Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2019

Bypass gatekeepers. Secretaries, administrative assistants, and phone operators are often referred to as gatekeepers in the world of sales. Of course, it’s not impossible to gain access to top sales prospects by first speaking to a gatekeeper. Spend less time searching and more time selling. Qualify and prioritize leads quicker.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you only had 90 days to penetrate the market and produce sales, what would you do? While you could come up with a complicated plan that won’t deliver results for half a year or more, you can get better results, faster, by implementing a DRIP Marketing Plan. DRIP: The Secret to Reliably Penetrate the Market.

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Penetration Industry Buying Cycle Marketing 68

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

In terms of this real estate agent, one suggestion I had was to do what others in his industry are doing. For example: many real estate agents have put together an up to date, free market analysis of comps of other homes in the area and call local homeowners to give this away. So, is cold calling dead? Who Should Attend?

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Cold Calling Real Estate Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face 180

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 25, 2017

Sales and marketing teams that buy into myths about data providers miss out on serious business value. To buyers, these types of interactions may seem serendipitous, but timing sales and marketing interactions requires foresight. Account-based marketing can use sales intelligence for a new level of personalization.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectable.

Pipeline 100

Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 100

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 30, 2017

Sales reps aiming to displace the current provider were stuck dialing into dead-end corporate switchboard phone numbers, getting stonewalled by gatekeepers, never to reach their buyer’s voicemail box—let alone pitch their product to a decision-maker. Direct Prospecting at Interested Buyers. Timing is everything in sales.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Through consistent processes, leaders derive quick insights on how its sales organization attacks their market. Awareness Stage Buyer Perspective At this stage, potential customers have diagnosed pain points and are beginning to conduct preliminary research about available solutions in the marketplace.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Data Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2020

Quality service and experience have become expected in almost every service-based industry, including staffing. Identify a particular market where your company has expertise with finding candidates and filling positions. They’ll learn what firms often look for in a candidate and be able to speak the “language” of the industry.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Decision Maker Buyer Persona 100

criteria for success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For this week's blog post, I sat down with our CEO and Founder, Charles Bernard, to discuss why old school hunting in sales outreach doesn't work in today's market, and what new school outreach asks of salespeople and leaders. So why do you have to talk to a gatekeeper who's just there to say they don't have an answer? Watch Now.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2012

Are you going to rely too much on marketing to provide high quality leads to hit the number? Let’s be honest, the majority of reps would be out on the street if they had to rely solely on marketing for Lead Generation What can you do about it? Our Make the Number Tour specifically addresses market changes that will affect you in 2013.

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Social Media Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Networking 290

BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Enabling sales reps to sell more and sell better is not an easy job — that’s why sales enablement departments (and an entire industry) were created. Remember, SMEs are not necessarily expert content creators, so you should be the gatekeeper of the content before it goes out to sales – vet it, package it and refine it.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Framework for Your B2B Marketing Plan (2022 Update). A company in the Financial Services or Banking industry. Who currently have job openings for marketing help. What Is a B2B Marketing Plan and Strategy? B2B marketing plan and strategy is about how you plan to raise brand awareness.

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Paid Content Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel B2B 52

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

Ruth is also author of Maximizing Lead Generation: The Complete Guide for B2B Marketers. But what are the most effective outbound marketing channels for kicking off a business relationship? billion on search marketing for the same purpose. billion on search marketing for the same purpose.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Gatekeeper in your way? Check back in with the buyers during implementation to see if the competitor is able to keep the same implementation timeline you’d promised. Deliver value at every point in the conversation — the buyer will start to lean on you as a consultant, even after you’ve lost the deal. Always multithread. “If

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LinkedIn Lead Rank Call-back Enterprise 84

Close.io

MAY 1, 2019

You’ve got a great product, but we’re going to go with [the industry standard].”. Your product may be better, but the industry standard is safer. The gatekeeper. Gatekeepers are living, breathing objections and, in many cases, they’re the first roadblock you’ll face. Each market has its own objections.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This is an important principle to understand when you’re selling or doing a demo with a prospective buyer: They’re going to be evaluating a number of different providers in the process, and they’re going to be providing a number of different value stories. We offer the most intelligent B2B contact database on the market.

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B2B Prospecting Case Study Scale 187

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 23, 2018

92 percent of B2B buyers use social media to engage with industry thought leaders. In fact, the social media version might be even more annoying because you’re wasting buyers’ personal time and basically spamming their personal accounts. That’s what business buyers want from salespeople. Source: LinkedIn ).

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Social Selling Social Media Referrals Lead Rank 218

SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

SalesLoft customer Limeade shares their best practices for how their marketing and sales teams work together to execute their account-based strategy by: . An account-based strategy is only a strategy until marketing and sales come together to hyper-focus on their top-tier accounts. Honing-in on their top tier accounts.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

You probably know already that I often speak and write about the evolution of the modern-day buyer. . Today’s sales professional has to evolve along with the modern-day buyer in every aspect. Today’s buyer will test you, like never before. However, simply adapting to some new and advanced techniques is not enough.

