Lead411

DECEMBER 13, 2024

5 Ways Customer Service can Shape Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) Understanding your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is crucial to targeting the right prospects and ensuring long-term business success. These requests can highlight industry trends or needs that refine your ICP.

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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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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. Look for commonalities in your existing clients to help you find a profile for new clients. Then also consider “psychographic” elements of what makes a company a good client for you.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2021

If only you could clone the best customers produced from your account-based marketing campaigns… Well, you basically can, using a well-known and effective trick in the B2C toolbox that B2B types should be eager to adopt: lookalike audience targeting. Along with targeted ads , B2C marketers utilize Facebook for lookalike modeling.

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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? But just in case you’ve been living under a rock, we’re talking about profiles of your ideal buyer that is a culmination of quantitative research, anecdotal observation, and existing customer data.

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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. But, many of these technologies fall short.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A organized, accessible database helps give a full, 360-view of potential customers, and is overall essential for marketing campaign success. As the heart of any data-driven company, your database helps sales and marketing professionals understand prospects in-depth, improve segmentation, pinpoint audiences,, and convert more leads.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2024

Businesses are constantly seeking ways to gain an edge and connect with their ideal customers more effectively. This is the value of marketing account intelligence software. With marketing account intelligence software, teams can focus their efforts on accounts with the highest probability of converting into loyal customers.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Prospecting. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Directly address your prospect’s pain points. Make meeting scheduling easier for prospects. Help build email sequences for lead nurturing — the ones that don’t respond to initial prospecting. Engagement.

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Zoominfo

MAY 15, 2019

As a sales rep, you can make the most calls and send the best emails, but if you’re targeting the wrong prospect, none of that matters; you won’t be able to close the deal. Do this by developing an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Companies with poor sales and marketing alignment see a 4% revenue decline ( source ).

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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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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). Recently, we brought a new HR dataset to market.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. Who are your best customers?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Customers have more power and more information than ever?—?they

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Author: Alicia McCarty As we are all very well aware, today’s buyers expect us to speak to them personally, not in their general direction; increasingly, customers want businesses to know what they want before they do and to serve them hyper-targeted, relevant content and offerings. According to Marketing Insider Group , 78 percent of U.S.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent. 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.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Robert Jordan Demand generation, unlike traditional marketing strategies, refers to a data-driven marketing approach that aims to create awareness or interest for your company’s service or product first before selling them. This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

At InsideView, we’ve been helping customers find unexpected opportunities by using a variety of non-typical data signals. For many companies, their ideal customers are no longer ideal as they freeze budgets and put initiatives on hold. Step 2: Refine based on other ICP characteristics. Who is your new target?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Let’s start with that dream customer. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. The B2B sales funnel depicts how prospective customers move through the buying process in stages. Salespeople interact with the prospects at each stage, persuading them to make a purchase.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sales prospecting is arguably the most critical part of a sales professional’s workflow. Sales prospecting is a foundational element for a revenue team — it’s the practice of identifying and connecting with potential customers to initiate the sales cycle. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 18, 2021

But just because the customer can answer those questions doesn’t necessarily mean the deal is real from the customer’s point of view. Look at the number of budgeted buying initiatives that never result in an order (even though the customer could give the right answer to all the BANT questions).

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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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. Specifically, it’s a plan that maps out the way a company introduces a new product or service to the market. Refine Your Ideal Customer Profile. What’s Broke?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

For starters, repeatable success typically originates from using repeatable processes, but combining each and every activity within the customer acquisition journey into a single consistent strategy adds layers of complexities into the equation. Failure Point #1: Targeting the Wrong Customers. Especially in B2B prospecting.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

JUNE 12, 2024

You’ve worked with your marketing team to develop your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). You’ve built a database of target companies that match your ICP characteristics. You’ve researched to identify the key decision-makers of your target prospects. You have a great story to tell.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems function as the heart of customer engagement. And if CRMs aren’t already a core part of the customer lifecycle, now is the time to switch. It’s important to reconsider your tech stack when markets shift, and now CRMs are top priority for customer engagement.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 27, 2018

So why is it that so many companies shop for new customers as if they are combing every inch of the grocery store – hoping things will magically jump off the shelf and into their carts? Total Addressable Market (TAM) is the total available opportunity for your product or services. What is Total Addressable Market?

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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. The evangelist may work for a consulting firm, a partner candidate, or even an existing customer.

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Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2023

Industry surveys show that account-based marketing is consuming an ever-larger share of B2B budgets, and it’s easy to see why: smarter targeting, increased efficiency, and better ROI are enough to make any CMO’s eyes light up. That starts with going after the right accounts that match your ideal customer profile (ICP).

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 24, 2024

In any sales-led growth strategy , the purpose of marketing is to get new leads into the sales funnel that drives new business. However, only a small percentage of potential customers will ever see your ads or read your content — especially when marketing budgets are under pressure.

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