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. Digital isnt a sales strategy. Hope isnt a strategy.

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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. AI is a tool to help us get there, but it can’t replicate empathy, emotional intelligence, or the ability to navigate complex sales discussions.”

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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. Or maybe youre missing upsell opportunities with existing clients. Intent Data: Tools like ZoomInfo can show you whos actively looking for solutions like yours.

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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. Most would say it’s the low win rate or the percentage of opportunities that stall in the pipeline. CRM applications have replaced 3×5 cards for easy organization and documentation.

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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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Mindtickle

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A steady stream of sales opportunities is foundational for revenue growth. But properly managing those sales opportunities isnt always easy. They also struggle to stay on top of all the sales opportunities in the pipeline , which leads to low conversion rates and inaccurate sales forecasts. What is sales opportunity management?

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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. luge team, highlighting his early competitive spirit and the decision not to pursue the opportunity due to family attachment. Install FlyMSG for free: As a Chrome Extension.

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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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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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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Sellers who fuel their sales process with advanced signals and the latest AI tools create twice the opportunities as their counterparts, save up to 10 hours per week on time-consuming administrative tasks, and improve productivity by 60%. The advantage is clear. How do they do it? That’s a good signal for us.

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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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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

And while these strategies are tried and true, they leave a critical opportunity untapped: latent demand. Savvy GTM orgs can continue using traditional and effective demand gen methods while also leveraging this powerful latent-demand intelligence to reveal untapped sales and marketing opportunities. Lets see how.

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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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Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 9, 2025

CPQ Tools: The Smart Alternative to Traditional Quoting If traditional quoting methods are a roadblock, Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software is the fast lane. By replacing outdated quoting methods with CPQ tools , businesses gain speed, accuracy, and efficiencygiving sales teams the edge they need to close more deals.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 16, 2025

Instead, they rely on outdated methods, and reactive discounting, leading to missed opportunities. Fast starters have a different approach by leveraging pricing as a tool to create early wins and stamp out lingering price negotiations.

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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.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 2, 2022

As the opportunities for closing sales through multiple channels continue to broaden, ensuring that your team is up to speed with the latest smart sales tools is critical to success. The post 5 Digital Skills to Blow Past Sales Targets appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

But generative AI tools have empowered them in ways GTM teams can scarcely imagine. Armed with tools like GenAI, buyers zigzag through buying stages now, reacting immediately to real-time insights and shifting priorities. Are you integrating third-party intent signals from tools like ZoomInfo?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Beyond Basic CRM Functionality While standard CRM tools offer basic lead routing, dedicated solutions excel at managing complex workflows. By integrating seamlessly with your CRM, these tools enhance functionality and boost team efficiency. Chili Piper Chili Piper combines form routing, chat, lead distribution, and scheduling tools.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals. Senior Job Posting Signals Leadership changes at target accounts can signal new opportunities for engagement and ways to step ahead of the competition.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 21, 2025

The rapid adoption of GPT-based AI tools isnt simply a technological evolution in sales; its a fundamental restructuring of how teams work. And emerging solutions such as AI agents and AI SDRs are already accelerating time-to-market, enhancing team productivity, and delivering better ROI on tools and resources for early adopters.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

What dates do most of your sales team’s opportunities show? Whether it’s a more basic deal qualification tool like BANT , or a bit more sophisticated as with MEDDPICC, sellers are mistakenly taught to chase deal-close clarity in a sequence. Take a quick look at the forecasted end-of-year close dates in your CRM system.

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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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SalesFuel

MARCH 3, 2025

B2B sellers and sales managers are increasingly relying on AI sales tools to meet sales quotas. Not all AI tools deliver on their promises. Not all AI tools deliver on their promises. How can sales integrate AI sales tools? While these AI sales tools arent widespread yet, technology will drive adoption.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What AI tools are you using? Customer Understanding Without AI: Marketers collect data through surveys and focus groups and rely on static analytics and social listening tools. This produces a more segmented and precise vision of your customers, opportunities, and messages that resonate with them most. Do you use AI?

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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. Market and Competitor Insights: AI provides insights on market trends and competitor activity to identify strategic opportunities for prospecting. Take email prospecting, for instance.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 20, 2025

Helping the person being coached more deeply understand the problems, opportunities, and issues, help them think about what they might do about these, helping them discover things they might change, helping them develop and execute a plan of action addressing these. While these can be helpful, they aren’t coaching.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

Luckily, sellers of every stripe now have access to AI-powered tools that can help them excel in a challenging market. Prompts for researching account relationships The first step when researching potential upsell and cross-selling opportunities is evaluating the current status of the account.

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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. Three out of four customers said ZoomInfo surfaced opportunities they would have overlooked, driving a 32% increase in total pipeline.

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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. Market and Competitor Insights: AI provides insights on market trends and competitor activity to identify strategic opportunities for prospecting. Take email prospecting, for instance.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2024

Rapid Personalization We of course strive to have a deep understanding of all our prospects and their unique needs, but it can be difficult to maintain contextual understanding when you’re juggling dozens of open opportunities. Increased Capacity A study by Brevet suggests that 80% of closed sales will require at least five follow-ups.

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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. If you provide the prospect space to explore their own “why”, you provide an opportunity for them to learn.

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