LinkedFusion

AUGUST 26, 2023

Looking to supercharge your sales and marketing game? Well, ever heard of the LinkedIn account-based marketing strategy? This blog is your ticket to mastering the art of using account-based marketing on LinkedIn. What Is LinkedIn Account Based Marketing? If not, you’re in for a treat.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2017

Twenty years ago, I would have told you referrals couldn’t possibly be more important for account based sales development. Too many account based selling teams over-rely on technology to reach their prospects. This digital dependence actually decreases productivity and extends the time it takes to reach a decision-maker.

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eGrabber

MAY 6, 2022

Account-Based Marketing is one of the most effective growth marketing strategies that enables you to identify & reach out to companies that are your ideal prospects rather than reaching out to your target audience in general. Build Targeted Prospect Lists for Account-Based Marketing Try for Free.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. There are, of course, tiers of customization required, depending on the size and importance of these accounts.

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SalesHandy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Trying to find the right people to sell to within your target organization or account can be tricky. Especially when you’re looking for decision makers, who’re usually inaccessible, and often indistinguishable from other prospects within the organization. Let’s first understand who are decision makers in a company.

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The Pipeline

JULY 23, 2015

A question I regularly ask when working with a group of reps on prospecting, is “who do you call on?” The answer I get is “the decision maker”. Now I have used a lot of different directories and databases, and they all give a title, not role in decision. or “who do you want to call on?”

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sales account management, like sales, is selling. For the sales account manager, getting processes down can mean the difference between achieving massive growth and losing customers to the competition. The lines between sales and account management get blurry — while they’re both revenue powerhouses, they’re different beasts.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A sales VP was frustrated with her account based sales team, as they relied almost exclusively on technology for generating sales leads. They spent plenty of time on social media and sent tons of emails, but they rarely reached actual decision-makers. Has digital communication killed traditional sales techniques? Well, sure.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

Ideal sales intelligence tools supply your team with up-to-date information about your prospects and addressable market — and how you can reach them. The more information business development teams know about prospects, the better they can tactically craft outreach that cuts through the noise and conveys true value.

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Emissary

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Check out the B2B marketing infographic below for a guide to how account intelligence can drive enterprise B2B marketing success. Selling tech to enterprise and having the right marketing approach can be a struggle. Go-to-Market Strategy. ABM Strategic Insights.

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Emissary

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sales account planning has been in practice for 30+ years. So most technology organizations have an account planner floating around somewhere. There are more decision-makers involved than ever before, longer sales cycles, and more demanding buyers. But whether these plans yield results varies broadly.

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Sales Evangelist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

How to Reach Decision-Makers When Selling to Enterprises When selling, we want to talk to the decision makers but how do you reach them in order to qualify them as a prospect? It’s become even harder to get a hold of decision-makers. The solution is to go back to personalization.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 25, 2023

As such, they often prioritize new accounts. For salespeople, this means tighter budgets, more decision makers, and longer sales cycles. This makes effective account planning essential. With account planning, you identify and target potential sales opportunities within existing accounts.

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Mereo

JULY 14, 2022

B2B decision makers have often been akin to the Viking warriors centered behind a shield wall. According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers. Inaccessible.

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Emissary

JANUARY 31, 2023

But you can still conquer a slow market by taking a strategic approach to grow existing accounts. But you can still increase revenue by selecting those prospects with the best fit for your solution. Take a look at your most successful accounts, not just the biggest spenders, but also those that love your products and company.

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 5, 2017

It’s an ineffective prospecting strategy and a nuisance to buyers, most of whom ignore cold calls. For account-based sellers , it’s not only a waste of time. Current clients at a prospect company are the best source of new business within their organizations. Stop Fooling Yourself—Your Prospecting Is Cold.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The digital marketing landscape is more competitive than ever — and if you’re not prepared, you’re already behind. Here are four B2B marketing trends to implement (or at the very least, be on the lookout for) in 2022. Forrester also predicts that marketing tech budgets will increase from 19% to 25% in 2022.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. These include their needs, budget, timeline, and decision-making authority, among others. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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Emissary

JULY 18, 2022

Most technology marketing teams have employed account-based marketing (ABM) to help close B2B deals. In fact, in Gartner’s 2021 survey of technology executives , 75% said they had an ABM function centralized in the marketing team. Instead, work with sales to assess each candidate’s fit to your ideal account profile.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Author: Shawn Finder Ask sales and marketing leaders what digital channels they leverage to generate leads and help their teams hit quota and you’ll likely get the same answer over and over: cold calls and emails. It’s capable of including other mediums, both visual and auditory, which means you can engage your prospects on a deeper level.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 3, 2017

Sales symptoms are prospecting traps. You’d be surprised how often I hear, “My account based selling team can’t close.”. Closing is the easy part of account based sales development. It’s prospecting that’s hard. Diagnose Your Account Based Sales Development Problem. Closing is never the problem. Seller beware!).

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

They’re accountable for sales touches, not for generating leads that are actually qualified. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. How to Reach Decision Makers Every Time. Read “ How to Reach Decision Makers Every Time ”).

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. When sales reps receive referral introductions, they: Score meetings with decision-makers, while the competition is still figuring out how to get in. Spend more time with customers and less time prospecting.

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eGrabber

JULY 9, 2021

Sales prospecting is the process of identifying your ideal prospects, building your prospect list and then reaching out to them to turn them into your customers. This blog post will help you learn how sales prospecting tools help you to speed up prospecting and find customers faster. Reach your Ideal Customers.

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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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eGrabber

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In the world of sales and marketing, prospecting lists are the backbone of any successful campaign. But what exactly is a prospecting list, and how can you build one that yields the best results? What is a Prospecting List? 50+ Ways to Build Prospecting Lists in no Time! Are they decision makers?

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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

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sales account management, like sales, is selling. For the sales account manager, getting processes down can mean the difference between achieving massive growth and losing customers to the competition. The lines between sales and account management get blurry — while they’re both revenue powerhouses, they’re different beasts.

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SBI

JULY 1, 2020

5 Ways to Uncover Strategic Account Revenue. Revenue growth in B2B enterprise accounts has always been challenging. Uncovering untapped revenue demands that organizations rethink outdated methodologies, processes, and technologies that don’t focus specifically on optimizing revenue in strategic accounts.

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Allego

MARCH 25, 2023

The typical buying group for a B2B solution involves multiple decision makers‚ each with information they’ve gathered independently. These dynamics make it increasingly difficult for customers to make purchases—and for sellers to connect with the right prospects. Prospects aren’t always going to be forthcoming.

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Zoominfo

JULY 8, 2021

Sales reps and marketers that use ZoomInfo and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are about to see their day-to-day lives get easier thanks to a new collaboration between the two companies. This integration allows customers to accelerate their sales and marketing efforts by using ZoomInfo’s best-in-class data while never leaving Dynamics 365.

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John Barrows

MARCH 5, 2020

What’s going to happen to SDRs and prospecting teams in the future? We spoke to Josh Roth to hear how he thinks prospecting teams and the role of an SDR is going to change. Here’s how the structure of prospecting teams is going to change… Prospecting Teams Using Marketing Skills.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? The Benefits of Sales Prospecting Tools.

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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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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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