DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 19, 2016

Since I didn’t know any better, I figured that I might as well build the recruiting engine in the same fashion that I built a marketing engine, and it turned out the approach worked. Here are the 5 key ways that recruiting teams can leverage sales and marketing tactics to maximize hiring success: 1.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What is referral marketing?

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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

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Steven Rosen

JULY 15, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, aligning sales and marketing teams is crucial for organizational success. Here are five key strategies to ensure your sales and marketing teams work together seamlessly, driving growth and enhancing overall performance.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s no secret, sales and marketing teams don’t always work well together. In fact, research shows that 53% of sales professionals are unhappy with the support they get from marketing ( source ). Consider these statistics ( source ): Only 8% of companies have strong alignment between sales and marketing. Add your own analysis.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Right – that’s what motivates sales guys? You know what motivates me almost As much as making money? So, question of the day is: Have you ever wondered just how much money having bad data in your sales and marketing system cost you ? Welcome to the first of our DiscoverOrg Whiteboard Wednesday series!

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Author: Paige Musto In marketing, much like in life, success is often a function of how well you plan – how much you’re willing to research, strategize, optimize your approach. Mankind’s earliest marketers knew this: Umbricius Scaurus , a resident of Pompeii in the first century, A.D, Marketing adapted to taste and preference. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2021

Staff are motivated and ambitious, and competition between sales agents or teams is often encouraged. Without a rigorous monitoring, motivation and recognition system, a sales team […]. The post The Sale’s Manager’s Guide to Performance Management appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Steven Rosen

JANUARY 3, 2018

Number one, your marketing team is ready to go, they have their strategies, their plans in place and their budgets. Lastly, you need to build cadence into your system that you have ongoing reviews of your success factors and ensure that your sales team is executing. Make sure you make course correction every quarter or sooner.

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SalesFuel

JUNE 25, 2024

Not every employee brings a high level of motivation to work on a daily basis. But what should you do about your challenging employees – the ones who are very capable but never seem motivated? The key cause underlying the lack of productivity is likely motivation. That’s fine — people have "off" days.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation. One of the most effective reward tools is a non-monetary point system. First, reps benefit from the precise and transparent nature of the measurement and tracking, whether they are stack ranked or not, being motivated by social proof or peer pressure.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 25, 2020

But what does it mean to actually be productive when it comes to marketing? Obstacles to Marketing Productivity Even the most disciplined employees face productivity roadblocks. Either way, there are a host of obstacles to marketing time management that can impede productivity. So, You Want to Improve Marketing Productivity?

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 12, 2018

A good kickoff successfully blends motivational elements, education, team building and fun – setting the tone and momentum for the year ahead. Regardless of which approach you take, the theme should play a central role in content development and motivational speaker selection – to ensure consistency and create a cohesive event.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2017

I use the referral system I developed 20 years ago. The marketing department mailed VHS tapes (yes, it was that long ago) about our new product to VPs of Sales at Fortune 1000 companies. I recalled that my best business had always come from referrals, so why shouldn’t my team adopt a referral system? But then I remembered ….

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. Online chat tools are a cornerstone of this approach, more broadly known as conversational marketing. What is Conversational Marketing? Real-time communication: Messages that are sent and received instantly.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling prospective customers is vital to ensuring that a marketing campaign is targeting the right people with the right message. Marketers can attract and retain prospective customers more effectively. Profiling prospective customers also enables sales and marketing teams to predict larger problems before they arise.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But I urge you to think of a third aspect — motivation. The SMART goal system is a classic for a reason — it creates tangible KPIs that can be easily measured. A – Achievable: Given your historical data, current market trends, and your resources, your team can realistically achieve this goal. The market potential and trends.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

