The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Buyers are looking to maximize value, vendors are focused on delivering value, value, value. But here I use that graphic to highlight how to better leverage VALUE while prospecting and selling. By Tibor Shanto. There is no doubt that VALUE is central to sales success. Unlike roses, it’s not just value, by any other name.

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Membrain

JANUARY 1, 2023

If someone doesn’t spend enough time prospecting due to poor time management – it’s really a priority problem. We don’t find the time, we make it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

80% of salespeople believe virtual meetings make it harder to engage with prospects and 40% believe virtual meetings are costing them sales. Here are four tips to maximize the impact of your virtual sales meetings. The post 4 Tips to Improve Your Virtual Sales Presentations appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 2, 2024

For business development (BDR) reps, the pressure to maximize productivity never lets up. Innovative Ways to Maximize Productivity For BDRs The latest research shows BDR team members are working both outbound and inbound leads. In total, 6sense analysts report that BDRs reach out 17 times to each contact at a prospect’s account.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 13, 2023

But prospects become clients much faster when you’ve been referred and have commitment from the leader than when you generate leads by bugging strangers (read: cold calling ). The post Maximizing Referrals: Strategies for Turning Your Network Into a Powerful Revenue Generator appeared first on No More Cold Calling.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Instead, redirect your energies toward maximizing messaging potential. We promise your prospects will appreciate the effort…and we’re pretty certain your ROI will, too. . Once your tech systems kick your operations into gear, it might feel like your work is over. Do everything you can to resist this feeling. . Spread the Word.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 9, 2021

Part of your answer may come down to your role, but for the most part it will come down to how well you prospect in Q1 and year-round. This is a great time to take inventory and focus on some fundamentals as a means of accelerating or igniting your prospecting and quota efforts. Be The Play.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? Yet, most companies miss the mark on referrals and instead make these common sales prospecting mistakes. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

With ZoomInfo, your go-to-market team can easily identify website visitors , engage prospects with website chat , and optimize web forms to transform anonymous visitors into actionable prospects. ZoomInfo automates lead routing based on criteria like location and company size, directing leads to the right representatives quickly.

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The Pipeline

MAY 28, 2019

To succeed in prospecting, in fact, in any element of sales, you need to own your time. Optimizing and maximizing how we utilize this finite resource is a must to surviving in business today. As alluded to above, all humans fall into this 24-unit paradigm, including prospects and clients. Return On Time.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It can take a dozen touches to reach a prospect this way, and are they even prospects? Qualified means the prospect is vetted, has budget and a timeline, and needs our solution, and the decision-makers are on board. That’s how you get fewer, qualified leads and maximize the prospecting time of your reps.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 12, 2024

The company has long since proven that its solutions are a great fit for several key personas, which makes reaching well-qualified prospects with relevant messaging a cornerstone of Smartsheet’s growth plans. Access to the same robust database enabled Smartsheet to effectively nurture prospects at every stage of the funnel.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 29, 2019

While we all want to maximize results, some results are better than the “nothing” delivered by constantly preparing to be perfect. This gives us an opportunity to use our own and other clients’ experiences to help your current prospect. First, it is not something prospects see on a regular basis, talk about differentiation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It can be helpful to think about a bluff as a tactic used in a zero-sum game where both parties are on an even playing field and trying to maximize their individual outcomes. In a sales situation, bluffing can help you maximize your revenue outcomes. In sales, any information you glean from a prospect can be an opportunity.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Think about it: Traditional sales software applications have long since been deployed in streamlining daily tasks associated with prospecting and pipeline management. What’s more, these platforms incorporated the use of B2B contact and company intelligence to help identify, connect with and close the right prospects, at the right time.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 8, 2024

Photo by SNCR_Group Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Maximize Your Trade Show Success And Business Growth Trade shows are vital to the business landscape, offering unparalleled opportunities for networking, learning, and showcasing innovations. Our guest blog offers insights on maximizing trade show success and business growth.

