Zoominfo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When Sarena Wing took on a new international sales territory, she was excited to get started. A few years back, someone in Wing’s position might have faced a long slog full of trial and error and manual research. But she also knew she needed to get up to speed very quickly. Luckily for her, that era is over.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2021

Skill level of the sales rep is the most important thing; however, there are other variables like the type of lead—inbound versus outbound; the territory; existing client or new prospect; the marketing and/or branding of the company, etc., They make more prospecting calls. They make more upsell calls.

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Tenbound

APRIL 19, 2024

What’s the best cold call opener? It is also important that the Sales/Business Development Team and Leadership value their Sales Partners for their territory knowledge, sales expertise, guidance to the SDR, and goodwill. Which subject lines and email templates are working? Who is using video successfully in their prospecting?

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Shari Levitin

MARCH 9, 2023

Empathy in elephants, the idea that “emotions are contagious,” is backed by science. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business. Identify Your Target Market. The guide replied, “Absolutely; after all, she’s a hunter.”

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That’s why I’m not the biggest fan of the one-call close. Their vertical market (i.e. industry) does not fit your target market. Their vertical market does not operate like your target market. The prospect is not in your sales territory. The prospect doesn’t want to answer any of your questions.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Typically, SDRs work from one of two territory models: Static territories based on geography or vertical or business segment. A Wild West-style free-for-all where reps prospect into an addressable market wherever they’d like. A dynamic book management model actually does away with the concept of static territories entirely.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 24, 2019

“personal contact (telephone call, visit) with A customers every 30 days and B-/C-customers every 90 days; D customers receive an email or letter every 180 days.”. Also, it helps companies to better calculate the number of salespeople they need based on how many visits and calls have to be made every year. Use heat maps.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 17, 2024

Who likes cold calling? Not me, and if you say that you do … I would say that you are a … Back to 2006. I scoured my territory for potential opportunities and found several hundred. I’m not about to do blast marketing hoping to uncover the occasional gem. Back to networking. I am a referral junkie.

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The Pipeline

JULY 16, 2012

Last week I was working with a group, we were looking at more effective prospecting, when we got around to discussing referrals, I got back some familiar comments. The specific comment was that the rep was reluctant to ask prospects/clients for referrals “because what if the person or company they refer are out of my territory?”

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Depending on where they are in the marketing funnel , you can then follow up with different leads or retarget them with content. Lead Enrichment and tracking Your teams, whether in sales or marketing operations, should not be wasting time hunting for information on each lead or manually entering data.

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The Spiff Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These functions include territory management, goal setting, capacity modeling, forecasting, sales performance improvement, seller experience, and countless other exercises that set a business up for success– or failure. From there, businesses adjust these baseline quotas to account for goals, market conditions, seasonality, and more.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 7, 2014

Do you or your friend ever suffer any of the following conditions: A hesitation to answer the phone when a customer is calling. Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. ” A desire to spend too much time preparing to make sales calls as an excuse to not actually have to call.

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The Pipeline

MAY 7, 2019

Specifically, direct prospecting , not indirect, not merely answering an inbound call generated by marketing. I remember a rep about two years in the territory, telling me he has earned the right not to prospect. The issue is less about style and more about market view.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We tend to focus on the pieces/parts of what we do, the responsibilities of our organization, for example marketing, SDRs/Inside Sales, AEs, Account Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Ops, Sales Enablement. They understood the interconnection with sales enablement/ops, other sales organizations, marketing, and customer experience.

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Pointclear

MAY 14, 2018

Salespeople only know that forecasted deals have been delayed, customers aren’t returning calls, and new prospects are slow in coming, or at least it appears that way. Doors slam, calculators hum, cursing is heard and recruiters are called. Territory Adjustments. Quota Changes. Expect a downturn. See item 5.

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Nutshell

MARCH 5, 2024

And you may have also heard of lead nurturing, which is where you continue marketing to leads until they’re ready to buy. Decide on a lead distribution strategy (which we’ll come back to in a moment). The reason it’s called the manual method is that the other strategies listed here are at least partially automated.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 31, 2017

Does cold calling and cold voicemail work? Cold-call voicemail script templates. The voicemail call to action should refer to the email. Your voicemail should point towards an email that you will send to the prospect immediately following your call. The short answer? The voicemail should not contain a pitch.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Prospects aren’t responding to phone calls. We looked at a report from one of the leading thinkers in the industry,” the CEO coolly replied, “this market is expected to grow 50% in the next 3 years.”. The CEO pulled back on expectations, but it was too late. This is where we found the highest market potential. He asked.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 13, 2023

In a declining, volatile market, working with the most accurate insights available will make all the difference. Make smarter territory choices Hard times mean hard choices. For teams with reduced headcounts, that usually means better territory planning. But it doesn’t matter what it looks like on the outside.

