No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 9, 2018

In most cases, their lead generation process depends on marketing to round up online leads. Yet, nearly 80 percent say they don’t always get past the gatekeeper. Why can’t they get past the gatekeeper? Breeze Past the Gatekeeper with Referral Sales. Reps view gatekeepers like trolls guarding the bridge.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

In fact, this is also felt in the accounting department, the marketing department, and everywhere else. Getting screened out by the gatekeeper. If so, then you’re not alone. Most companies are under immediate pressure already to begin accomplishing their new goals and sales targets. You can probably feel it in your company, too.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 12, 2017

The last thing you want is to spin cycles on bad data until your sales and marketing teams wear out. In Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD), data quality is critical for scaling effectively. Many data providers claim to have the “most accurate” or “most actionable” business intelligence on the market. Implications.

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Zoominfo

MAY 8, 2019

So, when we say company and contact data , we’re referring to information regarding your target contacts and accounts including contact information, firmographic data, technographic data, demographic data, and more. Bypass gatekeepers. ZoomInfo is the leading contact and account information company. What are you waiting for?

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Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2022

They often maintain a small army of people to deal with all these demands, which means that the best way to approach a CFO is getting in touch with and gaining the confidence of these gatekeepers. Start with social media accounts. Research the Gatekeeper The final research piece is the gatekeeper of the CFO’s calendar.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2021

Sales and marketing teams start their account-based sales (ABS) and account-based marketing (ABM) programs with strategic intentions. They target those that are in-market and those that should be showing intention. They’re watching those accounts that are trending and consuming their content.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 8, 2020

Over the course of seven pre-recorded webinar sessions, you and your team will learn: The New Rules of Prospecting How to Overcome Call Reluctance How to Breeze Past Gatekeepers Qualifying Fundamentals Email & Voicemail Best Practices How to Give Winning Demos and Presentations Overcoming Objections Time Management And Much, Much More….

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. Reps cold call, send cold emails, do cold outreach on social media, and rely on marketing to nurture prospects and send them qualified leads.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 26, 2020

SalesLoft customer Limeade shares their best practices for how their marketing and sales teams work together to execute their account-based strategy by: . Honing-in on their top tier accounts. An account-based strategy is only a strategy until marketing and sales come together to hyper-focus on their top-tier accounts.

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Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The first big lesson, young, affordable, full-time staff didn’t have the requisite skills to replace Jake and properly service the accounts. Sales teams can no longer be gatekeepers of the buyer’s journey. It took years to structure a scalable services delivery model. As he grew globally, it was time to expand the sales team.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2020

Sales and marketing teams, specifically, have abandoned chasing (demand gen) waterfalls or examining funnels. Instead, go-to-market teams are tirelessly doing anything and everything they can to hit their numbers today. Market segmentation needs to be beyond reproach and sales metrics need to be measurable and projectable.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2021

They believe a call isn’t cold because it’s a marketing-qualified lead, because the prospect downloaded a whitepaper, or because they have a mutual connection on LinkedIn. When you receive a referral introduction, you breeze past gatekeepers and walk right into meetings with your prospects. Then, ask for an introduction.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

Also, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side. Why is getting past the gatekeeper and finding qualified leads so challenging for salespeople? The dreaded gatekeeper. Read “ Learn How to Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side.”). Let me know.

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Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

From prospecting through account management, it’s being informed of their personnel, their processes, their strengths, and weaknesses. Here, then, are some keys to preparation in selling, including understanding the prospect or client’s industry, account, and people: Industry Prep Central to preparation is knowing their industry.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 30, 2017

Cracking a tough sales account was once like striking oil. Sales reps aiming to displace the current provider were stuck dialing into dead-end corporate switchboard phone numbers, getting stonewalled by gatekeepers, never to reach their buyer’s voicemail box—let alone pitch their product to a decision-maker. No Googling required.

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. 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. Basho emails are only appropriate for high-value accounts because personalization is no joke.

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LeveragePoint

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Account-Based Selling (ABS) is necessary to execute effectively on Account-Based Marketing (ABM). Part 1 of this blog series focused on Value Propositions as the most important piece of content for B2B Account-Based Selling. Stakeholders within an Account.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 25, 2017

Sales and marketing teams that buy into myths about data providers miss out on serious business value. To buyers, these types of interactions may seem serendipitous, but timing sales and marketing interactions requires foresight. Account-based marketing can use sales intelligence for a new level of personalization.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We guess that if you spend any significant effort on email marketing, then you’ve seen these recent trends in the last 12-18 months: plummeting open rates, dwindling click rates, and skyrocketing bounce rates. One glance at your inbox – personal or work – probably confirms what you secretly don’t want to admit: Email marketing is dead.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They’re a critical part of personalized prospecting and account-based strategy. 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. Basho emails are really only appropriate for high-value accounts, because personalization is no joke.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Through consistent processes, leaders derive quick insights on how its sales organization attacks their market. Think about how much contact and account data your sales team needs just to prospect. Instead, deeper insights about a target account are required: Does the organization outsource key components of its business?

