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How to Create an Accountable Sales Team

Topline Leadership

Whenever I talk about “accountability” with salespeople, I see a lot of eye rolls. Not surprising, given that accountability is a word that gets tossed around when sales managers want to blame someone for something that has gone wrong. Over time, if accountability means blame it can destroy morale and undermine sales results.

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Account Executive Inc.

Sales 2.0

You could add people to your team to do things like: Post content for you on social media Look for content from others that you can curate on put on social media Research prospects lists Research account information for you so you can make customized approaches to prospects Update the CRM for you Help you write and edit your proposals.

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Account-Based Success

The Pipeline

Like most in our profession, I am a big fan of account-based sales and marketing. According to the ITSMA, 87% of respondents agreed Account-Based methodologies deliver a higher ROI than other marketing activities. Account-based isn’t new – but it is en vogue. Identify the people that work at those accounts. First Step.

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How to Supercharge Your Account Planning

Janek Performance Group

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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Buyer’s Checklist: How to Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

After reading, you’ll gain insight into the following components: How to develop a framework for analyzing a vendor’s contact and account data. Download ZoomInfo’s data-driven eBook for guidance on effectively assessing the vendor marketplace. Critical integrations that fit directly into your sales processes and workflows.

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How to Identify Strategic Accounts for Your Account-Based Sellers

No More Cold Calling

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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How To Boost Client Retention – Without Customer Service or Account Reps

Sales and Marketing Management

That means marketers, sales professionals, operations people, and analysts all work in tandem to interact directly with customers – eliminating or greatly limiting involvement of customer service or account representatives. We use account managers and customer service reps on only a very limited basis.

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

How data impacts your organization as a whole. The best ways to learn how to achieve clean, consistent data. Download this eBook and gain an understanding of the impact of data management on your company’s ROI. You'll learn about: The true cost of bad (and good) data.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns.

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Digitizing Logistics: Harness the Power of Data in 4 Steps

In demand generation, data is essential for knowing who you should target and how. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to identify and target your ideal prospects — when they’re most receptive to hearing your message — using different types of data. Personalizing messages to your priority accounts. Leveraging intent data.

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Your Playbook to B2B Conversational Marketing

Speaker: Tyler Pleiss, AMB Manager - Strategic & Kristen Rauch, ABM Manager - Expansion

Many marketers are still hesitant to convert to a chat-forward approach, especially when trying to pair it with an Account-Based Marketing strategy. If you want to make the conversion but aren’t sure where or how to begin, don't worry — we've got you covered. How chat fits into your larger omni-channel engagement strategy.

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

Analysts and professionals alike tend to argue that account based marketing (ABM) is not new. Instead of wading through a series of vague “how-to kick-start your ABM strategy!” ZoomInfo has created the following eBook to help other B2B organizations gain insights on how to launch their own data-driven ABM strategy.

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. How to build and strengthen relationships with key clients and prospects. How to elevate sending strategies from holiday specialties to year-round events that celebrate targets’ anniversaries, birthdays, personal and professional milestones, and more.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. How to assess the current health of your database while working with a B2B contact data provider.

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Salesforce Formulas for the Everyday Admin

Speaker: Steve Molis, Salesforce MVP

Salesforce is one of the most powerful tools out there for sales and marketing professionals, but it can get unwieldy at times, and trying to figure out how to make someone else’s solution fit your own can be daunting. Finding the Ultimate Parent Account. This is where Steve Molis comes in. Counting Values in Multi-Picklist Fields.