Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In recent years, companies around the world have rapidly evolved their approach to sales to keep pace with modern buyer demands. So, how do you make the shift from generic pitches to personalised conversations? We’ve all talked in circles about something we knew nothing about, usually resulting in a blank stare from our audience.

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Conversion Gatekeeper Scale Buyer 89

PandaDoc

MARCH 1, 2019

One of the biggest challenges digital marketing agencies face is both generating leads, and then turning prospects into customers. It’s estimated that only 20% of leads are considered legitimate, and only 5-20% of prospects ever convert. So how do digital agencies respond to prospects that say no? This isn’t uncommon.

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Prospecting Reachforce Marketing Marketo 80

Janek Performance Group

JULY 15, 2022

When a sales rep asks us point-blank, ”What is the best way to follow-up with a prospect that goes silent?“ It’s a real question we hear often, and we know sales reps are not wanting to hear a vague reply like, ”It depends on your situation.” They are looking for practical advice to a real-world sales problem.

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Prospecting Sales Cycle Benefit Call-back 62

The Pipeline

AUGUST 7, 2014

One of the critical elements to success in prospecting is getting the person to open you note. In fact they show that no subject line, yes blank, has a high open rate, much higher than 3 or more words. Asking questions or marketing jargon is out, short and direct works best, nothing at all even better. RE: Follow up was second.

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Real Estate Proposal Follow-up Objections 326

Nutshell

MAY 1, 2023

This is why sales qualifying questions are so important. In this article, we’ll share eight sales qualifying questions you can use to weed out bad fit prospects, and why it’s vital that you ask these questions during the sales process. ^ What is the qualifying process in sales?

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Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Decision Maker 115

Nutshell

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Email marketing is the dominant channel for marketing communications when measured by ROI, reach, cost, etc., Before email marketing was commonplace, marketers used advertisements, fliers, coupons, and other distributed promotions in order to build their audience and reach potential customers. What is email marketing?

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Marketing Webinar Metrics Email Marketing Top of Funnel 143

Nutshell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Selling your product to the wrong market segment can often feel like barking up the wrong tree, or more specifically, barking up tens of thousands of wrong trees. Since the invention of funnel reports, salespeople have been standing around whiteboards trying to crank up their conversion rates. Of 10 prospects, 5 bought the product.

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Segment Marketing Demographics Advertising 90

Increase Sales

AUGUST 18, 2015

LinkedIn is a prospecting goldmine for business to business professionals. Yet some of those B2B professionals are 100% clueless about how to use it especially when it comes to email marketing. Having received some of those LinkedIn email marketing messages, I can personally attest there is significant lying happening.

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Email Marketing LinkedIn GoldMine Marketing 70

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

When I joined Loom as the company’s first sales hire in January of 2020, friends and colleagues asked me questions like "What will you be selling?" This reply mostly drew blank stares, crinkled brows, and wary nods. It’s not a common answer from a sales leader to these questions, so I wasn’t surprised at the tepid response.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Marketing Quota 98

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In fact, Kavadellas, CEO of Georgia-based Orasi, a software developer, reseller and consulting firm, was scheduled to play a round with a client and a prospect the day after we spoke with him in November for this story. But Kavadellas recognizes the golf course doesn’t suit everyone as an effective setting for a sales meeting.

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Demand Generation Targets Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel 120

Nutshell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Selling your product to the wrong market segment can often feel like barking up the wrong tree, or more specifically, barking up tens of thousands of wrong trees. Since the invention of funnel reports, salespeople have been standing around whiteboards trying to crank up their conversion rates. Of 10 prospects, 5 bought the product.

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Segment Marketing Demographics Advertising 85

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 24, 2014

Social media is a great tool for researching prospects and Referral Sources, and for sharing interesting, relevant information. But it is not the place for a sales pitch. I also want to offer you my free (Fill in the blank) resources. Think Conversations, Not Conversions. That’s why I’m in sales.

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LinkedIn Cold Calling Social Media Referrals 212

DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 19, 2017

There are parts of the job that marketers can perform on autopilot, but data management – enriching and cleansing data – has never been been one of them. Populate blank fields – if you don’t wish to overwrite values. We believe marketers should be able to trust their data. That’s changing.

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Marketo Data Tools Lead Rank 174

Emissary

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For tech companies, marketing to the financial services industry is a specific niche and employing account based marketing tactics give you a strategy for more successful conversion. You’ll find a lot of information out there on marketing in general. What Is Account Based Marketing? How Does ABM Work?

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Account Based Marketing Account Marketing Company 52

Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

Under constant pressure to meet quota, productivity is at the forefront of every sales rep’s mind. Yet, regardless of the many sales productivity tips and tricks published online, 65% of B2B organizations say they still struggle with sales productivity ( source ). Less than 1% of cold calls result in a sale. of the time.

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Cold Calling Top of Funnel Direct Mail Referrals 236

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

How much do you really know about your prospects? If you want to get responses to your outreach emails, you need to offer your prospects value. But before you decide which benefits your emails should focus on, first understand your prospects’ desires and pain points. 1) What does your ideal buyer persona care about the most?

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Buyer Persona Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Case Study 99

Partners in Excellence

MAY 11, 2023

Data on our customers, their markets, their industries and competitors. We have pipeline and prospecting data, win rates. We have conversational intelligence about the words, questions and conversations our people have with our customers. We are blessed with enormous amounts of data on virtually everything.

