Zoominfo

JUNE 3, 2018

Welcome to our June B2B Blog Post Round-Up—a series where we highlight the great work our writers contribute to some of our favorite publications. If you worked in sales or marketing in the past year—you’ve already heard the news: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is an incredibly effective way to target qualified prospects and close more deals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We have trade show prospecting down to a science. Blog: How to Prospect at Trade Shows: The Ultimate 10-Step Sales and Marketing Checklist. Set specific prospecting goals. Connect with prospects in the moment. How to efficiently follow-up with prospects after the show. Lots of warm leads. Track referrals.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Check out our most-read and most-shared blogs from 2017! VIDEO] How to Get 30% Response Rates with Prospecting Emails. If you spend a lot of time thinking about how to give that prospecting email a fresh spin, we’re right there with you. We’ve got the prospecting email down to a science. Ultra personalization. Who knew?).

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2019

Blogging is one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness. It can create a foundation for engagement with current customers and prospects. But coming up with good blog post ideas can be challenging. Here are 50 business blog ideas to help you fall back in love with blog writing. .

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

When thinking about writing a blog for a business, most people are not thinking about the blog itself bringing in revenue. But why shouldn’t the blog itself try to make money and connections? The answer is of course, that it should! The answer is of course, that it should!

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Zoominfo

MAY 9, 2018

Welcome back to our B2B Blog Post Round-Up series—these monthly blog posts published by ZoomInfo highlight some of the great work our writers have contributed to outside publications. Of course, passive candidates are often more difficult to recruit than active candidates. Today’s blog post is a primer on data-driven marketing.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. Granted, some of them are repeats, with the same person emailing from workflows multiple times over the course of a week or two, but 95 per week – geez! Some are written by sales experts.

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Marc Wayshak

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this video, I’m going to share a quick course of powerful sales ideas, including the 7 best sales training techniques. If you’re pitching when you get in front of prospects, you’re essentially opening up your suit jacket and showing your prospects all the shiny features and benefits of what you sell, like a true old-school salesperson.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 5, 2019

Of course, we all want to set “shoot for the moon” goals but that’s a waste of time if you lack the confidence to accomplish even modest goals. Sales Motivation Blog. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Result.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 16, 2018

If you’re like most people, you probably answered something like ‘indecision on the part of the prospect’. Yes, the prospect being indecisive can be frustrating to you as a sales consultant. Yes, those two simple words can give people confidence they are one of many who have benefited from a specific course of action.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 20, 2019

Blogging is one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness. It can create a foundation for engagement with current customers and prospects. But coming up with good blog post ideas can be challenging. Here are 50 business blog ideas to help you fall back in love with blog writing.

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Product Management University

MAY 11, 2021

Learn how in this free product management course. Enroll in the Free On-Demand Course Who doesn’t want to hijack your roadmap? Anyone who interacts with prospects, customers and/or the products has their own agenda when it comes to your product priorities. The Free Product Management Course. 24 Minutes of Video.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 10, 2019

Of course, I recognised immediately that he was trying to up-sell us on some tickets for the resort, and I braced myself for a sales pitch. Instead, he asked me a question that I wasn’t expecting, and it made me think about how value is added and anticipated when we are discussing with a prospect we are in front of. Happy Selling!

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Vengreso

MARCH 2, 2021

Prospecting to generate sales leads is one of the most important jobs of the modern sales professional. In fact, if you ask any sales leader what their teams struggle with the most (and I have), they would say it’s prospecting, especially now that virtual selling is the norm. And this is what this prospecting guide is all about.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. Adaptive Business Blog. Sales Management Blog. Yesware Blog.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

We have prepared the roundup of the best sales blogs just for you! “ Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. . These are the best sales blogs you need to be following to keep your sales blade sharp. G2 Crowd Sales Blog. Sales Hacker.

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Close.io

AUGUST 7, 2019

For all you future Buffets out there, the following sales blogs represent the best-of-the-web when it comes to sales content. The top sales blogs (in no particular order) :). They not only publish new blog posts often, but also provide useful content such as podcasts, webinars, online courses, sales training, videos, eBooks, and more.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 9, 2020

While that’s a positive thing for the industry and course creators, it will inevitably make the space more competitive. If you’re a course creator already established in your space, that means the coming years will bring more competition. Why Webinars Are The Best Channel for Selling Your Online Course.

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The Spiff Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Here’s a scenario that any salesperson can relate to, whether they’re an entry-level sales rep or an expert seller with decades of experience: a prospect demonstrates interest in a product, responds to inquiries with enthusiasm– and then, out of nowhere, they disappear. What’s wrong with “touching base” with cold prospects?

