Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You may notice that your campaigns move too quickly or slowly, indicating that your marketing team has become distracted. Yes, speed can be important, but rapid, erratic pivoting can lead to confusing messaging and conflicting verbiage.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Campaigns 177

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Integration : Most lead capture tools seamlessly integrate with CRM systems and other marketing automation platforms, creating a cohesive ecosystem for lead management.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2020

With Covid-19 hitting the US hard, we had to pivot in a lot of different ways. Retaining unconverted leads comes at no cost, but the ongoing obsession with adding more prospects to the funnel can undermine the value of lead nurturing. It’s because, despite our current situation, the need for businesses to go-to-market remains.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 30, 2021

Like everyone else, we had to pivot, and fast.” — Danny Daly, manager, marketing events at ZoomInfo. One year later, we’re virtually in the same boat, with most organizations shifting to conducting online shows to generate leads and reach prospective buyers. Lessons learned from virtual events. That makes them hot leads.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Most B2B companies have reduced marketing budgets in the wake of the pandemic, even as the need for impactful customer engagement has increased. In order to be nimble, marketers must react to news and events in real time.

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Marketing Trends Government Face-to-face 166

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It left me wondering whether that sentiment rings true now that inside and outside sales reps are spending more time connecting with prospects and customers remotely versus face-to-face. based market-sizing study done by InsideSales.com found that, of the 5.7 It’s the next best thing to being there.”

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Meeting Sales Meeting Face-to-face Margin 250

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales forecasts are critical for guiding business decisions such as go-to-market strategies, hiring, and budget planning. Do it right, and you can: Spot potential ‘issues’ early (and pivot). The sales projections allow you to manage market change effects. Revisit and adjust the forecast as markets change. Let’s dig in.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Hiring Pivotal 207

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The incredible rise of smartphones and social media has been pivotal to this cultural shift. With more opportunity than ever to market and sell to a global audience, SMBs are also exposed to a customer base whose expectations are continually shifting. 4 Keys to Consistent High-Quality Engagement for SMBs. I bought it through Instagram.

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PeopleSoft Social Media Customer SalesForce 254

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. Plenty of companies have sales and marketing plays, but not all plays are created equal. What is a Play?

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Marketing Scale Call-back Decision Maker 130

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

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

By uniting the two, B2B marketers can transform a traditional account-based marketing strategy into a comprehensive go-to-market approach that can scale across an entire company. Once you define your ICP and set up your plays, an individual play is then triggered based on high-value signals surfaced by your marketing platform.

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Alice Heiman

MAY 21, 2020

Smart leaders are saying , “W e cannot do things the same way we’ve always done them and expect it to work. ” A pivot is needed and everyone needs to agree on what that will be. . A Pivot Means Investing in Sales Growth . Pivoting means making the necessary changes to invest in sales growth. But hold on!

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Pivotal Hiring 169

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One that has proven itself in varied markets and real-world challenges. Often the things one does to persuade say a prospect, start with or lead don’t always lead to being liked. However, when you look at pivotal moments in our lives, they often involve a person we may not like off the top, if ever. By Tibor Shanto.

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Hiring Fashion Facebook Pivotal 286

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. 76% percent of BDRs report to sales over marketing. BDR achievement has remained steady.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 118

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As your business expands into new markets, privacy considerations must be top of mind. Maintaining a compliant go-to-market strategy, on the other hand, can help your brand build customer trust and grow your revenue in a sustainable and scalable way. Canada has its own set of privacy laws that impact how companies go to market.

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Telemarketing Marketing Inbound Intent Signal 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 8, 2017

Email marketing providers take the quality of your contact lists seriously. Bounce Rates – ISPs require email marketing providers to enforce certain bounce rate thresholds. It’s been around the block and has been mined by other sales and marketing teams looking for leads. Want your prospecting emails to have super powers?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

Prospects trust us. There are no big marketing costs. Then I asked the pivotal question: Do you have a referral system, a methodology, a programmatic, written strategy, with metrics, KPIs, skills, and accountability for results? It’s changed how we prospect, but it hasn’t changed how deals get done. But I had to ask.).

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Marketing and Do It! Through asking penetrating questions and providing valuable resources, consultants and salespeople can establish themselves as experts and earn the right to have pivotal conversations with their top prospects. Target a specific market instead of trying to target everyone. Marketing and Do It!

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Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker Prospecting Strategy 92

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Extroverts are much better at going out on a limb and introducing themselves to a new person or prospect. AI sales platforms can also help you narrow down accounts that are already in your target market, or even actively searching for your product. Researching Prospects. Listening to Prospect Pain Points.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Cold Calling Pivotal 214

Alice Heiman

JUNE 17, 2020

None of this is good news for your company or your sales team – unless you happen to be one of the companies serving a market or industry that’s actually experiencing growth. Right now, we’re helping CEOs make sales pivots to turn pandemonium into a path to sustainable sales growth. . Keep Prospecting .