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Data Sales Cycle Quota Proposal 62

Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2019

As a sales professional, you know how difficult it can be to reach decision makers. Maybe they’re too busy for a phone conversation or you’re just not targeting the right people. Identify Your Target Market. One of the most crucial steps in any marketing or sales decision is knowing who your customers are.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 140

Increase Sales

JULY 3, 2017

Have you ever heard or made a similar statement “everyone wants” fill in the blank? This statement is repeated in many sales presentations or just general sales conversations. However using this statement may create you a sales mistake. In sales, one size does not fit all. No, I don’t know.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Facebook Sales 86

Nutshell

JUNE 3, 2020

In sales and marketing circles, it’s become trendy to praise great copywriting as the secret weapon that divides successful brands from the rest of the pack. Well-written landing pages , cold emails , and sales enablement content are critical to converting leads into customers. Does this sound familiar?

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Film Analytics Conversion Benefit 122

LeadBoxer

MARCH 28, 2019

Are you struggling to find enough time in the day to fill your prospect pipeline? Truth is, every sales rep has the same amount of time in their day. Only some of them use sales prospecting tools to help them find prospects faster, and close deals quicker. But the difference? month, Turbo Plan – $41.25/month

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Tools Pipeline Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile 75

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The last thing you want from a sales email is sleazy, spammy… or even sales-y copy. That might sound counterintuitive, but I interviewed Yuval Ackerman , email strategist, who shared her top tips for writing sales email marketing that don’t give you the ick! Gaudio’s sales emails receive: 36.3% click-through.

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Data Segment Email Marketing Webinar Metrics 94

BrainShark

MAY 2, 2024

A sales rep Scorecard is a report that tracks key performance indicators about members of your sales team. It’s used by enablement and sales managers to track and improve the performance of their sales reps by surfacing gaps in training and areas where they’re struggling or succeeding.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank SalesForce Inbound 62

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2021

Let’s face it: in-person sales… wasn’t always the greatest experience. After the pandemic ripped up the strategic sales rule book, we needed a new way to build trust and establish rapport , one that worked in our new work-from-home reality. But for a handful, we came up blank. But you don’t focus on the sale (at first).

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Referrals Demand Generation Targets Face-to-face Call-back 119

Increase Sales

APRIL 18, 2017

Business cards are prime marketing space. Have your sales prospects changed (think ideal customers )? Business cards are inexpensive compared to other forms of paid marketing. They provide an incredible catalyst for engaged sales conversations. Here is prime marketing real estate.

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Real Estate Call-back Intent Facebook 78

Nutshell

JUNE 14, 2021

This is why sales qualifying questions are so important. In this article, we’ll share eight sales qualifying questions you can use to weed out bad fit prospects, and why it’s vital that you ask these questions during the sales process. ^ 8 sales qualifying questions. How did you hear about us?

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Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Decision Maker Facebook 83

Salesmate

JUNE 15, 2021

Marketing is what reflects your brand in front of your prospects and customers. Marketers spend most of their time connecting and engaging with prospects, managing customer information, and capturing more leads. And that’s where marketing automation enters the picture. What is marketing automation?

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Software Software Marketing Scale 52

LeadFuze

MAY 16, 2019

If that sounds like a win to you, let’s get down to business on how you can develop a sales and marketing alignment plan in your organization. Before you build out a killer sales and marketing alignment plan, take a step back. No doubt your sales and marketing teams know their respective roles inside and out.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 69

Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

Boardrooms across the globe are dialed in on sales productivity, and rightly so. Sales productivity is the backbone of revenue generation, and during a time when businesses are being forced to achieve more with less, strengthening it has never been more vital. What is Sales Productivity?

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Marc Wayshak

MAY 3, 2021

For one, we have an abundance of really, really good science and data on sales today —something that simply never existed before. In this video, I’m going to show you 7 killer sales techniques backed by science and data. Recent data from sales scientist Steve W. We live in a truly unprecedented time in selling for many reasons.

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Data Face-to-face Call-back Objections 102

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 28, 2020

The sales funnel might be the most notorious, fundamental, straightforward model detailing the process by which prospects become customers. The old school sales funnel is typically divided into three stages: awareness, consideration, and decision. PlusThis is a campaign toolkit for marketing automation users.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Software Software 92

LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous successful sales or engagements take more than a dozen “touches” before the transaction is closed. They send a single email to a prospective consumer and then discontinue communication. Indeed, 70% of sales emails are never sent on the first attempt. Why is that? However, this is a rare event in practice.

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Follow-up Prospecting Strategy Ideal Customer Profile 52

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2020

More recently, we’ve discovered it’s the sales person that is the differentiator. Sales people who help customers think very differently about their businesses and their jobs. Sales people who help customers identify new opportunities or solve problems, improving their performance.

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Face-to-face Competition Exact Proposal 138

Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2019

As a logistics sales professional, you know how difficult it can be to reach decision makers. Maybe they’re too busy for a phone conversation or you’re just not targeting the right people. Identify Your Target Market One of the most crucial steps in any marketing or sales decision is knowing who your customers are.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Leads 100

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2022

Our jobs, as sales and marketing professionals, is to drive change. Sometimes, it’s we that incent the customers to change, whether through our content at our websites, our customers talking to others, or our prospecting. What If We Started With A Blank Sheet Of Paper? Often, customers incite themselves to change.

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Ideal Customer Profile Incentives Incentive Coaching 59

SBI

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

We call it Sales Tech Simplified. Katie: You may have heard terms like sales intelligence, marketing intelligence, intent data, predictive data, or similar: They generally refer to the same thing, which we refer to it as marketing and sales intelligence, and it’s revolutionizing the B2B industry.

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 139

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As your business grows, manually keeping track of your prospects and customers with spreadsheets and random notes in different places becomes near impossible. It’s much easier to provide a positive buying experience when you know a lot about your prospect. Also known as an opportunity , a deal is a potential sale.

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CRM Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 118