Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Be upfront and transparent with your prospects. As the conversation progresses, share relatable (not deceptive) details of your product or service. Consider these following tips to get more success in your cold calls — before, during, and afterward: Do: Research your prospect (Who are they? Practice your cold calling script.

Cold Calling 264

Cold Calling Guidelines Prospecting Face-to-face 264

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. 3: Competitive displacement play. Filtering criteria stays the same.

Webinar Metrics 242

Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. Welcome to lead generation marketing. What is Lead Generation Marketing? Lead gen marketing is what businesses do to attract ideal customers. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You can track their buying signals.

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 246

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. There are dozens, if not thousands, of sites with content related to your solution. One winner is selected, and all the other competitors who did not make the cut have to go back to the drawing board, the next prospect. Website visits.

Intent Data 313

Intent Data Intent Data Lead Rank 313

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.

Lead Scoring 398

Lead Scoring Lead Rank Margin SME 398

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

Top of Funnel 218

Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Forecasting 218

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.

Ideal Customer Profile 264

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Marketing Loyalty 264

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

One proven way is to use analogies from different yet relatable practices. 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.

Lead Scoring 352

Lead Scoring Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, having a 360-degree view of customers and prospects is key. Industry classification remains a foundational component to achieving ABM (account-based marketing) success. 237110 Water & Sewer Line & Related Structures Construction. 3231 Printing & Related Support Activities.

Transportation 204

Transportation Chemicals Automotive Marketing 204

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Just as a deadpan delivery will not engage or excite a buyer, competing with Bill Burr in front of prospects, will cost you sales. Smiling and laughing takes down the threat level and allows the prospect to more easily share information you need. I find you can put a wild-assed proposition out there, laugh, and wait for the prospect.

ACT 335

ACT Face-to-face Buyer Compensation 335

The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

There are many reasons people do not like to prospect. That is the words you use with yourself before during and after you make a prospecting call. Stop talking about solutions on prospecting calls. Better to start with something they can relate. ” Yet one is sought after, the other shunned. An Unvirtuous Circle.

Cold Calling 344

Cold Calling Buyer Persona Decision Maker ACT 344

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Let’s break that down. How to spot buying signals.

Lead Rank 309

Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Author: Warren Fowler Sales teams and marketers focus on digital communication so much that they seem to forget the power of offline promotion channels. While online tools are often more convenient and practical than traditional marketing techniques, the fact remains that the latter usually perform better. Let’s take a look!

Direct Mail 323

Direct Mail How To Advertising Advertising 323

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.

Influencer 194

Influencer Marketing How To Face-to-face 194

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Shawn Finder Ask sales and marketing leaders what digital channels they leverage to generate leads and help their teams hit quota and you’ll likely get the same answer over and over: cold calls and emails. It’s capable of including other mediums, both visual and auditory, which means you can engage your prospects on a deeper level.

Quota 296

Quota Channels Decision Maker Cold Calling 296

Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories.

Hubspot 195

Hubspot Conversion Sales Qualified Lead Webinar Metrics 195

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause. Let's see what they had to say!

Demand Generation Agencies 115

Demand Generation Agencies Prospecting Strategy Follow-up 115

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

It’s called the Prospective Memory Model. Using the Prospective Memory Model. Prospective Memory means “remembering a future intention,” and using this model has remarkable advantages for every seller and marketer. related concepts are linked. This is because memories are stored in an associative way?—?related

Intent 296

Intent ACT Influencer Call-back 296

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

B2B 277

B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 277

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The events of 2020 changed the customer buying journey, so we must change our prospecting tactics. Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. The ever-decreasing lack of seller access during the customer journey isn’t a COVID-related problem. Unless … Breaking News. Think about it.

Referrals 323

Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 323

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a hot topic of conversation, and momentum is building to expand this person-first approach from Marketing to Sales and beyond, breaking down department barriers with shared goals: Enter account-based everything (ABE). Recently, we brought a new HR dataset to market.

Account Based Marketing 307

Account Based Marketing Account Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 307

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers. Through consistent processes, leaders derive quick insights on how its sales organization attacks their market. Prospects have access to more information than ever.

Top of Funnel 246

Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 246

Zoominfo

JULY 8, 2021

Sales reps and marketers that use ZoomInfo and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are about to see their day-to-day lives get easier thanks to a new collaboration between the two companies. This integration allows customers to accelerate their sales and marketing efforts by using ZoomInfo’s best-in-class data while never leaving Dynamics 365.

Data 246

Data Microsoft Decision Maker CRM 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies.

B2B 246

B2B Intent Signal Customer How To 246

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2019

Top salespeople ask prospective clients lots of questions to get to the real problem. They work collaboratively with their sales team, customer service team, product team, marketing team—you name it. When they get curious, they bring the brain trust of the company together to solve the prospective client’s problems and win deals.

Google 299

Google Face-to-face Cold Calling Survey 299

The Pipeline

MARCH 3, 2020

I ask reps to step back think of their number one prospect, and ask how things have changed with that constituency? When you understand why you are winning losing or failing to get a decision is a great way to stay with or ahead of changes in the market. They have invested time and energy learning things, and now we turn?

Face-to-face 362

Face-to-face Pipeline ROI Energy 362

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

Demand Generation Agencies 225

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Paid Content 225

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We know what you’re thinking, but even with new privacy laws, B2B prospecting is possible in Europe, if you’re taking the right steps. 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.”. A contract with the user.

Outbound 246

Outbound Ideal Customer Profile NetSuite Microsoft 246

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

Examples 264

Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

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.

Buyer 277

Buyer Collateral Harvest Quota 277

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Most of the time the Leader’s departure is related to poor revenue performance or inadequate return on Sales & Marketing dollars. The average lifespan of a Revenue Leader is less than two-years. In the following article, we will outline.

Leads 269

Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Revenue Hiring 269

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A webinar funnel works a lot like a sales funnel or marketing funnel. The goal is to attract prospects to your brand and convert them to customers — by hosting a webinar. Read on to get the ins and outs of attracting prospects (and converting them into customers) with a step-by-step webinar formula. What Is a Webinar Funnel?

Top of Funnel 208

Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Funnel Social Media 208

Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

What happens when you turn suspects into prospects? There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing.

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Generation 246

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

B2B social selling is an important and viable channel for B2B marketers and sales professionals. B2B social selling is the process where salespeople use social media to connect with prospects. This will establish you as an industry expert and tell your prospects that you’re the one who likely has the solution to their problems.

Social Selling 263

Social Selling B2B Social Media Top of Funnel 263

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 25, 2018

How do I stay fired up when I prospect? I listen intently and try to figure out what makes each business model unique and each prospect like a snowflake. Passion – Prospects smell fear. Can you relate to these? Tony’s most recent book is “Combo Prospecting.” Get out of the office, never eat alone.

B2B 319

B2B Banking Conference Decision Maker 319

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. Well, for starters, inbound prospects, by definition, choose themselves as leads. Inbound lead generation is a part of inbound marketing. Sounds great, right?

Lead Rank 246

Lead Rank Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Inbound 246

Zoominfo

JUNE 2, 2021

Layering various customer buying signals on top of each other is a reliable, data-based approach to predict when a prospect is facing a business challenge that your product can solve. By adding automation to these high-quality results, day-to-day sales and marketing efforts get easier, too.

Data 246

Data Intent Lead Rank Lead Scoring 246