Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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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. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2019

There’s no denying it — sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. The two departments may see eye-to-eye and share unified goals, but it’s less common for sales to proactively help marketing perform better, or vice versa. Every hero needs a sidekick — and in sales, that sidekick is content marketing.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It can be easily done by building a simple and repeatable sales cycle. A well-defined sales cycle is the bread and butter of a consistent sales team. It helps them close deals faster and project sales pipelines more accurately. . What is a sales cycle? Why is a sales cycle important?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2022

Market intelligence software helps companies better understand consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry trends. These powerful platforms gather, analyze, and interpret vast amounts of data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making for go-to-market teams.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 3, 2018

Discord between marketing and sales departments is an age-old story. The marketing team gets annoyed at the sales team for failing to follow up on leads and in return, the sales team is annoyed with the marketing team for generating low-quality leads in the first place. As it turns out—neither team is wrong.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. In fact, with just a few simple steps, DIY customer data segmentation for account-based marketing is a great way to get started. Discover your best marketing account segments from within your current customer base. Sound familiar?

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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

MAY 27, 2019

All sales and marketing tools make big promises—more leads, more engagement, higher click-through rate, better sales—but none more so than marketing automation. For those who aren’t familiar, marketing automation tools are exactly what they sound like—tools that automate certain marketing practices.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing 197

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

1 barrier to success for a new product launch is a lack of preparation in the go-to-market and sales launch. For announcements, organizations can link to all the right content and tools to help educate the seller, helping them understand, position and articulate the value of the new solution to prospects. Effective:?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. Pick out the right email automation tool.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 26, 2019

Experiential marketing has also transformed, as discussed further. This is why a sales professional needs to kick up their strategy and not just push the product to the customer. The transforming trends in sales and marketing have helped us identify these factors: 1. Recognize that sales cycles have become longer.

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Trends Marketing Fashion Lead Rank 199

Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For a long time, sales leaders thought that the way to give sales teams a leg up was to help them target the right buyers in the right ways. But if you thought that gifted reps and some targeted marketing would get your team to the top, pull up a chair. Sales Enablement is about to become your priority (if it isn’t already).

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Sales Enablement Tools Top of Funnel Hiring 164

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. Sync your HubSpot fields into your conversational marketing platform to make this happen.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. Your marketing and sales teams need both. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. Let’s break that down.

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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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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Intent Signal Lead Rank 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? However, there are a handful of solution categories that any sales ops team needs to focus on for success.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Intent Data 130

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. Build Awareness Through Pre-Event Campaigns: Start marketing early through multiple channels. Early in my career, events terrified me.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2018

And, it’s made up of data points related to a company’s relationships to other companies within the market. A branch typically exists to sell the same products in a different geographical market. Develop deeper insights into your target market. Reach key decision-makers to shorten the sales cycle.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine? The challenge is many want to deal with prospecting the same way they deal with sales or selling. But while prospecting part/start of the sales cycle. There is no shortage of data being generated by apps and automation tools.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. We based call cadence on engagement in our marketing automation tool.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The forecast predicts how much the company will sell in the way of products or services and by whom (from individual reps to sales teams). Sales forecasts are critical for guiding business decisions such as go-to-market strategies, hiring, and budget planning. The sales projections allow you to manage market change effects.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

Given the uncertain times we’re living in, ineffective sales pipeline management can easily grow from being something that holds your business back to actively endangering it. COVID-19 has affected best practices for lead generation, follow-up, sales quotas, and sales cycle length. Qualification (or The Discovery Call).

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 16, 2017

It’s a powerful conversion tool at least as old as the Gospels. Storytelling is vital at every point in the sales cycle. In the early and mid-stage of the sales cycle we focus on building relationships by sharing relevant, targeted content all of which tells a story. Cold calls. Building relationships.

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2023

In fact, recent research highlights two critical problems with traditional sales content management systems: Conventional technologies reinforce the divide between those who create and manage sales content (marketing and sales enablement) and those who use it (sales reps). Modern sales content management platforms.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program. With the right sales enablement process, revenue leaders can confidently improve sales team skills, boost customer retention, expand market differentiation, and drive revenue growth.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing? The best way to unearth key buying signals from your audience?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The upsides of account-based marketing are no mystery to anyone running a B2B go-to-market team. However, the gap between developing an account-based marketing strategy and actually aligning teams to win over their target accounts isn’t always easy to bridge. This is where sales and marketing alignment can make a difference.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But this staple tactic of the poker table can be a valuable and valid tool in sales negotiations. You can use the same technique in your sales cycle. In sales, you can assemble a coherent narrative with the pieces of information you choose to share. It’s often interpreted synonymously with lying.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With this tool, users can create guided, visual processes and easily add them to a record, app, portal or console. The adage “data is king” consistently rings true for all aspects of the sales process. Additionally, organizations can more accurately allocate marketing dollars and other resources when more data is readily available.

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The Pipeline

MAY 15, 2017

It is often those sales leaders who rely on the trial and error method that complain that their sales cycles are too long, and are looking for a way to shorten the cycle. Become one of the thousands of sales professionals receiving my latest updates on sales execution, tools, tips and more.

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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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Vengreso

AUGUST 12, 2024

The sales cycle, or sales cycles, is a systematic approach adopted by sales teams to monitor and finalize transactions, beginning with the recognition of prospective customers and continuing through acquiring their business to cultivating enduring partnerships.

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