Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

With the right information in-hand, savvy sales pros and marketers might have seen it coming. But keen sales and marketers can use Scoops to spot patterns that inform the timing of their pitch. Each Scoop contains an important piece of information, including: Decision-maker moves. Vendors, take note. Hiring initiatives.

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ACT Data Hiring Decision Maker 120

Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2022

Whether identifying new leads and prospects, targeting specific audiences with marketing messaging, or searching for your next key hire, knowing where people are moving — and when — has never been more important. That’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of Tracker for ZoomInfo SalesOS. How Can Tracker Help Me? Who is Tracker For?

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Prospecting Decision Maker Hiring ACT 100

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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Data Microsoft Decision Maker CRM 246

SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

As a result, marketers preferred personalized email marketing to satisfy prospects’ needs in email marketing. If you are new to B2B personalized email marketing, then this blog will help you understand the concept of email personalization so that you can reach out to your prospects with a sales cadence.

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Email Marketing Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing 52

SendBuzz

MAY 1, 2023

As a result, marketers preferred personalized email marketing to satisfy prospects’ needs in email marketing. If you are new to B2B personalized email marketing, then this blog will help you understand the concept of email personalization so that you can reach out to your prospects with a sales cadence.

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Email Marketing Account Based Marketing B2B Marketing 52

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

At most companies, the sales process is a balancing act that doesn’t always work so well. It starts with inbound leads: responding to leads from marketing, answering website inquiries, and following up with podcast and webinar attendees. The decision-makers you want to reach aren’t playing hide-and-seek with your team.

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

Mr. Inside Sales

MAY 22, 2021

One of the companies does it the best, and it’s no secret why: They aggressively market across all appropriate and available opportunities; They have the largest staff of inside sales appointment setters (while the majority of the other companies don’t have any!) In other words: They think BIG, and they act BIG. Then think bigger.

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker Licensing 178

Janek Performance Group

JUNE 21, 2023

With the widespread use of automation, LinkedIn users receive a flood of messages, making it difficult for salespeople to connect with decision-makers. Given the increasing prevalence of marketing automation on LinkedIn, adopting a more personalized approach can yield better results.

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LinkedIn Ideal Customer Profile Strategy Decision Maker 62

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2024

But you can overdo it — acting overly excited or eager makes you seem juvenile. But there’s a good way and a bad way to find out who a decision-maker is. For example, a HubSpot sales rep would ask prospects if they were familiar with inbound marketing or inbound sales. should be deployed sparingly.

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Hubspot Buyer Decision Maker Inbound 114

Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 10, 2023

Stock Market down. Even more intriguing is the fact that the current economic conditions have flipped the sales candidate market on its head. All the requirements have been met. We have already seen these factors occur across the board: Low QoQ GDP. High interest rates. Massive layoffs. Cost-cutting. Closing delays.

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Revenue Hiring Decision Maker Cancellation 156

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re sitting on customer intelligence in your CRM or database — is your marketing team making the most of it? Customer intelligence allows marketers to understand leads and current clients more in-depth, and gain better insights. But don’t forget to create a solid strategy so marketers have a blueprint to work off of.

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Account Based Marketing Customer Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics 195

The Pipeline

JANUARY 28, 2020

What we call something will determine how we look at it, act, and react as a result. According to WiKiDiff: “As nouns the difference between disruption and interruption is that disruption is an interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something while interruption is the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.”

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Cold Calling Buyer Persona Decision Maker ACT 344

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Attempting to grow your business without market intelligence is a lot like driving without directions. Without a clear understanding of your industry or market, you will fail to make informed business decisions. Businesses are catching on to the importance of market intelligence. What is market intelligence?

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Marketing Scale Analysis Face-to-face 140

Act!

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Each stage has distinct goals and should ideally involve the key stakeholders from your customer service , product development , data analysis, and marketing and sales teams. is a complete marketing automation, lead generation, and CRM system. By using an integrated CRM and marketing automation system like Act!

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Customer Analysis ACT Incentives 52

Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2018

These professionals have the job of screening calls, deciding what’s important, and ultimately, who gets through to their boss—the decision maker. Act more senior. You’ll have a difficult time reaching a decision maker if the gatekeeper doubts your seniority. If this is something you struggle with, have no fear.

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Gatekeeper B2B Decision Maker Cold Calling 203

Emissary

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There are more decision-makers involved than ever before, longer sales cycles, and more demanding buyers. We connect enterprise sales and marketing professionals directly to our community of over 12,000 talented executives with recent experience in your most important accounts.

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Enterprise Enterprise Account Decision Maker 96

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Sales Tips: 4 Qualifications for Earning Senior Decision Maker Face Time. Here’s a question: Is the value proposition we want to deliver to our customer’s Senior Decision Makers (SDMs), e.g., buyers at the C-level, different than the one we would deliver to other lower-level managers? The answer, emphatically, is yes!

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Decision Maker Face-to-face Webinar Metrics Segment 40

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

In fact, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process with a referral ( source ). We touched on this phenomenon in a recent blog post about word-of-mouth marketing. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing.

