Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Business leaders depend on the conversations that sales reps are having with prospects to grow their pipeline and stoke their go-to-market engine. The entire organization can make better decisions by surfacing insights and analytics that you would only get if you sat in on every sales or customer success call. . Sales teams.

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Face-to-face Intent Data GoldMine Lead Scoring 264

Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Save money, launch products earlier, faster time to market, increase brand awareness, increase shareholder value, decrease competitor advantage, avoid departmental pain, increase staff productivity – all which ultimately comes back to a return on their investment with you so that the company can sell more and make more profits.

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Intent Motivation B2B Conversion 268

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

ZoomInfo ZoomInfos Go-to-Market Intelligence platform enhances outbound sales call tracking by providing unmatched B2B data, real-time insights, and AI-driven automation. Meanwhile, ZoomInfo Sales streamlines outreach tasks by automating workflows, optimizing prospecting efforts, and ensuring every call is backed by actionable data.

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Outbound Software Software Buyer Intent 130

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Here are some symptoms you might be able to recognize: When salespeople have good intentions but lousy follow through. When salespeople have good plans but poor time management. I didn''t send you to that article to modify your sales process; only to embrace the power of qualification. Asking about competition.

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Sales Qualified Lead Hotels Hubspot Decision Maker 276

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Perhaps how I stumbled into finding great mentors in the B2B sales world might inspire you to find mentors and inspiration yourself. Here’s what I know about finding a sales mentor: 1. Lori Richardson speaks, writes, and trains on sales strategies for B2B mid-market technology front-line sales teams.

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How To B2B Intent Inside Sales 284

Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Ever wonder if your sales people are really listening to you? As a sales manager or sales executive, you have many roles to fill in order to get the most out of your sales team. I would say today your job/role as a sales manager is very much the same. Need for approval from sales people.

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Intent Motivation Sports Coaching 204

Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 5, 2015

As I continue to think about habits of sales people and the role of the sales manager in identifying, assessing and “correcting” habits, I keep looking for additional information that might be additive to this string of articles. Ike sent me a link to a survey that was done regarding the hunt for sales managers/directors.

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Hiring Sales Management CRM Scale 120

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 14, 2012

” The more important question a sales manager should ask his salespeople is, “what have I done to help you lately?” The same may be said for sales managers. ”In addition to collaborative plans, the questions we ask as managers communicate what is important and that is what drives behavior.

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Coaching Intent Face-to-face Meeting 254

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

I know, you fell into sales, and perhaps from there, sales management. I listen intently and try to figure out what makes each business model unique and each prospect like a snowflake. Author: Tony Hughes You may be struggling thinking, "What on Earth am I doing, I hate this job!".

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B2B Banking Conference Decision Maker 319

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It’s an intentional, proactive sales strategy. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Small Business' Successful salespeople don’t just happen. You already know that referrals are the most effective and powerful way to attract new customers. But referral selling doesn’t just happen. Comment Here.

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The Pipeline

JULY 22, 2013

This has worked well in developing and maintaining the right talent, and the ability to identify skills in individuals who take a related path, such as field management, and complementary functions such as marketing. A regular lament I get from managers is that the best presentation a rep had was the one they did for the job.

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Hiring Licensing Health Care Sales Talent 267

Jeffrey Gitomer

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Determining what the probable purchaser deems as the factors that will influence their motivation to listen and understand with the intent to purchase. Get Sales Blog Updates. Sales Management. Sales Videos. Putting yourself on the same side of the fence with the probable purchaser. Finding something in common.

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Hiring Social Media Loyalty Referrals 255

The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

For some it is the “competition”, encouraging sellers to focus on the buyer’s circumstance and market view rather than product. This has become much more the case since the introduction of the marketing term Sales 2.0. Funnel management. Hiring Sales Talent. HR Management. Lead Management.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Webinar Metrics Compensation 241

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 1, 2018

Davis In a SMMConnect webinar I delivered to over 100 sales managers recently, I talked about eight instincts they developed as salespeople that are now harming their effectiveness as team leaders. Interestingly, about 30 percent of the participants said that the sales instinct they struggle with the most is “avoiding conflict.”.

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Hiring Webinar Metrics Forecasting Proposal 260

Pipeliner

JANUARY 1, 2021

Eric Reed is the founder and CEO of Reed5group, and host of the Rethink Marketing podcast. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: The role of the sales manager in the post-COVID world. Effective ways to get the most out of your sales team. COVID and the Evolution of the Sales Manager. Lasting Change.

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Positioning Sales Management Video Intent 97

Tenbound

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The awards were unveiled at the Tenbound Sales Tech Conference, where industry leaders gathered to recognize the standout tools and solutions driving the Go-To-Market (GTM) community forward. Each year, leading up to the Tenbound Conference, voters select their favorites across key categories from the Tenbound Sales Tech Market Map.

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Sales Technology Intent Data Conference Sales Qualified Lead 64

Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have lied… “I have no intention of telling you the truth. This is a story about why marketers salespeople must forsake any attempt to communicate nothing but the facts, and must focus on what people believe and then work to tell them stories that add their world view. Instead I’m going to tell you a story.

