Sales 2.0

MAY 29, 2020

In the sales domain, this big change has accelerated the trend to digital selling. Prospecting. These days, it’s pretty much table stakes to do some digital research on your prospect to see if you share any common interests that may help you get that critical first (online) meeting. Many will be better off because of it.

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Commission LinkedIn Webinar Metrics Up-Sell 511

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As technology continues to accelerate the pace of advances, other elements of prospecting are not keeping up. One clear example is the role of the telephone in prospecting success. They need to adopt a new view of the role of the telephone in the age of asynchronous prospecting. The Telephone and Asynchronous Prospecting.

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Prospecting Call-back Face-to-face Lead Rank 241

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Want prospects to respond with lightning speed? The triple touch is a tactic that salespeople use to engage prospects. The ‘touches’ include contacting the prospect three different ways, each time building trust, getting on their radar, and moving them further into the sales funnel. . What is the Triple Touch in Sales?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Keep in mind that potential prospects may already be interested in your competitors — and your current customers could jump ship. Segmenting every one one of these potential prospects and creating content (including landing pages) for each of them will uniquely interest them. They both need this engagement! Value propositioning.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you're in sales, you know that finding prospects isn't easy. The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the top social selling trends to reach more prospects and close more deals — all at your fingertips. Let's take a look at the top social selling trends of 2022. The same can be true online.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? Yet, most companies miss the mark on referrals and instead make these common sales prospecting mistakes. Companies focus their sales prospecting on signing new logos.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2023

To stay on top of the ever-evolving B2B ecommerce game, you need to pay attention to trends. Social Commerce Will Give Prospects New Shopping Options Take one scroll through Instagram and TikTok and you're guaranteed to come across one item you can buy. This trend is not just for B2C brands — it also applies to B2B ecommerce.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sales trends come and go. In this post, I’ll review some sales trends we could see fizzle out throughout the year based on findings from our 2024 State of Sales Report. 6 Sales Trends That Could Fizzle This Year 1. LinkedIn as ruler of the prospect research process. LinkedIn had this title last year.

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Trends Social Media Lead Rank Lead Scoring 111

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 2, 2018

And still they are expected to prospect and bring leads into the pipe. How do they manage their time when they must do demos, talk to clients, prospect, and simultaneously juggle many customers, all while dealing with a complex solution? Here’s a snippet: New Research Unveils 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Sales.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2023

Here, we cover the top consumer spending trends in 2023, along with five key strategies for selling during an economic downturn. Table of Contents Top Consumer Spending Trends in 2023 Strategies for Selling in a Recession Top Consumer Spending Trends in 2023 1. Let's dive in. Expect more touchpoints in the sales process.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Q4, we released enhancements to Copilot, our GTM Intelligence platform, that further empower enterprise GTM teams to engage prospects and customers with greater precision, speed, and intelligence. We believe these innovations will continue to revolutionize how teams identify opportunities, engage prospects, and close deals.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Every once in a while, the conversation with a prospect is going to die down and never pick back up — but you don't have to take those fizzle-outs lying down. There are some strategies you can leverage to give yourself a fighting chance at re-engaging a prospect who seems like a lost cause. Let's see what they had to say!

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. Orasi’s team of 12 field sales reps is supplemented with 10 inside salespeople who call on a second tier of prospects.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The opportunity with the 360 Degree Deal View is not only broad trends, but smaller secular trends. Usually new, evolving in a pattern similar to others, especially clients who are growing and expanding not just their spend, but the number of products/services. Learn from your success. One being add-ons.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It allows salespeople to approach prospects at the perfect time, with messaging that resonates with their current needs,” ZoomInfo Enterprise Account Manager Will Frattini says. 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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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2020

This approach helps in turning profitable prospects into long-term, lucrative clients. Also, the CPM or cost per impression of digital campaigns coupled with stringent global compliance laws and email regulations has made targeted marketing solutions an irresistible avenue to reach prospects. ABM isn’t a tactic or a trend.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets B2B 271

