Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. From refining your teams techniques to reinforcing best practices, coaching tools are essential to how modern teams train, grow, and win. But first, heres what you should consider when evaluating coaching tools.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2025

Theres certainly no shortage of sales tools available to help your team master every step in the modern sales process. There are way too many of these tools, and their competing claims and different overlapping use cases make it challenging to assemble an effective GTM tech stack. The bad news?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At this year’s virtual event Henry Schuck, delivered a keynote presentation called “Hit Your Number: How To Fast-Track Your Outbound Sales and Marketing in Europe.”. How future changes with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect go-to-market motions. Best practices for going to market across Europe.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile NetSuite Microsoft 246

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 14, 2017

That same willingness to change led DiscoverOrg to split the sales department into inbound and outbound focused teams – bringing lead response times down from a day or more to under ten minutes – and more than doubling the conversion rate. Splitting outbound & inbound sales for faster response time.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

How is it that in 2024, people are still hailing BANT as some kind of relevant and beneficial sales tool? Here are three reasons: Some suggest that it’s great as a lead scoring tool. The first page of this Google search reveals 10 articles written about BANT in 2024 alone.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Today’s most effective go-to-market teams are increasingly embracing signal-based selling , a strategy that leverages real-time data and unique insights about promising prospects to gain a crucial edge in intensely competitive markets. Funding Funding rounds are among the strongest signals for both sales and marketing teams.

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Hiring Data Prospecting Lead Rank 214

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Many salespeople becoming mass email marketers. Some people see this as a new way for salespeople to generate even more outbound email (and social media messages). My estimate is that with modern tools and social networks we can be on the high end of this number, if we are organized and disciplined. The solution was do more.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2025

Winning in today’s markets takes more than just raw effort. Thats where Go-to-Market Intelligence enters the picture. The result: a 360-degree view of your customers and markets, no matter how quickly they change. Results With a strong data foundation, the Houston Rockets are on track to hit their target revenue goals.

Pipeline 130

Pipeline Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

There’s no Magic 8 Ball for investing, but new tools are making the world of B2B sales development a whole lot more predictable. There’s something very sexy under the hood of DiscoverOrg, and it’s solving a quintessential outbound sales development problem: Knowing when to act. Marketing alerts. Click Here to Learn More.

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Outbound Hiring Account Campaigns 215

Zoominfo

MARCH 19, 2018

Social selling has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than outbound marketing. Because there are so many social selling tools on the market today, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorites. Because there are so many social selling tools on the market today, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorites.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2020

There’s one thing that you may not have yet realized is gaining in popularity as a result of the pandemic: outbound sales and marketing. Marketing emails are up 20% and sales emails are up 50% compared to their pre-COVID-19 levels! Marketing emails are up. I learned that outbound marketing is an art, it’s not a science.

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Outbound Company Webinar Metrics Demand Generation 195

The Digital Sales Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outbound sales prospecting insights that will assist any salesperson to connect and engage with target prospects in their sales activity. Our outbound sales prospecting course isn’t a mere refresh of past strategies; it’s a modern take on what it takes to win new customers. What Is Outbound Sales Prospecting?

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Outbound Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead 52

MarketJoy

MAY 16, 2025

Modern lead-generation tools that convert leads into customers in a split second are becoming a staple in 2025. There are various tools to help all aspects of the lead generation process, from customer relationship management (CRM) systems to lead-nurturing software, making your work easy and growing your leads as uncomplicated as possible.

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Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software 59

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

These tools are now essential for companies looking to maintain a competitive edge in a demanding market. They equip teams with tools for automating tasks, tracking engagement, and accessing real-time data, all of which accelerate the sales cycle and improve overall performance. What Are Sales Acceleration Platforms?

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Scale SalesForce Analytics Hubspot 130

SBI Growth

MAY 22, 2013

How do you get another job in this competitive market? Then connect to them through social selling , inbound marketing techniques. They are on the market looking for an HR solution: a top sales rep. Self-Promotion as Inbound Marketing. Not as outbound spam or cold calls, but as meaningful news feeds. Next Steps.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. 2: New sales or marketing leader play. 4: Customer technology play. Filtering criteria stays the same.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services. Integration: Tools that integrate smoothly with existing Salesforce workflows, minimizing disruption.

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SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 24, 2024

In any sales-led growth strategy , the purpose of marketing is to get new leads into the sales funnel that drives new business. However, only a small percentage of potential customers will ever see your ads or read your content — especially when marketing budgets are under pressure. What is Outbound Sales?

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Ideal Customer Profile Outbound Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. But today’s outbound lead generation tactics are more than just dialing for dollars. What is Outbound Lead Generation? What is an Outbound Lead? First, you need the right people.

