Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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SMEI

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s highly competitive job market, particularly in the dynamic fields of sales and marketing, standing out to prospective employers is more crucial than ever. Keeping Up with Industry Trends The sales and marketing sector is continuously evolving, with new tools, strategies, and market dynamics emerging regularly.

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Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Webinar Metrics 219

The Pipeline

JUNE 9, 2020

Some years ago, I wrote a piece about how you should lead a sale in a way that resembles a four-legged stool. Given the changes and opportunities in the market, it’s time for new legs on an old stool. Sales to Economic buyer; C-suite to C-suite; ops to ops; finally finance to finance. By Tibor Shanto. New Economy New Leaders.

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Pivotal Hiring Face-to-face Distribution 354

SBI Growth

JUNE 17, 2021

Digital Sales Transformation Has Accelerated: There is no debate that COVID-19 accelerated the digital transformation in the B2B world. Businesses that pivoted their Go-to-Market strategy to changing customer demands thrived while laggards were left behind waiting for the dust to settle.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Proactive scenario planning and agile execution allow B2B teams to pivot quickly, ensuring alignment and progress even when facing unforeseen challenges. The post What Happens When Your Go-to-Market Strategy Encounters the Unexpected? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Steven Rosen

JULY 8, 2024

In this article, Jenn Steele discusses the vital role of customer feedback in refining marketing and sales strategies. She stresses listening to customer insights to tailor messaging and optimize sales tactics effectively. Key Takeaways: Collaboration between sales and marketing is essential for business success.

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Revenue Marketing Pivotal Promotion 156

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In the crowded arena of GTM demand generation, most organizations are laser-focused on optimizing whats already known: nurturing interest in established markets, identifying accounts actively searching for solutions, and meeting familiar challenges head-on. The lesson: Latent demand exists before the market realizes it. Lets see how.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve maybe been in the sales forecasting hot seat — of presenting numbers that look different from your prediction. What Is Sales Forecasting? Sales forecasting is how sales managers, directors, and VPs estimate upcoming revenue. Why Your Sales Forecasting Matters.

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Sales Forecasts Forecasting Hiring Pivotal 207

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Author: Brandon Brown Today, most marketers and salespeople agree that we need to build relationships with our customers. But many of those same marketers and salespeople are implementing old-school marketing tactics that bombard consumers with unwanted ads and clickbait. Two words: influencer marketing.

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Influencer Marketing How To Face-to-face 194

Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

Gaius, who runs an insurance brokerage in Ohio wants to know how to get his new sales agents cold calling and building pipeline earlier in their training cycle, without making them feel overwhelmed and sabotaging their confidence. The question is, how soon can they start generating leads and setting up sales conversations?

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Cold Calling Hiring Guidelines GoldMine 83

Allego

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Winning a sale is a team effort, not just from sellers and sales managers but the sales organization as a whole. Sales operations, customer success , and product marketing are all instrumental in getting prospects to the finish line. The Persistent Disconnect Between Sales and Marketing.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Harmony Anderson is an entrepreneurial marketing leader with deep expertise in building global GTM strategies at growth startups. She is currently the VP of Growth and Marketing at Superhuman, the most productive email app ever made for teams.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Marketing 95

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As a longtime member of the incentives industry, I am often asked what businesses can do to better manage their sales teams and their relationships with their channel partners in the constantly changing world. My answer: sales training initiatives. Sales training has grown in importance in the past decade.

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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 Cold Calling 177

SBI Growth

APRIL 1, 2020

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt about your marketing strategy occupy your mind. And while you need to remain agile as the crisis unfolds to determine how to best pivot, there is a very important measure. You are staring into the abyss.

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Pivotal Customer Strategy Marketing 224

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 But that doesn’t mean remote meetings are only relevant to them.

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Meeting Sales Meeting Face-to-face Margin 250

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Author: Jen Smith, VP Marketing, MarketingProfs In the “Before Times” – way before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – virtual events were often seen as lesser-than to in-person, bigger-budget events. More than three-quarters of event planners (78%) believe that moving forward, in-person events will pivot to hybrid models. .

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Demand Generation Agencies Face-to-face Lead Rank Conference 358

Bernadette McClelland

JULY 5, 2022

So aesthetics aside, let me dive a little deeper for you because it is a book that MUST be on your bookshelf if you are any type of self-respecting business leader or boots-on-the-ground, bag-carrying, zoom-hybrid seller wanting to market themselves in a very noisy world. Not real crying, but watering eyes kind of tears. Beautiful. ??

