Nutshell

JUNE 6, 2019

Getting to know your potential buyers is a huge factor in bridging that gap, and the best way to accomplish that is by doing personal research on each prospect before you reach out to them. Tools for researching companies: Google. It’s useful and light with no downloads required. CrunchBase.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 3, 2019

In the world of B2B sales, company research is a critical aspect of any successful rep’s daily duties. 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. Top Research Tools for B2B Sales Reps 1.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas. The importance of buyer personas is self-evident.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Buyer intent data tools make it easier to identify the when and how of a potential prospect’s consideration for purchasing a specific product or service. Free Trial How to use Buyer Intent Data Tools Buyer intent data tools help segment and analyze the customer journey into intent and typical buyer behavior.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We've entered, what I call, "The Age of the AI-powered buyer." This shift frees up sales pros to act as consultants who prioritize building strong relationships, boosting buyer confidence, understanding their needs and challenges, and using AI to offer a highly relevant, personalized experience.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 19, 2019

Author: Theresa O'Neil, Chief Marketing Officer of Showpad Today’s B2B buyers have higher expectations than ever before, and their criteria for making purchase decisions is evolving. A study from SiriusDecisions found that 81 percent of B2B buyers today make purchase decisions based on buying experience, rather than product or price.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. Conversational marketing is an audience engagement channel that lets buyers and sellers communicate in real time, using tools such as live chat, chatbots, voice bots, and audio conversations. Start a conversation.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions. sense making.”.

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Allego

OCTOBER 29, 2021

As face-to-face interactions become less frequent, finding a way to connect with buyers grows more essential. When done right, exceptional buying experiences can be a powerful tool in a sales strategy. To facilitate the experience, your goal shouldn’t only be to sell to a buyer but to see the sales cycle from their perspective.

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Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling. But as more and more salespeople use these tools, buyers have become inundated with low value communication. This is the kind of salesperson buyers have been asking for for years.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

The modern buyer doesn't have the patience to address basic questions with answers that anyone can find through a cursory search — nor do they have the time to fill you in on their challenges. The 18 Best Places to Research Buyers Before Sales Conversations. The Buyer’s Twitter Account.

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SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Buyer Personas. This is where buyer personas come in. Buyer personas are semi-fictional characters that represent your ideal customer. When creating your buyer persona, include information such as their demographics, interests, and pain points. let’s look at the six key elements of an inbound marketing plan.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I see a lot of discussions about “forcing sellers to waste selling time by doing their own research.” ” Increasingly, I see people recommending outsourcing this research, freeing the time up to make more calls. Clearly, too many sales people don’t know how to do research, as a result, they waste a lot of time.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

The Buyer Process Map (BPM) will help you tackle these challenges. This tool has been around for a few years now. To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. At no cost, an expert from SBI will present the full research findings. Download a copy of SBI’s Buyer Process Map Template.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leveraging technology, social selling, and sales prospecting tools has ushered in a new era for anyone wishing to pursue a career as a sales rep. For the first time ever, buyers and sellers are completely aligned. Buyer behavior and selling motion are in sync. What is Sales Prospecting? Great @GoModernSelling ep.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

According to recent research from SalesLoft best-performing senior salespeople (like Account Exectuives) need to self-source around 48% of their pipeline–rather than having leads come from a sales development rep (BDR, SDR etc.) Even here though there are now many tools and techniques to “microwave” your cold calls.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The most successful sales reps help buyers redefine their needs. Top performers not only get to the root of a buyer’s problem, but they also address the buyer’s goals and aspirations to uncover possibilities the buyer doesn’t even know exist. A capabilities battle between you and your competitors.

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Lead411

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Buyer Intent Best Practices: How to Build a Successful Buyer Intent Process. You know buyer intent is important. So what are the first steps to get the most out of buyer intent data? It is easy to get overwhelmed at first with the thousands of topics available to choose from within the buyer intent platform.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Customer References & Buyer Confidence. So many of these buying decision factors apply to B2B buyers. As Brent Adamson, Distinguished Vice President, Gartner has written about and presented on , all the sales motions that go on must ultimately help build buyer self-confidence in making the decision.