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Shari Levitin

JUNE 14, 2023

Empathy in elephants, the idea that “emotions are contagious,” is backed by science. It’s easy to put off sending emails, cold calling and stalking new territories, but like the leopard, this is the lifeblood of your business: • Set Aside Time to Prospect: Prospecting is an easy thing to neglect; like doing the laundry, it piles up.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

At its root, whatever we may call it, it is a reaction to something we said. Sellers instantly file it under ‘adverse”, go into rejection mode, and looking to please their manager and Marketing Director; they start defending their company when it does not need defending. By Tibor Shanto. A Rose By Any Other Name.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 6, 2017

Sales calls, presentations, proposals, territory plans – every key sales rep activity and interaction is (ideally) captured in CRM so leaders can answer their most critical questions at a glance: Are my salespeople doing the right things? Which brings us back to CRM. Improvement only comes from better sales management.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Author: Mandy Truong With 2021 in full swing, marketers are making their plans for recovery and business growth. In the early days of the pandemic, many companies and organizations slashed marketing budgets in the wake of dire uncertainty and widespread lockdowns. Still, virtual events were unchartered territory.

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Chorus.ai

APRIL 11, 2022

And while he probably won’t need to put on a hard hat anytime soon, overseeing sales and marketing operations for a B2B software provider has offered plenty of opportunities to use the same skills that helped him in manufacturing. Is marketing doing its job to generate enough qualified leads? I’ve loved puzzles my whole life.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2022

To set their sales teams up for success — and drive the largest possible return on investment for their businesses — today’s go-to-market leaders need comprehensive, integrated data and intelligent lead-routing systems. And keeping go-to-market data up to date and accurate only becomes more difficult as the sheer volume of it increases.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 16, 2020

We’re all in unchartered territory now. In other words, what they do now will either position them to be ahead of or behind the other companies in their market space. If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today.

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Janek Performance Group

MARCH 12, 2024

Best Practices During The Hiring Process 1) Take the time while you have it Take a step back and really define what it is you want your new sales rep to accomplish. You can make the process even more granular by setting up a practice sales call. Have the candidate “get on a call” with a few experienced sales managers.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Each situation is different, each call is different. The next element to reducing the variability in what we do is Sales Call Planning. We also do Account and Territory Planning –or we should. How do we expand our relationships in the account or territory? They conduct structured marketing and prospecting programs.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Deeply analyze your market, find those glaring gaps, and show investors you’ve got the solution customers crave. If your current expertise leads to a non-scalable business, then yes, explore uncharted territory. No more support systems; no team to fall back on. Fred’s answer is nuanced. But don’t fret!

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 3 hours, the go-to-market teams at ZoomInfo made 24,000 calls, ended up on the phone with our customers and prospects for 250 hours, scheduled 400 follow up meetings, etc. Is cold calling dead? Today, rather than tell you cold calling is alive and well, we’re going to prove it with real-world results.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

On Monday, in the first post of this series , we defined “cold calling”, and looked at overlooked real opportunities for sales and revenues one misses when not including cold calling in their biz dev routine. The rule being that cold calling is a key and necessary (evil) part of successful B2B selling. On to number two!

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 10, 2024

Back to work:) Let’s start with the update on updates … Email message compose window Nimble has just released its new email message compose window. Yes, we are getting into email marketing territory and there are still a lot of details that are being discussed. I call it “multiple checkboxes”. Welcome to 2024!

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 23, 2012

Rejection comes with the territory and simply cannot be a deterrent for future attempts. In a market that is increasingly concerned with “inbound” techniques , the traditional sales call is more powerful than ever. Whether a cold call or an arranged one, clients are more appreciative of the human connection than ever before.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

23 Marketing Tips For Avoiding Small Business Failure. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Compete , Guest Post , Marketing , execution. Unfortunately there are also many sales and marketing reasons. Implementing the program is the key to marketing success. Avoid Ad Hoc Marketing.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2020

Do cold calls work? How can you find more success with cold calling? We often discuss how to make a cold call, but rarely the next step after your cold call fails to get picked up. But keep your cold call sales voicemails short! Refer to the email in the call-to-action (CTA). A lot, right? Let’s get into it!

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Gong.io

MARCH 30, 2020

Why is it important to create balanced sales territories? Well-designed territories help create an equal footing for your reps. They just really needed that life pause, that professional pause, and they come back recharged. Creating Balanced Territories. There are these little micro-territories. .

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 2, 2022

In some cases, a BDR will conduct a discovery call to qualify leads before moving to the next step. Research new markets. BDRs are often responsible for finding untapped, potentially lucrative markets. This type of lead requires "cold outreach," namely cold calls and emails. Back to You.

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