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MTD Sales Training

MAY 5, 2017

How do you build up trustworthiness before meeting with a client or prospect? Of course, you can write blogs and articles on LinkedIn, send personalised emails and refer back to previous visits. This builds credibility with prospects and gives them a reason to trust you. I noticed from your last blog that….”.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With social media, you can prospect at your fingertips — and sidestep the awkwardness of a traditional cold call. Of course, you can't afford to spend hours on social media each day, so which channels are worth your time? The HubSpot Blog surveyed 500+ sales professionals to uncover the best social media channels for prospecting.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Dan Bernoske 's recent blog pos t provides keen insight into the value of social selling. Social prospecting presence – less than 2%. Here is a comparison of an online résumé and a social prospecting profile. Which question is your sales force answering when prospects check their profiles on LinkedIn?

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Alice Heiman

JULY 10, 2019

Where Are Your Prospects? . We need to meet our prospects and customers where they are. It is possible that your customers and prospects may be using social media platforms that your sales reps are not currently using for business. We want our sales reps to be in the path of our prospects, so they can see us when they need us.

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SalesFolk

MARCH 2, 2021

On average companies who generically define their buyer personas as “Marketing” or “Technical decision-maker” tend to get 10-30x worse results from their sales prospecting efforts than those with detailed ICPs. . The video I shared is part two in a Youtube video/blog series , based on my recent sold-out Cold Email Copyediting Workshop.

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Vengreso

MARCH 9, 2022

As a B2B sales professional, you’re missing out if you’re not leveraging the power of social selling to enhance and accelerate your LinkedIn prospecting activity. By using social media tools, such as LinkedIn Free, Premium or LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you can make prospecting even easier and more personalized.

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The Sales Hunter

APRIL 20, 2012

Yes, there are a lot of reasons why this can be the case, but one problem that gets overlooked too often is the source of the sales prospects. Doesn’t it make sense that cheap prospects would naturally become cheap customers? Obviously, I don’t recommend being blunt and asking the prospect right away if they’re cheap.

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PandaDoc

JULY 22, 2021

For example, if your higher education client discovers a new use case for your product this could be a key selling point for future prospects. The post A crash course in Sales + CS Alignment for Your Business appeared first on Blog. Collaborate on the customer handoff. There are many ways to go about this handoff.

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Smooth Sale

AUGUST 11, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Struggle with Being Nice to Prospects? An early morning friendly conversation brought up the topic of struggling with being nice to prospects. In all honesty, sometimes it is a struggle to be nice to prospects and, occasionally, a client. My Story : Being Nice to Prospects.

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Instead of hoping that visitors will somehow rediscover your blog later, you want to take actionable steps towards building a communication channel—so you don’t lose them. Here are nine ways to leverage your blog to capture leads, build a relationship with your audience, and ultimately convert them into new customers.

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MTD Sales Training

JANUARY 20, 2017

This blog post is not going to cover how to handle objections, instead we are going to cover the underlying reasons why prospects don’t buy from you. Objections are, after all, just reasons and points that your salespeople need answer to satisfy the prospect that your product does the job. I mean, come on! at every opportunity.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 10, 2021

My client was thrilled, of course. Get meetings with prime prospects in one call. Convert prospects to clients more than 50 percent of the time. The methodology is the same today, but of course the examples and nuances have changed. She knows my content better than I do, and she edits every single blog I post.)

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Vengreso

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is especially important if you are going to have a call or a virtual meeting while sales prospecting — you’d want to get their names right. You and your sales team can use the 10-second audio recording to provide a custom sales prospecting message to the people who visit your profiles. Vengreso.com. Thought Leader.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The only way your sales reps can meet their quotas and close deals is if they have enough prospects in their pipeline. So how can you prospect more effectively? How can you ensure that you’re targeting and focusing on the right prospects? With a proven sales prospecting process. What is sales prospecting?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

Your content marketing — think blog posts, email sequences, and whitepapers — nurtures the target lead, getting them interested in your product or service. When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. Read several blog posts? What is Lead Generation Marketing?

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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. They visit websites where they read blog posts, watch product videos, or download a guide.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Of course you didn’t! Of course not! That exactly what you need to do with your prospects as well. MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Dollarphotoclub. The post How To Use Both Logic & Emotion When Selling To Your Prospects appeared first on MTD Sales Training. Sure there were. Happy Selling!

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 9, 2016

that when a prospect says that they don’t perceive anything bad enough to make a decision to change, they don’t have many other options to offer them. I know your team have attended many courses on this subject, and have seen improvements as a result. In many cases the prospect doesn’t see the need for change. Happy Selling!

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