The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2025

Winning in today’s markets takes more than just raw effort. Thats where Go-to-Market Intelligence enters the picture. The result: a 360-degree view of your customers and markets, no matter how quickly they change. The team leveraged: Comprehensive company and contact data to discover and segment new B2B prospects.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 13, 2025

Marketing leaders are constantly challenged to drive growth, personalize engagement, and uncover new revenue opportunities. But without the right Go-to-Market Intelligence foundation, marketing efforts can become fragmented leading to wasted budget, missed opportunities, and ROI thats nearly impossible to prove.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Be upfront and transparent with your prospects. Consider these following tips to get more success in your cold calls — before, during, and afterward: Do: Research your prospect (Who are they? Don’t: Waste your time calling unfit, or barely fit leads — find out exactly who’s in your market. Reason for Calling. or whichever time].

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Cold Calling Guidelines Prospecting Face-to-face 264

Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

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. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent.

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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. Insight-Driven Engagement for Sales AND Marketing.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Table of Contents What Is a Lead List? Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 118

Pipeliner

JANUARY 29, 2025

In a recent episode of the expert insight interview series, John Golden delves into the transformative world of geofencing advertising with marketing professionals Barbara Wardell and Ernest Kulhari. They highlight the rapid growth of the industry and their commitment to staying at the forefront of technological advancements.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. Lead mining is becoming increasingly commonplace among companies seeking to expand into new markets and territories, as well as those hoping to increase profitability. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today.

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Vengreso

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Not too long ago, on the sidelines of a digital marketing event, some of my buddies and I met for a brief friendly chat. We disagreed on many points and had the same opinion on only a handful, one of which is the potential of video prospecting to generate leads and close more deals. Let’s start your video prospecting journey.

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Video Lead Rank Lead Scoring Prospecting 68

Sales Evangelist

MARCH 3, 2025

Today, were going over details of his new book, Endless Customer, and he's going to share four ways to make your brand the most trusted in the industry. Background on The Newest Book After the rise of AI tools, Marcus noticed a major change in the sales industry. In other words, stop following your industrys set rules and disrupt.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Revenue operations leaders are confronting complex challenges on two fronts: designing smarter territories for expansion, and maximizing productivity for frontline go-to-market (GTM) teams. Blind spots in your addressable market and missed opportunities from good-fit prospects. The result?

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Territories Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 130

SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. By meeting industry standards, these certifications acknowledge your proficiency in specific areas, thereby enhancing your credibility.

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Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Webinar Metrics 219

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services. With ZoomInfo, exporting enriched data into Salesforce is quick and easy.

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Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 19, 2024

Technology is transforming businesses and disrupting entire industries, including the world of selling, which has traditionally been categorized as primarily a “people business”.

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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.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 7, 2025

Despite its importance, salespeople dont spend a lot of time doing prospect research. Why do prospect research? Youll find that trust and credibility follow when youve learned about a prospect and demonstrated that knowledge. Doing prospect research can also save you time.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. One side deployed code; the other deployed prospecting campaigns. “On

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2025

Plus, if youre wondering what specific information you may need to capture in a custom field, weve compiled a list of common information needed in 10 different industries that you could swipe or use to brainstorm your own. Fax number ( Number ) : Fax is still widely used in industries such as legal, finance, and healthcare.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Are you looking for guidance on what to expect this year in the media sales industry? A new report from Frequence covers the hot topics in this industry. The tool automatically generates presentations for prospects. You can run a digital audit on your accounts competitors to track the types of online marketing they are doing.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Nearly a quarter of sellers say prospecting is a top challenge. Yet prospecting is vital to the sales process. To bridge this gap, industry professionals suggest sellers incorporate lead lists into their strategy. This ensures youre focusing only on active and engaged prospects. What is a sales lead list?

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank 52

Hubspot Sales

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. Aggressive, generic offers were just as fruitless, especially when the prospect hadn’t already confirmed their interest in what I was offering.

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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

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Trade Shows: Participate in industry events to showcase your products and services. Direct Mail: Send personalized mail to capture the attention of prospects. The goal is to make prospects aware of your existence and offerings. Bond Once you have attracted a prospect, the next step is to bond with them.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 7, 2024

Early on in my position as head of business development at Lead Prosper, a SaaS company, I found myself on the receiving end of a software demo for an industry-leading company. Each sales demo environment should be built up around the basics: Who is the target audience, and what story are you selling to the market?

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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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SalesFuel

JANUARY 20, 2025

Successful sellers know that there are major opportunities for prospecting on LinkedIn for quality leads. Should you try prospecting on LinkedIn? First, its important to determine if LinkedIn prospecting can benefit you and your business. Advanced tactics There are also prospecting tips that are go a bit beyond the basics.

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Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Prospecting Hiring 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

Sellers across every industry are under intense pressure to deliver ambitious results in tightly competitive markets, and it’s much more than a passing trend. Luckily, sellers of every stripe now have access to AI-powered tools that can help them excel in a challenging market.

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Allego

JANUARY 21, 2025

Sales prospecting has transformed from its traditional roots of cold calls and door-to-door pitches into a dynamic discipline that blends strategy, psychology, and technology. This shift has turned prospecting into a strategic effort. What Is Sales Prospecting? Successful prospecting goes beyond cold calls and generic emails.

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

They cannot rely on guesswork or assumptions to understand market dynamics. It provides the required data that sales teams need to find and target relevant customers, identify ideal prospects, personalize outreach, and close deals faster. Sales teams today need relevant data and insights to meet the buyer expectations precisely.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

“53% of respondents said that factors, including inflation, market volatility, and sector growth, create a complex environment for sales teams to meet their quotas.” You can see the data, filter by industry, and see how your sales team compares at no cost by clicking here. The next finding explains the previous finding.

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