Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Buying signals in sales combine verbal cues and intent data, positioning your team to tailor prospect-focused communications. For every action a prospect takes, they create a trail of intent data across the internet.

Lead Rank 309

Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, we’re talking through the buying journey and intent data – from the perspective of my true-life example of buying a sewing machine for my fiancée. I’m just trying to understand who the vendors are. Step 3: Vendor selection and elimination. This is where buyer Intent Data comes in.

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Intent Data Intent Data Top of Funnel 120

Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2018

There’s no way around it, bad data impacts every aspect of a business — from lead generation to marketing, customer relationships, cold calling , and revenue. What Is B2B Data? B2B data is insightful information used to help drive sales and marketing efforts. It’s clear data is a critical business resource.

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Data B2B Decision Maker Lead Rank 100

DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 30, 2017

Sales reps aiming to displace the current provider were stuck dialing into dead-end corporate switchboard phone numbers, getting stonewalled by gatekeepers, never to reach their buyer’s voicemail box—let alone pitch their product to a decision-maker. This data provides an insider’s view of the business.

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Data Lead Rank Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 120

Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

1,876 marketing technology vendors were represented across 43 categories. In response to this dilemma, I wrote an article for TMCnet’s Customer Magazine entitled, “How to Get Your Head Around Data-Driven Marketing.” Marketing decision makers, rest assured. Click here to read the article.

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Data Marketing Decision Maker Vendor 100

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We believe the key is the right data and the tools that can drive insights at each stage of the prospect’s journey. For most organizations, the problems behind launching a sales funnel are central to data management. Think about how much contact and account data your sales team needs just to prospect. Awareness Stage 2.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Data 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 24, 2020

At ZoomInfo, data is our passion. And in that pursuit, we’ve learned data is best served with context. We know, according to ZoomInfo data, as of the end of March, most small businesses still lacked critical tools to enable team collaboration and web conferencing in remote working conditions. What is Intent Data?

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Outsourcing Services Intent Data Transportation Intent 227

DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Equifax, one of the three major credit card reporting companies, has certainly been through the ringer since a major data hack occurred, leaving 143 million American’s personal data at risk. See how DiscoverOrg Scoops predicted Chipotle’s recent data breach. Vendors, take note. Pain points (like a data breach).

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ACT Data Hiring Decision Maker 120

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Author: Umberto Milletti All trends point to 2020 being more focused on the B2B customer, with data and insights as the key to understanding their needs. The health of companies’ data will become imperative. Data integrity (data hygiene, cleanliness, robustness) is becoming crucial to revenue teams and their success.

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Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 156

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2021

Investing in buyer intent data is one of the best ways to differentiate yourself — now, more than ever. As we move into 2021, buyer intent data will help you gain ground on competitors and connect with prospects. How to Use Buyer Intent Data for Differentiation. Companies that were unable to make the switch have suffered.

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Buyer Intent Intent Data Intent Top of Funnel 98

SalesFuel

MARCH 20, 2024

But, by being aware of what is driving these decision-makers, you can successfully counter their objections and win them over. 2 Types of Objectors Who Can Sabotage Your Sale One of the decision-makers that Frost highlights is the cost-conscious objector. Unfortunately, these types of price-related objections are common.

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Hiring Decision Maker Vendor Collateral 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 7, 2020

How can a salesperson get the attention of decision-makers in the HR department? What’s the Scope of Responsibility for an HR Decision Maker? I get involved with the relationships that we have with vendors, service providers, and product provisioning,” Kingsley says, “that speaks to the employee experience.

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Resources Decision Maker Compensation Vendor 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once you start selling into the enterprise world, you’re greeted with more complex processes, more decision-makers, and slower-churning gears. You can run into dozens of decision-makers and influencers on a buying committee, grapple with increased demo demands, and face requests from various departments.

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Enterprise Enterprise Decision Maker Churn 130

Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2018

Landing an in-person appointment with a key decision-maker provides salespeople with the opportunity to respond directly to a prospect’s needs and pain points. The buying committee involves many more influencers and decision-makers. So, make sure to prepare the required documents, information, and data beforehand.

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B2B Decision Maker Face-to-face Referrals 180

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In fact, 78% of decision-makers polled have taken an appointment or attended an event that came from a cold call ( source ). The Problem with your Data. Low-quality data can impact every aspect of a business—particularly sales and marketing. Quality data is the fuel of any successful sales team. Bad data costs U.S.

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Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 198

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

You’ll get different answers from different people across the team, because the idea of a “target buyer” is inconsistent, nebulous, and often based on hunches and feelings – not data. In Part 1, we took a deep dive into next-level data quality and management. In this the step, decision makers that fit the ICP are identified.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Lead Rank 150

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Reps can gather information about prospects via first-party data, such as their activity on your website (the pages they visited and how long they stayed). PRO TIP: Ask about the decision-makers.

Top of Funnel 179

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 179

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2024

Small companies, alternatively, are usually governed by only one decision-maker, so the process of addressing objections is less challenging. Before choosing any technology for implementation, they thoroughly investigate the vendor. Enterprise sales cycle can also be enlarged due to objections brought by multiple stakeholders.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Strategy Decision Maker 52

Emissary

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Responsibility for data security is starting to spread beyond IT. As a result, business executives will weigh in on technology decisions and risk analysis will drive their selections. . Key decision makers are hard to reach. . Key decision makers are hard to reach. . The competition is growing, too. .

