Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A 2024 HubSpot Blog Survey of 422 B2B professionals in the U.S. While the pandemic normalized remote work, I still find in-person meetings at conferences and tradeshows crucial to building real relationships with your prospects and gaining their trust. B2B Buyer Stats First and foremost, B2B buyers are users of the tools they buy.

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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.

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Nutshell

MAY 15, 2023

For outbound sales teams, prospecting software is essential to finding new leads and nurturing them into customers. Sales prospecting tools for lead generation are critical for helping sales representatives find, qualify, and reach more prospects.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 28, 2023

This article will serve as your guide for automatically tracking and reporting on sales leads using the Lead status property and your HubSpot workflows tool. The Value of Lead Status HubSpot's lead status contact property offers a solution for managing potential sales leads and organizing their contact information.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. Streamlining the sales process by providing sales teams with high-quality leads, allowing them to focus on closing deals rather than prospecting. The result?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These tools not only help teams track performance, but improve engagement strategies and optimize sales workflows. But how can you choose the right tool for your team? These tools typically include features such as click-to-call functionality, local number generation, automated follow-ups, and call recording.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 31, 2023

With hundreds of AI sales tools in the market, picking the right ones for your tech stack can be confusing and daunting. To help you out, we’ve handpicked the top 10 AI tools for sales teams. We’ve also listed the top use cases of AI sales tools, along with a few best practices to help you get the most out of them.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 13, 2023

85% of salespeople using AI/automation agree it makes their prospecting efforts more effective. As prospecting is an extremely critical step in the sales process , adopting AI to help with your processes is worth considering. Read on to learn more about using AI for sales prospecting and specific use cases for generative AI.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sometimes, prospects will give me their personal email address, after a good phone call, because it will get lost if I email their business account!”. For example, we sell to sales and marketing, so the fiscal calendar year drives decisions for our prospects. For our prospects, an example might be ‘summer slump.’ Seasonality.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here, I spoke to sales leaders at Bardeen.ai , Aircall , and HubSpot to get their top predictions for the future of sales. Here's why: The traditional way of building trust with prospects was relatively straightforward. Let's dive in. AI will level out the playing field. Build a nice-looking website. Have professional branding.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prospective buyers don’t always understand the landscape, prospects under (or over) estimate AI’s capabilities, and worries that AI could drive humans out of their role puts business leaders off AI. Educate Your Prospects ChatSpot is a new addition to the HubSpot CRM, available on free plans and up.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. If you’re looking to assemble a new sales operations tech stack — or simply want to upgrade your existing tools — this comprehensive guide to the key categories can help. What Are Sales Operations Tools?

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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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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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. Fifteen years ago, I would have told you that cold calling was the most annoying, least effective sales prospecting method. Don’t believe me? Big mistake!

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When it comes to sales, there's a lot of innovation happening — and therefore, a litany of new tools. But only one type of tool is considered "effective" by 78% of global sales professionals. What's this magic tool? Even if you don't use HubSpot, you probably use some type of CRM. It's not that new or hard to access.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. However, Optimizing your chat tool to maximize your team’s efficiency and generate leads requires finding the balance between automated and human touchpoints in your chat platform’s programming.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2023

Since December 2022, interest in the search term “AI tools” has skyrocketed by 292% in the U.S. Now Google, HubSpot , and Microsoft are racing to develop their own versions of AI chat tools to compete with ChatGPT. Identify who your target prospect is and ask ChatGPT what's most important to them. Mendes says.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 3, 2024

That put a sour taste in my mouth regarding using that AI tool for my small business. While I’m still not overly impressed with ChatGPT’s ability to write (or, should I say, generate ) content, I’ve come to think it’s a handy research tool. This round-the-clock support is driven mainly by AI-powered chatbots and self-service tools.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we’ll share everything you need to know about AI email assistants, from what they are to when to use one and all the tools we love. When to Use an AI Email Assistant AI Email Assistant Tools What is an AI email assistant? An AI email assistant is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help you manage emails.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Between prospecting, sales calls, data entry, quote preparation, and follow-ups, it’s very easy for teams to mismanage data and trip over themselves on the way to the finish line. That’s why sales collaboration tools are an essential part of the modern sales lifecycle. Let’s jump right in!

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Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2019

So while this campaign is among the most creative we’ve seen, the basic marketing strategies behind it are nothing new or groundbreaking—meaning, you already have the tools you need to do something equally amazing. Hubspot: A Guide to Practicing What You Preach. So how did Hubspot and the concept of inbound marketing grow so quickly?

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Zoominfo

JULY 16, 2019

As a project management tool, Asana is all about motion and progress — users move tasks from one stage to another, rearrange calendars, assign tasks to specific employees, etc. . Hubspot offers a number of solutions for marketing, sales, and customer service professionals. And, it makes sense for this content to be animated.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. Here’s the thing, in a HubSpot survey, only 7% of salespeople said leads they received from marketing were very high quality. The overall goal is to stimulate prospects’ interest in your product or service. .

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. These tools are now essential for companies looking to maintain a competitive edge in a demanding market. Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 14, 2021

So to help you up your social selling game, we reached out to a few HubSpot experts for some key tips and tricks you can apply to better leverage your social media presence to connect with prospects and make hard sales. Leverage information on social media to connect with prospects on mutual experiences. Let's dive in.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With social media, you can prospect at your fingertips — and sidestep the awkwardness of a traditional cold call. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the best social media channels for prospecting. What is social prospecting? The Best Social Media Channels for Prospecting in 2022.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

The problem, it turns out, is that the people who need those tools the most simply don’t know how to use them. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On The answer has little to do with the technology itself. A Lack of Training. How were these interests generated?”. The Pandemic Effect.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Yet, it can actually give us a better understanding of our prospects, making that human connection stronger. Here, I spoke with top sales leaders to learn how to AI to better understand your prospects, lead more effective conversations, and drive more results. How AI Can Help You Better Understand Your Prospects 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Often, the differentiator may come down to the sales rep, whose product knowledge, experience and ability to solve the customer’s problem end up being the deciding factor in turning a prospect into a customer. Companies like HubSpot know that and share their experience freely with others. Measure what matters. Sales automation.

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Crunchbase

MAY 22, 2023

Sales prospecting is an integral part of the sales process. When done manually, it can be time-consuming and demand substantial effort — but automated sales prospecting can help. Automated sales prospecting tools, also known as sales automation software , streamline your workflow and allow you to spend more time selling.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The prospect of being able to make multiple interest-free payments over time can encourage shoppers to buy more, which results in more revenue for vendors. HubSpot is a great example of this. HubSpot's payments tool allows you to send your customers quotes or payment links , after which they pay you. Image Source.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Stalled deals are often a byproduct of a salesperson locking in on more superficial, symptomatic issues their prospects are dealing with — as opposed to the actual problem those issues stem from.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Weve pulled together top solutions based on third-party reviews, customer validation, and our own product expertise for this guide to the top live chat software tools for B2B marketing and sales. But first, some background on what chat can do and how to evaluate the top tools for your live chat needs.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Eric in Lewiston, Maine, asks how to use last years data to create and accurate sales plans and evaluate software tools (like CRMs and ZoomInfo) to make those goals happen. If you havent defined clear performance metricslike call activity, lead generation, conversion rates, or daily prospecting targetsthen you dont really have a plan.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2024

Bloomberg just showed us the path with its new AI tool. This tool is based on Bloomberg’s huge store of financial data. We’ve just seen the first waves of generative AI tools for CRMs come out from Hubspot and Salesforce.com. This is the beginning. In sales a lot of our proprietary data lives in our CRM system(s).

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