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2012

I thought it would be a good idea for my client to see if they could sell more to their existing top accounts (I’m quite the strategist you will note.) The first step to doing this was to get a list of those top accounts. Opening this list I thought I’d take a look at how their sales coverage was on account number one.

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John Barrows

MARCH 5, 2020

Here’s how the structure of prospecting teams is going to change… Prospecting Teams Using Marketing Skills. Morgan: You mentioned marketing. And what are some things that you studied while you were in marketing that help you and your SDR leadership role and as an NSS sales rep? What I learned was to create.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2017

Author: Nick Bhavsar, Senior Vice President Marketing, Get Smart Content We’ve all been there: It’s the end of the quarter and you find yourself staring at the numbers, wondering how you’re going to make up the revenue gap in such a short amount of time. But, modern marketing has created ways for marketing to help in the short term as well.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 7, 2018

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs still aren’t making quota. Reps cold call, send cold emails, do cold outreach on social media, and rely on marketing to nurture prospects and send them qualified leads.

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PandaDoc

JANUARY 14, 2019

It’s a never-ending list of updates, upgrades, evolutions of tools and technology, and digital marketing trends. Keep reading to learn how you can shape your marketing strategies in the coming year. Marketing teams will create and distribute more video content. Integration of different marketing channels will become more common.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

They’re also critical to the success of product management, product marketing and sales. The expanded CSM role presents a great opportunity to establish a stronger leadership position internally by defining the structure for all customer interactions with each account, including executive access if that structure is not already in place.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. Think of someone who disrupts an executive’s day by getting past the gatekeeper explaining he/she knows that person and is following up ‘our previous discussions’ – yeah right!

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 8, 2014

The name of the game is speed for salespeople and marketers. Today’s successful sales and marketing pros are turning to referrals, not taking shots in the dark. While we can make our businesses look larger than life from behind the keyboard, schemers and scammers run rampant with little sense of accountability. Good question.

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 27, 2014

As a marketing director, there are always projects I’d like to do but my company is not going to be able to fund or provide me the resources to get them all done. Pursuing an account involves a lot of work that takes a lot of time. And think about whether all the time you will need to invest with this account makes sense.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You’ve probably heard that automation helps both marketing and sales teams do their jobs—but that doesn’t mean they’re interchangeable. Does marketing automation serve a different purpose than sales automation? The most common marketing automation features include: Email marketing. Landing pages and lead forms.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

RevOps is… “A one person job.” — Michael Canty , Head of Global Revenue Operations at Tomorrow.io. “…the same as Marketing and Sales Ops.” — Dwamian McLeish , CEO & Founder at Junction. “A Absolutely STOKED to take your meeting request.” — Ryan Fiorenza , Account Executive at Conga. Account Executive at Curvature.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2012

Are you going to rely too much on marketing to provide high quality leads to hit the number? Let’s be honest, the majority of reps would be out on the street if they had to rely solely on marketing for Lead Generation What can you do about it? Our Make the Number Tour specifically addresses market changes that will affect you in 2013.

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LeadFuze

JULY 13, 2023

Grasping the fundamentals of sales is an indispensable part of any enterprise, regardless if you are a budding salesperson or a knowledgeable marketer. This post aims to provide valuable insights into mastering the art of selling, from evading gatekeepers in B2B environments to closing tough customers effectively.

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LeveragePoint

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The Question for Marketing. Do B2B sales teams use marketing content? It’s a legitimate question to ask as marketing leadership sets next year’s goals. For many marketing teams, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is at the top of their priority list. B2B marketers need ABS to succeed with ABM.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Our team gathered 19 of the best sales prospecting tools on the market in 2023. Of this user base, many are high-income earners that are currently “in the market” to buy products. This enterprise solution enables “co-selling, co-marketing, and lead-sharing” among business partners. Market monitoring. Image Source.

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John Barrows

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But the difference is, I think in a lot of these reported stats is that people identify connect with like a gatekeeper or an admin or something of that nature. So there’s a huge shift in the market right now of trying to figure out, you know, how do you earn more conversations? I mean, it’s much more marketing.

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