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Lead Generation Outbound Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 30, 2018

Sales and marketing event season just ended. Account-Based Marketing orchestration – sure, that sounds great,” you may think. But I’m doing the job of demand generation, AND customer marketing, AND product marketing, AND the sales development team … with a bare minimum of tools to make that all happen!”.

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Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation 270

Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2020

They’re driving themselves crazy, stressing out over finding the best outbound sales cadence, especially when the sales numbers aren’t meeting expectations. The best outbound sales cadences focus on action steps based around spacing , and will generally look something like this: Day 1: CALL/VOICEMAIL/EMAIL #1.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead InsideSales 141

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 7, 2013

The Big Data revolution is benefiting marketing leaders the most. In many ways, the capability is the answers to every marketer’s dreams. Their tools leverage Big Data to help those market & sell intelligently. Their tools leverage Big Data to help those market & sell intelligently.

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Data Marketing Qualified Lead Leads Outbound 321

Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing. But how are inbound leads different from outbound leads? Inbound vs. Outbound Lead Generation.

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Lead Rank Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Inbound 246

Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2019

So, in an effort to demystify the term, we recently took to our blog to discuss marketing creativity —what it is, what it isn’t, and how to achieve it. We also thought it would be helpful to provide our readers with examples of truly creative marketing. Three Incredible Examples of Creative B2B Marketing Initiatives.

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Zoominfo

MAY 19, 2020

There is a lot to unpack here, but let me start by making clear that if all cold emails were illegal, we wouldn’t be driving successful email marketing campaigns for thousands of companies worldwide. It is clear from this definition that if you are doing your job as an email marketer, you should NEVER be sending spam. Opt-Out Method.

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Guidelines ACT Campaigns Pharmaceuticals 317

Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

That’s why mastering an outbound call is so important. Outbound calls are any call made by your business, while cold calls happen when sales representatives call prospects without knowing if they’re interested in your offerings. How to Make Effective Outbound Calls 1. Embrace training and team resources. Use the right software.

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Outbound Inbound Cold Calling Buyer Persona 122

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 13, 2020

Accounting for the various types of salespeople, the steps you take should empower both in-office interaction as well as hard-to-control outbound scenarios. As of now, you might have your entire fleet grounded at home, including fully in-house teams as well as salespeople who depend on outbound visits. Determine the Where.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2025

” James gets at the root of so many of the issues we see about the terrible use of LLMs in selling, marketing, customer service. Many are doing mediocre to bad research and call prep using these tools. These tools take away all the work we don’t want to do, all the tedious work, all the work we struggle most with.

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Engineering Decision Maker Tools Face-to-face 124

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2020

If you’ve been given the task of setting up your company’s sales and marketing database, you’re probably not overly excited … especially if it’s something you’ve got to build from scratch. But setting up a sales and marketing database from scratch is not as difficult as you may think. How big is your overall market?

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Inbound 200

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Time-saving tools and software give reps those hours back — as a result, there’s more time to focus on prospects and deals. An example of one of these tools is a sales dialer. There are many sales dialer software options on the market today. Here are 11 of our favorites to help you find the right tool for your team.

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Tools Hubspot Outbound Inbound 140

Zoominfo

JANUARY 5, 2021

What happens when your most important go-to-market machines sync up? For many companies, ZoomInfo serves as the information engine that powers how they go to market. “Data silos are unfortunately still a problem for a lot of go-to-market teams,” says Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s Founder and CEO.

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SalesForce Meeting Marketing Lead Rank 173

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

Global account-based sales development is an outbound sales campaign for a well-defined portion of a multinational account. A sales rep or account manager “owns” the Novartis whale account on the sales side, and Marketing “owns” anything defined as a campaign. That is, it starts with marketing and is followed up by sales.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Artificial Intelligence—or AI—has become an increasingly hot topic in the marketing world as of late. The reason for this is simple: AI technology can automate tasks, simplify complex processes, and organize complicated data sets just as a real marketing professional would—only faster and more accurately. Keep reading!

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Lead Rank Churn Analysis Lead Scoring 272

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In Product-Led-Growth (PLG) circles, outbound has a spotty reputation. Outbound is becoming part of the normal progression of growth at product-led companies. Those larger enterprise deals and new target markets can all seem out of reach without an SDR team in place. That’s when many PLG businesses turn to outbound.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Company Lead Rank 102

MarketJoy

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Explore MarketJoy’s future-focused view of healthcare’s transformation and learn why outbound marketing is the most effective way to engage with this rapidly evolving sector. healthcare continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate, outbound marketing provides a direct and strategic approach to capitalize on the moment.

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Decision Maker Outbound Scale Lead Rank 52

Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. However, with so many sales prospecting tools out there, how do you know which ones are worth your time and money? It is commonly referred to as outbound sales prospecting.

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Tools Prospecting Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 124

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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