Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels. From websites and social media to events and trade shows, these lead capture systems ensure that no opportunity to introduce a lead to your sales funnel slips through the cracks.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

SocialSellinator

APRIL 9, 2023

Social media marketing is a powerful tool for insurance agencies looking to reach and engage their target customers. From increasing brand visibility to creating more meaningful relationships with prospects, the advantages of using social media strategies are limitless.

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Social Media Insurance Insurance Media 132

Zoominfo

MARCH 3, 2019

In fact, access to the right research tools and information can make or break your ability to identify target accounts, personalize a sales pitch, and ultimately, close deals. As a B2B sales rep, the more you know about a prospect and their company, the easier it is to sell to them. Sprout Social. Let’s get into it! It’s free!

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Research B2B Tools Company 233

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. What tech tools will help me generate hot leads and land new clients? How do I sell effectively on social media? Yes, you are the very best tool in your sales toolkit. The answer is you.

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Referrals Decision Maker Cold Calling Social Media 316

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 9, 2020

So, pick up the damn phone and have conversations with your clients and prospects—not just business conversations, but conversations with inquiry, empathy, and understanding. In fact, they didn’t even need to talk to prospects, because they had great tech tools. But the most powerful tool in your sales toolbox is still you!

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Conversion Face-to-face Social Media Referrals 305

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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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

Zoominfo

JULY 4, 2018

Social selling has quickly become one of the most popular and effective selling tactics. As social media platforms grew in popularity, businesses began to recognize how essential social media is to the sales process. Social sellers generate 38% more new opportunities than traditional sellers. Keep reading!

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Social Selling Social Media Ideal Customer Profile Media 233

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. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Strategy 208

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. That includes working with your sales team to identify the target buyer’s demographics, firmographics, preferred social media platforms, and where they are in the buyer’s journey. What Are Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)?

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 246

Zoominfo

JUNE 13, 2018

Social media has completely transformed the way people interact with each other—including the way sales professionals interact with customers and prospects. Social selling is one of the hottest trends in the business world, yet many sales professionals remain skeptical of its effectiveness. Click to Tweet! Click to Tweet!

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Social Selling Social Media Channels Media 244

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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Scale Sales Qualified Lead Intent Data CRM 235

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.

CRM 127

CRM Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting 127

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. Fifteen years ago, I would have told you that cold calling was the most annoying, least effective sales prospecting method. Don’t believe me? Big mistake!

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do? Ideal sales intelligence tools supply your team with up-to-date information about your prospects and addressable market — and how you can reach them. Why Use Sales Intelligence Tools? Here’s what you should look for: 1.

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Intent Data 130

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Business is more competitive than ever, and conventional prospecting is simply no longer enough. There are many lead mining tools and platforms available today. Streamlining the sales process by providing sales teams with high-quality leads, allowing them to focus on closing deals rather than prospecting. The result?

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Sales Qualified Lead Software Software Lead Rank 130

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. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? Choosing the Right Tools.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 128

BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Working at a digital marketing agency, you might hear this often from your small business prospects… “I’m doing everything in my power to extend my online reach but still not garnering enough response from our digital ads.” You know what makes your prospect tick online. Social Media 4. Advertising 2. Google Reviews 3.

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Small Business Small Business Tools Prospecting 105

No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. They believe the fastest ways into the C-suite are digital: targeted emails, cold calls , social media outreach, and inbound marketing automation. Some Lead Generation Tools Never Change. Nothing else really matters.

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Account Referrals Lead Generation Cold Calling 285

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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Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I’ve had it with the accusations that referrals don’t scale, that referrals are a favor, that referrals can be digital, that all you need to do is ask for referrals, and the other crap that so-called experts tout on social media. It reminds me of when social media became popular. Technology is an important tool.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 266

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

And they require the tools that allow them to leverage that data in ways that differentiate your business from the rest of the pack. Maybe they all found you in a similar way – social media, a trade show or sales outreach, for example. The number of tools is growing because they are useful and in demand. They need data.

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Data B2B Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 240

Zoominfo

JANUARY 6, 2021

Share the same goals and tools between sales and marketing teams. With these insights, you get a full 360 view of current, prospecting, and available customers. AI is appearing in automation, business intelligence, APIs, and more in the form of tools like conversational user interfaces (UI). Embrace artificial intelligence.

