The Pipeline

APRIL 23, 2019

Environmentally friendly prospecting is about understanding and leveraging your mutual settings and events. Starting right in prospecting, of course, means putting the buyer at the centre of every action. Living it is exactly what prospects are doing when our call interrupts. Objective Based Selling. Let’s Start Right.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your prospects sure don’t! Oh ya, the marketing team that “developed” the “value prop” does. What really counts in the real world (you know where sales are made), is the prospects’ and clients’ perception and definition of value. Prospecting consists of regaling anyone who’ll listen with that value prop. By Tibor Shanto.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Margin SME 398

Zoominfo

MAY 7, 2020

If you’re dealing with a sales objections…congratulations! We should relish objections,” says Steve Bryerton , ZoomInfo’s Vice President of Sales. When sales prospects offer objections, it means they’re taking you seriously. ” Most Common Sales Objections. How Do You Overcome Sales Objections?

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Objections Decision Maker Case Study Face-to-face 213

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The challenge with prospecting is that it takes place between two human beings, and as with anything human, subjectivity instantly and permanently plagues it. The murky fluid nature of the grey that is human emotion, clouds objectivity, suppresses logic and nullifies many conclusions derived from reams and mountains of data.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Lead Gen Inbound 262

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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Conversion Top of Funnel Marketing Lead Rank 70

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2019

He told me that he was reaching and having brief conversations with some prospects but those conversations went nowhere. He said he was trying to be consultative, to elicit details and to drill down on prospect objections. Here is the fundamental problem: Consultative selling does not work for prospecting. They’re not.

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Consultative Selling Prospecting Cold Calling Face-to-face 254

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? How did you find those prospects?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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Marketing Webinar Metrics Reachforce Top of Funnel 246

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

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 27, 2018

When it comes to sales and marketing, building a prospecting list of target accounts and contacts may feel like a good place to start, but identifying the Total Addressable Market should come first. Total Addressable Market (TAM) is the total available opportunity for your product or services.

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Lead Rank Marketing Hiring Vendor 162

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

To be clear, they have (or should have) clear objectives. Separate from any purchase decision, what are their objectives? Long term business objectives, let’s set aside the “means” discussion and focus on the desired “end.” Even before you identify specific prospects, we need to understand why they would interact with us.

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Objections Forecasting Quota Buyer 351

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy 208

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

No issue with that, but I prefer to use investment and the financial markets, primarily because of the focus on value. With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. The challenge for many sellers is defining Objectives. Productivity. Customer Value Management.

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Back then, new digital marketing companies were telling everyone that salespeople would be replaced by inbound marketing. And the very same companies who were claiming that their SaaS marketing platforms would replace salespeople actually required salespeople - lots of them - to sell their applications. They average only 1.5

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Top of Funnel Positioning Scale Inbound 409

Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2020

When it comes to sales and marketing, building a prospecting list of target accounts and contacts may feel like a good place to start, but identifying and analyzing the total addressable market should come first. Total addressable market (TAM) is the total available opportunity for your product or services.

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Analysis Marketing Lead Rank How To 273

SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Here’s how I see it coming into play in sales situations, especially when faced with concerns or objections during our sales conversations. What are the too-common concerns or objections where advisors might lack conviction? What are the too-common concerns or objections where advisors might lack conviction?

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Objections Conversion Face-to-face Research 139

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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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

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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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. If you could wave a magic wand and change two things about your online marketing, what would they be?”. Wait and respond accordingly—engage!].

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Prospecting Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 156

The Pipeline

JUNE 25, 2019

How to do that continues to be a real challenge, especially with the nervous markets. Others questioned the need for the exercise, saying more prospects relieves the tension. Crucial being the buyers’ objectives. Their marketing group has already laid that out for them, who needs the client’s input.

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Buying Cycle Sales Cycle Lead Rank Lead Scoring 241

The Pipeline

APRIL 6, 2021

Most salespeople are way over reliant on their product while prospecting or selling, continuing to lead with and hype features/benefits. But as Mike Tyson said, the best made plans are laid out by the first punch or prospect objection. Their product obstructed their view of the objective the buyer was trying to achieve.