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Connext Digital

AUGUST 30, 2018

Salespeople were the gatekeepers of information—you needed to ask them about anything you needed to know about the product you wanted to get. The internet contains the information buyers need to know about products via a simple search. Learning the new trends of consumer buying behavior is critical to conquering your market.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2018

If a buyer senses a pitch, the relationship can quickly derail. Studies reveal a 46% increase in message response rate when there’s a shared interest, skill, or industry group. Bypass Gatekeepers. Gatekeepers have an important responsibility. Getting around a gatekeeper is always a challenge. Earn Referrals.

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Outbound Gatekeeper Strategy Decision Maker 52

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The inbound route leans on different outreach efforts: content marketing, social media marketing (often using LinkedIn as the most popular professional social media), email-drip campaigns that are usually within the purview of the marketing department, and any sales pitches, as well. Step 4: Engineer an effective first touch.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Prospecting Top of Funnel 98

Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

However, it is a crucial part of finding potential buyers, developing relationships with them, and closing deals. Sales prospecting is the way sales reps search for potential buyers in order to move them through the funnel, and ideally, convert them into a customer. Let’s face it; prospecting isn’t the most fun part of selling.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Prospecting Lead Qualification 66

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

Sales and marketing teams start their account-based sales (ABS) and account-based marketing (ABM) programs with strategic intentions. They target those that are in-market and those that should be showing intention. They start worrying about how many touchpoints are sales and marketing hitting. But then things change.

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Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Account 79

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This is an important principle to understand when you’re selling or doing a demo with a prospective buyer: They’re going to be evaluating a number of different providers in the process, and they’re going to be providing a number of different value stories. We offer the most intelligent B2B contact database on the market.

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B2B Prospecting Case Study Scale 100

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

As the sales conversations grows even more buyer-focused, sales reps have begun developing his or her own hack, own technique, own process. Prospecting: The process of searching for potential customers, clients, or buyers in order to develop new business. We usually have to go through a gatekeeper to reach them.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 144

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Our team gathered 19 of the best sales prospecting tools on the market in 2023. Of this user base, many are high-income earners that are currently “in the market” to buy products. This enterprise solution enables “co-selling, co-marketing, and lead-sharing” among business partners. Market monitoring. Image Source.

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Tools Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data 107

Autoklose

JANUARY 22, 2024

Target Small Markets 4. What are the main obstacles in that industry? Target Small Markets When targeting prospects, it is not always wise to cast a wide net. Start with a narrow contact list and focus on a specific industry, business size, or location. Table of Contents 1. Focus on Benefits 2. Embrace Storytelling 7.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Strategy Hiring 52

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Cold calling the CEO is difficult, but not impossible — if you know how to structure your pitch and how to get past gatekeepers. I’ve seen it in almost every new rep: fear of the owner, fear of the gatekeeper, fear of the 2nd gatekeeper (the dreaded executive assistant), and reluctance to even approach the challenge.

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Decision Maker Cold Calling How To Gatekeeper 63

Hubspot Sales

JULY 9, 2018

Once you’ve set up the integration, navigate to any contact or company record in the CRM to see the person’s job title, company, time in role, location, and industry. If you’re trying to catch the attention of a specific company, consider account-based marketing (ABM).

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Account Based Marketing How To Sales Qualified Lead Twitter 107

Showpad

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

However, it is a crucial part of finding potential buyers, developing relationships with them, and closing deals. Sales prospecting is the way sales reps search for potential buyers in order to move them through the funnel, and ideally, convert them into a customer. Let’s face it; prospecting isn’t the most fun part of selling.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Prospecting Lead Qualification 40

Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But that advice is over two decades old—popularized at a time when you had limited access to executive decision-makers and almost always had to finesse your way around the gatekeeper. The Research: Gaining Access to Executive Buyers. The Provocative Industry Insight message in this research is based on the Why Now approach.

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ROI How To Vendor Study 64

The Sales Developers

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Whether you are trying to dominate the market you’re in or not, that means you’re going to have to have a specialized data team, whether internally or externally. These steps will eliminate roadblocks (gatekeepers, wrong titles, bad phone numbers, bounced emails, etc.) The Cost of Bad Data.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Outsourcing Services Outbound 81

SBI

OCTOBER 30, 2018

She spent thirty years in sales and marketing. There is a lot of great information to be shared amongst all the different practitioners in the industry. Talk to us in terms of just kind of how we should even navigate some of that complexity and how you’re seeing buyers do that. We’re in need of it.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Vendor Ideal Customer Profile 139

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A prospect needs to have the available budget to be considered a buyer. Purchasing decisions often involve multiple stakeholders — some are gatekeepers who are simply passing along information, while others have the final say. One of the primary benefits of the BANT framework is that you can apply it to different buyer personas.

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Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Decision Maker 62

LeadFuze

JULY 13, 2021

You navigated through the job market and found yourself here- dealing with some challenges that come along in this high-velocity career. The best marketing strategy is never to stop exploring. Maybe the person who rebuffed you wasn’t a key decision-maker or an influential voice in your industry.

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How To Top of Funnel Decision Maker Face-to-face 98

Showpad

DECEMBER 16, 2021

My role is to orchestrate the processes to make sure that sales has what they need to sell—and that marketing has the data to optimize what they create. Our marketing team launched a great initiative surrounding low- and non-alcoholic beverages. You mentioned training is part of your focus this year.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52