DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 29, 2016

There is a renewed interest in Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and it currently has two definitions: 1) a strategy for marketing to existing clients for the purpose of cross-selling or expanding presence within an account, and. Q: What results should companies expect when they put account-based marketing into play?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 1, 2017

My daughter, of course, said no. What does this have to do with account-based sales? Well, I’ve been waiting my whole life to say this: Account-based sales reps don’t need SDRs. After all, they make life easier for account executives. There’s No Role for SDRs in Account-Based Sales.

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2022

Imagine your marketing and sales team working in tandem, seamlessly pursuing and closing on the kinds of businesses your company exists to serve. That’s the premise behind account-based marketing (ABM). Topics covered in this article include: What is ABM marketing? What is account-based marketing (ABM)?

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LeadBoxer

DECEMBER 8, 2019

If your primary marketing strategy has been to “cast a wide net”, consider only going after your white whales – your ideal accounts – instead. Known as account-based marketing (ABM), companies that treat individual prospects like an entire market can generate 208% more revenue than those who don’t according to MarketingProfs.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 18, 2018

As you probably know by now, my point of view is that referral selling is the most powerful account based sales development strategy, and it’s the only effective use of salespeople’s time. To clarify: It is the #1 outbound prospecting method for account based selling teams. Prospects aren’t dumb. You got it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2017

Account-based marketing (ABM) is red hot today, and for good reason. According to ITSMA , 84 percent of marketers are seeing higher ROI with ABM than other marketing programs. In other words, marketing should define the ideal customer and know the addressable market.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We have trade show prospecting down to a science. Members of DiscoverOrg’s sales and marketing teams attend about 30 events per year. 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.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. Latané’s book covers an area of marketing that I have long wondered about: Should you “gate” or should you not “gate” your content? I’m sharing my summaries here.

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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.) or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department. It’s time for the dreaded cold call!

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With a global market more reactive and volatile than ever, this is an incredibly stressful environment for both your sales reps and your management team. That’s why we need to ensure your pipeline is predictable and in a secure space to lighten the pressure (letting your teams get back to doing what they do best: prospecting and selling).

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Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2020

Leveraging a customer data platform (CDP) to support account-based selling is a prime example. If you’re not yet up to speed on CDPs or account-based selling, it’s time to change that. Account-based selling takes things to a new level. They target, reach out to, and land any account you’ve IDed as being high value.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2018

If you’ve read any of my previous posts on this blog you will know that I think relationships determine if you will get a meeting with your prospect. The key is to talk to someone that knows what is going on at your target account and start gathering information that will get you in. Any help much appreciated (of course).

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Mindtickle

MAY 30, 2024

Launching a new product or expanding into a new market can be exciting for a business. The truth is that a lot of behind-the-scenes planning must take place before a new product hits the market. The truth is that a lot of behind-the-scenes planning must take place before a new product hits the market. But who needs one?

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The Digital Sales Institute

AUGUST 2, 2018

More and more salespeople are taking a sales course online to further their sales career and learn new valuable sales skills. So, what are the benefits of taking a sales course online? In the digital era, it is important for salespeople to understand the relationship between sales and marketing within a company.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 16, 2022

Now that SKO season has passed, we’ve got our annual quotas, we’ve started rebuilding our pipelines after depleting them at year end, we’re into account planning season. We plug in the new numbers—the account financial performance in the past year, our quotas/goals for the account.

