The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. The people without needs or problems, which is most of the market, will think and answer no.

Objections 339

Objections Prospecting Fashion Face-to-face 339

The Pipeline

JUNE 22, 2020

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. Prospects are entirely different than buyers.

Buyer 272

Buyer Prospecting Advertising Advertising 272

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

System 316

System Prospecting Quota Decision Maker 316

The Digital Sales Institute

MAY 12, 2022

A free series of B2B sales training video examples to help any business or salesperson improve their sales knowledge. We know that salespeople need regular access to sales training and there are a lot of options available online. B2B Sales Training Video – Selling Definition.

Examples 59

Examples B2B Video Training 59

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 24, 2020

Author: Jeff Kalter When it comes to building a winning B2B sales strategy, forget about business as usual. To help you power up your reps’ efficiency, boost the bottom line and deliver a customer experience that lasts long after the initial sale, here are a few ideas for leveraging data as part of your B2B sales strategy. Start Small.

Data 240

Data B2B Ideal Customer Profile Strategy 240

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: TIM RIESTERER Sales training and enablement leaders, it’s time to level up. There are four forever changes transforming sales training and enablement from here on out: Marketing is the sales development team. Marketing is the sales development team. Buyers are searching for more information on their own.

B2B 199

B2B Revenue Top of Funnel Margin 199

MTD Sales Training

MAY 14, 2019

Your B2B sales strategies need to be constantly updated if you are to even maintain your position in the market place, never mind enhancing it. In today’s B2B world, we need to see that our products won’t do the selling job for us. B2B sales techniques today can only be enhanced by having a strong LinkedIn presence.

B2B 150

B2B Social Media LinkedIn Influencer 150

Vengreso

APRIL 4, 2022

The platform has quickly become a vitally important resource for B2B sales professionals too! If you’re not making the most out of the #1 social media platform for B2B sellers, we created LinkedIn Sales Mastery just for you! As a B2B seller, your online presence is an important part of how you sell.

LinkedIn 71

LinkedIn B2B Conversion Training 71

Lead411

APRIL 11, 2024

doing for the B2B sales data world? Data is king in the ever-changing world of business-to-business (B2B) sales. Lead Scoring and Qualification: Artificial intelligence algorithms are great at assessing data like customer behavior, demographics, and engagement metrics to rank leads and find the most likely prospects to convert.

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Lead Rank B2B Lead Scoring Data 52

Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 8, 2020

You and your reps need training, and you want it now! Introducing our brand new, 7-Session inside sales training course that is available to you and your team TODAY. Our Award Winning Inside Sales Training is also the most affordable training on the market today! The post New On Demand Training Available Now!

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Training Licensing Scale Gatekeeper 180

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2019

Welcome to the May edition of the ZoomInfo B2B Blog Post Round-Up series. These blog posts typically explore topics related to B2B marketing, B2B sales, recruiting, or business growth. So, without further hesitation, let’s take a look at our favorite B2B content from the month of May. Let’s get into it!

B2B 189

B2B Lead Generation Lead Rank Consumer 189

Zoominfo

JUNE 9, 2019

When it comes to B2B sales calls, the primary goal of the sales rep is to extract valuable information from the other person on the line. So keep reading as we provide you with our top 12 B2B sales questions to close deals faster. For more information, check out: 3 Ways to Set Prospect Expectations During the Sales Process.

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B2B Closing Scale Guarantee 252

Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

We also introduced you to some of our favorite B2B marketing influencers —including the socially-savvy Ann Handley, Joe Chernov, and Joe Pullizi, just to name a few. However, the B2B marketing world isn’t the only industry boasting some big names in the social sphere. B2B Sales Influencers: Our Final Thoughts.

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Influencer B2B Social Media Twitter 188

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

Top of Funnel 218

Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 9, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads. Don’t believe me?

Sales Qualified Lead 269

Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 269

Pointclear

MAY 23, 2018

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. But it’s often the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. True Nurture. No Response.

Sales Qualified Lead 124

Sales Qualified Lead ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring 124

Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As the business world evolves at lightning speed, shifts in B2B buying behavior have revealed a significant disconnect between what modern buyers expect and the ability of go-to-market (GTM) teams to meet these expectations. There’s little to no collaboration between sales, marketing, and enablement teams.

Revenue 62

Revenue B2B Scale Buyer 62

Zoominfo

JUNE 22, 2022

In today’s crowded B2B ecosystem, where personalization and relevance are seen as crucial competitive differentiators, the idea of cold calling might seem archaic. What is B2B Cold Calling? B2B cold calling is simply calling a prospective customer before they’ve expressed interest in a product or service. Our answer?

