Zoominfo

JANUARY 24, 2024

In any sales-led growth strategy , the purpose of marketing is to get new leads into the sales funnel that drives new business. Sales teams can make up the difference using outbound sales techniques. But given the rise of inbound sales over the past decade, some reps may have less experience with outbound motions.

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Alice Heiman

JULY 14, 2022

According to Mei Siauw, CEO of LeadIQ , a tool that helps sales teams with smarter prospecting, building an outbound sales motion is the key to growth. Start early, stick with it; if you do it right, outbound sales will produce amazing results. Mei’s main message: don’t give up on outbound sales!

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. But today’s outbound lead generation tactics are more than just dialing for dollars. Here’s how to effectively execute outbound lead generation, with examples and definitions to get you started on a new or refreshed strategy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 13, 2020

Wherever they are, your sales force is a dynamic team that's unique to you. Accounting for the various types of salespeople, the steps you take should empower both in-office interaction as well as hard-to-control outbound scenarios. For outbound employees, ensure that they have the supplies necessary to venture into the world.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. This is where lead capture software comes into play, offering a powerful solution for businesses looking to streamline their lead generation processes, boost their sales pipeline , and track key sales metrics.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 13, 2022

I understand that predictive analysis tools can be accurate at forecasting business trends and sales performance. Astrologers, business analysts, and sales “experts” all tend to focus on hopeful outcomes that aren’t always grounded in reality. Hopeful outcomes sound like this: Sales and marketing will learn to play nice.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Their tools leverage Big Data to help those market & sell intelligently. Persistent sales people are praised, honored, and even given swanky “President’s Club” trips to the Caribbean. The rep that calls a prospect 50 times and stalks him on LinkedIn is the very essence of a modern, successful sales person.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2021

Hitting an early impasse with a prospect is an age-old sales dilemma. “I They said, ‘You need to reach out to our CEO directly,’” recalls Megan Hanisko, manager of sales development at ZoomInfo. “So Reaching a dead end when bringing in a new sales account is nothing new. What Exactly is Sales Multi-Threading?

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MarketJoy

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Avoid the common traps and misconceptions that often plague outbound lead generation efforts. Outbound lead generation is a powerful tool for growing your business, but it’s easy to fall into traps that can sabotage your success. Don’t Get Discouraged Outbound lead generation is not an instant solution.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. By leveraging advanced algorithms and data scraping techniques, these tools can extract potential leads from various sources, including customer databases, sales histories, website analytics, and social media platforms. The result?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Time-saving tools and software give reps those hours back — as a result, there’s more time to focus on prospects and deals. An example of one of these tools is a sales dialer. Sales dialers often have other capabilities as well, such as call recording, integrations, transcription, voicemail drop, and call analysis.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2020

For quality leads — that are more effective in the long-term — inbound marketing undoubtedly provides better sources for lead generation than outbound. But the benefits of optimizing your inbound strategy yields compounding return and considerably higher ROI than outbound sources for lead generation. Sales agrees!

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 26, 2023

You are greeted with a pitch from a pushy sales rep. Even if you do, the pushiness is a turnoff and you might buy the product elsewhere or through a different sales rep. That’s why mastering an outbound call is so important. How to Make Effective Outbound Calls 1. Embrace training and team resources.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This is second installment detailing DiscoverOrg’s TiLT Sales Development Challenge and it’s 10 core learning modules. Are you leaving money on the table by not empowering your sales development teams with the ability to connect with prospects? Modern sales teams are now more data-driven than ever before. You Say “Tomatoes”.

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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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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 5, 2017

If you have one or more global accounts—large companies with a global footprint—it’s important to approach them globally – but this is a tall order for a busy sales department, especially among newer companies where any account-based approach has a learning curve. What is global account-based sales development? View a video?

