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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Every company has their own definition of a “good lead.”

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JUNE 8, 2021

We are at the dawn of a new era in B2B sales and marketing. The sales and marketing technology landscape has grown from just a few hundred applications to thousands—each one promising to streamline go-to-market operations, accelerate pipeline and generate revenue at scale. Why We’re Acquiring Insent.ai.

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MARCH 8, 2021

You want to know if a lead is qualified well before you even pick up the phone to call them. Every data point helps your revenue team (sales, marketing, and customer success) determine if this lead fits your ideal customer profile (ICP). What is Automated Lead Qualification? A hot new lead hits your inbox.

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Nutshell

MAY 1, 2023

Tactful qualifying questions can save you the hassle of potentially going through the entire pipeline with a non-starter. It doesn’t matter how good a salesperson you are, you can’t convert every single lead that comes your way—mostly because a handful of your leads won’t be a good fit for the products or services you sell.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

By analyzing vast amounts of information in real time, these tools provide a competitive edge that manual processes simply can’t match. With just about every sales software tool now offering AI-assisted features, it’s hard to tell which ones are real, and which are window dressing. What is AI Sales Assistant Software?

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Lead mining is becoming increasingly commonplace among companies seeking to expand into new markets and territories, as well as those hoping to increase profitability. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. What is Lead Mining Software? The result?

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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?

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MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Assertive businesses have taken the lead and have handled the crisis with resilience. Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. A SalesHacker survey of a variety of sales professionals highlights the depth of the issue. Roughly half of the respondents are experiencing a 60% drop in leads.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Yes, boys and girls, tomorrow being Halloween, it is the last day to get your Pumpkin Spiced Leads, come November 1, Starbuck rolls out their Christmas and Chanukah cups, and it’s all downhill from there. Seems to me, that would qualify more as history, than insight, and well short of actionable insight.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Personalization, precision and performance are the keys to modern B2B marketing. And account-based marketing software is what helps your team nail all three with perfection. Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

As a marketer, you know how to get your audience’s attention. How do you get visitors’ attention and start a productive sales conversation? Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. The result?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 8, 2018

Author: Jason Kulpa Successful B2B marketing is all about saying the right thing through the right channel at the right time. In fast-paced marketing, the right time usually means right away. Despite this, many vendors still wait multiple days before responding to leads.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. I blame outdated lead-gen strategies, metrics, and leadership. Some salespeople fool themselves into believing what I call the “warm call fantasy.”

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The result is a good thing, it frees up time and bandwidth to apply to other high-value sales activities. The problem I see is how the recaptured time and resources are applied to things other than generating new sales. Wherever you stand on the sales spectrum, you would have to agree that sales is in the age of More.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 4, 2018

But here’s what they’re missing on referral B2B lead generation. Instead, I prefer to focus on sharing insights and tips for referral sales lead generation. There’s a reason I’m recognized as America’s leading authority on referral selling and a thought leader on social media. Technology is an important tool.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

Last week, I noticed that people are still using this archaic and overly simplistic sales qualifying process, and too many are still writing about the benefits of BANT (Acronym for Budget, Authority, Need, Timing). How is it that in 2024, people are still hailing BANT as some kind of relevant and beneficial sales tool?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Tunnel Vision: The Sales Funnel in the Age of Buyer Empowerment Stages of a Sales Funnel: Two Perspectives Funneling Success: Using KPIs to Measure Effectiveness How Do I Create a Sales Funnel? What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. Enter, data.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? What does a “good lead” look like anyway? Get answers to these questions about lead gen — and so much more! What Is Lead Generation? What is a Lead? Every company has their own definition of a “good lead.”

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JUNE 2, 2019

The goal of every marketing department is to get more work done faster. Ready to learn how to boost your B2B marketing productivity? Five surprising habits that impact your B2B marketing productivity: Lack of routine: This may seem like a no-brainer, but we’re going to include it anyway. Keep reading. The solution?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Given its rising popularity, podcasting is now an avenue marketers can explore to publish more branded content and reach new audiences. But, it’s also a great resource for marketers who simply want to learn new tips and strategies or find a bit of motivation for their day-to-day efforts. 1. This Old Marketing Podcast.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2020

Author: David Hoang How you manage leads makes the difference between a wasted investment and a solid return on investment. Some of the leads may take a year to buy something, some may take six months and some will only take a few months or a few days. We know that nearly half of any group of leads will buy.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 1, 2020

A company I’ve been working with for over a year now gets a portion of their leads via inbound email requests for information on their services. Another company recently reached out to me wondering if there is a best practice approach for handling inbound leads. So, stop pitching your inbound leads and start qualifying instead.

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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.

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eGrabber

AUGUST 29, 2024

This blog post will help you learn how eGrabber’s powerful tools— JobGrabber and Email-Researcher -offer a strategic and efficient approach to lead generation, empowering training and development companies to focus on high-value opportunities.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. 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 sales combine verbal cues and intent data, positioning your team to tailor prospect-focused communications.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Why is getting past the gatekeeper and finding qualified leads so challenging for salespeople? At most companies, the sales process is a balancing act that doesn’t always work so well. The #1 reason sales teams find their job so daunting is they believe circumventing the gatekeeper is the answer to their lead generation woes.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads.

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Zoominfo

MAY 5, 2021

If you were a marketer twenty years ago, you would have given anything for this scenario. In 2021, digital marketers are segmenting audiences and focusing on quality over quantity. Years ago, marketers primarily segmented their audiences by age range—mainly because the data to get super granular didn’t exist back then. “As

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MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. The answer has little to do with the technology itself.

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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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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. It’s also raising big questions about the future of the sales profession — including lingering worries that many sales jobs could soon be replaced by machines.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Efficiently managing leads and routing them to the right accounts is a challenge for many companies, no matter the size. Lead-to-account matching and routing software addresses this problem head-on, automating key processes to help sales teams work smarter and faster.

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JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

During my time as a sales rep, building a lead list was one of my first activities when I took on a new sales role, territory, or industry vertical. Table of Contents What Is a Lead List? Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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