Cold Calling 130

Cold Calling B2B Commission Exact 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2020

If so, you know how tough it can be to connect with busy executives, To add insult to injury, executive-level assistants are trained to be gatekeepers. Think Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), etc. Stay relevant to what your prospects do, need, and hope to achieve.

B2B 162

B2B Gatekeeper InsideView Face-to-face 162

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Not an artificial view of the market designed to favor our product. Often the gap on alignment is less about a market view. More often defined by a B2B buyer’s view of ‘“Do’s” and “Done’s”’ Question Of Timing. Presented differently, sellers want to talk about what the prospects are doing, the present.

Outsourcing Services 203

Outsourcing Services B2B Decision Maker ROI 203

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 6, 2019

Ten years later, his advice is even more relevant than it was back then—for college graduates starting their careers, and for salespeople looking to get B2B leads. But very few understand how to incorporate technology into their prospecting strategy. They don’t fill your pipeline with qualified B2B leads. Don’t believe me?

Sales Qualified Lead 209

Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 209

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As a marketer, you know how to get your audience’s attention. Chatbots in B2B marketing and sales are the perfect lead generation tool for digital activities that lead prospects onto your website. How to Optimize Chatbots for B2B Lead Generation 1. Time is of the essence in the B2B world.

Sales Qualified Lead 100

Sales Qualified Lead B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 100

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. But, if there’s one trend that signals what the future of marketing will look like – it’s the rise of virtual and augmented reality. But, here are a few of the most important benefits for B2B marketers: 1.

B2B 154

B2B B2C Scale Transportation 154

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. A Lack of Training. The Rise of Cross-Functional Teams.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. When a prospect finally lands on your website, those efforts have reached a critical moment: you have their attention, and it’s time to build a relationship. What is Conversational Marketing?

Account Based Marketing 130

Account Based Marketing Buyer Conversion Marketing 130

Allego

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving realm of B2B sales , the landscape of buyer behavior has undergone a radical transformation, posing fresh challenges for sales teams and their sales enablement counterparts. As a result, organizations must have innovative sales enablement strategies that resonate with today’s B2B buyers. Forrester 2.

Sales Enablement 62

Sales Enablement B2B Strategy Scale 62

Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

During the past 15 years, the B2B software ecosystem has exploded. Billions of dollars have been invested in software promising to transform how sales and marketing teams reach new audiences. Instead, far too many companies made significant investments in B2B software tools, only to abandon them shortly afterward. The result?

Ideal Customer Profile 130

Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 130

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company that provides us with cyber-insurance required that our entire team watch a series of 21 training videos to make us more aware of how hackers operate, how easy it is to be hacked, and what we must do differently in order to protect our data, privacy and accounts.

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Insurance Insurance Outbound Video 321

Pointclear

JUNE 11, 2013

At a recent high school track meet I cheered on our team in several heats of the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays and mused that we can look to track and field athletics for inspiration and tactics for marketing and sales alignment. The training for relays initially focuses on building the individual runner’s abilities.

B2B 247

B2B Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Lead Rank 247

Pointclear

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Lead nurturing triples marketing's ROI, but only if done properly. I propose that nurturing is the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. Nurturing programs increase the overall program leads rate significantly: Standard B2B lead-generation programs produce an average 5% lead rate. No Response.

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Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing B2B Epiphany 157

Smooth Sale

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Photo by GDJ Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How to Simplify the Appointment Process for Prospective Clients Successful selling requires a meeting of the minds between the buyer and the seller. Numerous platforms empower prospective clients to choose meeting times based on their availability.

Prospecting 88

Prospecting How To Hiring Influencer 88

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

Marketing 246

Marketing Webinar Metrics Reachforce Top of Funnel 246

Allego

AUGUST 23, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Allego has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Revenue Enablement Platforms. Revenue enablement platforms, formerly sales enablement, provide key functionality enabling resources that generate revenue via content, training and coaching.”. Changes in B2B Sales.

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Revenue Face-to-face Marketing Vendor 117

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Excited to announce the public launch of LearnAboutLinked.com and the best LinkedIn training focused on B2B sales and marketing professionals that understand the power behind social selling. Having the opportunity to partner with Viveka to bring this training to the market is a blessing.

Social Selling 120

Social Selling LinkedIn B2B Training 120

SBI

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Membrain Announces New Prospecting Engagement Playbooks Optimized for B2B Sales Teams. Membrain has released its new Prospect Engagement Playbooks today, making it easier than ever for b2b sales teams to contact, qualify, and nurture sales leads in an effective, human-centered manner.

B2B 81

B2B Prospecting SAP Sales Qualified Lead 81

Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Now social marketing specific to B2B is a subset of marketing just as direct mail, advertising, business to business networking and promotional items all are. For some social marketing is considered inbound marketing activities where the more traditional marketing of advertising, direct mail, B2B networking, etc.

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Social Selling B2B Direct Mail Marketing 153