Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 19, 2018

Author: Matthew Sunshine More than 40 percent of salespeople claim that lead prospecting is often more difficult than qualifying and closing the actual deal. It’s easy for prospecting to get pushed to the back burner, especially when dedicated time isn’t set aside for the task. Enhance communication with your marketing team.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 221

Zoominfo

JULY 10, 2018

While this undoubtedly makes for an ideal buying situation, it makes the job of a marketer significantly more difficult. Enter data-driven marketing. What is Data-Driven Marketing? If you’ve worked in marketing over the last few years, you’re likely familiar with the concept of data-driven marketing. Keep reading!

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Data Buyer Persona Marketing Lead Scoring 153

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

An excited prospect who believes your value proposition is a “no brainer” can instantly turn cold and ignore your calls when it’s finally time to put ink to the contract. So, how do you remedy the anxiety a buyer might feel before the deal closes? How something works is secondary to why a prospect needs it. Buyer anxiety.

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Sales Cycle Cancellation Hiring Remedy 212

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

Author: Tim Riesterer Have you ever had a service problem with a customer and worried about the damage it could do to your relationship and long-term revenue prospects? And, worse, maybe they will spread the word throughout their network and negatively influence other prospect or customer decisions. Maybe they won’t renew.

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Loyalty Remedy Journal Study 234

The Center for Sales Strategy

JANUARY 14, 2022

Don't find fault, find a remedy.". Markets shift, economies surge and ebb, leadership changes, but the constant in every organization is the intrinsic motivation of staff. - MOTIVATION -. AROUND THE WEB -. > > Increasing Employee Engagement to Achieve a Successful, Sustainable Organization – The Great Game of Business.

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Remedy Prospecting Motivation Industry 118

Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 16, 2011

There are no remedies offered here — these are only offered as a reality check. What about choice of wrong target customers (prospects) who cannot afford; has no need for product/service and also the possibility that he never understood all that was said, besides his inability (powerless) to decide. A good possible eight.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The most recent would be assassins are Socialites, social selling advocates, who seem to spend as much time sniping at and proclaiming the death of cold calling as they do speaking about what they sell, social selling products, seminars, remedies and dreams. Step back you don’t wanna get any on your shoes). . Why do Socialites? Kumbaya Time.

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Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. In fact, 49% of B2B marketers rank social media marketing as the most difficult lead generation tactic to execute ( source ). Enter, social listening.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Social Media 204

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 3, 2021

LinkedIn is one of the most straightforward, accessible forums for effective sales prospecting. And what does it take to productively connect with prospects via LinkedIn? Here, we'll answer all of those questions and more with our list of five key tips you can leverage to take your LinkedIn prospecting efforts to the next level.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

Prospect research is a challenge that's every bit as frustrating as it is essential — so to help you out, we've put together a list of 18 of the best places to research buyers before sales conversations. If you decide to leverage LinkedIn to guide or support your prospect research efforts, there are some key steps you should follow.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And, how can you remedy this issue? Prepare for your sales conversations with better prospect research. Why is prospect research critical to the sales process? Prospect research is critical to personalizing and delivering a successful sales pitch. What information do I need to know about my prospects?

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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

MAY 13, 2018

Think about this way, if you don’t make prospecting a daily habit and only focus on the deals at hand, how will you meet your goals next month or the month after that? If prospecting becomes part of your day-to-day routine, each call becomes less stressful and the stakes are lowered. Look into prospecting tools. Hire new talent.

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Hiring Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 258

Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2018

When executed effectively, B2B blogging can help your organization achieve some of your most critical business objectives—from driving organic traffic to your website, to engaging prospective buyers, to generating leads. But, as experienced marketers know, it’s not always about what you’re saying, but rather how you say it.

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B2B Case Study Top of Funnel Lead Rank 191

Allego

AUGUST 24, 2021

It falls on marketers to support their teams while ensuring salespeople are armed with content that captures buyer attention and closes deals. As a CMO or product marketer, the ball is in your court for how well your company handles market pressures. B2B deals are high-cost, span multiple touchpoints, and take months to close.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Face-to-face Hiring 171

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2018

There are only so many hours in a day to sell -- the more practiced salespeople are at completing everyday tasks, the more time they can allocate to high-value activities like meeting with prospects or learning new skills. If you rely on the same prospecting methods and never try anything new, you’ll miss out on valuable opportunities.

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Outsourcing Services Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 111

The Pipeline

MARCH 28, 2011

Most common of these is prospecting, but there are other things including keeping the information in their CRM up-to-date. There is a remedy, the logical one is fire them, but I know that’s not fashionable these days. Prospecting. When Sales Met Marketing. Go ahead, do it , click here now! This post has 1 comments.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And, how can you remedy this issue? Prepare for your sales conversations with better sales prospect research. Why Is Sales Prospect Research Important? Prospect research is critical to personalizing and delivering a successful sales pitch. Looking at these numbers, it’s clear why prospect research is so important.