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Referrals Marketing Incentives Incentive 130

Nutshell

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Plus, we’ll show you 10 visitor recognition tools that will boost your inbound marketing strategy. These visitors may be weighing their options by comparing your B2B product with your competitors’ or waiting for feedback from the decision-makers in their company. Website visitor tracking data helps your marketing efforts too.

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Ideal Customer Profile B2B Top of Funnel Tools 71

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To ensure your company can grow and thrive in an unpredictable economy, you need go-to-market data that changes as fast as your total addressable market. The process can be automated, so that any time new records meet a specified set of criteria, they are seamlessly exported into a CRM or marketing automation tool (MAT).

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Hiring Decision Maker 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

If you are talking to a CEO or the actual decision maker, saying no and walking away can have a tremendous impact.”. “It And if they are a CEO or the decision maker, they have the power to make it happen.” ” Act surprised, no matter which number they choose: “I’m surprised you picked a number that high!

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Closing B2B Decision Maker Discount 286

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

C-Suite decision makers are under pressure to maintain a short-term focus on achieving the next quarter’s business targets. Moreover, the mere act of answering a question can incite a phenomenon in which the customer becomes more likely to act on the solution.

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Influencer Journal Lead Rank Decision Maker 262

Highspot

JULY 15, 2020

Quick to embrace the opportunities that video presents, many savvy marketing departments have completely reconfigured their strategies to fit this new reality. Marketers can’t afford to ignore that today video is a prominent fixture of nearly every successful marketing initiative, regardless of industry.

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Video Top of Funnel Marketing Face-to-face 96

Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With the number of decision makers continuing to rise, sellers know they will likely encounter the sticky cog in the wheel, the lone holdout to a solution, even after everyone else gets on board. How often have you heard, “If only the market wasn’t uncertain, or the Midwest storms didn’t set us back”?

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Objections Decision Maker Lead Qualification Lead Rank 116

SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales. Grading sales qualified leads.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 239

Zoominfo

APRIL 17, 2020

Identify a particular market where your company has expertise with finding candidates and filling positions. That information lies with the hiring manager, the ultimate decision-maker in the process. Identify the Right Decision Makers Within Your Target Organization. Does HR act as a gatekeeper?

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Decision Maker Buyer Persona 100

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.

Data 130

Data Microsoft Decision Maker CRM 130

Crunchbase

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Lead nurturing is widely recognized as a valuable marketing technique that can help teams drive an increase in sales. Implementing a successful lead-nurturing plan can significantly influence your marketing campaign’s outcomes, as well as customer loyalty, retention, revenue and more. Search less. Close more. Search less.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 98

Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. What is surprising is how many companies remain mired in their own status quo, and as a result, they fail to adapt and act on what B2B buyers keep making clear.

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Meeting Decision Maker Revelation ACT 130

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Not involving the decision-maker. Recent research indicates that at smaller sales organizations, the inability to identify decision-makers is still a major deal killer. Deals are 80% less likely to close when a decision-maker isn’t directly involved in the experience.?So How to prep and empower your team.

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Decision Maker Buyer Persona Collateral Case Study 119

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re sitting on customer intelligence in your CRM or database — is your marketing team making the most of it? Customer intelligence allows marketers to understand leads and current clients more in-depth, and gain better insights. But don’t forget to create a solid strategy so marketers have a blueprint to work off of.

Customer 130

Customer Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Maximizer 130

Mr. Inside Sales

JUNE 1, 2020

I’ve written on this subject before but let me remind you of what I said: New marketing funnels and lead nurturing campaigns have created what has always been a salesperson’s dream: more inbound leads. ” Then, #4: How to determine the possible objections: “What has kept you from acting on this? #5: Get Access Today.

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Inbound Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 178

BrainShark

AUGUST 15, 2023

Competition There are a variety of challenges that can arise when you’re contending with a competitor during the sales process, especially because many industries and markets have new players entering all the time and changing the landscape. Pictured: Brainshark/Bigtincan Coaching AI pitch feedback #6.

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Exercises Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Decision Maker 62

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

BlackBerry was a pioneer in the smartphone market but was slow to adopt the touchscreen technology that became dominant and was eventually overtaken by competitors such as Apple and Samsung. Xerox had a strong research and development team, but it could not effectively bring its innovations to market.

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Decision Maker Scale Lead Rank Transportation 62

MarketJoy

JULY 22, 2022

Demand Generation: B2B demand generation is a form of marketing that creates interest in a product or service. Most B2B marketers struggle with lead generation. A recent study by Act-On Software found that 75% of the 244 participants said improving lead quality is one of their most important goals in their marketing and sales strategy.

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Ideal Customer Profile Pipeline Demand Generation Agencies Lead Generation 111

Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This trend creates a unique opportunity for sales reps to reach decision-makers, as there is significantly less competition for their attention during these time slots. ” In their enthusiasm, the crucial act of listening—the cornerstone of effective selling—is missed. They maintain a talk-to-listen ratio of over 60/40.

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Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead 62