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.

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Hoovers Campaigns InsideView Tools 264

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2025

Without a referral-first mindset, pipeline uncertainty loomsleading to missed targets, longer sales cycles, missed quotas, and end-of-year panic. Referral selling isnt just a nice-to-have sales strategy. Its a proven, measurable system that transforms trust into your most powerful sales engine. Hope isnt a strategy.

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Referrals Pipeline Face-to-face GoldMine 177

Zoominfo

AUGUST 8, 2024

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? Pick out the right email automation tool. Email Automation Tools. Technical Steps.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing How To 262

PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

This is the nature of complex salesthey demand strategy, patience, and the right tools to navigate the process effectively. In this article, well explore the challenges of complex sales and the strategies your team can use to close deals more efficiently. What is considered a complex sale? This involves tailoring your offer.

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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. In this fast-paced world of sales enablement , staying ahead requires more than just traditional methods.

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Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank Analytics 68

Zoominfo

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know the standard sales process looks something like this: You identify a prospect and conduct research, you figure out what pain point or challenge they’re trying to solve, and then you offer your product or services as the solution.

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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. Here are the best options for every sales team, no matter their size or budget.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We surveyed over 11,000 revenue professionals to uncover exactly how GTM teams use ZoomInfo to expand markets, accelerate sales cycles, and drive revenue. Thats not just more prospects its the right prospects. And theyre reaching these prospects at the right time. The results?

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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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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Intent Data 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy 208

Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline, and provides important context to future sales conversations. What is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2025

These pain points hurt team morale and your bottom line: Pain Point #1: Your team struggles to get meetings with prime prospects. Prospects dont know you, dont trust you, and dont want to take your call. Prospects dont know you, dont trust you, and dont want to take your call. All sales calls are hot, hot, hot.

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Referrals Scale GoldMine Pipeline 156

Mindtickle

JANUARY 10, 2025

Modern sales reps are bogged down with many tasks, leaving them far too little time to do what they do best: sell. Sellers need to spend the time they do have with qualified prospects. But first, these sellers must be able to determine whether or not a prospect is the right fit and fast. However, that could change.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Qualification Sales Cycle 98

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 1, 2025

Onthis episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Harriet Mellor shares proven strategies for maximizing trade show ROI with personalized outreach, leveraging CRM tools, and building lasting relationships that convert leads into valuable long-term customers. Many deals do not happen overnight, especially in industries with long sales cycles.

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Trade Show Follow-up Webinar Metrics Lead Rank 98

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 1, 2020

By optimizing messaging, collateral and communication through effective sales enablement, sellers can better communicate the differentiating value of your new solution, showcase marketplace positioning and properly advise prospects. For example, a playbook could be based on industries, roles and stages of the prospect.

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Campaigns Sales Enablement Education Collateral 326

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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Video Tools Top of Funnel Analytics 75

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. Your marketing and sales teams need both. All of these signals show optimal conditions for a sale.

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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We all know that buyers use traditional online resources like vendor websites, trade publications, social media, and forums to conduct research and minimize their engagement with sales teams. But generative AI tools have empowered them in ways GTM teams can scarcely imagine. They make decisions faster than sellers can react.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Intent Signal B2B 130

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 9, 2025

The Problem with Traditional Quoting Imagine this: A sales rep gets an inquiry from a high-value prospect requesting a custom quote. CPQ Tools: The Smart Alternative to Traditional Quoting If traditional quoting methods are a roadblock, Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software is the fast lane. Hours pass. More emails.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 12, 2025

Solution Thanks to the seamless integration between ZoomInfo Sales and Salesforce, the Houston Rockets sales team is saving time on segmenting net new accounts. The team leveraged: Comprehensive company and contact data to discover and segment new B2B prospects. Their results include: 15,000 new contacts uncovered.

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Pipeline Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Visitor identification software offers a powerful solution, helping your go-to-market team transform anonymous website visitors into qualified prospects, leads, and revenue. Informed Sales Strategies : Sales teams gain insights into visitor behavior, enabling more effective outreach.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

But long, complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts! But there’s data, and then there’s data. JUST KIDDING.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

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? In addition, buyer behavior has changed.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Script #1: Make sure and have an email already prepared while you’re prospecting. The point here is whether or not your prospect will: Give you the time to speak further with them. This tells you how cooperative your prospect is, and so how cooperative they will be throughout the sales cycle. Right then!

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Licensing 284

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. How Can I Optimize Intelligence in the Sales Cycle?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Marketing Top of Funnel 207

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers. Lets say your average sales cycle is three months. Lets say your average sales cycle is three months. Misaligned sales activities. Salespeople would be better served to look ahead. Monitor and review.

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Revenue Meeting Top of Funnel Forecasting 95

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 12, 2025

SNAP Selling is designed to help you cut through the noise and make buying easier for prospects. Lets take a look at the basics of SNAP and how you can start using it in your sales cycle. For sellers, the key benefit is a shorter sales cycle, allowing them to close deals more efficiently. So, the first hurdle?

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Face-to-face Sales Methodology Lead Rank Buyer 87

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And this dynamic has merely accelerated a long-term trend of B2B companies shifting their sales capacity from field-based to virtual models. And win rates rise and sales cycles shorten with well-orchestrated virtual channels. Getting virtual sales right involves far more than using digital tools.

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Lead Rank Quota Face-to-face Hiring 339

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? This is invaluable for sales teams to identify personalized sales opportunities quickly.

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Sales Operations Tools Scale Lead Scoring 130

Vengreso

JANUARY 17, 2025

With technological advancements and the growing demand for remote work solutions, virtual sales programs offer numerous benefits that can transform how companies engage with prospects and clients. As noted in the 3 Reasons B2B Digital Sales Transformation is Here to Stay , digital transformation is no longer a matter of if but when.

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Webinar Metrics Selling Skills Sales Cycle Coaching 98

Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sales prospecting is arguably the most critical part of a sales professional’s workflow. Sales prospecting is a foundational element for a revenue team — it’s the practice of identifying and connecting with potential customers to initiate the sales cycle. What is Sales Prospecting?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Buyer Persona 130

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But this staple tactic of the poker table can be a valuable and valid tool in sales negotiations. Say you believe that your prospect is willing to pay $15,000 to $20,000, a range you’re willing to accept, so you make an offer that's “at your floor” of $20,000 – you've bluffed, and your prospect now has the chance to call.

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Negotiation Maximizer Sales Cycle Call-back 248

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

When sales and marketing don’t communicate properly, you risk broken processes and inconsistent metrics. Sales reps spend a lot of time looking for content to share with prospects, or sorting through leads that don’t necessarily meet the mark. That’s exactly what good communication between sales and marketing does.

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Funnel 301

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2018

We looked at the sales process. Typically, it would start with an email from a prospect, asking a question about price, availability or some product feature. The sales team was jumping on these opportunities, firing back an answer to the prospect’s question – often within minutes – and then following up with a phone call.

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