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Trends CRM Top of Funnel Marketing 246

Zoominfo

AUGUST 27, 2018

Here’s how it works: A user creates content featuring your company or products and shares that content on their personal channels, review websites, and social media platforms. Social media platforms are particularly popular channels for UGC, as they allow users to share quick content to large audiences.

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Social Media Survey Media Channels 221

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Two colleagues complained they were so involved in their work, they didn’t have time to prospect. People are so focused on their projects, and they don’t make time to prospect. If you’re heads-down on your projects and don’t prospect, you’ll have no pipeline when you surface. Why didn’t he think to ask for referrals?

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Referrals Lead Gen Social Media Cold Calling 233

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 25, 2018

We used to hire account based sales reps, indoctrinate them with product knowledge and a smattering of business culture, and give them a few lead generation tools. So, the default communication for account based sales reps is either social media or cold emails. Sales leaders must take the rap. They ended up cold calling.

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Account Hiring Lead Generation Face-to-face 272

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The incredible rise of smartphones and social media has been pivotal to this cultural shift. With the advances in mobile phones and social media, “instant” isn’t always fast enough. For small and medium-sized businesses, the equalizing forces of mobile technology and social media are a double-edged sword.

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PeopleSoft Social Media Customer SalesForce 254

Sales 2.0

JUNE 4, 2024

Subject line: Big Company’s social media initiative Joe, I noticed that Big Company’s CEO mentioned on a quarterly conference call that reaching consumers on social media is an important initiative for 2024, so I thought this might be a good time to reach out on this topic. I am calling on a company in the food industry.

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Social Media Media Call-back Trends 195

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels? The traditional sales funnel is a stage-based approach to turning prospective leads into buyers. This goes for everything from tactical approaches to business development research to the underlying characteristics that make said prospects qualified enough to engage in the first place.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 246

Smooth Sale

JANUARY 29, 2024

Nowadays, it can be easier to market on social media than via email, and we may think that social media has a far better reach. However, email marketing can be a far more invaluable tool, raising the issue that it is always best to examine all perspectives upfront.

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Top of Funnel Social Media Funnel Comparison 185

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Then there’s outbound lead generation: identifying trigger events, determining relevant content to send in an email, creating messaging, preparing short videos, and networking on social media. What does that say about your team’s prospecting prowess? Shorten the sales process because prospecting time collapses.

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

They may even extend to your social media and email strategy. To be actionable, your content must make tactical use of calls to action, offers, promotions, demos, and free trials that move prospects along the buyer’s journey. Additionally, your lead magnets should be promoted on your company’s social media channels.

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2019

Successful sales professionals understand that technology is a must-have business tool. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. Salespeople often forget that social media is the place to begin a conversation and begin a relationship. To Get B2B Leads, Pick Up the Damn Phone.

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Referrals Social Media Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 222

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We’ve put together a list of the 10 most important post-event priorities to help you turn attendees into prospects and customers. Notify Sales When a Prospect Visits. Don’t let good opportunities escape — create a play that can immediately trigger a Slack alert to the account owner when a prospect visits your pricing page.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Scale Hiring 244

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2018

Which do you trust more—the lead generation data manufactured by sales technology tools and artificial intelligence, or your intuition, which is generated by years of experience and your emotional intelligence? There actually was a time before the internet, before social media, before apps, and before sales technology tools.

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Lead Generation Marketing Qualified Lead Leads Data 249

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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Account Based Marketing Account Software Software 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

Time to plan your next marketing campaign or start prospecting into your top accounts! You know a lot of target prospects don’t really have those job titles. We like DAMA UK’s six parameters for data quality : Completeness : Is the company, contact, or prospect record as complete as possible? JUST KIDDING.

Ideal Customer Profile 189

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

Zoominfo

JULY 11, 2018

60% of B2B marketers measure success with web traffic, while 51% use sales lead quality, and 45% use social media sharing ( source ). 45% of content marketers say they have the right tools to manage content marketing efforts, but aren’t using them to their potential ( source ). B2B Content Marketing Challenges.

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Top of Funnel B2B Marketing Social Media 255