Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Conversational presenting is a big trend in 2017. It signals a change in how audiences want to receive information and reveals a flashy slide deck isn’t enough to win over your prospects anymore. Treating each meeting like a conversation allows you to navigate presentations based on your prospect’s needs. Where do you start?

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Trends Conversion Case Study Study 93

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance. ITServices.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hello [Prospect], Great to meet you at [address] last weekend. Whether a neighbor who wandered in out of curiosity or a genuinely interested prospect, it’s smart to follow up with open house attendees. Hello [Prospect], Thanks so much for stopping by the open house for [address] last Sunday. Low interest rate email.

Real Estate 144

Real Estate Up-Sell Follow-up Meeting 144

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A Sales Ops Playground: Dreamforce 2017. I learned early on in this position to stay on top of the tech ecosystem because it moves so quickly and you do yourself a disservice to underutilize your current tools, or be under informed of the landscape, so this was a glorious opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

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SalesForce Sales Operations Scale Conference 54

Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Face-to-Face Meetings: The Ultimate Guide – Thanks to communication tools like Skype, chat, and email, face-to-face meetings sales meetings are less common than they used to be. Case in point: An April 2017 study from Cornell University found in-person requests are 34 times more successful than those made over email.

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Social Selling Hiring Face-to-face Google 59

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Both companies have access to the same demographic and firmographic prospect data—yet Company 123 also has access to technographic data. These technographics reveal the tools their prospects use, what they use them for, how long they’ve used them, and much more. 5 Ways Technographics Improve Sales Prospecting.

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Data Eloqua Buyer Persona Demographics 177

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

Why would your B2B sales prospects be any different? In B2B sales, the quicker you build trust with your prospect, the more likely it is that you will close a deal. The reason for these staggering results is simple: Prospects trust the opinions of people they know. Yet, it’s easier said than done. 2. Do your homework.

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Case Study Referrals B2B Social Media 244

Nudge.ai

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Technology helps them build trust with prospects and customers, which is a crucial ingredient to the sales process. Sales pros are using technology more than ever to generate new accounts and manage relationships with prospects and customers. 91% of sales pros use tech throughout the sales cycle.

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Social Selling LinkedIn Networking Sales Cycle 52

Your Sales Management Guru

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Now is the Time to Build Your Pipeline for 2017. At this time of year it is not unusual for salespeople and sales managers to simply focused on closing business to achieve their yearly objectives, maximize their compensation plans and unfortunately drain their pipelines. Need more sales management resources?

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Pipeline Ideal Customer Profile Direct Mail Campaigns 40

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2019

But actually that ‘noise’ is a powerful tool to target the right accounts – that is, if you know the tech stack of your target accounts ,” says DiscoverOrg’s Senior Manager of Sales Development. Own win rate increases by 300% when we know key parts of a prospect’s technology stack. Marketing automation tools, and more.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To 202

EyesOnSales

JANUARY 30, 2018

3 Ways to Ensure Your Tech Is Keeping Up With Your Prospects. Any time you spend out of contact with your prospects — or being inefficient with your contact — is money lost from your goals. Leveraging technology that can keep up with your prospects’ changing habits. This is no easy feat. Still feeling stuck?

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Outsourcing Services Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 72

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2017

One week, you feel on top of the world: Your message is clearly resonating with buyers, you’re setting a record number of meetings, and you close a major deal you’ve been working for months. No one’s picking up the phone or answering your emails, and a prospect you thought was sure to buy decides to go with your competitor.

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Exercises Face-to-face Exact Discount 108

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Nick Kavadellas is thankful for golf, not only because he’s enjoyed playing it for years, but also because it is one of the few face-to-face selling tools he has continued using during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Then, we’ll give you a tour of the top generative AI tools for sales teams with highlights and pricing. How Generative AI Can Help Teams Sell Faster Generative AI Tools for Sales Teams Generative AI in Sales Today First, let’s cover what generative AI is. 74% of sales pros use some form of AI/automation tool. Research (16%).

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Lead Rank Hubspot Microsoft Lead Scoring 106

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prospective buyers don’t always understand the landscape, prospects under (or over) estimate AI’s capabilities, and worries that AI could drive humans out of their role puts business leaders off AI. Emphasizing AI ROI is more likely to help salespeople close. The two tools had a common goal with individual offerings.

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Hubspot How To Lead Rank Scale 91

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. Great sales emails typically reflect a deep understanding of who the prospect is and what they care about. So forget your product features and brush off the benefits, because you’re going to connect with your prospect on a (virtually) human level.

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Examples Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Top of Funnel 113

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

Whoever touts the latest app, the latest technology, the latest productivity tools, the latest stats—we can’t wait to check them out. If you think your account based selling team has a closing problem, you’re mistaken. Closing is never the problem. You’d be surprised how often I hear, “My account based selling team can’t close.”

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Referrals Cold Calling Account Video 149

Mindtickle

JANUARY 19, 2023

At Mindtickle, we define a sales productivity tool as anything that improves and measures the skills, will, and in-field behaviors demonstrated by reps. just 47% in 2017 — and they can include different buyer roles—champions, influencers, decision-makers, users, or ratifiers—from multiple departments. Upland ).

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Strategy Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Dreamforce 2017 is just around the corner. If you’re there to see the best marketing and sales tools, you’ll want to plan ahead. Salespeople spend more time closing business, not chasing leads. 6-9 in gorgeous San Francisco. The other thing to keep in mind is that not every solution provider caters to marketing or sales.

