The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. There is no mistaking a rejection on the phone, but with those other softer tools, you can tell yourself they’re just ignoring you, maybe next time. By Tibor Shanto. Best Defence Is a Good Offence.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 3, 2019

In fact, access to the right research tools and information can make or break your ability to identify target accounts, personalize a sales pitch, and ultimately, close deals. As a B2B sales rep, the more you know about a prospect and their company, the easier it is to sell to them. This next tool is a no-brainer. Check it out!

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? Choosing the Right Tools.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 128

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

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

As DiscoverOrg’s Manager of Strategic Accounts, I’m always looking for ways to use personal touchpoints to engage prospects via email. I start with a thoughtful, well-researched cold email that shows just how well I knows my prospect – both the pain points they experience in their job, as well as their personal interests.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Data 258

Nutshell

MAY 15, 2023

For outbound sales teams, prospecting software is essential to finding new leads and nurturing them into customers. Sales prospecting tools for lead generation are critical for helping sales representatives find, qualify, and reach more prospects.

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CRM Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting 128

Hubspot Sales

JULY 15, 2024

LinkedIn officially surpassed one billion users last year — yes, you read that correctly — making it one of the most (if not the most) effective, versatile resources sellers have to connect with buyers. Here's a look at the “clear strategy” I use to ensure I get the most out of my LinkedIn prospecting efforts.

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Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Prospecting Face-to-face 111

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These are useful tools, but we’re long past the era where companies can rely solely on them to drive business. When others are not being innovative with the video phenomenon occurring in communications, it’s your chance to stand out by sending personalized video emails to your prospects. LinkedIn Voicemail:?Yes,

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Quota Channels Decision Maker Cold Calling 296

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. Streamlining the sales process by providing sales teams with high-quality leads, allowing them to focus on closing deals rather than prospecting. The result?

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The Sales Heretic

JANUARY 22, 2019

Do you have a prospecting plan? A prospecting plan is like a business plan for your sales efforts. It’s a planning tool that helps you sketch out your goals, your best prospects, how to reach them, and more. If you want to boost your sales, it can be a huge help. Sound complicated? Don’t worry, [.].

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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. If you don’t get the meeting, Part Two doesn’t matter.

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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

LinkedIn invitations to connect from people who immediately send you a sales pitch. Nonstop pitching via LinkedIn Invitations and comments. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Yes, you are the very best tool in your sales toolkit.

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Referrals Decision Maker Cold Calling Social Media 316

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AI tools are reshaping the way salespeople tackle their day-to-day work, automating many of the core business development tasks that have eaten away at the average sellers’ day. Predictive Insights: Let AI Identify High-Value Prospects AI’s predictive capabilities are perhaps its most exciting feature for sales teams.

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Scale Sales Qualified Lead Intent Data CRM 235

BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Working at a digital marketing agency, you might hear this often from your small business prospects… “I’m doing everything in my power to extend my online reach but still not garnering enough response from our digital ads.” You know what makes your prospect tick online. Small Business Digital Audit Is Now Fast & FREE!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli “A trend gains power over time, because it’s not merely part of a moment, it’s a tool, a connector that will become more valuable as other people commit to engaging in it.". — Seth Godin. Automated sales prospecting. Sales prospecting tools, such as Pipedrive, Vainu.io

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Trends B2B Social Media Telemarketing 297

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. If you’re looking to assemble a new sales operations tech stack — or simply want to upgrade your existing tools — this comprehensive guide to the key categories can help. What Are Sales Operations Tools?

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Sales Operations Tools Scale Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sales automation tools streamline repetitive tasks so you can focus on selling. We’ll keep it simple, Sales Automation in the process of leveraging software and artificial intelligence (AI) along with other digital tools to automate time-consuming sales tasks that normally take significant time away from selling activities.

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Sales Automation Prospecting Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 162

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving. In short, ABM treats individual high-value accounts or collections of good-fit prospect accounts as mini-campaigns, surrounding their buying committees and key influencers with targeted, value-driven marketing assets.

