No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marketing isnt a strategy. A sales strategy isnt about tools or trendsits about how your company attracts and serves customers. Yet, too many sales leaders fall into the trap of believing the latest digital sales tools or automation platforms will solve their sales prospecting problems. Digital isnt a sales strategy.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. Take email prospecting, for instance. But savvy sales leaders know AI isnt a magic wand that can close deals for you.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AI tools are reshaping the way salespeople tackle their day-to-day work, automating many of the core business development tasks that have eaten away at the average sellers’ day. Predictive Insights: Let AI Identify High-Value Prospects AI’s predictive capabilities are perhaps its most exciting feature for sales teams.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For today’s marketers, data is more than just numbers on a dashboard — it’s the key to unlocking new opportunities and staying ahead of the competition. But here’s the catch: many marketing teams are flooded with disconnected data points and siloed insights, struggling to understand what truly drives customer behavior.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2021

There is always a lot of talk about Sales and Marketing , alignment, misalignment an more. It’s gotta be the Vice President of Prospecting. But how many companies have a VP Prospecting. So this is for you, dear Vice President Of Prospecting, where ever you may exist. So who is leading prospecting at your shop?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve witnessed sellers become their best, most efficient selves and seen marketers fully realize their TAM and identify messaging that really drives leads. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals. Real-time signals are the secret sauce.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Go-to-market teams that adopt AI-powered sales automation can reap major benefits: research shows they spend more time with customers, drive higher customer satisfaction, and most importantly, boost sales by up to 10%. Take email prospecting, for instance. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Sales teams are drowning in tools. For too long, sellers have been forced to juggle a grab bag of tools that claim to make selling easier. In reality, each of these tools tends to work independently and the gaps between these tools can swallow even the best go-to-market strategy. Its time to make them intelligent.

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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. The team leveraged: Comprehensive company and contact data to discover and segment new B2B prospects.

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Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems Consider the following questions to help you get into your prospects’ shoes and see how you can serve them. Your prospect decides to do?

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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!

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 5, 2025

A review of some top techniques and tools for sales prospecting and their key features to help you decide which one is best for your business. The post 5 Top Techniques and Tools for New Customer Prospecting appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2025

The world of B2B sales and marketing is at an inflection point. Traditional go-to-market (GTM) strategies, which rely on fragmented systems, are struggling to keep up with the demands of an increasingly competitive, fast-paced market. Its the engine that powers prospecting, personalization, and pipeline generation.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 31, 2025

The traditional go-to-market playbook is dead. Sales and marketing teams that once relied on high-volume outreach to hit their numbers are seeing diminishing returns. Heres how to leverage a GTM Intelligence Platform to set your marketing team up for sustained success.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The sales and marketing go-to-market frameworks weve relied on for decades staples like the funnel, the flywheel, and the buyers journey are fast becoming obsolete or are out the door already. But generative AI tools have empowered them in ways GTM teams can scarcely imagine. Sell Smarter. Win Faster.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After 18 years in B2B marketing, Ive seen this song and dance before. And lets face it, most B2B marketing teams didnt exactly have a foolproof plan to ensure ROI. If youre not actively working to move those prospects through the pipeline, you might as well not have bothered. Early in my career, events terrified me.

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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. Until there is an agreed upon compelling to buy, the prospect has no incentive to enter into any qualification conversation.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2025

The landscape is being transformed by innovative tools designed for sales acceleration, optimize processes, and enhance productivity through an accelerated sales process. While many may be familiar with mainstream solutions, there are several sales acceleration tools flying under the radar that can provide a significant edge.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2025

Imagine that one of your top sales reps spends weeks courting a promising prospect, only to discover at the 11th hour that its actually a subsidiary of your largest customer. Marketing teams pour budget into new accounts that arent really new. Its hard to stomach, but scenarios like this play out every single day.

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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. You can throw in tactical skills like effective messaging, multi-threading, persuasive cold-calling, and much more.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. These tools are now essential for companies looking to maintain a competitive edge in a demanding market. What Are Sales Acceleration Platforms?

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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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Pipeliner

JANUARY 29, 2025

In a recent episode of the expert insight interview series, John Golden delves into the transformative world of geofencing advertising with marketing professionals Barbara Wardell and Ernest Kulhari. By continuously exploring new tools and strategies, they aim to provide their clients with the most effective advertising solutions.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 12, 2020

This includes your prospects. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Don’t be surprised if prospects associated with these deals don’t respond to your team’s emails or phone calls anymore. Your prospecting numbers may drop too.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 7, 2025

This article explores the cutting-edge tools and methodologies that will define the future of video sales mastery, with a spotlight on Vengreso’s FlyMSG Sales Pro Plan for teams , the top choice for salespeople seeking to elevate their video sales performance.

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This is where market intelligence tools come into play. They help businesses understand market trends, customer behaviors, and competitor activities, enabling informed decisions that drive success. The hunt for the perfect market intelligence data tools can be overwhelming, but fear not!

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list. Wondering how to achieve this lofty goal? AI can help.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

How to Build a Lead List My Tips for Building a Sales Lead List A prospect may have shown interest in a product or service by responding to an online offer, visiting your company’s booth at a conference, or engaging with social media posts. Enhanced Prospect Profiles The better your prospect profile, the better your call outcomes.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A well-designed, high-performing website is the cornerstone of modern digital marketing. Visitor identification software offers a powerful solution, helping your go-to-market team transform anonymous website visitors into qualified prospects, leads, and revenue. Top Website Visitor Identification Software Tools 1.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

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. All measurable, all quantifiable and can be improved with skills and the right tools.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Despite advancements in tools, methodologies, and other attempts, sales as a profession continues to struggle. Doesn’t matter the tools, the technique or anything that take the conversation away from the why of it all. Even before you identify specific prospects, we need to understand why they would interact with us.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prospecting : Companies routinely run cold calling prospecting processes that fail 99% of the time, with 1 in 100 calls getting a meeting. Smarter approaches to prospecting are needed. One of the main reasons for this low close rate is that sales people miss decisionmakers in the prospect company. Where does this time go?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For frontline go-to-market (GTM) professionals, the struggle is real: Too much administrative work, too little selling time, and too many missed opportunities. We surveyed over 11,000 revenue professionals to uncover exactly how GTM teams use ZoomInfo to expand markets, accelerate sales cycles, and drive revenue. The results?

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