Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Author: Sabrina Ferraioli When you try to call business executives, you’re up against some substantial hurdles — gatekeepers, voicemail, caller ID and their not-a-minute-to-spare schedules. Because of these obstacles, it takes dogged persistence coupled with sales skills to start a meaningful conversation. Add a Call to Action.

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Conversion Sales Qualified Lead B2B Direct Mail 293

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Imagine a chatbot that identifies your website visitors and their company, qualifies them based on your criteria, engages them based on data-driven insights, sets up meetings, and even notifies your sales team when they are ready for a conversation. Call me biased, but this is my favorite feature. What is unique about ZoomInfo Chat?

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Ideal Customer Profile Conversion Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 147

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2018

Sales Call Tips. Start Sales Calls with a Bang. In this post, I’ve gathered my best key takeaways and tactics for running successful sales calls, based on my 10+ years of sales experience. Start all sales calls with a bang. Always start your sales calls in style. That kicks most sales calls off on the right foot.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

ZoomInfo’s recent webinar, Automation: The Secret to Next-Level Go-To-Market Strategy , highlighted why automation powered by data is a proven tactic to accelerate win rates and better enable go-to-market plays. Typically, a company reinvests funds back into the business for growth and scalability. 1: The funding play.

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Marketing Scale 242

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If Let’s dive in.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 5, 2024

In this video, Lindsey Plocek from our Product Marketing team, shares their story. Here’s what they did: Key takeaways Aligned their revenue teams: This customer aligned all stakeholders on its revenue team, including executives and leaders from sales, marketing, and customer success. How’d they do it?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. They’re essential for preparing your team for every situation that may arise during a demo, sales call, or in-person event.

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Marketing Scale Decision Maker Call-back 130

Apptivo

DECEMBER 25, 2022

How to nurture sales lead to conversion? The growing online market density has, in some way, changed the way customers behave and think. In marketing, content reigns supremacy as it increases brand recognition and value across various channels. How to nurture sales leads to conversion? Aligning sales and marketing teams.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Conversion 98

Gong.io

AUGUST 12, 2022

You’re staring at your notes, trying to remember every detail from the prospect conversation you just had. . In an instant, it all comes back – pain points, objections, weather in Chicago. . You cringe at the thought of sifting through 2 hours’ worth of a zoom call. . What is conversation intelligence?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 103

Hubspot Sales

MAY 24, 2021

Having conversations with prospects is baked into sales — in a lot of ways, it's the basis of the whole concept. You need to be able to successfully initiate and conduct productive sales conversations if you really want to thrive in a sales role. A successful sales conversation is rooted in trust and comfort.

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Conversion Scale Lead Rank Lead Scoring 135

Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling.

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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 projectible.

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Pipeline Marketing Top of Funnel Hiring 239

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 15, 2024

The stock market has lost nearly all of its gains and the only thing we haven’t yet seen is massive layoffs. That means there are few experienced recession-proof salespeople, but there are plenty who didn’t figure out how to succeed at recessionary selling back then. What are the twelve biggest challenges?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 10, 2020

Conversational intelligence is increasingly a hot topic, yet too often, it seems it’s more of an oxymoron. Just to be clear, for the purposes of this post, I’m talking about the application of AI/ML tools to analyze sales conversations, providing guidance to improve the quality of those conversations.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 8, 2019

But, it’s not enough to just slap a few form fields on your landing pages and call it a day. Believe it or not, only 52% of companies that use landing pages run tests on their forms to find ways to improve conversions ( source ). It’s a question that has plagued marketers and website managers for years. Research backs this up.

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Maximizer Conversion Policies Sales Qualified Lead 157

SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Have you ever wondered what inbound marketing is? In this article, we’ll look at what inbound marketing is, why it’s important, and what 6 key elements you need to include in your inbound marketing plan. Inbound Marketing Plan - What Is It? Now that we’ve answered the question, “what is inbound marketing?”

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 7, 2021

But what are these insights that will transform the conversations salespeople have? Let’s drill down into the market and customer insights that can really add value for salespeople, under the following sections: Qualifying characteristics: Things to look for in an organization that make it a good target. Sales customer insights.

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Conversion Ideal Customer Profile Customer Face-to-face 107

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2024

Only one month into 2024, we’re already seeing a significant shift in the marketing metrics world. As we step into this new era, we re-evaluate what truly matters in the marketing landscape. Kevin White (Head of Marketing) of Common Room explains why replacing MQL with pipeline is the way to go.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Pipeline Top of Funnel 90

Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this article and episode of the Modern Marketing Engine podcast, Mario Martinez Jr., CEO, and Founder at Vengreso, was featured as a guest where he discusses what marketing and sales leaders need to know about sales messaging and some actionable tips you can start implementing today. Things Every Sales Messaging Strategy Needs.