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If there’s one thing of value that hasn’t been changed due to the current market downturn, it’s data. That’s why making full use of data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market. You may wish to measure the conversion rate against your buyer personas.

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Analytics Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Marketing 114

A Sales Guy

MAY 17, 2017

I know, this is the most remedial concept in theory, but in practice, it’s a b h. Your target prospect is busy, tired, and inundated with s**t to get done. ” Why should your prospect take 15 minutes out of their schedule to talk to you? Take a look at your marketing material. They have to engage.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 20, 2018

And how can you determine what type of content is going to resonate with your prospects? The answer to each of these questions, and the key to content marketing success, is something called content mapping. If you don’t understand the prospect’s path to becoming a customer, your marketing will always be subpar.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 100

Anthony Cole Training

APRIL 11, 2011

Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales prospecting (34). Remedy that by setting some new goals that will drive you to a new peak. Tony Cole on TV. Alltop.com. Sales (34).

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Energy Demographics 187

Pointclear

APRIL 6, 2017

It has just been ruined by snake oil lead generation firms (for those of you younger than I am, and that would be most of you, snake oil is defined as: a substance with no real medicinal value sold as a remedy for all diseases). There is no strategy in their market approach. Any interest in a short chat? 25 per name on the list.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 160

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 13, 2010

Gartner just released their list of 2010 trends, and one of the top 9, the importance of providing carbon remediation / Green IT business case, has a significant impact on IT solution provider marketing / sales strategies for the coming year.

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Remedy Microsoft ROI Marketing 40

Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

Go-to-market efficiency is a hot topic for companies looking to succeed in the current market. They rely on ZoomInfo throughout their sales cycle for comprehensive data about accounts they’re targeting — and new accounts that can expand their market.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Direct Mail Customer Strategy 130

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Permission-based selling is essentially the sales equivalent of permission-based marketing — a marketing strategy that revolves around consumers opting into receiving promotional offers and announcements from a brand. One of the most consistent gripes prospects raise about salespeople is that they're too pushy.

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Sales Qualified Lead Remedy Consultative Selling Lead Scoring 140

Pointclear

MAY 2, 2012

Today we discussed several of the latest marketing trends and the impact new technologies are making in the B2B business climate. Social media is becoming an integral part of the marketing mix for companies looking to grow their presence with both business and consumer clientele.

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Social Media Media Inbound ROI 180

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

B2B marketers have long since understood the benefits of social media—yet many still struggle to leverage its full potential as a demand generation tool. In fact, 49% of B2B marketers rank social media marketing as the most difficult lead generation tactic to execute ( source ). Take a look at your marketing tech stack.

Demand Generation Agencies 130

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Social Media 130

Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

Your sales reps have a deep knowledge of how prospects can leverage your product, and they can craft customized plans about the best ways to do so. When it comes down to it, those are the only reasons prospects actually need reps. Marketing collateral usage. Knowledge is power. And as a sales leader, you already know this.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 3, 2020

With consumers and businesses navigating a challenging economy and sobering job market, many companies were focused on staying afloat. Pinpointing the right prospects. Over the past decade, digital marketing has changed the way consumers make buying decisions. Survival of the fittest. Traditionally, sales was a numbers game.

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Outsourcing Services Strategy Remedy Consumer 118

MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

I had an interesting meeting a week back with a prospect I had never heard of. He was the Marketing Director of a large company here in the Midlands and he wasn’t going to put the phone down until he spoke to me. He said to me “Sean, I want you to help us with our marketing. This prospect trusted me too. Happy Selling!

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Social Media Remedy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 120

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2021

Luckily, many are fairly easy to identify and remedy. If your entire draw is rooted less in a strong value proposition and more in showing how much money prospects can save, you might come off as sleazy or substandard. Prospects need to be sold on value , and value doesn't necessarily mean "bargains". Not Segmenting Customers.

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Margin Remedy Lead Scoring Lead Rank 133

PandaDoc

JANUARY 14, 2019

It’s a never-ending list of updates, upgrades, evolutions of tools and technology, and digital marketing trends. Keep reading to learn how you can shape your marketing strategies in the coming year. Marketing teams will create and distribute more video content. Integration of different marketing channels will become more common.

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Trends Marketing Top of Funnel Lead Rank 88

The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have." And this is not just a temporary change.

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Marketing Lead Rank Remedy Forecasting 79

Hubspot Sales

JULY 29, 2020

But every once and a while, a prospect will throw you a curveball that will put you on your heels. So, based on those factors alone, our rep knew their prospect was a handful. It would have been easy to be testy or patronizing with the prospect, but they kept calm and led with empathy. They had their work cut out for them.

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Objections Hubspot Call-back Remedy 128

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. Since many traditional vendors also have such poor data accuracy, there is still much to be desired.

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Transportation Chemicals Automotive Marketing 100

Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems. And keeping go-to-market data up to date and accurate only becomes more difficult as the sheer volume of it increases.

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