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It’s time to sharpen your sales tools. Every salesperson in their right mind wants to grab every possible tool to accelerate account based sales development, look smarter, shorten prospecting time, and score meetings with decision-makers. But some tools are sharper than others. AI doesn’t replace good sales skills.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do. I’m including myself here.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

With digital selling taking over traditional sales methodologies, there has never been a more exciting time to be in sales. Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

You might not think that automatic sales dialers have that much to offer you. What Is A Sales Dialer? A sales dialer is pretty much what it sounds like: technology that automatically dials numbers for salespeople. You’re a sales representative. Here’s where the sales dialer comes in. You have hundreds.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sales teams are juggling more tasks than ever. In this environment, your sales operations tools and platforms can’t just be effective — they need to be transformative. What Are Sales Operations Tools? However, there are a handful of solution categories that any sales ops team needs to focus on for success.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Then I remembered that in sales we see this all the time, over and over, people are trying to kill cold calling. I suspect the main reason is that cold callers do not see social as a threat, is because we do see it as a great addition to an existing set of tools and techniques we use to drive business. Sad but true.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In 2015, I wrote this blog for Sales & Marketing Magazine: Dead is Dead (in Sales & Marketing). It seemed like, suddenly, a lot of things were dying: cold calling was dead; telephone prospecting was dead; outbound marketing was dead … many said that even marketing was dead. Inbound, Outbound?

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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. ABM software tools tend to have similar capabilities and characteristics. But finding the right tool for your business and budget takes research and careful evaluation.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Instead of waiting until buyers are clearly in-market, sales teams now can rely on a layered, AI-fueled analysis of multiple high-value signals to zero in on prospects who are strong fits for their product or service but not yet showing classic signs of interest. They can’t get the sales, the pipeline isn’t moving.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Does your (sales) funnel have flow? Learn data-driven strategies that support each stage of the sales funnel, along with key performance indicators (KPIs). Contents What is a Sales Funnel? What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? Marketing Funnel vs. Sales Funnel Resources. What is a Sales Funnel?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant. No more, no less.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. But first, we’ll dive into the benefits sales prospecting tools have for your organization.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It makes no sense at all, because every sales leader and account based sales rep knows that referrals are their hottest leads and best business. Now, here’s my point of view and advice for sales leaders about how to overcome the six organizational barriers that stand in the way of your team asking for referrals. Click To Tweet.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

So lead generation tools are critical to supporting a company’s growth objectives. Sales intelligence is critical for lead generation. Join us as we examine 7 specific ways that this kind of intelligence impacts marketing and sales processes. Sales must get on the phones, attend events, and find leads the “outbound” way as well.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 16, 2017

It can take eight to 14 touches to just to reach a prospect who isn’t expecting a call from your sales rep. There has to be an easier way to score qualified sales leads! Cold calling is a demeaning sales tactic and an inefficient way to generate qualified sales leads. They’re the reason sales gets a bad name.

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Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 232

Nutshell

MAY 15, 2023

For outbound sales teams, prospecting software is essential to finding new leads and nurturing them into customers. Sales prospecting tools for lead generation are critical for helping sales representatives find, qualify, and reach more prospects. You can save potential leads on the dashboard to pursue later.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With this in mind, it’s important to identify the best tools to automate lead generation and why your team should invest in them. Lead generation falls into two key categories: Outbound lead generation: direct mail, email marketing, and cold calls. Email marketing and list building/management tools. PPC marketing tools.

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 121

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? If sales close, you win. Calls with their sales managers become about justifying why prospects should be in their pipelines in the first place, and discussing ways these account based sales reps can accelerate the buying process. You can’t manage revenue.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 10, 2018

Suppose Payless is having a sale, and you buy cheap hiking boots. Take data: There are a lot of options for third-party lead data and sales intelligence. When the bounce rate go above about 5%, Outreach other email tools locks you out of your email for 24 hours. Beyond email, your sales team also suffers from bad data.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively. Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. These tools are now essential for companies looking to maintain a competitive edge in a demanding market.

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