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Vendor Hoovers Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 140

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Getting this crucial step wrong can mean the difference between closing the deal or being rejected. These could be industry changes, a new funding round announcement, a merger, or a prospect getting a new role. If you contact a prospect right after they buy an expensive competitive product, they're not going to bite.

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Social Media Google Hiring How To 104

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Assuming your average cycle for a given product or service three months, this is hand shake to close, it doesn’t matter if it took you a year of effort to engage; a sales cycle is handshake (yes it can be virtual), to close. An opportunity that will on average close three months later.

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Sage Sales Cycle Referrals Closing 120

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They are used to consistent action: qualifying prospects , sending cold emails , booking meetings, maybe following up a couple of times, and finally closing the deal. Why salespeople need this book : It’s one of the best cold calling books on B2B sales prospecting—for both inspiration and insights. Author : David J.P.

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 6, 2017

Much like my mom’s BMW, I use personalized emails to catch the attention of my most important prospects. Either I get responses from someone who forwarded my email, or the prospect who received the email responds themselves. So what situations are appropriate for this type of prospecting? When your prospect is a decision maker.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker How To Top of Funnel 248

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Sales tools are different; they’re basically the phone book and your business card. 2017 was a huge year: It brought us AI sales tools, machine learning, account-based selling, increasing sales automation, and hyper-targeting. And while anyone can do what Hartnett calls a “closing trick,” far fewer can be genuine.

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Analysis Scale Film Video 136

Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From the performance of sales content to the quality of deal negotiations or the ramp-up time of new sales hires, sales enablement provides insights and tools that streamline processes and optimize practices to continually improve sales results. Listed below are metrics that affect the ROI of your sales enablement tool.

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ROI Sales Enablement Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead 98

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 3, 2017

And in the world of selling, our primary tool for communication is our ability to have any number of commercial conversations. In sales we are encouraged to persuade our prospect to move forward to an outcome. 2017’ Image courtesy of Dmitry Ratushny. It can be a conversation. Here are his three and my fourth: LOGOS.

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Revelation How To Sales Leadership Conversion 247

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 6, 2018

So will you lose your job in 2017? Do you want to leverage big data to crunch all your leads to optimize which ones are the hottest / have the highest propensity to close? The Tools are the problem, cease and desist. It’s time for THE 2017 TOOLS LIST: Cue the fembot Tron girls and Daft Punk! or even 4.0

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Account Based Marketing Contactual SalesForce Lead Rank 49

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

Why would your B2B sales prospects be any different? In B2B sales, the quicker you build trust with your prospect, the more likely it is that you will close a deal. The reason for these staggering results is simple: Prospects trust the opinions of people they know. Yet, it’s easier said than done. Do your homework.

Case Study 100

Case Study Referrals Social Media Ideal Customer Profile 100

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Use reporting software to create an effective sales report with an opening and closing note, sales highlights, and future predictions/targets. Improve your sales performance Create template-based responses, sign contracts, share quotes and more within one tool. Click on “Add Content” to include a new page for the closing note.

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Report How To Analytics Government 52

Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

Trade shows offer a unique opportunity for organizations to form real, human relationships with their prospects that other marketing tactics just can’t provide. Events are a great tool to have in your marketing arsenal. 25 Must Tweet Moments from the 2017 Growth Acceleration Summit. The Best Event Marketing at Dreamforce 2017.

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Webinar Metrics Trade Show Marketing Strategy 113

The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In fact, the percentage of firms identifying themselves as data-driven had declined over the past three years, from 37% in 2017 to 31% in 2019 ( source ). On average, reps spend just 33% of their day talking to prospects. Mindset shift: Being data-driven doesn’t just mean investing in better tools.

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Commission Compensation How To Data 56

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Technology is increasingly creating the tools your competitors are using to build new digital products and services that target and release latent demand and serve unmet needs. Predictions for the impact of AI, the authors state, suggest a doubling of the economic growth of developed countries between 2017 and 2035, potentially adding $7.4

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 4, 2017

We realized a few years ago that even if we provided our customers with the most accurate database of their prospective buyers with the deepest intelligence about what projects and initiatives they’re working on, what their technology stack looks like, and what triggers are coming down the pipe for them. That was their gig.

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Company Conversion Outbound Video 120

SBI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Launches RevenueGrid.com, New Sales Engagement Platform that Goes Beyond CRM, AI And Redefines What Sales Engagement Tools Should Be. Keep every prospect engaged and seal every deal imaginable. Design customizable alerts to engage prospects, seal under-the-radar deals and get informed of trouble areas. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,

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SAP Enterprise Enterprise Oracle 84

SBI

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Smart Selling Tools Announces Top Sales Tools of 2019. Smart Selling Tools, Inc. the leading provider of information on sales software technologies (SalesTech), today announced the release of its Top Sales Tools of 2019 Guide: Final Cut. That’s why we produce the Top Sales Tools of the Year Guide.”

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SAP Webinar Metrics Software Software 65

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Cold Call Script Examples How to Create a Cold Call Script The Best Cold Calling Script Ever Cold Calling Script Variation Cold Calling Script Templates Cold Calling Tips Once you have a list of prospects to call, it's time to reach out. Cold calling is a way to engage prospects one-on-one to move them to the next step in the buying process.

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Pipeline

JUNE 7, 2023

year-on-year (YoY) growth of CRM adoption According to Gartner, at the end of 2017, the revenue of CRM overtook the place of database management systems (DMBSs), making CRM the largest software market in the world. 77% of sales professionals say their organization plans to invest more in sales intelligence tools—including CRMs.

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CRM Lead Nurturing Face-to-face Handbook 52