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Industry Decision Maker How To Vendor 52

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To do that, a playbook has to operate more as what Harvard Business Review refers to as “Moneyball for Sales” — an ecosystem of workable plays that rely on large-scale data sourcing and analytics to drive real success. That affected how sales plays were established and run, and how customers preferred to hear from vendors.

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Marketing Scale Decision Maker Call-back 130

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

Social channels can provide valuable insight into prospects and decision-makers, which has prompted some sales pros to wonder if cold calling is dead, replaced by so-called “smart” or “warm” calling. Decision-makers don’t take cold calls, respond to cold emails, or have sales conversations with strangers on social media.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Maybe it was the price, or your seller couldn’t sway a decision maker. Also, there are more decision makers. It should include key decision makers, like managers, tech specialists, and other VIPs. A small sample size can result in skewed data. That’s what makes a win-loss analysis essential.

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Analysis Decision Maker Scale Survey 62

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Clari gathers information from all your critical data sources like Salesforce.com, email, calendar, LinkedIn, and file storage, presents the content automatically as needed and provides a real-time view into deal progress and relationships. Watch the toolskool videos to learn more about each vendor and click to follow each of these 20.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

SBI

APRIL 3, 2012

CRM vendors certainly know how critical ease-of-use is. Our objective here is to step away from this tunnel-visioned vendor tactic of using the ‘if they don’t ask, then we won’t have to tell’ approach to CRM solution marketing. Answer: decide accordingly based on your own experience not a vendor demo.

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Vendor CRM Decision Maker System 120

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The intersection of our ideas resulted in a renewed focus on delivering massive value to our customers through the best B2B intent data the market has to offer. And over the course of those calls it’s easy to see intent data taking a seat right alongside the two most important pieces of business information—account and contact data.

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Intent Signal Intent Data Intent Buyer Intent 246

BuzzBoard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Rule 1 Build Relationships—Consider the Human Touch to Catapult Your Success Where data-driven insights rule the roost, building relationships isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s a strategic imperative. It transforms you from a vendor to a trusted partner, aligning your interests with those of your clients.

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Small Business Small Business Ideal Customer Profile Conversion 103

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 8, 2019

And, you can only achieve that level of consistency by maintaining a shared understanding of what’s in the minds of the decision-makers you’re targeting. Modern marketing and sales professionals have a wealth of business intelligence at their disposal, from proprietary customer data to public market intelligence reports.

Report 130

Report Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 130

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 5, 2016

It’s an amazing time to be a consumer of sales data. Some very innovative, progressive companies are turning massive amounts of raw data into usable insights designed to put salespeople in front of the right contact at the right time with the right solution. How did the DiscoverOrg / HG Data partnership come about?

Ideal Customer Profile 120

Ideal Customer Profile Data Account Based Marketing Marketo 120

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Reps can gather information about prospects via first-party data, such as their activity on your website (the pages they visited and how long they stayed). PRO TIP: Ask about the decision-makers.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 130

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Because of the high demand for such skills, expect organizations to become increasingly comfortable with outsourcing their needs to sales vendors with skilled inside sales reps. Mobile and cloud-based CRM solutions are making customer data even more readily available to remote workers. . Customer data becomes more sophisticated.

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Inside Sales Trends Outsourcing Services Face-to-face 209

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 8, 2019

And, you can only achieve that level of consistency by maintaining a shared understanding of what’s in the minds of the decision-makers you’re targeting. Modern marketing and sales professionals have a wealth of business intelligence at their disposal, from proprietary customer data to public market intelligence reports.

Report 138

Report Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Account Based Marketing 138

DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Back when DiscoverOrg was founded in 2007, our goal was to provide sales and marketing professionals with accurate intelligence on IT decision-makers. More Than Just Information Technology Contact Data. 5000 list as we provided IT-only data to our customers well into 2015. of revenues that CIOs were spending.

Decision Maker 120

Decision Maker Marketing Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 120

SBI

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Nasdaq: TTGT), the global leader in B2B technology purchase intent data today announced the closing of the previously announced acquisition of BrightTALK Limited, a private company incorporated in England. Its solution combines access to decision-makers with a technology platform for creating online events. TechTarget, Inc.

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Closing Intent Data Intent Face-to-face 126

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Here’s an example of a sales ICP: Your ICP will be based on actual data. . Then, analyze data about your current buyers and identify common characteristics. Again, use data from your CRM to create this profile. There are also sales intelligence tools that can help you pull more technographic and firmographic data.

Ideal Customer Profile 149

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 149

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

For sales professionals selling to high-level decision-makers, the question is how we handle unconscious biases that negatively impact our outcomes. Decision-makers in a position of power have a dominant identity, making it challenging to teach them new things. Decision-makers do the same thing during the buying process.

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Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer 62

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Author: Sean Broderick Modern buyers are seeking trusted advisors and not vendors, which is why simply knowing the product or service being offered is no longer enough for sellers. Using tools to automate the collection of this data to be used for personalization can streamline the process and also provide valuable insights for coaching.

Lead Rank 156

Lead Rank Account Based Marketing Customer Hiring 156

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In fact, 78% of decision-makers polled have taken an appointment or attended an event that came from a cold call ( source ). The Problem with your Data Low-quality data can impact every aspect of a business—particularly sales and marketing. Quality data is the fuel of any successful sales team. Bad data costs U.S.

Cold Calling 100

Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 100