The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2013

In a nanosecond, your prospect is going to decide whether or not they are going to open your email. How can you impact your prospect personally? Look at the difference visually between these two subject lines: Sales Prospecting Strategy. Sales prospecting strategy. Get out of your head and get into theirs.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Some common lead generation marketing tactics include using CTAs with lead gen forms to get audience contact information and send further emails or promoting gated offers with lead capture forms on social media. There is often confusion about demand gen vs. lead gen, and below we’ll go over the differences.

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Lead Gen Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 130

The Pipeline

MAY 1, 2014

In the process of lead-gen, lead gathering, evolving and lead conversion, some sales people and organizations are often faced with a choice, find an all in one tool that has key features and elements offered by other tools and apps built in, in effect a Jack-of-all-trade approach.

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Constant Contact Lead Gen Twitter Face-to-face 306

SBI Growth

MARCH 8, 2013

This includes leads closed and in-year revenue recognized. Based on the closure rate of the current sales process, how many sales qualified leads (SQL) do you need to make your number? Download the Lead Gen Calculator to determine how many leads you need. When answering the question: How many leads do I need?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead Leads 310

SalesProInsider

APRIL 10, 2019

Generate more leads and then convert them. Lead gen and lead conversion both need effort, time, confidence, resources, and skill. While my focus is on equipping people to increase their conversion rates with collaborative conversations that sell*, that doesn’t matter if you don’t have enough leads or prospects to convert.

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Lead Gen Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 113

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. I blame outdated lead-gen strategies, metrics, and leadership.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Two colleagues complained they were so involved in their work, they didn’t have time to prospect. People are so focused on their projects, and they don’t make time to prospect. If you’re heads-down on your projects and don’t prospect, you’ll have no pipeline when you surface. Why didn’t he think to ask for referrals?

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Referrals Lead Gen Social Media Cold Calling 233

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important. What is a Lead? The Lead Generation Process. Lead Scoring.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 240

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sales qualification is the act of evaluating potential prospects to determine whether they possess the characteristics that make them a good fit for your product or service. In simpler terms – qualifying a lead or prospect means determining whether or not they are worth your time. That’s where sales qualification comes in.

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Buyer Persona Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 220

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

My prospecting approach at that time was going through lead lists and sending blind emails. Nowadays, I can’t even imagine a world without social media, especially for prospecting. There is a cool tool called SocialPandas that I use to help with lead gen via Twitter. I stumbled upon this approach by using Linkedin.

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Hiring Jigsaw Social Media Cold Calling 384

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

When I ask what they attribute that to, they tell me: Their people are ineffective at prospecting. Seriously, they will deal with and change anything than what counts, i.e. their people’s ability to properly prospect. A popular favourite, probably due to visibility, is to focus on the “leads”; yup, “better leads”, or “more leads”.

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Prospecting Lead Gen Hiring Social Media 181

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 30, 2021

Do Your Leads Suck? You have to decide what you’re looking for in the perfect mate (or prospect), and then figure out the best way to meet that person (or sales qualified lead). If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. That’s a fact.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Gen Ideal Customer Profile 257

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting? Let’s start at the beginning.

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B2B Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Prospecting 212

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Come on, you know that you spend way too much time trying to prospect with bad email addresses, bad phone numbers, wrong titles, etc…and it annoys you because it means less time for you to find and close that next deal. Watch the Video: Why Your Lead Efforts are Draining Cash. How to Stop Wasting Money With Sales Prospecting.

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Data Video Lead Gen Motivation 271

SalesProInsider

MAY 5, 2022

Imagine this scenario: A prospective clients contacts you and asks if you’ll start investing their money without providing any context into their larger financial situation, their goals, or any other discussion. Yet advisors don’t follow their own sage advice when it comes to lead generation efforts. Would you do it?

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Lead Gen Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Sage 90

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts! You know a lot of target prospects don’t really have those job titles. We like DAMA UK’s six parameters for data quality : Completeness : Is the company, contact, or prospect record as complete as possible? JUST KIDDING.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ironically, the original eBooks, that open the floodgates to this daily pummeling are entitled something like, “Leverage Marketing Automation To Send Targeted, Relevant Communications To Your Prospects,” or “Best Practices In Engaging Your Prospects On eMail.” We’d never have to prospect again.

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Lead Gen Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 120

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. Your content marketing — think blog posts, email sequences, and whitepapers — nurtures the target lead, getting them interested in your product or service.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 246

The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2012

That is very few are complete sales people, meaning competent at all key elements of B2B sales, starting with lead gen and management, to prospecting, a thorough discovery process, presenting a winnable proposal, winning the deal, and then penetrating and maintaining the account.

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Lead Gen Penetration Top of Funnel Proposal 288

The Sales Hunter

MARCH 25, 2012

Then these marketing people said that salespeople are terrible at lead gen. They also told me that they don’t want their salespeople generating their own leads (translation: too expensive). Let them follow up on the leads that marketing provides. Salespeople know sales (this includes lead gen).