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SME Lead Rank Lead Scoring Discount 299

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 11, 2019

Author: Tessa Burg In a perfect world, your sales team and your marketing team work side by side to find and close customers. In the real world, however, less than half of companies believe their sales and marketing teams are in any sort of alignment at all. CRM Data that Improves Marketing. How to Bridge the Gap.

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CRM Lead Scoring Lead Rank Data 289

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Prospecting. Make meeting scheduling easier for prospects. Help build email sequences for lead nurturing — the ones that don’t respond to initial prospecting. Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time. Plan for every type of sales objection.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

And to get there, you have to ramp up your visibility and engagement with your best sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. B2B Tips for Sales, Marketing, Recruitment, and More. These signals alert sales and marketing teams to recognize their pain points and take the next step in putting them through the pipeline.

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B2B Trade Show Intent Data Buyer Intent 237

The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. Most materials provided to salespeople or made available for buyers directly is geared towards one type of prospect. By Tibor Shanto. Even Less Receptive.

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Buyer Collateral Harvest Quota 277

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 15, 2020

While making sales is, of course, the cornerstone of our profession, making purchases during this time is far from a priority – or even a possibility – for many of our prospects. Acting with thoughtfulness and a relaxed expectation of when the sale needs to be closed will mitigate the risk of you turning prospects off to your business.

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Loyalty Cancellation Churn Face-to-face 296

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. As your sales reps jump into a selling space and tackle stakeholders’ questions and objections, the better prepared they are, the more likely they are to lead a successful call.

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Face-to-face Intent Data GoldMine Lead Rank 264

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From writing emails, to creating phone scripts and handling objections, it’s clear that AI tools based on large language models can be used in every stage of the sales process. How to Write Sales Prospecting Emails Using ChatGPT One advantage of ChatGPT is that it can iterate on what it’s already produced. Here are some examples.

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Prospecting Cold Calling Banking Scale 130

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

Versus the common practice of starting with the product, then shoehorning in the prospect. Absent the product; the only thing left to talk about is what does the prospect wants to do? Let’s borrow descriptions from marketing to simplify. Buyers will often define their objectives clearly and in detail but rarely define value.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Beyond the weakness and sheer predictability of these statements, they do not add value to the prospect. ( Definition of value ). Helping prospect understand the impacts you can deliver will highlight your value. Momentum helps you focus the prospect and helps the prospect gain momentum to what they want to achieve.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face Objections 201

Lead411

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Mastering the Art of Overcoming Cold Call Objections in Sales Cold calling can be a daunting task for many sales professionals. It’s an essential part of the sales process, but it often comes with its fair share of objections. Recognizing the underlying reasons behind objections will help you address them more effectively.

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Cold Calling Objections Case Study Call-back 97

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2018

Author: Rich Lanchantin, CEO, Qstream With unemployment rates at a 10-year low, it simply isn’t practical to buy your way to sales performance by cherry-picking top reps from the market. At later stages, they must be able to handle common objections, and negotiate the best possible price.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 276

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

Before B2B customers and prospects contact you, they will do their research, seeking out content they can download and watch at their convenience. Share links to your company’s latest case study with your prospects. What comes after prospects consume your content? Be the One Who Listens to Customers and Prospects.

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Sales Goal Meeting Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile 312

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

Problem: Salespeople talk too much when they finally get a prospect on the phone. They talk over their prospects and generally learn very little about what it takes to close a sale. Then hit MUTE again and listen as your prospect reveals more. You’ll discover hidden buying motives—and you’ll discover real objections.

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 212

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2020

What are the thought leaders in your target market talking about? They don’t know either, but they have a following, your target market. Lack of pretenses invites input, and by presenting a blank canvass allows the prospect to think out loud and paint. With that in hand, you have something to engage them on. Trust In You.

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SalesFuel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

You can optimize these assets, among others, to overcome objections that are increasingly common in this competitive market. The B2B Buying Experience and Overcoming Objections New research from Dentsu underscores just how much the B2B buying experience has changed in recent years. Being included requires you to be visible.

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Objections B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 102