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EMEA Outbound Sales: ZoomInfo CEO on Selling Overseas

Zoominfo

We know what you’re thinking, but even with new privacy laws, B2B prospecting is possible in Europe, if you’re taking the right steps. At this year’s virtual event Henry Schuck, delivered a keynote presentation called “Hit Your Number: How To Fast-Track Your Outbound Sales and Marketing in Europe.”. The answer: yes.

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AJ’s story – and the Split of Outbound and Inbound Sales Development

DiscoverOrg Sales

Anthony Johnson wasn’t the first Sales Development Representative (SDR) to learn this lesson the hard way. In the fall of 2015, the young sales rep was burned out, disheartened, failing to meet his quota, and on the verge of losing his job. Sales is hard. How effective is your sales team? An SDR team in transition.

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4 Types of Sales Positions That Can Never Be Replaced by AI

Understanding the Sales Force

I began debunking sales articles when the first ones predicting the death of selling appeared circa 2008. Later, articles predicting the end of selling became both more prolific and more specific including the certain death of: Solution Selling Cold Calling Consultative Selling Sales Process SPIN Selling and more. They average only 1.5

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Getting Salespeople to Prospect When They Aren’t Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

When prospecting doesn’t take place on a daily basis, salespeople fail to build their pipelines. When there aren’t many new opportunities in the pipeline, very little new business will get closed n months from now where n is the length of the sales cycle. The answer depends on a salesperson’s Sales DNA.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Outreach

Sales outreach is an art and a science. In this eBook, we’ll cover: How you should respond to inbound leads Tactics for engaging outbound leads (cold calls, email automation, and gifts) The key to keeping a prospective account alive for the long haul Buckle up!

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Go through the motions

Sales 2.0

In sales we need to go through the motions. Research from XANT looked at the optimal “cadence” for prospecting based on the masses of data available to them through companies’ usage of their software. Their study looked at 479,140 outbound cadences from nearly 9,000 companies. Our buyers are “frazzled” as Jill Konrath says.

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Are You Obsessing Over the Wrong Outbound Marketing Elements?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. How can you tell if any or all of these obsessions are waylaying your outbound operations? If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones. Switch Out Your Obsessions.

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Outbound Prospecting – Filling Your Sales Pipeline

Speaker: Mark Hunter, CSP, “The Sales Hunter”

Prospecting has never been easy and nowadays it has become even harder as people are responding less and less to many forms of communication. Therefore, the majority of salespeople do not make their quota and this is a key reason why there is so much turnover in sales jobs. Turn a lead into a prospect.

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Buyer Intent Data Guide: How to Find Prospects Already Looking to Buy

Teams of all sizes can utilize buyer intent data to more effectively identify where prospects are on their purchase journey, and thus adapt marketing messaging and sales pitches to align with those specific interest signals collected. How to incorporate buyer intent data into your outbound prospecting.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

More often than not, sales leaders strive to accelerate their deal cycle, but it’s critical to also consider the opportunity cost. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control. What's covered: Targeted prospecting.