The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

We not only have to close what we can by year end, but we have to prospect with more vigour than ever to ensure we go into the next year with enough momentum and opportunities to ensure a strong start to the year and our eventual success. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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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. What is a sales lead list? Specifically, a sales lead list offers organization and efficiency.

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

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Table of Contents What Is a Lead List? 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. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

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

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Lead-to-account matching and routing solutions connect new leads with existing account records in your go-to-market data systems, automatically directing them to the right salesperson saving time, reducing errors, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of your sales efforts. Learn More about ZoomInfo Operations 2.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 27, 2014

sign up for RSS feeds for sales sites, blogs, or podcasts. hire a prospecting coach. subscribe to Selling Power or Sales & Marketing Management. improve your time management. learn the basic tenets of successful selling. block time in your calendar – weekly – for proactive selling.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 281

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

ZoomInfo ZoomInfos go-to-market intelligence platform equips sales and marketing teams with the tools and intelligence needed to connect with prospects first and close deals faster. ZoomInfo empowers businesses to refine their prospecting efforts by integrating Salesforce data directly into its platform.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Appointments , Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Guest Post , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Video , Voice mail , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling. Funnel management. Gap Selling.

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

ABCs of sales lead management 3. Sales Lead Management Process 4. Implementing a Lead Management Strategies to increase sales 5. Wind-Up Overview No matter what you sell or the sector you’re in, you need a consistent flow of qualified leads to develop your business.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Management System 103

No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

By sharing information, ideas, solutions, and even referrals with our clients and prospects, we become trusted resources. The newly-released “ 2014 10th annual Lead Management & Social Engagement ” report uncovered an emerging trend in B2B sales this year: social engagement. Social selling (i.e., I see you.

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Social Selling Cold Calling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 296

Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

It provides the required data that sales teams need to find and target relevant customers, identify ideal prospects, personalize outreach, and close deals faster. Let us learn all the ins and outs of automated sales intelligence and how your organization can use it to find and generate leads. What is sales intelligence software?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 29, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Funnel management , Guest Post , Lead Management , Prospecting , Referrlas , Sales 2.0 , Sales Technique , execution. 3 Sales Lead Generation Myths That Will Hold You Back From Closing More Sales. Leads are Qualified. January 2012.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Pipeline 257

SBI Growth

JANUARY 6, 2014

They follow a Buyer Process Map in order to better help their prospects discover the best solution. Social Prospecting. Sells the way the buyer wants to buy. Creates and curates valuable lead nurturing content and syndicates it across social connections. Lead Management. Social Referral Generation.

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Hiring Social Media Networking Referrals 316

Score More Sales

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Many “experts” sit around and preach about how you must add researched insight into every prospective interaction with a potential buyer. Warm every call up. Selling is no different. These things are considered the blocking and tackling of selling – basic stuff. Hold on a minute. The big issue is this -.

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Cold Calling InsideView Lead Rank Lead Scoring 277

The Pipeline

MAY 20, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Selling to Mr Know-it-all. Stored in Business Acumen , Buying Process , Guest Post , Productivity , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , execution. Have you ever tried to sell to Mr Know-it-all? I hate selling to Mr Know-it-all. Home About The Pipeline. Free Resources.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 29, 2013

Marketing has plans to help with better Demand Generation and Lead Management. Dollars are being allocated for things like marketing automation tools and lead development reps. How can you sell more new logos right now? Through more effective prospecting! I don’t believe my prospects are using Linkedin.

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Hiring Demand Generation Agencies LinkedIn Sales Qualified Lead 276

Score More Sales

APRIL 29, 2013

One big contributing factor to your sales success is in your follow-up. There are three points to consider when thinking about following up with prospects, buyers, and with leads: A. Most sellers do not follow-up enough. Many leads slip through the cracks because of a lack of methods and processes.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

The B2B selling process is slow but steady. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Prospecting. Warm leads have shown interest by interacting with content or form fills. Make meeting scheduling easier for prospects. Qualification. Negotiation.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Score More Sales

JANUARY 9, 2014

A big one has to do with prospecting. Always be on the lookout – always be prospecting. Take less time today talking with co-workers about what’s coming up next weekend or working on existing clients’ issues and more time finding your next buyer. Now go sell something. 4 Twitter Prospecting Strategies.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 231

Sales 2.0

JULY 28, 2020

This year’s coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shutdown of much of the US economy has had an impact on just about everything: how we live, how we work, and even how we sell. Another one third said their ability to reach prospects on those channels was about the same as it was before. They are the “real deal”!].