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Conversion Prospecting Sales Methodology Referrals 104

Vengreso

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this article and episode of the Modern Marketing Engine podcast, Mario Martinez Jr., CEO, and Founder at Vengreso, was featured as a guest where he discusses what marketing and sales leaders need to know about sales messaging and some actionable tips you can start implementing today. Things Every Sales Messaging Strategy Needs.

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Conversion Prospecting Sales Methodology Referrals 104

Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department. Developing solution hypotheses : In the next era of selling salespeople are going to have to start acting like consultants, having a “ one up ” approach as Anthony Iannarino calls it. Given this reality they jump straight into cold calling people that don’t know them at all.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 195

Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Imagine a chatbot that identifies your website visitors and their company, qualifies them based on your criteria, engages them based on data-driven insights, sets up meetings, and even notifies your sales team when they are ready for a conversation. Call me biased, but this is my favorite feature. What is unique about ZoomInfo Chat?

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Ideal Customer Profile Conversion Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 100

Rob Jolles

MAY 20, 2022

The other day, I was on a coaching call with a client, and the Starbucks name kept coming up. We tend to start with small talk, shift into the deeper part of our conversation, and then finish with more small talk. Salespeople are known to jump into the deeper parts of a conversation too quickly. Let me explain….

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Online marketers should have every little scrap of data they can find when overhauling or fine-tuning their lead generation websites. Yet unless they dig deeper into those conversion numbers through lead validation and tracking, they’re working off incomplete information. Filling the Gaps in Marketing Data.

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Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

Conversation intelligence solutions offer invaluable support to sales managers. These solutions record, transcribe and score customer calls, serving them back to sales managers to use as fuel for more effective coaching conversations. Pre-qualification call. Discovery call.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In its seemingly short (but realistically long) presence in the market, artificial intelligence is transforming the way sellers sell. Which is why we’re going back to basics to reveal five benefits of using AI in sales, with a special focus on AI in sales tools.

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SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In its seemingly short (but realistically long) presence in the market, artificial intelligence is transforming the way sellers sell. Which is why we’re going back to basics to reveal five benefits of using AI in sales, with a special focus on AI in sales tools.

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Conversion Lead Rank Lead Scoring Forecasting 52

Apptivo

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Best Marketing Automation Examples. How does Marketing automation help the business? Creating efficient sales and marketing workflows eliminates the need for repetitive tasks. For this reason, businesses require sales and marketing automation, which will enable them to create reports, send messages, gain insights, and more.

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Benefit Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring 98

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“Google searches reflect that Airbnb has eclipsed the equity of century-old brands, in one decade, across markets big and small,” wrote entrepreneur and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway. While competitors may have equity in a specific market, no brand sits on the iron throne across all markets as Airbnb does.”.

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Marketing B2C Account Based Marketing B2B 120

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The map shows the literal market expansion T-Mobile achieved from the purchase. Market expansion strategy is one of four quadrants that make up the go-to-market framework for businesses. A core piece of expansion is the idea of increasing a seller’s total addressable market. How a company already performs in a new market.

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Lead Rank Company Apparel Lead Scoring 211

Mindtickle

AUGUST 10, 2022

As conversation intelligence platforms become a cornerstone of the sales tech stack, sales leaders and their teams are exploring how sales managers can use them to boost results and create a team of top performers. To answer this question, we’ve put together an in-depth analysis of: What conversation intelligence is. In-line coaching.

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Conversion Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Let’s agree that the goal of your marketing team should be to help your sales team. But as sales professionals, how can you feed your sales intelligence in to your marketing team and how can they use that intelligence to better help you close sales? Read it: 7 Quick Wins for Sales and Marketing Alignment. Sound good?

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Chorus.ai

JUNE 24, 2021

as the recipient of its North American Conversation Intelligence Customer Value Leadership Award. Frost & Sullivan VP of Research Tonya Fowler recently sat down to give her perspective on the significance of the award, and why Chorus is the leader in Conversation Intelligence. Chorus puts the “R” back into the CRM: relationships.

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Pointclear

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The result of these touches is what we call a disposition: PointClear's term for completing contact with a decision maker or company (some programs lend themselves to dispositioning by contact and some by company). Our leads are equivalent to what SiriusDecisions calls a Level 4 or 5 lead—well-qualified leads. Of course not.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 29, 2023

Whether you’re a small business owner, an online marketer, or a SaaS company representative, understanding how to get better conversion rates is crucial for your success. This statistic underscores the importance of optimizing conversions in today’s competitive digital landscape.

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