Zoominfo

MAY 11, 2020

There’s a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization’s strategy and objectives: New customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting … just to name a few. But don’t forget about your sales territory plan. What is a Sales Territory Plan?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

A pillar of success for any sales organization is an effective business development strategy. However, merely having a strategy isn’t enough. Of course, changes in the sales landscape and marketplace have a profound effect on your business development strategy. And this often begins with prospecting.

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Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy Analysis 62

Gong.io

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The value of sales territories isn’t lost on most sales leaders (and if it is, we’ll clarify that shortly). The problem is making your sales territory planning fair without swallowing up your time. . What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important? What is sales territory mapping, and why is it important?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Direct mail is one of the very first outreach strategies employed by businesses. 5 Unique B2B Direct Mail Campaigns from Topline Film. As a video production company that sells to other businesses, we have been doing B2B outreach for almost a decade. We sent this guide to 30 individual prospects. Keep reading!

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2022

In an ideal world, B2B revenue teams would run with lightning-fast lead response times, streamlined operations, and an aligned sales and marketing team. Account-based territory lead routing capabilities, along with parent-child relationship mapping, are critical to its revenue strategy. Without a doubt. Using it comes at a cost.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. For B2B organizations, customers now represent the new gold to be desired and the sales team’s pipeline the new gold mine to be developed.

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B2B Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 88

Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2014

Finding the right prospective buyers and then actually having conversations with them are the top two challenges most sellers are facing now. If assigned a vertical territory of financial services I would do several things right away: look at who my existing and past customers in financial services are. Look Socially. Close More Deals.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

You've spent hours prospecting : researching, making warm calls , reaching out via email and on social media. If you have prospects who are dragging their feet or slowing a deal down, you might be working with a tire kicker. So, how can separate these tire kickers from well-qualified prospects? Sound familiar?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. Communication Strategy. Prospecting.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Rather than react to inbound leads or simply start at the top of a list and work my way down, I analyzed my territory before I began. My goal was never about just hitting quota, but rather to generate the most revenue possible from my territory. Because of that, I could identify the several hundred accounts within my territory.

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Score More Sales

JULY 7, 2014

Do you have a strategic prospecting plan or will you just “wing it” again, like you often do? You need to start planning during your prior work day for upcoming prospecting you’ll be doing on the next business day. read the related post “The Power of Trusts in B2B Selling” here ). Close More Deals.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. It’s a vital part of any sales strategy because it helps develop your sales pipeline and brings you one step closer to securing new customers. The ultimate goal is to introduce prospects into the sales cycle and convert them into customers.

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Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. It’s a vital part of any sales strategy because it helps develop your sales pipeline and brings you one step closer to securing new customers. The ultimate goal is to introduce prospects into the sales cycle and convert them into customers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Closing Prospecting Intent Data 98

Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 24, 2020

To obtain that commitment, you must prospect. You might ask yourself, “How do I prospect more effectively?” You make prospecting easier when you have a framework and a strategy that produces results. Here is what you need to prospect effectively in B2B sales. Start Your Prospecting with a Plan.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Direct mail is one of the very first outreach strategies employed by businesses. 5 Unique B2B Direct Mail Campaigns from Topline Film As a video production company that sells to other businesses, we have been doing B2B outreach for almost a decade. Unfortunately, the cookies seemed to annoy many of the prospects we sent them to.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Without question, the functionality within CRMs, particularly Salesforce, can create a 360 degree view of the prospects and customers alike. So, let’s dive into how Salesforce Sync helps enable sales reps by supporting the foundation of any sales process: Territory Management. ZoomInfo Salesforce Sync for Territory Management.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. Wing was able to lean on ZoomInfo’s Chorus conversation intelligence solution and its SalesOS platform to analyze successful deals and perform lightning-fast research on her new territory and team. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Zoominfo

JULY 19, 2022

ZoomInfo customers who use AWS can now receive ZoomInfo’s industry-leading B2B data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), significantly improving data quality while eliminating the time-consuming process of cleaning datasets by hand. For many teams, managing data quality remains an obstacle that demands significant staff time.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 29, 2020

In Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition , I wrote about salespeople who struggle because they try to leverage things like their company’s history, and their leadership team, to create a competitive advantage in B2B sales. What I didn’t spend enough pages on in that book was the strategy of dominating time.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. Finding the best prospects goes beyond surface-level details like company name and phone number. What is Sales Intelligence? How Can I Optimize Intelligence in the Sales Cycle?