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Outsourcing Services Pipeline Social Media Channels 286

The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2013

One that always fascinated me was the black hole; little did I think we would experience it in selling, specifically when using e-mail. For salespeople, this creates “prospect paralysis” because they don’t know whether to follow up and, if so, when and how. Here is an example, a seller fires off an e-mail to a prospect.

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Score More Sales

JULY 11, 2013

We both were account managers selling millions of dollars worth of technology to a major aircraft company. Between us, we sold more than $30M a year of items selling for $20 or $100 or $5000 each. Looking back, I remember thinking that Ron had some sort of memory problem. He was my sales colleague. Get those answers.

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Sales Qualified Lead Opportunity Lead Rank Lead Scoring 309

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Even the most driven sales teams require the right resources to effectively target prospects, nurture relationships, and close deals. Built-In Tools to Power Sales Execution From prospecting to closing, ZoomInfo includes an integrated toolkit to enhance every stage of the sales cycle. The bad news? Seamless.AI

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Sales Tools Tools B2B Lead Rank 130

Score More Sales

JANUARY 29, 2013

I think that big organizations my company sells into have a very big influence at alumni and C-level meetings our C-level contacts attend throughout the year. In a bigger organization, a marketing team might have specific customer reference team members who focus solely on building up a reference library and referral program.

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Referrals InsideView Outbound LinkedIn 263

Score More Sales

MARCH 5, 2013

Kyle is very enthusiastic and seems to really enjoy talking about selling. One is our automatic prospecting tool and the other is Job change alerts. Both are free to use and take <15 seconds to sign up. LR: Do you have any B2B Camps coming up? KP: Thanks for asking.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. If the phone call is important, stand up when you make it. Never be the first person to hang-up the telephone. Don’t be distracted by email or other items popping up on your computer while you’re making a call.

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Negotiation Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 276

Pointclear

JANUARY 21, 2014

I was sitting in a meeting of marketing and operations people when I worked at Inquiry Handling Services (long ago scooped up by Harte Hanks). Which brings me to the topic for this month’s article, which follows up on the December topic entitled: " Taking away a salesperson’s excuses ," in which I wrote about the lack of sales lead follow-up.

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Harte Hanks Marketing ROI Sales Qualified Lead 226

Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Actually plan out your work hours for the month of December – because you may see how much less time you actually have to sell. You’ll end the year knowing you have conversations starting up after the holidays are over. The “science” aspect of selling will help you grow sales by 10-30% or more.

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Webinar Metrics Outbound System Account 260

The Pipeline

JANUARY 18, 2012

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. As always the goal is to provide a couple of actionable things you can implement in your selling. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling. Funnel management. Gap Selling. HR Management. Interactive Selling. Lead Management. Prospecting.

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The Pipeline

JULY 25, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Diving home it struck me that this fellow an unnecessary but real barrier to successfully selling, going to an expo with thousands of attendees, and completely limit the means of buyers to buy does not seem savvy. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling. Funnel management.

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Score More Sales

MAY 14, 2012

Before I got into professional selling, I was a preschool teacher who worked with two-year olds. I got into professional, business-to-business selling and made a wonderful career out of it – but what I learned from two-year olds stayed with me years later. Too “busy” to send follow up notes or next actions right away?

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sell, sell, sell. In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects?

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Score More Sales

MARCH 13, 2014

It is not enough in selling anymore to just show up and be effective at working a sales territory. You also need to be aware that a number of strategies will get you closer to prospective customers – not just one. At Score More Sales we call the multiple strategies in prospecting the Sales Pipeline Success Puzzle.

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Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 238

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in CRM , Communication , Guest Post , Review , Sales 2.0 , Sales Success , Sales Tool , Sell Better , execution. It allows you to make contact notes, set reminders to follow up, and track phone calls and meetings. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling. Gap Selling.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , EDGE Sales Process , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sell Better , Value , Video , execution. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling. Funnel management.

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Pipeline Lead Scoring Lead Rank Cold Calling 240

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Sign up for our Email Newsletter. A Random Walk Up Sales Street. EDGE Selling. Funnel management. Gap Selling. HR Management. Interactive Selling. Lead Management. Prospecting. Sell Better. Selling to Executives. Social Selling. Time Management.

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Pipeline Cold Calling Hiring Compensation 240

Vengreso

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Imagine a digital assistant that not only handles mundane tasks like data entry and follow-ups but also provides predictive analytics to forecast sales trends and optimize strategies. This past year, organizations utilizing AI tools for sales report an uptick in business leads and appointments by around 50%.

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Software Software Scale Sales Qualified Lead 114

Score More Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Heading into a new year, most every seller wants to be more organized than they were previously – it is one of the top issues that always comes up when we poll sellers about what one issue in selling they’d like to improve upon. Professional Development – what book are you reading to expand your selling world?

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