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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

The Pipeline

MAY 8, 2018

I do a lot of work with organizations trying to improve their prospecting, and the piece they look to from me is the telephone component of a robust prospecting routine. The best results happen when salespeople used a combination of telephone, e-mail and LinkedIn, consistently better than any other permeation. By Tibor Shanto.

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Inbound Call-back Cold Calling Objections 268

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process. Have you checked out the prospect’s LinkedIn profile? What are your other connections to this prospect?

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Account Referrals Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile 287

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? Of all the B2B lead generation tools at your disposal, referral selling is the most effective and least expensive. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Scoring Lead Rank 409

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Prospect research doesn’t generate revenue, and historically it accounts for half of all sales time. From digging through LinkedIn for org charts, guessing at email addresses, and scouring the internet for news about a prospective company or contact, salespeople spend a significant amount of time on research.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 13, 2023

85% of salespeople using AI/automation agree it makes their prospecting efforts more effective. As prospecting is an extremely critical step in the sales process , adopting AI to help with your processes is worth considering. Read on to learn more about using AI for sales prospecting and specific use cases for generative AI.

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Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 130

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With social media, you can prospect at your fingertips — and sidestep the awkwardness of a traditional cold call. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the best social media channels for prospecting. Read on to learn more about social prospecting, and discover which social media channels are most effective.

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Social Media Channels Media Prospecting 124

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. Fifteen years ago, I would have told you that cold calling was the most annoying, least effective sales prospecting method. Don’t believe me?

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Layered on top of these activities are a myriad of sales enablement and social selling tools—all of which are intended to help salespeople with effective prospecting and, in turn, generating qualified sales leads. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess? Research by IDC and LinkedIn proves this point.

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Doesn’t matter how great your product is, how much s**t your manager fills your head with, if this is not the rock-solid foundation of your prospecting reality, you’re beat before you “get in the car.”. Yes, it is all uphill, I am no fool, but I cannot go any lower with this prospect, and let’s assume that they are the one, the DM.

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Buyer Direct Mail Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 227

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Call reluctance is not new, it is just easier to avoid when you can look busy on LinkedIn. Join Bob Howard of Contact Science , and me, for this interactive discussion about pivotal elements of prospecting, both skills, and systems. A proven system for consistent prospecting. Where there is call reluctance there is: ?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 6, 2017

Much like my mom’s BMW, I use personalized emails to catch the attention of my most important prospects. Either I get responses from someone who forwarded my email, or the prospect who received the email responds themselves. So what situations are appropriate for this type of prospecting? When your prospect is a decision maker.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker How To Top of Funnel 248

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The reason you need to integrate social selling, traditional phone work, and other elements of prospecting, is to ensure that you are covering all bases the process of converting a stranger, into a bonified pipeline opportunity. Well telephone prospecting is different than other conversation we usually have.

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Social Media Cold Calling Account Based Marketing Call-back 243

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2020

I checked LinkedIn to see if she was still at the same company. It’s also a great excuse for sales follow-up—a reason to connect with clients and prospects, to stay in touch with referral sources, and to deepen relationships with your overall business network. What’s the most powerful sales tool at your disposal? No response.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 14, 2023

I shouldn’t get so wound up about the stupidity I see in LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media. I’m trying, though sometimes fail, just to ignore the “expert” advice guru’s are offering about using ChatGPT for prospecting. The post In What World Is This Considered Great Prospecting?!??!!!

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Social Media Twitter 133

Zoominfo

JUNE 13, 2018

Social media has completely transformed the way people interact with each other—including the way sales professionals interact with customers and prospects. 90% of top salespeople use social selling tools. Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Click to Tweet!

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2022

From startups to the Fortune 500, companies of all sizes are leveraging tools that gather market intelligence data to gain a competitive edge. It’s important to note that the right tool for your business will depend on your specific needs, industry, and goals. Win Faster.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Marketing Hoovers 130

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Remember when LinkedIn “experts” came out of the woodwork? I joined LinkedIn in March 2004 and Twitter in May 2009, and I often write about the benefits of social selling (and the pitfalls). Technology is an important tool. It’s OK to write to someone on LinkedIn or send an email and ask if they know the person you want to meet.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank 266