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The Pipeline

JULY 9, 2019

Everything we do as sales professionals needs to maximize that end and ease the journey for all involved. This attitude needs to cascade down to your view of your day, what you commit time to, and what you choose to ignore in order to maximize this precious resource. It is where your plans are first tested by reality.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2020

With a focus on getting ahead of competitors, reps are assigned target prospects without overlapping each other. Greater adaptability: One of the main reasons territory maps are built is to maximize company visibility to sales prospects. What is Sales Territory Mapping?

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SalesFuel

MAY 8, 2024

Even after significant effort to set sales meetings with prospects, they sometimes fall through. Prospects may get cold feet and cancel. Tips to Set Sales Meetings That Prospects Won’t Miss One of the first suggestions from Igor at Sales.Rocks is to seek assistance from a sales mentor. But don’t just check in.

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BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We gather and curate an ocean of digital footprint data about businesses, at scale, with generative AI-powered hyper-personalized prospecting! Remember, context setting empowers reps with better prospecting, maximized selling time, a vastly improved sense of product-need fit, and a higher strike rate in their sales conversations.

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The Sales Heretic

JULY 29, 2020

This maxim stems from the idea that if a person is buying a drill, it’s not because they really want a drill, but because they want a hole. A common cliché in sales training is “Sell the hole, not the drill.” And you should focus on the problem they want to solve, rather than your [.].

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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 5, 2019

How do you maximize the selling power of this referral? Try to get the prospect to prepare information for your meeting. If you can get the prospect to gather and/or compile information, you have an interested prospect who will be willing to talk and listen. The most coveted prize in selling besides a sale is a referral.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Individual opportunities are essential, but to maximize them you need time and resources. This allows you to revisit these prospects early in the quarter. That’s where you specifically seek out other salespeople working with your prospects who do not compete with you. At what cost? Opportunities Are Like Stocks. Referral 2.0.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 5, 2017

On the other hand, when you are looking to win deals, you want to evaluate things much more objectively, you want to examine the facts as presented by the interactions with the buyer(s), this ensures you are focused on things that lead you to quota, and maximize your most precious resource, time. Statistics.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

GTM strategies also help with maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV). An ideal ICP quickly identifies a quality prospect based on what is feasible for a seller. For customer insights and prospecting, there is sales intelligence. How many prospects are in each persona? Quantify Buyer Personas. Find Customer Pain Points.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 10, 2021

With decreasing prospects and the cost of doing business increasing, a squeeze on profits is inevitable. 3) Maximize the ROI on your training budget. Maximizing your ROI on training really means ensuring that whatever training you do creates sustainable changes in behaviours that impact on business performance.

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Autoklose

AUGUST 26, 2024

Here, we’ll discuss the best practices that you can apply to maximize your email deliverability and ensure that your hard work reaches most (if not all) of your intended recipients. The post How to Maximize Your Email Deliverability appeared first on Autoklose. Table of Contents 10 Best Practices for Email Deliverability 1.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Often, the differentiator may come down to the sales rep, whose product knowledge, experience and ability to solve the customer’s problem end up being the deciding factor in turning a prospect into a customer. Then it’s about fine-tuning and maximizing output along the way. Companies have very little room for error in this environment.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 2, 2021

Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. However, Optimizing your chat tool to maximize your team’s efficiency and generate leads requires finding the balance between automated and human touchpoints in your chat platform’s programming.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 30, 2019

Accordingly, onboarding is a critical component in maximizing reps’ performance and ability to positively impact the bottom line. In all these cases, it’s inconceivable that prep work and a solid foundation wouldn’t precede the final product or event. So why is it any different with sales? It’s not!).

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Over the years, I have seen many salespeople and business owners taking big risks with important deals by talking to only one person in the prospect company. Sometimes you will connect with a prospect and that person will be willing to be open with you and share information. It does not have to be this way.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the years, I have seen many salespeople and business owners taking big risks with important deals by talking to only one person in the prospect company. Gatekeepers Gatekeepers are people whose job it is to protect the prospect company. It does not have to be this way.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Combining first-party customer and prospect data with trusted, high-quality B2B data partners — especially providers who can incorporate an additional layer of advanced signals — takes the effectiveness of signal-based marketing to another level. Deploying AI at scale, however, requires AI-ready data.

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