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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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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JANUARY 8, 2021

Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. Create Your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) . You’ll also use your customer personas to guide future marketing and sales efforts.

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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. What is a Lookalike Audience? It’s a huge win for ABM too!). And How do They Work?

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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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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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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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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 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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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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Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2024

Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Ingram's Tested, 10-Step Process for Nailing Prospecting on LinkedIn Your LinkedIn profile is your first digital impression, and you don‘t want to waste your shot with a lackluster profile. Pin down your ICP.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Join DiscoverOrg’s sales, marketing, and customer success teams as we step through the planning and execution of a true account-based everything strategy. Given that DiscoverOrg helps our own customers execute a true account-based approach, there’s a real purity to us going through those steps ourselves.

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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 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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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. They didn’t plan agendas, do their research, or even check the clients’ LinkedIn profiles to identify shared interests, connections, and similarities. The Only Fail-Proof Prospecting System.

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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. If so, which one? How should you engage with them?

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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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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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AUGUST 27, 2024

Businesses are constantly seeking ways to gain an edge and connect with their ideal customers more effectively. By leveraging the power of data and advanced analytics, marketers are able to develop targeted lists of accounts that perfectly align with their ideal customer profiles.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? Plus, let’s not forget, every customer starts out as a lead. Certain prospects may demonstrate buying behavior but NEVER be a good fit; whereas, other prospects could be ideal buyers that simply are not engaging with your marketing campaigns. Identify Data Points.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Results in prospecting don’t happen overnight; staying consistent over time is key to building a strong pipeline and generating lasting success. – The opening of a conversation is just as important as closing a deal, making daily prospecting essential for building new relationships.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

However, only a small percentage of potential customers will ever see your ads or read your content — especially when marketing budgets are under pressure. Outbound sales, also known as sales prospecting , refers to proactively starting conversations and building relationships with potential customers.

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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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. An effective strategy requires a team to dive deeper, using data insights to gain a deep and holistic understanding of your customers and the market at large. Refine Your Ideal Customer Profile. GTM motions can fail for a variety of reasons.

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

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. Is it centered around what you do, or is it focused on how what you do can actually address customer needs? Check it out!

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JUNE 8, 2021

Our system facilitates real-time connection with buyers in their time of need, alerts sales teams to meaningful activity, and feeds engagement activity data back into the system for better future profiling and targeting. Without the right tools, you simply can’t expect sales reps to know every detail about your prospects and customers.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Extroverts are much better at going out on a limb and introducing themselves to a new person or prospect. When you have everything you need to know about a prospect at your fingertips in real time, it gives you the confidence and intel you need during those crucial introductions. Researching Prospects. It takes some cajoling.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Sound familiar?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Many salespeople waste too much time on prospects with little to no chance of converting. Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. Increases customer retention.

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

Speedy customer acquisition without a hefty price tag is the target, but doing it effectively can be a challenge without the right tools and training. Analyzing the firmographic characteristics of target accounts gave them a template for prospecting similar companies in new markets, such as finance and manufacturing.

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Sales 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I am taking over a sales territory from a salesperson that has recently left the clients company. Reminder 2: Sales are driven by the customers. Rather than focusing on a tight ICP, someone will suggest that its a big world and there are 1,000s of accounts that the sales team has not touched. To remind you of the story so far.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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. A lead is defined as any prospect who indicates interest in a company’s product or service. Lead Scoring.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Last week, I had the privilege of speaking with Howard Dover’s Digital Prospecting Class at UTD. I had no prepared materials, it was a Q&A about how to connect with prospects more effectively. They realized it would enable them to engage prospects in more impactful ways, focusing on what they cared about.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Want prospects to respond with lightning speed? The triple touch is a tactic that salespeople use to engage prospects. The ‘touches’ include contacting the prospect three different ways, each time building trust, getting on their radar, and moving them further into the sales funnel. . What is the Triple Touch in Sales?

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