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Guarantee Strategy Journal Lead Scoring 284

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

Zoominfo

APRIL 2, 2025

Marketing Automation : Executed independently of upstream data sources, which limits personalization and weakens campaign performance. However, its important to recognize that these elements form an interdependent ecosystem where actions in one area cascade throughout the entire go-to-market motion.

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System Enterprise Enterprise Data 130

Alice Heiman

MAY 21, 2020

As a founder and leader, when was the last time you thought about sales strategy? T he CEOs we work with aren’t focused on making necessary changes to grow sales right now. However, many CEOs are focused on cost-cutting and survival , not on the strategy needed to get profitable sales grow th. .

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Pivotal Hiring 169

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Here are seven sales questions to help build rapport. It shows buyers that you’re curious and want to know what’s going on beyond your particular sale. You may discover that a buyer pivoted in their career or that you know someone in common, which are great opportunities to ask more questions. What did you do last weekend?

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Pivotal Buyer Groups Follow-up 266

Koncert

MARCH 4, 2025

Why Productivity is a Struggle for SDRs and How AI Can Help Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) are the backbone of modern sales teams, bridging the gap between marketing and sales to ensure a steady pipeline of qualified leads for Account Executives (AEs).

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Face-to-face Pivotal Sales Qualified Lead Outbound 85

Nutshell

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With the enormous amount of ads and other marketing messages the average person views per day (somewhere between 4,000 and 10,000), it’s more important than ever to stand out as a brand. That’s the essence of disruptive marketing, a practice that has been around for as long as people have sold and people have bought. Download it today!

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Marketing Social Media Campaigns Consumer 62

Alice Heiman

AUGUST 6, 2024

David Dulany’s journey from sales frustration to creating a thriving business is a testament to this idea. In this episode of Sales Talk for CEOs, Alice Heiman speaks with David Dulany, founder of Tenbound, about his transition from working at Achieve Global to founding a company focused on sales technology tools.

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Pivotal Hiring Sales Technology Referrals 71

Zoominfo

JULY 6, 2020

With Covid-19 hitting the US hard, we had to pivot in a lot of different ways. Inbound marketing is worth it in the long run because it provides higher quality leads for sales compared to outbound marketing tactics. It’s because, despite our current situation, the need for businesses to go-to-market remains.

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Top of Funnel Inbound Lead Nurturing Outbound 264

Pipeliner

MARCH 20, 2025

Conduct Regular Audits: Periodically review your marketing strategies, site performance, and customer feedback to identify areas for improvement. Develop Effective Marketing Strategies: Align your marketing tactics with your brand’s goals and target audience. Marketing Strategies: Implement effective marketing tactics.

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Video Lead Scoring Lead Rank Scale 103

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Transforming Sales and Marketing Alignment: The Rise of the CRO In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the harmony between sales and marketing departments has been a long-sought-after goal. The CRO, as our guest Nathan Young , a seasoned marketing strategist, points out, is a pivotal figure in this transformation.

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Marketing Pivotal Sales Operations Lead Rank 111

MarketJoy

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A good sales strategy is an important part of any B2B business. It allows your business to grow along with your customers, plan for the future, and create a sustainable business model that thrives in the market. In this article, we are going to take a look at how B2B lead generation services can transform your sales strategy.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 83

criteria for success

MAY 4, 2025

What is a Sales Performance Assessment? Well, the success of any business is dependent on sales growth. And sales growth is the result of a well-developed sales strategy. Cue the Sales Performance Assessment. Is your sales team missing their quotas? Solution: Create a table and label each column A, B, C, D.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 27, 2024

A well-crafted AI-powered pricing strategy helps companies to be competitive in their target market. It can help them to be resilient to changing market conditions, and achieve their profitability goals. AI pricing helps to maximize revenue and profitability while ensuring that prices remain competitive and aligned with market trends.

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Strategy Margin How To Lead Rank 103

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Bridging the Content Chasm Sales is increasingly using strategic content creation and distribution as part of the sales process – from outbound, to advancing pipeline along, to awareness and education on social platforms. With that responsibility, often there is a need to create content to assist with the sales education process.

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Hiring Marketing How To Intent Data 127

Pipeliner

MARCH 24, 2025

The conversation revolves around effective strategies for scaling e-commerce brands and maximizing conversions in a highly competitive market. He notes that successful e-commerce businesses often have a dedicated community that nurtures relationships and drives sales. This hands-on approach can lead to significant sales increases.

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Video Scale Lead Scoring Lead Rank 96

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. Why is this important?

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