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Hiring Leads 203

Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 15, 2014

Disclosure: Hubspot is a client of both Kurlan and OMG ; This blog is hosted on Hubspot''s terrific blogging and lead-gen platform and I was one of their very first customers back in 2006.]. Hubspot''s VAR''s are all marketing agencies specializing in inbound marketing. How do you feel about this topic?

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Inbound Hiring Hubspot Lead Gen 266

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. Consider this.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

The Pipeline

MAY 3, 2013

He works for smaller company, they use various technologies to help them with lead gen and nurturing. Over the next few days Jim saw the prospect read the e-mail, both in the office and on his mobile device. By Tibor Shanto – tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. ” Thus taking wary the obvious and common dodge.

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Handbook Face-to-face Lead Gen Call-back 303

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I have not worked with one that doesn’t have a lead generation problem. In every instance, it’s the same issue: one or more of the (4) critical elements of Lead Gen are missing. Over the course of a lead’s interactions with your company you learn a lot about their interests, challenges and timing. Technology.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 276

SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2013

A modern prospecting methodology that fills the lead generation funnel with opportunities. Generates meetings with decision makers inside of your target prospects. Frees sales from day-to-day dependence on marketing for leads. Contribute company and/or 3rd party executed buyer research to validate BPM findings.

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Meeting Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Gen 303

Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2018

Records of consent received from prospects. So, what can B2B marketers do to help ensure their third-party lead gen campaigns are GDPR-compliant? Read on for our top recommendations: 1. Take inventory of third-party lead gen partners and data sources. You likely use multiple sources to generate your leads.

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Lead Generation Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Gen 217

The Pipeline

MARCH 13, 2013

Sales people are constantly working at communicating value to their buyers, especially in the early stages of the cycle, lead gen to prospecting and engaging the buyer to where they could complete an effective Discovery process. Think about it, do you really want to start things off by lying to the prospective buyer?

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Lead Gen Decision Maker Lead Scoring Lead Rank 310

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Why I won an award for prospecting. Always be prospecting” is my motto. Yes, sometimes December is super quiet, which means either clients aren’t ready, or you stopped prospecting. It’s never too late for lead generation—or too early. Her article is so good that I had to share it (in its entirety) in this guest post.

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Referrals Prospecting Lead Gen Cold Calling 156

SalesProInsider

JULY 10, 2019

You can’t grow at the desired level if you don’t have prospective clients to talk with— marketing. Yet how effective are you, and your team, at converting those hard-earned leads to clients— sales ? It’s a collaborative effort that should be seamless to your prospects. Is the Problem Lead Gen or Lead Conversion?

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Lead Gen Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Conversion 100

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? While the B2B landscape may always be changing, lead generation will always be important. What is a Lead?

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 177

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

How can your organization build a lead generation strategy that gives your team of closers a consistent flow of qualified leads? This guide answers the 6 most pressing questions about lead gen, so you can implement a process that keeps your pipeline full — and your salespeople busy closing deals. Inbound Lead Generation.

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Lead Gen Paid Content Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 84

The Pipeline

JUNE 9, 2015

Prospecting continues to be the most sought after skill when companies hire and promote sales professionals. The better you are at identifying and engaging with the right prospects, the more success you will have in your sales career. But to achieve success in prospecting, you will need to master two key elements. About Clinton.

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Webinar Metrics Tools Prospecting Lead Gen 120

Zoominfo

JANUARY 26, 2021

Your typical lead gen strategy may not be enough when targeting the biggest fish. So if you want to grow your leads, it’s time to grow your strategy. . What Is Enterprise Lead Generation? Enterprise prospects are what salespeople and marketers like to refer to as “the whale” of all leads.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 189

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Him: Hi this is Sean calling from Bulletproof Lead Gen. In fact, when my team and I talk to sales teams, one of the challenges we hear most about is prospecting. Finding qualified prospects is hard enough — but your work isn’t done once you find qualified prospects who match your buyer persona. Have a great day.

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Prospecting Lead Gen Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead 116

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Many companies and organizations have entire teams dedicated to finding new business prospects. So lead generation tools are critical to supporting a company’s growth objectives. This comes in handy when trying to maintain a pipeline of marketing-qualified leads (MQL) all year long! Turn events into a lead-gen opportunity.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 193

Score More Sales

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Call on the wrong prospects. I would go so far as to say that some sellers waste 2 months out of every year going after the wrong prospective customers. Does Outbound Lead Gen Still Work? . Once I “get” it, and if I see the value, I’m now a more probable prospect. Keep Your Eye on the Right Buyers.

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Inside Sales Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

Pointclear

AUGUST 30, 2016

Even with the growing number of digital routes, outbound phone calling, or teleprospecting, remains a powerful method to engage personally with your prospects. Skilled telemarketing professionals can reveal needs, discover market intelligence, form early relationships, and ultimately qualify the prospect as a lead, primed to pass on to sales.

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Lead Gen Telemarketing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 113