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Webinar Metrics Real Estate Airlines SME 246

Bernadette McClelland

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have lied… “I have no intention of telling you the truth. This is a story about why marketers salespeople must forsake any attempt to communicate nothing but the facts, and must focus on what people believe and then work to tell them stories that add their world view. Instead I’m going to tell you a story.

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Webinar Metrics Real Estate Airlines SME 246

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 2, 2012

They prefer to work solo and don’t very effectively engage resources like presales or product marketing. Deighton said, “Picture a person with sleeves rolled up, wearing a construction helmet with blueprint in hand listening intently to a customer.”. We weren’t very good at keeping the successful ones.”. Beyond Hiring.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face Oracle 306

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The account-based approach is an increasingly common undertaking by marketing and sales departments. But the biggest account-based killer is still at large: Lack of sustained focus from Sales. At ABM Orkestra , we have helped dozens of companies solidify their account-based marketing strategy. 1 outside sales speaker.

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Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Targets Ideal Customer Profile Account 237

Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2021

In just the last 12 months, we launched ZoomInfo Engage to automate sales outreach. We acquired Clickagy and launched Streaming and Custom Intent. We launched Workflows to activate market insights, buyer intent, and website activity. The acquisition of Chorus will create new possibles for go-to-market teams everywhere.

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Top of Funnel Conversion Marketing Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sales professionals — yes, even managers — on frontlines of business development. Because, let’s face it, even in a perfect world, CRMs benefit company leadership more than the quota-carrying sales rep. . Because like most sales and marketing technologies, CRMs are only as good as the data stored within its database.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine If you’re a sales manager, you know this to be true: Having that tough conversation with a salesperson who isn’t meeting goals is never fun. As a sales manager, see whether this sounds familiar: You sit down with an underperforming salesperson and open with a statement like, “You’re not hitting your numbers.”

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Coaching Construction Pivotal Positioning 257

SalesFuel

AUGUST 26, 2024

Data like: Demographic information Which types of advertising media inspire the highest percentages of that audience to take action What they plan to spend money on within the next year With the demographic and purchase intent information, you can get inspiration for messaging direction. How can you accomplish this?

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Strategy Customer Marketing Demographics 105

Pipeliner

MAY 13, 2024

In a recent episode, I talked with Zack, a seasoned marketing consultant and the brain behind Think Alike Media. He shared innovative ways that intent data and storytelling can revolutionize sales outreach. Zack explained how intent data from email interactions informs more effective outreach across platforms like LinkedIn.

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Intent Data Intent Maximizer Data 64

SalesFuel

AUGUST 5, 2024

How Marketers Can Use Audience Segmentation to Achieve Rich ROI What is Audience Segmentation? According to Mailchimp , audience segmentation is “a marketing strategy based on identifying subgroups within the target audience in order to deliver more tailored messaging and build stronger connections.” Marketing information (e.g.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. The reality, of course, is that go-to-market teams still need to take an active role in pushing their companies to new heights of growth. Marketers and sales reps generate outbound leads by actively reaching out to prospects.

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Lead Generation Outbound Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 130

SBI

MARCH 13, 2018

If you’re like most enterprise sales organizations you’ve invested in processes, tools, personnel, market research….and You likely have 10+ SalesTech apps your sales team is balancing. We can now analyze, measure, and monitor — everything from intent to speed, sentiment to intensity, and so much more. The intent matters.

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CRM Data Intent Decision Maker 139

Women Sales Pros

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

If you want to know how to be a good sales manager, remember the importance of emotion management when addressing sales performance issues. For example, a sales manager is meeting with one of her top salespeople who is running behind plan for the very first time in two years.

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Sales Management Hiring Territories Coaching 82

Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

Sales teams must not only require meeting them but also personalize their experience at every step of the sales cycle. They cannot rely on guesswork or assumptions to understand market dynamics. Sales teams today need relevant data and insights to meet the buyer expectations precisely.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software 48

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 2, 2019

Consider what you can draw on from worlds where your passions live to apply to your work as a sales leader. You may be doing this intuitively, but you’ll find better results by being intentional. A successful sales manager at a local agency uses a point system to track activity. Here are some thought-starters.

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Scale Segment Proposal Cold Calling 184

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 111

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2023

From VPs and CMOs to entry-level reps and account managers, everyone is inundated by data. Without a modern go-to-market strategy that can turn signals into action, the flood of data can mean greater administrative overhead, higher margins of error, and even lost revenue. Conceptually, that is the Holy Grail,” he says.

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Data Hiring Intent Data Scale 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2024

When it comes to sales and marketing success, choosing the right tools can make or break your go-to-market strategy. ZoomInfos go-to-market intelligence platform consistently stands out as the leader in providing actionable data and insights, with advanced AI and automation to help you sell smarter and win faster.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Customer Scale 130

Pipeliner

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, you should use automated sales management tools as often as possible. SaaS B2B Sales. Currently, the SaaS industry is growing rapidly, thereby influencing the massive growth of the B2B market. In SaaS companies, marketers face challenges like attracting free users who can later be converted to paid.

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Inside Sales B2B Tools Top of Funnel 98

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2018

To help your reps or team members focus, be extremely clear in your communication, intent and direction. I recently heard a sales manager end his meeting by saying, “In the end, you just need to do.” This confirmation bias automatically lends support to your intentions. Do what, I wondered? Don’t try this at home.

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Lead Rank Intent Maximizer Lead Scoring 159