SBI Growth

MARCH 3, 2020

Sales management has the pulse of the customer and prospect. Marketing executives understand market trends. Go-to-Market success requires leadership and input from a multitude of functions within a company. Senior leadership provides strategic guidance. Finance heads determine where to make.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 31, 2020

As sales professionals, we need to be cognizant of this while approaching prospects. With many prospects lacking visibility in 2021, forecasting will be more of a black art than ever. Distraction is something you will need to deal with on every prospecting call. Good Enough. Catching Up. Go To The Club.

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Face-to-face Penetration Fashion Forecasting 258

The Center for Sales Strategy

JULY 31, 2024

At The Center for Sales Strategy, we've been tracking this trend closely, and it's clear that the landscape has changed dramatically. Recent studies, including one from HubSpot , suggest it takes anywhere from 12 to 15 touches before a prospect is ready to meet with sales. This might sound alarming, but it's our new reality.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 7, 2018

Your prospects are out there right now, hunting for a solution to a problem you can solve. These signals, aggregated across a company, and measured against normal levels of baseline activity for a given topic can be a strong indication of purchase intent and they often surface long before prospects visit your site or your competitors.

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Intent Data Intent Data Lead Rank 313

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Not only can AI uncover important content trends, but it can also independently gather the resources you need to create more content. Think topic analysis, trending subject matter, user-generated content, influencer marketing, and more. If your form is too long, your prospects will lose interest. 5. Online Customer Service.

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Lead Rank Churn Analysis Lead Scoring 272

The Pipeline

JUNE 23, 2020

There are a lot of prospecting and cold calling books out there, most trying to cash in on trends and fears. Done right, as Art outlines in the book, cold calling, sorry Smart Calling, is still one of the most direct and cost-effective ways to directly engage with your prospects. In this case fear of the phone.

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Cold Calling Call-back Face-to-face Top of Funnel 250

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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Prospecting Case Study Industry Study 105

The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

Other sources confirm this trend in lengthening buy cycles. On the field, that is with a prospect in Discovery, sellers need to be counter-intuitive. Shortening the cycle, but not increasing your number of prospects, just leaves you a lot of idle time in Q4.

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Buying Cycle Education Commission Buyer 244

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

Salesforce research brief, Trends in Customer Trust, says fostering trust is the new business imperative. If sales managers hold their people accountable for the number of phone calls they make, emails they send, and invitations and InMails on LinkedIn, that’s how they’ll prospect. That’s the multiplier effect of trust. Trust should.

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Referrals System Cold Calling Social Media 289

Zoominfo

APRIL 24, 2020

Its purpose is to help customers identify prospects interested in specific subject matter and topics related to a customer’s value propositions. Good question: Prospects are identified via a company’s IP address. The noticeable trend increase can be pointed to interest in how they are going to be affected by COVID-19.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. So, they rely on outdated tactics that fail to engage the 21st-century buyer—tactics like cold calling, sending cold emails, and stalking prospects on social media. Now, you don’t have to call cold prospects to bug them.

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Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The integrations help revenue teams develop stronger prospect and customer relationships, make better decisions, and win more business. For example, reps can watch for keywords in conversations that historically indicate a prospect is more likely to buy, while sales managers can better coach their teams by reviewing call trends.

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Data Scale SalesForce Forecasting 52

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

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. Marketing can equip the sales team with industry data and best practice content so that they can better inform and engage prospects. Increased Productivity. Better Use of Resources .

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Funnel 301

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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. What Tools Do People Use for Sales Funnels?

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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 246

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Sometimes, prospects will give me their personal email address, after a good phone call, because it will get lost if I email their business account!”. For example, we sell to sales and marketing, so the fiscal calendar year drives decisions for our prospects. For our prospects, an example might be ‘summer slump.’ Seasonality.

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