We recently discussed AI in the following post: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on B2B Marketing. At the time, one of the primary motivations for a CRM purchase was the promise of an increased pipeline, visibility, and control, which many believed would lead to more accurate revenue forecasts. Keep reading. The problem?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, what caused pain points at the end of the program: reps changing territories mid-program, sales that were booked but not invoiced, clients who made verbal commitments but didn’t sign contracts, field sales managers that vouched for sales that didn’t get logged into the system on time, etc.? Want to learn more?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2020

We were caught in a perpetual struggle between Sales and Marketing. Sales blamed Marketing for not attracting enough high-quality leads , and Marketing claimed Sales wasn’t nurturing leads enough. Marketing never knew what happened to their inbound leads, and Sales would work with leads they knew nothing about.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oh, sure – they’ll log something into the CRM and the system will proceed to send out a slew of impersonal e-mails for the foreseeable future, but for many salespeople that’s about it. . Won’t issues are about motivation. Now you can go to work on the motivation. . Why don’t salespeople follow-up? Can’t vs. Won’t in Follow-Up .

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2023

That’s because smart recruiters have learned to apply marketing principles to their talent acquisition process, helping them fill and nurture robust talent pipelines they can hire from at a moment’s notice. Here are the key components your talent team should have in place to make recruitment marketing work for them.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

Alec Baldwin’s iconic turn as a fire-breathing sales manager delivers the most anti-motivating motivational sales speech in movie history. Sometimes it’s due to a lack of time, poor internal processes, burdensome lead management and CRM systems, or the inability to sort the good leads from the bad ones. And why is that?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 27, 2019

There’s a simple solution that will help streamline this issue and create more time for sales reps to spend actually selling the product or service: implement a sales and compensation system that’s transparent and easier to understand. Uncovering Data Insights.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 23, 2024

Ralph serves as an advisor to go-to-market leaders at Aircover, Scale Venture Partners, TopHap, and others. Discussed in this Episode: The importance of implementing systems and processes in sales and life. How to motivate and guide reps who are facing a challenging selling environment.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. And you will align all systems in your organization—recruiting, training, and compensation—to support the referral selling process. Align reinforcement systems. Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you don’t learn to feed on it, to use it as fuel to motivate you to make more calls, then it can be rough going. These include things like: “We are okay with our present system.”. Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. Let me ask you…”.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 21, 2020

More specifically, July saw double-digit percentage increases in topics such as “ smart buildings” and “ building management systems.” A smart building does not just control HVAC systems — it also integrates them, along with all other internal systems (lighting, security, power, etc.) Think air conditioning, for example.)

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

He was asking me if we could run a motivational programme for his team so that they would go out and sell more stuff, and stay longer at his company. He asked what he could do about his staff turnover, and I said that running a motivational session would be like putting a plaster over a gaping wound. Happy Selling!

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. Phillip Twyford, director of sales and marketing for Tico Mail Works, elaborates in this guest post. Which broken sales strategies should we leave in the past (ah-hem, cold calling )?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2015

After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. After discussing the current sales environment, business networking, ineffective cold calls, and the lack of experienced reps, we created an approach that can immediately change your sales and marketing best practices.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 17, 2020

Now more than ever, sales and marketing leaders should be looking to bolster those strategic partnerships in meaningful ways to solidify their channel. ENABLE: Sales and Marketing Enablement Must Look, Feel and Perform Differently. According to a recent survey conducted by The 2112 Group , channel marketing budgets are holding fast.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The usual perks such as OTE, company cars, invitation to “presidents clubs” offered to sales people never motivated me. I never had a job, offering these external motivators. However, I have developed a genuine deep interest in studying and understanding SALES in a systemic way. I also never “carried a quota”.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 19, 2018

Social selling has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than outbound marketing. Because there are so many social selling tools on the market today, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorites. The platform makes it easier for sales reps to share content on social and will boost both marketing and sales productivity.

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The Pipeline

MAY 22, 2018

A misreading of market condition and players is always a factor, but the most significant cause for getting predictions wrong is a misunderstanding of sales. The shrinkage in human sales resources will continue to come from the ranks of the order takers, that small segment of the market that is truly “self-serve.”

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