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Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank 207

Score More Sales

JANUARY 10, 2013

If your B2B company has been slow to get more involved in what some call the Social Selling movement, you can still do some very simple things right away while your company debates how, when and why to jump in. A big win for your sales team would be to find more prospective customers and start listening to what they are saying.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. In B2B sales, it’s time. Insurance.

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The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Tibor Shanto.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 31, 2020

In Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from Your Competition , I wrote about salespeople who struggle because they try to leverage things like their company’s history, and their leadership team, to create a competitive advantage in B2B sales. What I didn’t spend enough pages on in that book was the strategy of dominating time.

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Competition B2B Face-to-face eBook 69

Anthony Iannarino

MAY 7, 2020

There is no chance that they don’t move the business, and you are confident you are going to displace your rival in your territory. The problems this prospective client is experiencing looks like a case study for your company’s value proposition. Execute your best sales calls with this free sales call planner! Download Now.

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B2B How To Case Study Territories 90

Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2023

They must do more with less and move quickly to close deals at a time when the B2B sales cycle has slowed. According to Demand Gen Report ‘s 2022 B2B Buyer Behavior Survey , 55% of buyers say their purchasing timelines have grown, while 82% of sales professionals have had to adapt quickly to new ways of selling.

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Sales Cycle Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 98

Allego

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It has 850 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Recent articles: How to Avoid these Sales Process Traps, 8 Simple Steps to Design Your Sales Process for Complex B2B Sales, Is Your B2B Sales Process Dead or Alive? Strategies for great virtual sales conversations. Published weekly.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Guest Post , Proactivity , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , e-mail , execution. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Set a schedule to call all the prospects that went to no decision over the last 12 months.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 26, 2011

7 Must-Have Lead Nurturing Recipes for B2B Marketers. As you would expect the topics covered many aspects of lead nurturing, lead conversion, and interaction between sales and marketing not only in nurturing leads, but nurturing prospect/opportunities. 7 Must-Have Lead Nurturing Recipes for B2B Marketers [link] / via @Renbor.

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Zoominfo

JULY 26, 2022

An enterprise API strategy can transform your data management system for better GTM sales motions, targeted outreach, and success. ZoomInfo APIs automatically move our B2B data and intelligence directly into the systems and tools that our customers use every day — like a CRM, marketing automation platform, and sales engagement system.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Communication Strategy. Prospecting.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. When your email arrives at the top of your prospect's inbox at a time that aligns with their schedule, you increase your email success rate. HubSpot Email Scheduling. Pricing: Free.

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criteria for success

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This is the same reason why having a B2B sales process is so important. The process moves prospects through the funnel from the awareness stage to a signed and sealed opportunity. The Value of a B2B Sales Process. There are many reasons why having a B2B sales process is valuable for an organization. Measurement.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 8, 2011

Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link]. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link] #news #sales. Battle Reparation Tactics Meet Marketplace Strategies [link] #news #sales. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008.

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Pipeline Meeting Webinar Metrics Strategy 216

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2018

Sales and marketing are both vital to a B2B organization. B2B companies who struggle to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes have lost upwards of 10 percent or more of revenue per year (IDC). Territory coverage alignment. Keep everyone updated on prospect research. Preparing for the sales cycle.

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Marketing SAP Face-to-face Territories 201

Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show. Trade shows offer a unique opportunity for organizations to form real, human relationships with their prospects that other marketing tactics just can’t provide. The 3 Biggest Potholes of B2B Events (And How to Steer Clear).

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