No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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. Hope isnt a strategy. Marketing isnt a strategy.

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The Pipeline

JULY 27, 2021

While we should always be developing our skills, here are three prospecting fundamentals to practice during summer. First, as an opportunity to speak to people who otherwise may not be accessible but count in the final decision. This is a great time to try new techniques, talk tracks, tools and more. Prospecting Fundamentals.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2025

Instead, using AI effectively is about finding new opportunities and building deeper relationships, which ultimately lead to faster conversions. Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 27, 2021

Given that one attracts, and the other converts opportunities to sales, who is responsible for converting leads to opportunities. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 30, 2025

Instead, using AI effectively is about finding new opportunities and building deeper relationships, which ultimately lead to faster conversions. Heres how some of todays top experts use AI to sidestep common challenges, encourage experimentation, enhance sales training, and create smarter prospecting lists. Heres how AI can help: 1.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Account-based marketing (ABM) is not a new discipline, but the tools that help fuel successful ABM are constantly evolving. In short, ABM treats individual high-value accounts or collections of good-fit prospect accounts as mini-campaigns, surrounding their buying committees and key influencers with targeted, value-driven marketing assets.

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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. It can be a critical step in filling your sales pipeline with great opportunities. The best way to figure this out is to start in your “prospect’s shoes”. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 31, 2025

Today, there are sales intelligence tools that provide us with direct lines and phone numbers to your contacts’ cell phones. Or, if those conditions do not apply, prospecting continues into perpetuity. Most would say it’s the low win rate or the percentage of opportunities that stall in the pipeline.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 31, 2025

Its way too easy to miss the follow up you need to do to generate pipeline and progress opportunities. Tools are getting better at reminding salespeople what they need to do, and when they need to do it, but its still up to us to act. We put hours and hours of work into generating opportunities and then turning these into closed deals.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Eric in Lewiston, Maine, asks how to use last years data to create and accurate sales plans and evaluate software tools (like CRMs and ZoomInfo) to make those goals happen. If you havent defined clear performance metricslike call activity, lead generation, conversion rates, or daily prospecting targetsthen you dont really have a plan.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies. 1 for good reason.

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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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Sales 2.0

MARCH 1, 2023

Just like other important tools like Google search or LinkedIn, professional salespeople will need to learn tools like ChatGPT. The human touch Tools like ChatGPT will become part of our workflow, allowing us to get more done in less time; however, we won’t be able to hand over all writing to the AI and not be involved at all.

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Vengreso

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Mastering Objection Handling Effective objection handling is crucial in sales, requiring sales teams to navigate challenges and turn objections into opportunities. By mastering objection handling, sales reps can build trust with prospects and guide them towards making informed decisions.

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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. Here’s how leading companies are leveraging AI to harness the right signals, develop compelling go-to-market strategies, and seize the opportunities that spur sustained growth.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

With nearly half of B2B reps missing quota , it follows that they are failing to deliver value to their prospects. In fact, I recommend you share the definition with your prospects as a means of creating a clear path forward. All measurable, all quantifiable and can be improved with skills and the right tools. Productivity.

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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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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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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

For the other 98%, you’ll need to follow up again and again, communicating key selling points and differentiators, overcoming objections, and most critically, delivering as much value as possible to the prospect. So go ahead and lean on ChatGPT for that email, or turn to one of the tools mentioned below to offload even more of the labor.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

You get an introduction to your prospect, and you get a meeting with the decision maker. 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. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two.

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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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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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Allego

JANUARY 21, 2025

Sales prospecting has transformed from its traditional roots of cold calls and door-to-door pitches into a dynamic discipline that blends strategy, psychology, and technology. This shift has turned prospecting into a strategic effort. What Is Sales Prospecting? Successful prospecting goes beyond cold calls and generic emails.

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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. Opportunity. Table of Contents What Is a Lead List? Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs). Evangelist.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These tools not only help teams track performance, but improve engagement strategies and optimize sales workflows. But how can you choose the right tool for your team? These tools typically include features such as click-to-call functionality, local number generation, automated follow-ups, and call recording.

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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. Thats not just more prospects its the right prospects. And theyre reaching these prospects at the right time. Higher engagement translates into higher win rates.

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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 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. Because business today operates at a speed and scale most tools and teams arent built to comprehend. A large enterprise can have hundreds of entities worldwide.

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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. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. For every action a prospect takes, they create a trail of intent data across the internet.

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Zoominfo

JULY 30, 2024

Here are four key milestones in any GTM tech stack consolidation program, and how innovative new tools leveraging AI , top-quality B2B data, and buying signals can help drive results across the revenue team. A strong review also reveals gaps and whitespace opportunities to address currently unmet needs, Whittaker says. “Of

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Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 10, 2025

It provides the required data that sales teams need to find and target relevant customers, identify ideal prospects, personalize outreach, and close deals faster. Sales intelligence is a transformative tool that can supercharge the sales process, driving your business forward. That is where sales intelligence software comes into play.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2025

Blind spots in your addressable market and missed opportunities from good-fit prospects. Sales Operations & Strategy Director Andy Ruffles and his team sought a solution that would streamline data ingestion, eliminate redundant administrative tasks, and equip RMs with comprehensive insights to prioritize high-value prospects.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2025

With countless opportunities available, the need for high-quality data became clearer, as sales reps were spending too much time manually enriching records instead of selling. Sendoso turned to ZoomInfo as a single source of truth for: TAM analysis to prioritize the most valuable expansion opportunities, particularly in the UK.

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