ZoomInfo’s partnership with Google Cloud allows teams to access rich, engagement-ready data in the flexible, powerful environments they use every day. The bottom line: ZoomInfo and Google’s partnership allows sales, marketing and operations professionals to deliver the speed, personalization, and scale that buyers demand.

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Google Data Scale Segment 130

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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Marketing Intent Data Social Media eBook 39

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Discover your best marketing account segments from within your current customer base. Sound familiar?

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Account Based Marketing Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account 218

Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

3-4 weeks go by while you’re still learning your product and your market never mind filling your sales pipeline. The step that was missed was testing and refining the company’s message, target market and conversion of interested prospects into customers. I’m reading 80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall.

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Scale Hiring Collateral Social Selling 373

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But, thanks to technological advancements, predicting customer behavior has become a reality—and it’s changed the face of marketing forever. Predictive intelligence and machine learning may sound like futuristic concepts, but they’ve already made a massive impact in the marketing world. Let’s get into it! The best part?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Marketing 189

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. But a lot of marketing, sales, and recruiting professionals don’t know how much data has changed over the past few years! Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts!

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

What makes a marketer successful? The marketing industry lives in a constant state of evolution. New trends and technologies emerge regularly and quickly change the way we interact with customers and prospects. Hard Skills for B2B Marketers. Here are some hard skills that directly correlate with B2B marketing success: 1.

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Marketing Social Media Hiring B2B 193

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Product reviews provide an effective way for prospective customers to understand real experiences with products and/or services. Yet third-party product reviews often fail to be considered a top marketing priority. Let’s explore the reasons why product reviews should be part of your go-to-market strategy for 2021 and beyond.

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Scale Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 177

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Most B2B companies have reduced marketing budgets in the wake of the pandemic, even as the need for impactful customer engagement has increased. In order to be nimble, marketers must react to news and events in real time.

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Marketing Trends Government Face-to-face 166

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Are your sales reps wasting time prospecting? If you’ve beaten the odds and have held your role for more than 18 months, you’ve already gotten your team lined up, your prospecting strategy in place, and your goals set. When your sales reps prospect through referrals, they: Get every meeting at the level that counts with one call.

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Referrals Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 279

Nutshell

APRIL 26, 2023

What is a CRM system in marketing? But with the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution, you can optimize your marketing to suit the unique needs of every customer, just like you might in a small independent business. What is a CRM system in marketing? What are some CRM marketing examples? What is CRM?

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Marketing SugarCRM CRM Lead Rank 171

The Pipeline

JANUARY 7, 2020

You’re A Prospect – I’ll Sell You. Witness the recent announcement that a Google company AI was able to better spot breast cancer than experts in the field. Some of you may be yelling at the screen about the Google AI that set a haircut appointment ? They for pattern, I for nuance; there was no nuance in the Google calls above.

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Face-to-face Lead Gen Hiring Google 257

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 10, 2017

Author: Ray Kemper, Chief Marketing Officer, Televerde Customer relationships. Savvy (some might say cynical) prospects can see the strong pitch coming a mile away and they don’t trust it. All someone needs to do is Google whatever they want to know.”. They’re the engine that fuels successful selling, right? Well, not always.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Face-to-face 258

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2020

With a focus on getting ahead of competitors, reps are assigned target prospects without overlapping each other. Greater adaptability: One of the main reasons territory maps are built is to maximize company visibility to sales prospects. What is Sales Territory Mapping? So let’s say you want to target larger enterprises in the US.

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Territories Outside Sales Field Sales Segment 264

MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 10, 2018

This surprises us, as the quality of the preparation can make or break your opportunities with a new prospect. Work Out Why This Particular Prospect Ended Up On Your List. Have they branched out into new markets? Work out what made this prospect be on your call list in the first place. Google The Person You Are Visiting.

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Ideal Customer Profile Google Competition LinkedIn 220

Zoominfo

MARCH 3, 2019

As a B2B sales rep, the more you know about a prospect and their company, the easier it is to sell to them. What kind of marketers would we be if we didn’t include ZoomInfo on this list? In fact, we’ve spoken at length about Reddit’s value as a market research tool. Check it out! Sprout Social. It’s free!

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Research B2B Tools Company 233

Zoominfo

MAY 28, 2018

Marketing bleeds into social media. But, two marketing initiatives that aren’t often integrated are search engine optimization (SEO) and public relations (PR). But, two marketing initiatives that aren’t often integrated are search engine optimization (SEO) and public relations (PR). Social media bleeds into customer relations.

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B2B Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 194

The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. By Tibor Shanto. Even Less Receptive.

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Buyer Collateral Harvest Quota 277