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Allego

MARCH 21, 2023

In fact, recent research highlights two critical problems with traditional sales content management systems: Conventional technologies reinforce the divide between those who create and manage sales content (marketing and sales enablement) and those who use it (sales reps). The solution? Modern sales content management platforms.

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SBI

AUGUST 17, 2021

Damien : Sales intelligence and buyer intent data help customers shorten sales cycles, increase win rates, and save time by streamlining research and enabling them to focus on prospects who are actively shopping for what they sell. Q: What is the impact on organizations that adopt sales intelligence and buyer intent solutions?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. It will serve no purpose to rehash how much buyers have changed since then. Your Buyer’s Behaviors Have Changed.

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Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

In fact, a recent study suggests that 91% of B2B buyers are active and involved in social media, while 75% are significantly influenced by social content when forming their buying decisions ( source ). We’ve compiled our top tips and best practices for selling to the social-savvy buyer. 4 Tips for Selling to the Social Savvy Buyer.

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Lead411

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Commercial Real Estate leads: Ideas & Lead Generation Tools Here are the Top 5 Most Essential Tools for Unlocking Commercial Real Estate Leads Lead411 Zoominfo Cognism SalesFuel SharpLaunch Google News Frequently Asked Questions Getting high-quality leads is essential for success in the ever-changing commercial real estate market.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Effective sales coaching can lead to a 28% increase in quota attainment and a 32% increase in win rates, Korn Ferry research revealed. In many cases, organizations lack the tools necessary to provide sales coaching , track progress, manage coaching schedules, and measure the impact of coaching sessions effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 25, 2023

Since December 2022, interest in the search term “AI tools” has skyrocketed by 292% in the U.S. Now Google, HubSpot , and Microsoft are racing to develop their own versions of AI chat tools to compete with ChatGPT. Like any new tech, you need to dive in and research. Give ChatGPT the right information for maximum impact.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 17, 2024

Luckily for me, the Internet exists, and I can do quite a bit of research on my own. Fortunately, consumers are pretty clear about where they see the value: 62% of consumers are more inclined to seek out a salesperson when they have specific questions that remain unanswered after online research.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It unlocked another dimension in identifying when target buyers were actively in-market for a particular solution. With the heavy lifting out of the way, our data management team went to work: Researchers on ZoomInfo’s Scoops team provided an entirely new set of categories and topics with expertise in project intelligence and intent.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions. sense making.”.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 11, 2013

I discuss how these Reps align themselves with the Buyer’s process to be successful. Then I provide a Buyer Alignment Tool to enable success in these environments. Frequently, Sales Reps are busy pitching their products without listening to their Buyers. They sometimes sell while the Buyer is still defining their problem.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Consider this: only 13% of buyers feel like salespeople understand their needs ( source ). Why do so many buyers feel misunderstood? Prepare for your sales conversations with better prospect research. Why is prospect research critical to the sales process? Are they comfortable using more advanced tools?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

More customers are turning to the internet to research, test, and purchase products and services. In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? Why must SEOs pay attention to buyer personas? Let’s get into it!

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I believe shifting our vocabularies from Buyer/Seller to Buying/Selling is much more than wordsmithing. The problem with the terms Buyers/Sellers is we focus on certain roles or people of our and our customer’s organizations. For example, we are forced to start looking at their online and offline research (45%) of their time.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Welcome to the age of the informed consumer, or the digital buyer … or “Buyer 2.0.”. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. They’ve also researched what our competitors have to offer. Once upon a time, clients looked to salespeople for information.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 16, 2024

Coaching on Tech Tools Sales organizations in the B2B vertical understand that buyers are reaching out later in the process. Some buyers are happy to conduct the entire process online, with minimal sales rep interaction. Our research shows that 35% of buyers prefer their first seller contact to be accomplished through email.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 13, 2013

Developing and operationalizing a steady stream of relevant content that engages buyers is the new must-have modern marketing core competency. Core to success is the development of a buyer persona-based content marketing strategy. Why Buyer Personas. The number of buyer personas needed varies. A Changing World.

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