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Leads 135

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. Specifically, it’s a plan that maps out the way a company introduces a new product or service to the market. It’s more than a product launch, but slightly less than an entire business model.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Buyer Persona Lead Rank 189

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Lead Rank Marketing 130

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

If you’re a B2B marketer like me, it’s probably as close as we’ll ever get to putting on a rock ’n’ roll tour, as we wheel our display cases into the venue and prepare to meet what we hope will be an enthusiastic crowd. (“We Your prospects don’t know he’s an intern.they just see a person wearing your company’s polo in your booth.

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Survey Pivotal Follow-up B2B 174

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And let’s not forget, most organizations offer solutions that address multiple problems to either expand their addressable market or maximize the lifetime value of its existing customer base. There is a fundamental difference between a Total Addressable Market (TAM) and what your true active market. Timing is everything.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 191

Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Pivoting To Entrepreneurship . Discovering Market Need . The market need for fun performance-enhancing wellness programs was real. Soon I had established a company with a brand, website, and promotional materials and was ready to begin early-stage marketing. Opportunities & Pivots . Then the pandemic hit.

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Pivotal Social Media Hiring Networking 148

Allego

OCTOBER 22, 2021

“You can even take marketing and sales out of the equation and, I know it sounds trite to say, put the customer at the center.”. This may seem like an unconventional comment coming from the Chief Strategy Officer at Corporate Visions, a company that—at its core—provides sales and marketing training. Learn More.

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Hiring Marketing Buyer Persona Journal 126

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Unfortunately, the massive market changes have left their customer and prospect data almost worthless, because it no longer reflects the real world. If your “ideal customers” are struggling in the wake of Covid-19, the last thing you want are more prospects that look like them. Reimagine your product-market fit.

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Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Real Estate Retail 194

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Author: Jennifer Tomlinson and Olivia Hardy Proposals have always played a pivotal role in the sales process, but today they are more important than ever. Don't bog down your prospects with redundant details and unsubstantiated claims. Use facts — not hyperbole – to differentiate your company from the competition. Make it easy.

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Proposal How To ROI Case Study 177

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From here, most well-meaning sales managers pivot into the helpful, inspiring part of the conversation, discussing the need to increase activity, generate more proposals, ask for the sale, and increase the closing ratio. Now, even if you’re not talking to a future sales superstar, this information is not breaking news.

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Coaching Construction Pivotal Positioning 257

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 29, 2021

Businesses across the country are taking pivotal actions to prioritize their digital selling efforts, especially now that trade shows and conventions are off the table for the foreseeable future. Automating non-customer-facing responsibilities: Under normal circumstances, sales team members spend substantial time in front of prospects.

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Face-to-face Proposal Trade Show Pivotal 177

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 7, 2019

Says the study author, “…the employee must be pivotal. In our case, we discovered one team was significantly farther along in the maturity of its technology stack and marketing function to support sales and customer success with content, efficient workflows, and human capital resources. So, how do you avoid doom?

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Hiring Pivotal Scale Journal 176

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Prospects need you to acknowledge their new realities; don’t glaze over the facts. Your prospects’ buying patterns and priorities have changed, so previously compelling offers may seem irrelevant and insensitive. Now is the time to pivot and express empathy for their situations. What information are you sending prospects?

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Lead Scoring Lead Rank Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 177

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 29, 2020

B2B leaders and sales and marketing teams across the globe are finding ways to adapt in this time of crisis. Legitimately try to help customers manage their way through current market conditions. Communicate with customers, both internal and external, as well as prospective customers to gage their plans.

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Chemicals How To Margin Pivotal 177

Steven Rosen

MARCH 1, 2024

In the competitive world of SaaS sales, 40% of salespeople cite prospecting as the most challenging part of the sales process, ranking it more daunting than closing or qualifying stages. 2- Improving Prospecting Skills Effective prospecting is the cornerstone of a successful sales rep.

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Pipeline Coaching Revenue Sales Qualified Lead 120

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Before establishing themselves as market disruptors or category creators, future unicorns start by creating a minimum viable product (MVP). One of the things that sets unicorns apart from typical market leaders is their desire to disrupt. In fact, the more narrowly you can define your market, the better. What are you selling?

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Scale Promotion Face-to-face Lead Rank 182

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 18, 2017

Author: John Bennett, Sales & Business Development Leader with Peak 10 Sales success is about much more than converting prospects to customers. Helping customers and prospects manage the shifting needs of their organizations in a world of rapid technological change is difficult. Timing is everything.

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Call-back Film ACT Fashion 276

Zoominfo

JUNE 30, 2020

With communications alignment in both sales and marketing teams, sales tech stacks strengthen B2B sales processes in customer engagement. Your B2B sales tech stack should consist of technologies that’ll help you identify your target market and improve your sales prospecting efforts — all the way from performance to tracking.

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B2B How To Scale Buyer Persona 162