Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. Now, we’ll go further and explore strategies and best practices for improving prospect qualification. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of sales, account executives play a crucial role in nurturing leads and closing deals. But where should you start implementing AI in your specific account executive role? Enhance prospecting with AI-driven research tools. Account executives can spend hours on end researching prospects.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 27, 2017

What’s the best approach to account segmentation? How should sales leaders segment accounts for their account-based sellers? Your biggest clients aren’t always the most strategic accounts. Strategic accounts are the ones where you have room to grow and access to decision-makers, and where you provide real value.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 8, 2024

What is the payoff for landing this account? Maybe the account also has strategic value, like a key new logo you want to brag about, maybe to get other firms like that on your bandwagon. Once you have a sense of how important the account is, you will have a better sense of how much to invest in getting a meeting there.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) always seems like a great idea … until you get into the nitty-gritty. When confronted with the details – database management, customer account segmentation, and content creation – many companies balk and decide that perhaps ABM isn’t the right road after all. Sound familiar? Who are your best customers?

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Marketing needs to figure out how it can scale account-based programs, and do so in a coordinated way with Sales. I’m going to share with you a system for account based prospecting that will get real results. I want to start by explaining what account-based marketing is. ABM maturity model.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 25, 2023

As such, they often prioritize new accounts. This makes effective account planning essential. With account planning, you identify and target potential sales opportunities within existing accounts. Here, 72 percent of respondents said that account planning increased their understanding of their clients’ business.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Not only has the function grown in popularity but automation has allowed us to increase the volume per rep dramatically which leaves prospects overwhelmed and unresponsive. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? Luckily, there is a better way.

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Gong.io

APRIL 22, 2022

Examples that got replies, were shared on social media, and (many of them) ultimately helped book that ever-elusive booked meeting. Here are 6 of our favorite cold email examples. Cold Email Example #1: It’s not about you (it’s about the prospect). Cold Email Example #2: Take time to personalize. “A Even worse?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Account-based marketing is used by most B2B companies, and it’s easy to see why: it promises to bring marketing and sales closer together, target accounts as one revenue team, and drive bottom-line results. Poor data quality leads to targeting the wrong accounts at the wrong times and in the wrong way. The reason?

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 3, 2013

Salespeople tend to believe they need to spend more time with major accounts, while Marketing will always argue more time should be spent prospecting. ” Salespeople love to spend time with major accounts, because I believe they would rather do that with their time instead of sales prospecting. Who is right?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 16, 2023

Account executives work a fast-paced job that requires talent and discipline. In this post, we'll provide our best account executive interview questions to help you land your next interview — and get closer to that offer letter. General Account Executive Interview Questions Expect the interview to start with simple questions.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In B2B selling, we often focus on new accounts. This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. Altify notes account planning has increased from 36 percent of companies in 2013 to 50 percent today. This is a seller’s advantage.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Want prospects to respond with lightning speed? The triple touch is a tactic that salespeople use to engage prospects. The ‘touches’ include contacting the prospect three different ways, each time building trust, getting on their radar, and moving them further into the sales funnel. . What is the Triple Touch in Sales?

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We’ll also look at examples of sales objectives that you can set for your sales team. For example, instead of saying that you want to bring in new clients or boost profit margins, you might say something like, “We’ll close more accounts with cold calls.” For example, if you want to close more accounts, then decide on how many.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 15, 2017

It was 20 years ago, when I was working as an account-based sales rep , and I lost the biggest deal of my career. We had a stellar account-based selling team. When my contact, Nancy, delivered the bad news, she told me that the team appreciated the work of our account-based selling team and my professionalism. I knew everyone.

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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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PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

An analysis of the demographics of these high-value customers helps you target prospects. Let’s look at some examples of how different individuals might utilize ACV. This metric shows how much you generate from your recurring subscription accounts each year. To make this clearer, let’s look at an example. What is ARR?

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Crunchbase

MAY 22, 2023

Sales prospecting is an integral part of the sales process. When done manually, it can be time-consuming and demand substantial effort — but automated sales prospecting can help. Automated sales prospecting tools, also known as sales automation software , streamline your workflow and allow you to spend more time selling.

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Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 29, 2023

The truth about salespeople who are reluctant to prospect boils down to two things: First, they are reluctant to prospect because past attempts resulted in failure. Second, they don’t know what to say to prospects. Prospecting reluctance can be the silent killer of sales careers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A Wild West-style free-for-all where reps prospect into an addressable market wherever they’d like. Think account hoarding , unequal opportunity to hit quota , missed revenue , and rep dissatisfaction. In the free-for-all model, it can be harder for new reps to ramp because more tenured reps have more accounts locked up.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But along with that practical insight, you also get great stories — concrete examples of how your work makes a difference in people’s lives, from the first time they check the email over their morning coffee to the moment they close their laptops at the end of the day. It just makes prospecting so much easier in every respect,” Castro says.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 11, 2022

Still, like the example above, sometimes I’d get shot down when reaching out to my moonshots. I use this as an example with newer BDRs who wanted to know how much follow-up they should be doing: Continue following up for as long as you can be helpful and provide value! We’d let the prospect know that we’ll cease prospecting them.

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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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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

My name is Stephanie, I’m on an account based selling team, and I’m reaching out on behalf of a growing startup. I probably could have figured that out if she hadn’t sent the email from her Gmail account. This is only one example of the stupid emails I receive and immediately relegate to junk. Give it a rest, Stephanie.

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Mr. Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How good are you at requalify existing accounts, or prospects you haven’t spoken with in a while? And that means that just because a prospect or client was in charge of a certain function last month or 6 months ago, it doesn’t mean they are in charge of it today. Here are some examples of transition sentences. And so on….

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. And we’ve got examples. A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email, usually addressed to a decision-maker at a high-value account. So which situations are appropriate for this type of prospecting?

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2022

Here are some real-life examples of intelligent routing that tackle challenges faced by revenue ops teams. Any effort to match leads to the right prospect account, to score, prioritize, or even route them properly is squandered if the data fed into your systems hasn’t been normalized, cleansed, enriched, or deduped.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 13, 2021

This ownership, sometimes called sales accountability, is how sales managers prepare their teams for success by giving them all the information, tools, and training they need to succeed and meet quotas. Accountability drives success because it ensures that salespeople stay on track, own their progress, and develop their skills.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As a sales leader, it can be a challenge to make sure your team is prospecting efficiently (or at all). That's why we put together something called the Prospecting Action Plan. This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. How to Create a Sales Prospecting Action Plan.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Chris was an early Gong guy (Nov ‘16 start date) where he’s served as the Senior Director of Product Marketing followed by the Head of Sales for Existing Accounts. He talks about #sales, #leadership, #coldcalling, #prospecting, and #salesdevelopment. Sales Strategy Example #1: Separate yourself with a Nexus.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

Ideal Customer Profile 98

Ideal Customer Profile Closing Prospecting Intent Data 98

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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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take Drift , for example, whose executive chairman David Cancel said, “One of the reasons we founded Drift in the first place was to build a new type of corporate America – one that values diversity and creates equity. Note: “Access” does not necessarily translate to a premium account. Universal tech stack. Ensure end user adoption.

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Crunchbase

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at the best cold email examples to avoid common pitfalls that get your emails deleted. We’ll also discuss what makes these email examples so great and how you can leverage these strategies yourself. Cold email example No. 1: Focus on the prospect. Focus on the prospect instead!

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