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Pipeliner

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And of course, the way we sell. Market needs, major account pains , product availability, competitive landscapes, and even the ways in which we communicate and interact with others. And more importantly, what our most important prospects and clients can count on. They’ve all changed. Stay focused.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Traditionally, marketing plans layout these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

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Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Top of Funnel Marketing 147

Product Management University

MAY 11, 2021

Learn how in this free product management course. It’s your first step to eliminating constantly changing priorities and creating a culture of customer value across product, marketing, sales and customer success teams. Enroll in the Free On-Demand Course Who doesn’t want to hijack your roadmap? Key features are…”.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That’s the idea behind inbound marketing—an essential marketing strategy for today’s businesses. In this guide, we cover everything you need to get started with inbound marketing. Table of Contents What is inbound marketing? Table of Contents What is inbound marketing? How does inbound marketing work?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The orders were “Get out of here and go see your prospects and clients!”, “Make something happen!” Of course, meeting with buyers in person is still very important. Truth be told, remote selling has been commonplace for years now especially with major accounts. A topic, of course, that many in selling have a strong disdain for.

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some are written by marketing experts. There seems to be a blurring of the lines between sales and marketing and that’s not useful to anyone. Should marketing understand what salespeople really do? Should salespeople understand what marketing does? Some are written by sales experts. Absolutely.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2018

As DiscoverOrg’s Manager of Strategic Accounts, I’m always looking for ways to use personal touchpoints to engage prospects via email. I start with a thoughtful, well-researched cold email that shows just how well I knows my prospect – both the pain points they experience in their job, as well as their personal interests.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 25, 2021

Sales most definitely have two sides, and this is also true of account management. This is also true of account management. If we didn’t need sales or account management skills, people would simply buy products or services—which they obviously don’t. They should plan for that existing account. Eliminating the Blind Spot.

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LinkedFusion

AUGUST 24, 2023

I started with a free LinkedIn account like many other professionals. There are nine different sorts of LinkedIn accounts available to you, which most individuals are unaware of when they consider the various forms of LinkedIn Premium. But there are some limitations in comparison with the LinkedIn premium account.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 14, 2021

More often than not , sales and marketing efforts are centered around customer acquisition. The primary reason is market share or market dominance. Gaining new customers quickly helps your company dominate the market. Accounting sends the invoice, and all the paperwork is done. Attract New Customers. What’s next?

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

touches to engage with a prospect. To reduce sales lead generation cost, you need to optimize the value of each prospect. Of course not. For one client, it takes 9.82 This approach yields a 5% lead rate. Our leads are equivalent to what SiriusDecisions calls a Level 4 or 5 lead—well-qualified leads. What Is Multi-Touch?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Of course, brand messaging isn’t the only change that has come as a result of the pandemic. In order to be nimble, marketers must react to news and events in real time. of purpose-driven advertising over time.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 6, 2021

There’s no shortage of paid and free sales prospecting tools on the market these days, all touting time-saving features. But who of today’s busy sales professionals has the time to vet hundreds of lead generation and sales prospecting tools, let alone road test them to find the best fit? What is sales prospecting?

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2018

Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, and it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income. Fact: Most sales professionals are not too keen on prospecting. But great reps suck it up and prospect, prospect, prospect; crushing their numbers as a result. Of course you do. No surprise there.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Google searches reflect that Airbnb has eclipsed the equity of century-old brands, in one decade, across markets big and small,” wrote entrepreneur and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway. While competitors may have equity in a specific market, no brand sits on the iron throne across all markets as Airbnb does.”.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 28, 2022

This article offers a sneak peek of just a few tips from Sean and Amanda Georgoff’s upcoming account-based selling course at the Sales Impact Academy. With a team approach to account-based selling, it never has to happen again. Learn how Salesloft simplifies account-based selling. . What is Account-Based Selling?

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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.

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Sales 2.0

MAY 1, 2020

Selling to enterprise accounts needs to be a habit, like eating well or working out, you need to make it part of your DNA. You are going to have to put in a lot of effort to land an enterprise account. They “touch” an enterprise account in the same way as a 100-person company. There are many ways to get into a big account.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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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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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 20, 2022

Of course, this is uncomfortable, for both sellers and clients. Fortunately, there are steps sellers can take to turn apathetic prospects and clients into invested partners. Here are six useful tips: Requalify Prospects and Clients. Here are six useful tips: Requalify Prospects and Clients. Refresh Value Proposition.

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